HB1601 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB096 05159 RLJ 15225 b

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.

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 Counties Code is amended by changing Section 1-2004 as follows:

(55 ILCS 5/1-2004) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-2004)

Sec. 1-2004. Restriction. No county shall be reduced, under the the provisions of this Division, to less contents than 400 square miles; nor shall any county line be made to pass within less than ten miles of the county seat of the county from which territory is so transferred.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)