(70 ILCS 3405/4a) (from Ch. 42, par. 451a)
Sec. 4a.
A surface water protection district may be organized without an
election upon petition by all the owners of the land included in the
proposed district. Such petition shall be addressed to the same court as is
provided in Section 3 for petitions and shall, with respect to content,
comply with the provisions of Section 3, except that the prayer of the
petition shall be for the entry of an order organizing and incorporating
the territory described in the petition as a surface water protection
district, rather than that the question be submitted to the legal voters of
the proposed district.
A hearing upon the subject of the petition shall be fixed and notice
thereof given and the hearing held in the manner provided in Section 3.
If the court finds that the petition does not comply with the provisions
of this Act or that the allegations of the petition are not true, the court
shall dismiss the petition; but if the court finds that the petition
complies with the provisions of this Act and that the allegations of the
petition are true, the court shall enter an order defining and fixing the
boundaries of the district and organizing and incorporating it as a surface
water protection district. Such order shall be filed in
the records of
the court and a copy thereof sent to the appropriate clerk in any other
county in the same manner as is provided in Section 4 for orders entered
thereunder.
(Source: P.A. 83-343.)
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