(70 ILCS 405/14) (from Ch. 5, par. 119)
Sec. 14.
Organization
of district.
If the Department shall determine that the operation of the proposed
district is administratively practicable and feasible, it shall appoint 2
temporary directors, who shall hold office until the election and
qualification of the permanent board of directors as provided in Section
19. Such district shall be a public body corporate and politic, upon the
taking of the following proceedings:
The 2 temporary directors shall present to the Secretary of State an
application signed by them, which shall set forth (and such application
need contain no detail other than the mere recitals): (1) that a petition
for the creation of the district was filed with the Department pursuant to
the provisions of this Act, and that the proceedings specified in this Act
were taken pursuant to such petition; that the application is being filed
in order to complete the organization of the district as a public body,
corporate and politic, under this Act; that the Department has appointed
them as temporary directors; (2) the name and official residence of each of
the temporary directors; (3) the name which is proposed for the district;
and (4) the location of the principal office of the district. The
application shall be subscribed and sworn to by each of the said temporary
directors before an officer authorized by the laws of this State to take
acknowledgments of deeds, who shall certify upon the application that he
personally knows the temporary directors and knows them to be the officers
as affirmed in the application, and that each has subscribed thereto in the
officer's presence. The application shall be accompanied by a statement by
the Department, which shall certify (and such statement need contain no
detail other than the mere recitals) that a petition was filed, notice
issued, and hearing held as aforesaid; that the Department did duly
determine that there is need, in the interest of the public health, safety,
and welfare, for a soil and water conservation district to function in the
proposed territory and did define the boundaries thereof; that notice was
given and a referendum held on the question of the creation of such
district; and that a majority of the owners of land lying within the
district voted in favor of the creation of the district; that thereafter
the Department did duly determine that the operation of the proposed
district is administratively practicable and feasible and that 2 temporary
directors, naming them, were duly appointed. The said statement shall set
forth the boundaries of the district as they have been defined by the
Department.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 530.)
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