96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1601

 

Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Patrick J Verschoore

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/1-2004   from Ch. 34, par. 1-2004

    Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning setting restrictions on the reduction of the size of a county.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
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 1-2004 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/1-2004)  (from Ch. 34, par. 1-2004)
7     Sec. 1-2004. Restriction. No county shall be reduced, under
8 the the provisions of this Division, to less contents than 400
9 square miles; nor shall any county line be made to pass within
10 less than ten miles of the county seat of the county from which
11 territory is so transferred.
12 (Source: P.A. 86-962.)