Public Act 096-1048
 
HB5555 EnrolledLRB096 17998 RLJ 33369 b



    AN ACT concerning local government.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: 



 
    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended  by 
changing Section 7-1-13 as follows:
 
    (65 ILCS 5/7-1-13)  (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-13)
    Sec. 7-1-13. Annexation. 
    (a) Whenever any unincorporated territory containing 60

acres or less, is wholly bounded by (a) one or more 
municipalities, (b)
one or more municipalities and a creek in a 
county with a population of
400,000 or more, or one or more 
municipalities and a river or lake in any
county, (c) one or 
more municipalities and the Illinois State
boundary, (d) except 
as provided in item (h) of this subsection (a), one or more 
municipalities and property owned by the
State of Illinois, 
except highway right-of-way owned in fee by the State,
(e) one 
or more municipalities and a forest preserve district or park 
district,
(f) if the territory is a triangular parcel of less 
than 10 acres, one or
more municipalities and an interstate 
highway owned in fee by the State and
bounded by a frontage 
road, or (g) one or more municipalities in a county with a 
population of more than 800,000 inhabitants and less than 
2,000,000 inhabitants and either a railroad or operating 
property, as defined in the Property Tax Code (35 ILCS 
200/11-70), being immediately adjacent to, but exclusive of 
that railroad property, that territory may be annexed
by any 
municipality by which it is bounded in whole or in part,
by the 
passage of an ordinance to that effect after notice is given as

provided in subsection (b) of this Section, or (h) one or more 
municipalities located within a county with a population of 
more than 800,000 inhabitants and less than 2,000,000 
inhabitants and property owned by the State, including without 
limitation a highway right-of-way owned in fee by the State. 
Land or property that is used for agricultural purposes or to 
produce agricultural goods shall not be annexed pursuant to 
item  (g). Nothing in this Section shall subject any railroad 
property to the zoning or jurisdiction of any municipality 
annexing the property under this Section. , and for land 
annexed pursuant to item (g), notice shall be given to the 
impacted land owners The
ordinance shall describe the territory 
annexed and a copy thereof together
with an accurate map of the 
annexed territory shall be recorded in the
office of the 
recorder of the county wherein the annexed territory is

situated and a document of annexation shall be filed with the 
county clerk
and County Election Authority. Nothing in this 
Section shall be construed
as permitting a municipality to 
annex territory of a forest preserve
district in a county with 
a population of 3,000,000 or more without
obtaining the consent 
of the  district pursuant to Section 8.3 of the
Cook County 
Forest Preserve District Act nor shall anything in this Section 
be construed as permitting a municipality to annex territory 
owned by a park district without obtaining the consent of the 
district pursuant to Section 8-1.1 of the Park District Code.
    (b)  The corporate authorities shall cause notice, stating 
that annexation of the territory described in the notice is 
contemplated under this Section, to be published once, in a 
newspaper of general circulation within the territory to be 
annexed, not less than 10 days before the passage of the 
annexation ordinance, and for land annexed pursuant to item (g) 
of subsection (a) of this Section, notice shall be given to the 
impacted land owners. The corporate authorities shall also, not 
less than 15 days before the passage of the annexation 
ordinance, serve written notice, either in person or, at a 
minimum, by certified mail, on the taxpayer of record of the 
proposed annexed territory as appears from the authentic tax 
records of the county. When the territory to be annexed lies 
wholly or partially within a township other than the township 
where the municipality is situated, the annexing municipality 
shall give at least 10 days prior written notice of the time

and place of the passage of the annexation ordinance to the 
township
supervisor of the township where the territory to be 
annexed lies. 
    (c)  When notice is given as described in subsection (b) of 
this Section, no other municipality may annex the proposed 
territory for a period of 60 days from the date the notice is 
mailed or delivered to the taxpayer of record unless that other 
municipality has initiated annexation proceedings or a valid 
petition as described in Section 7-1-2, 7-1-8, 7-1-11 or 7-1-12 
of this Code has been received by the municipality prior to the 
publication and mailing of the notices required in subsection 
(b). 
(Source: P.A. 94-396, eff. 8-1-05; 95-931, eff. 1-1-09; 
95-1039, eff. 3-25-09; revised 4-9-09.)
 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.


Effective Date:  7/14/2010