HB0673 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB0673

Introduced 02/06/09___________, by

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

70 ILCS 705/7

from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 27

Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Deletes the requirement that a fire protection district publish in a specified newspaper or post copies of all ordinances making any appropriation. Provides that ordinances making appropriations shall take effect from and after their passage (now, 10 days after the ordinance is published or posted). Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

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 Sections 7 and 8 as follows:

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

Sec. 7. Publication of ordinances imposing a penalty. 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 same in ten public places in the district; and no such ordinance shall take effect until ten days after 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.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.