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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Sanitary District Act of 1936 is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 32a.5 as follows:
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| 6 | (70 ILCS 2805/32a.5) (from Ch. 42, par. 443a.5) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 32a.5. Disconnection of contiguous territory on the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | border of a district. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | (a) Any contiguous territory located within the boundaries | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | of any sanitary district organized under this Act, and upon | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | the border of such district, may become disconnected from such | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | district in the manner provided in this Section. Ten per cent | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | or more of the legal voters resident in the territory sought to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | be disconnected from such district, may petition the circuit | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | court for the county in which the original petition for the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | organization of the district was filed, to cause the question | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | of such disconnection to be submitted to the legal voters of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | such territory whether the territory shall be disconnected. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | The petition shall be addressed to the court and shall contain | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | a definite description of the boundaries of such territory and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | recite as a fact, that as of the date the petition is filed | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | there is no bonded indebtedness of the sanitary district | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | outstanding and that no special assessments for local | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | improvements were levied upon or assessed against any of the | ||||||
| 2 | lands within such territory or if so levied or assessed, that | ||||||
| 3 | all of such assessments have been fully paid and discharged | ||||||
| 4 | and that such territory is not, at the time of the filing of | ||||||
| 5 | such petition, and will not be, either benefited or served by | ||||||
| 6 | any work or improvements either then existing or then | ||||||
| 7 | authorized by the sanitary district. Upon filing such petition | ||||||
| 8 | in the office of the circuit clerk of the county in which the | ||||||
| 9 | original petition for the formation of such sanitary district | ||||||
| 10 | has been filed it is the duty of the court to consider the | ||||||
| 11 | boundaries of such territory and the facts upon which the | ||||||
| 12 | petition is founded. The court may alter the boundaries of | ||||||
| 13 | such territory and shall deny the prayer of the petition, if | ||||||
| 14 | the material allegations therein contained are not founded in | ||||||
| 15 | fact. The decision of the court is appealable as in other civil | ||||||
| 16 | cases. | ||||||
| 17 | Notice shall be given by the court of the time and place | ||||||
| 18 | when and where all persons interested will be heard | ||||||
| 19 | substantially as provided in and by Section 1 of this Act. The | ||||||
| 20 | conduct of the hearing on the question whether such territory | ||||||
| 21 | shall become disconnected shall be, as nearly as possible, in | ||||||
| 22 | accordance with Section 1 of this Act. The court shall certify | ||||||
| 23 | the question to the proper election officials who shall submit | ||||||
| 24 | the question at an election in accordance with the general | ||||||
| 25 | election law. The question shall be in substantially the | ||||||
| 26 | following form: | ||||||
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| 2 | For disconnection from sanitary district.
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| 4 | Against disconnection from sanitary district.
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| 6 | If a majority of the votes cast on the question shall be in | ||||||
| 7 | favor of disconnection, and if the trustees of such sanitary | ||||||
| 8 | district shall, by ordinance, disconnect such territory, | ||||||
| 9 | thereupon the court shall enter an appropriate order of record | ||||||
| 10 | in the court and thereafter such territory shall be deemed | ||||||
| 11 | disconnected from such sanitary district. | ||||||
| 12 | (b) Contiguous territory located within the boundaries of | ||||||
| 13 | a sanitary district organized under this Act and upon the | ||||||
| 14 | border of the district may become disconnected from the | ||||||
| 15 | district without following the procedures of subsection (a) by | ||||||
| 16 | ordinance or resolution of both the sanitary district and the | ||||||
| 17 | unit of local government within which the territory is located | ||||||
| 18 | if there are no outstanding bond payments or debts to be | ||||||
| 19 | repaid. | ||||||
| 20 | (Source: P.A. 100-201, eff. 8-18-17.)
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