(70 ILCS 5/2.1) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 68.2a)
Sec. 2.1.
Petition - Setting for public hearing and notice thereof.
Any 500 or more electors residing within the area may file
with the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which the area is
situated, a petition in the circuit court.
The petition shall set forth (1) a description of the territory intended to
be embraced in the proposed Authority, (2) the names of the
municipalities located within the area, (3) the name of the proposed
Authority, and (4) a prayer that the question be submitted to the
electors residing within the limits of the proposed Authority, whether
they will incorporate as an Authority under this Act. The petitioners in
and by such petition shall authorize and designate one or more persons
to appear for and represent them on the petition, and in the proceedings
thereon in the circuit court, with an authority to amend, to move to
dismiss or to withdraw the petition. Five days prior to the filing of
the petition the petitioners, by the designated representatives, shall
cause a copy of the petition to be served upon the Secretary of the
Department of Transportation, together with a map or plat showing the
boundaries of the territory described in the petition. Such service may
be made by delivery of a copy of the petition and such map or plat to
the office of the Secretary or by personal service thereof upon the
Secretary. Evidence of such service, consisting of a return or an
acknowledgment or an affidavit of the service thereof shall be filed
with the petition. Upon the filing of the petition and such evidence of
service upon the Secretary with the clerk of the circuit court he or she
shall present same to a judge of the circuit court, who shall set the petition
for hearing within not less than 15 nor more than 30 days after the filing
thereof.
The clerk of the circuit court shall cause notice to be given of the
time and place where such hearing will be held by publication on 3
separate days in one or more daily or weekly newspapers having a general
circulation within the territory proposed to be incorporated as an
Airport Authority, the first of which publications shall be not less
than 15 days prior to the date set for such hearing, and if there is no
such newspaper, then such notice shall be posted in not less than 10 of
the most public places in such territory, not less than 15 days prior to
the date set for such hearing. The filing fee on the petition and costs
of printing and publication or posting of notices of public hearing
thereon shall be paid in advance by petitioners.
(Source: P.A. 83-334.)
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