SB0592 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB0592

Introduced 2/6/2009, by Sen. John J. Cullerton

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.)