93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6720

 

Introduced 02/09/04, by Marlow H. Colvin

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/1-2001   from Ch. 34, par. 1-2001

    Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a petition for transfer of territory.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning counties.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
5 1-2001 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/1-2001)  (from Ch. 34, par. 1-2001)
7     Sec. 1-2001. Petition for transfer of territory. When a
8 majority of the legal voters, residing upon any territory, not
9 less than half of one congressional township, shall petition
10 the county board of their own county, and also of the county to
11 which they desire such territory to be transferred, for leave
12 to have such territory transferred to such county, it shall be
13 the duty of the several county boards so petitioned to certify
14 the proposition to the proper election officials, who shall
15 submit the question at a referendum in their respective
16 counties in accordance with the general election law.
17 (Source: P.A. 86-962.)