Bill Text: IL HB1300 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning annexation of territory.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-13 - Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Lawrence "Larry" Walsh, Jr. [HB1300 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB1300-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB1300 Introduced , by Rep. Lawrence "Larry" Walsh, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 705/3 from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 23
Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning annexation of territory.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Fire Protection District Act is amended by
changing Section 3 as follows:
(70 ILCS 705/3) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 23)
Sec. 3. Additional contiguous territory having the the
qualifications set forth in Section 1 may be added to any fire
protection district as provided for in this Act in the manner
following:
(a) One percent or more of the legal voters resident
within the limits of the proposed addition to the fire
protection district may petition the court of the county in
which the original petition for the formation of the fire
protection district was filed, to cause the question to be
submitted to the legal voters of the proposed additional
territory whether the proposed additional territory shall
become a part of any contiguous fire protection district
organized under this Act and whether the voters of the
additional territory shall assume a proportionate share of the
bonded indebtedness of the district. The petition shall be
addressed to the court and shall contain a definite
description of the boundaries of the territory to be embraced

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in the proposed addition and shall allege facts in support of
such addition.
Upon filing the petition in the office of the circuit
clerk of the county in which the original petition for the
formation of the fire protection district was filed, it shall
be the duty of the court to fix a time and place of a hearing
upon the subject of the petition.
Notice shall be given by the court, or by the circuit clerk
or sheriff upon order of the court of the county in which the
petition is filed, of the time and place of a hearing upon the
petition in the manner as provided in Section 1. The conduct of
the hearing on the question whether the proposed additional
territory shall become a part of the fire protection district
shall be carried out in the manner described in Section 1, as
nearly as may be. The question shall be in substantially the
following form:
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For joining the.... Fire
Protection District and assuming a
proportionate share of bonded
indebtedness, if any.
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Against joining the.... Fire
Protection District and assuming a
proportionate share of bonded
indebtedness, if any.

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If a majority of the votes cast at the election upon the
question of becoming a part of any contiguous fire protection
district are in favor of becoming a part of that fire
protection district and if the trustees of the fire protection
district accept the proposed additional territory by
resolution, the proposed additional territory shall be deemed
an integral part of that fire protection district and shall be
subject to all the benefits of service and responsibilities of
the district as set forth in this Act.
(a-5) Any fire protection district organized under the
provisions of this Act may be simultaneously dissolved and
consolidated into an adjoining fire protection district upon
like petition, hearing and election as is provided under
Section 1 of this Act for the organization of such district,
except that the ballot for such election shall be in
substantially the following form:
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Shall the ... Fire Protection District
dissolve and be consolidated YES
into the ... Fire
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Protection District? NO
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If a majority of the votes cast on the question at such
election are in favor of such dissolution and consolidation,
and if the board of trustees of the adjoining district agrees
by resolution to accept the territory comprising the dissolved
district, the circuit court of the county in which the
petition was filed shall enter an order on the records of the
court dissolving and consolidating such district. On the
effective date of the simultaneous dissolution and
consolidation, all the rights, powers, duties, assets,
property, liabilities, indebtedness, obligations, bonding
authority, taxing authority, and responsibilities of the
former district shall vest in and be assumed by the fire
protection district assuming the territory of the former
district.
(b) The owner or owners of any tract or tracts of land,
contiguous to an existing fire protection district and not
already included in a fire protection district, may file a
written petition, addressed to the trustees of the fire
protection district to which they seek to have their tract or
tracts of land attached, containing a definite description of
the boundaries of the territory and a statement that they
desire that their property become a part of the fire
protection district to which their petition is addressed, and
that they are willing that their property assume a
proportionate share of the bonded indebtedness, if any, of the
fire protection district.

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