Bill Text: IL HB4774 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Mosquito Abatement District Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a petition for a referendum on the question of organizing a mosquito abatement district.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-08 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4774 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB4774-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB4774 Introduced , by Rep. Jim Durkin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 1005/1 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 74
Amends the Mosquito Abatement District Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a petition for a referendum on the question of organizing a mosquito abatement district.
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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 Mosquito Abatement District Act is amended
by changing Section 1 as follows:
(70 ILCS 1005/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 74)
Sec. 1. Any contiguous territory having a population of not
less than 300 inhabitants and and no part of which is already
included in a mosquito abatement district may be organized as a
mosquito abatement district in the following manner:
Any 5% of the legal voters within the limits of the
proposed mosquito abatement district may petition the circuit
court for the county in which such territory lies, to order the
question whether such territory shall be organized as a
mosquito abatement district under this Act to be submitted to
the legal voters of such territory, but every petition shall be
signed by at least 25 legal voters residing within the
territory proposed to be organized as a mosquito abatement
district, and in case such territory includes more than one
city, village or incorporated town, or any portions thereof, or
includes one or more cities, villages or incorporated towns, or
any portion thereof and territory not a part of any city,
village or incorporated town, then such petition must be signed

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by at least 5% of the legal voters residing in each of the said
cities, villages, or incorporated towns, or portions thereof,
and by at least 5% of the legal voters residing in the
territory not a part of any city, village or incorporated town.
Such petition addressed to the court shall contain a definite
description of the boundaries of the territory proposed to be
organized as a mosquito abatement district, and shall set forth
the name of the proposed district, which name shall be The....
Mosquito Abatement District.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)