HB0975 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB0975

Introduced 2/3/2005, by Rep. Patricia R. Bellock - Donald L. Moffitt

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

70 ILCS 705/7

from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 27

Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Provides that trustees shall prepare a notice of an ordinance that imposes a penalty or makes an appropriation. This notice is to describe the ordinance and state that it is available for public inspection in pamphlet form at a location specified by the trustees. (Now, entire ordinance must be published.)

A BILL FOR

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 7 as follows:

(70 ILCS 705/7) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 27)

Sec. 7. Notification. The trustees shall prepare a notice for each ordinance that imposes a penalty or makes an appropriation, within one month after the ordinance passes. The notice shall describe the ordinance and state that the ordinance is available for public inspection in pamphlet form at a specified location in the district. The trustees shall, within one month after the ordinance is passed, publish the notice All ordinances imposing any penalty or making any appropriations shall, within one month after they are passed, be published at least once in a newspaper published in said district, or if no such newspaper of general circulation is published therein, then either by one publication in any newspaper of general circulation within said territory or by posting copies of the notice same in ten public places in the district; and no such ordinance shall take effect until ten days after the notice it is so published or posted, and all other ordinances and resolutions shall take effect from and after their passage unless otherwise provided therein.

(Source: Laws 1955, p. 1206.)