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55 ILCS 5/Div. 1-3

 
    (55 ILCS 5/Div. 1-3 heading)
Division 1-3. New Counties

55 ILCS 5/1-3001

    (55 ILCS 5/1-3001) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3001)
    Sec. 1-3001. Petition to form new county. Whenever it is desired to form a new county out of one or more of the then existing counties, and a petition praying for the erection of such new county, stating and describing the territory proposed to be taken for such new county, together with the name of such proposed new county, signed by a majority of the legal voters residing in the territory to be stricken from such county or counties, shall be presented to the county board of each county to be affected by such division, and it appearing that such new county can be constitutionally formed, it shall be the duty of such county board or county boards to make an order providing for the submission of the question of the erection of such new county to a vote of the people of the counties to be affected. The County Board or boards shall certify the question to the proper election officials, who shall submit the question to the voters at a general election, in accordance with the general election law. The form of the proposition shall be as follows: "For new county," and "Against new county."
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/1-3002

    (55 ILCS 5/1-3002) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3002)
    Sec. 1-3002. Election; effect. If it shall appear that a majority of all the votes cast at such election, in each of the counties interested, is in favor of the erection of such new county, the county clerk of each of said counties shall certify the same to the Secretary of State, stating in such certificate the name, territorial contents and boundaries of such new county; whereupon the Secretary of State shall notify the Governor of the result of such election, whose duty it shall be to order an election of county officers for such new county in accordance with the general election law for the election of county officers. At such election the qualified voters of said new county shall elect all county officers for said county, except as hereinafter excepted, who shall be commissioned and qualified in the same manner as such officers are in other counties in this State, and who shall continue in office until the next regular election for such officers, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and who shall have all the jurisdiction and perform all the duties which are or may be conferred upon such officers in other counties of this State.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/1-3003

    (55 ILCS 5/1-3003) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3003)
    Sec. 1-3003. Township or precinct officers; continuance in office. All the township or precinct officers, who were previously elected and qualified in the county or counties from which such new county has been formed, whose term of office shall not have expired at the time of said election, and whose residence shall be embraced within the limits of said new county, shall continue in office until their terms of office shall expire, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/1-3004

    (55 ILCS 5/1-3004) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3004)
    Sec. 1-3004. Canvass and return of votes. The votes for the county officers of said new county shall be canvassed, and returns made, by the county clerk or county clerks of the county or counties from which such new county was formed, as provided by the general election law.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/1-3005

    (55 ILCS 5/1-3005) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3005)
    Sec. 1-3005. County deemed organized. The oath of office may be administered to the several county officers of such new county by any person authorized by law to administer oaths; and as soon as such county officers are duly qualified, the county shall be regarded as legally organized, and for judicial purposes shall be deemed and taken as belonging to the circuit in which such new county, or the greater part thereof, is embraced, and the circuit court shall be held at such place in the new county as the county board thereof shall designate, until the county seat thereof shall be permanently located.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/1-3006

    (55 ILCS 5/1-3006) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3006)
    Sec. 1-3006. Transfer of suits and judgments. The courts of any county or counties from which such new county is erected may, by proper order, transfer any suit or other legal proceeding affecting real estate in such new county, to the proper court of such new county, or may transfer any suit and all papers and records pertaining thereto to such new county, when all the parties thereto are residents of such new county; but all judgments and other liens in the county or counties from which such new county was erected, shall have the same effect as if no new county had been erected.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/1-3007

    (55 ILCS 5/1-3007) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3007)
    Sec. 1-3007. Adjustment of property and debts. All the property, both real and personal, and all debts, liabilities and choses in action of every kind, belonging to the county or counties from which such new county was formed, shall be divided by the several county boards of the counties interested, between the county or counties from which such new county is formed and the new county, in proportion to the assessed value of property for the last preceding year which has been taken from such original county or counties and carried to such new county; and if such boards cannot agree upon such division, they may refer the matter of difference to arbitrators, or the rights to such property may be settled by a civil action filed by either party for that purpose. In case the property cannot be divided or removed, the county receiving the same shall pay to the other a proportionate value for the same.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/1-3008

    (55 ILCS 5/1-3008) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3008)
    Sec. 1-3008. Appointment of commissioner to copy records. The presiding officer of the county board of such new county, with the advice and consent of that county board, shall, at any session of said board, by an order to be entered of record, appoint some competent person a commissioner, for the purpose hereinafter expressed, who shall take an oath of office before some person authorized by law to administer oaths. Said board shall, at the same time, provide a sufficient number of blank books, and deliver them to said commissioner, who shall receipt for the same to the county clerk of said county.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/1-3009

    (55 ILCS 5/1-3009) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3009)
    Sec. 1-3009. Transcription of records. As soon as said books shall be delivered to said commissioner, he shall record in each a copy of the order of his appointment and of his oath of office, and shall thereupon proceed to transcribe, into such books, from the records of the county or several counties from which the new county is formed, all such deeds, mortgages and title papers of every description, with the certificate of acknowledgment thereto, and the date of the filing of the same for record, of lands lying in said new county which previously were recorded in the counties from which such new county was formed; and there shall be allowed said commissioner such sum as his services aforesaid are reasonably worth, to be paid out of the county treasury of the said new county.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/1-3010

    (55 ILCS 5/1-3010) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3010)
    Sec. 1-3010. Index of records; evidence. The commissioner shall note, at the end of each paper he shall transcribe, the book and page from which the same was transcribed, and shall make a correct double index of the records; and on the completion of his duties, the commissioner shall return the books to the recorder of the new county, with his certificate attached thereto, showing that he has complied with the law; whereupon they shall be taken and considered, to all intents and purposes, as books of records of deeds, mortgages and title papers for the new county. And copies of the record, certified by the officer having the custody of the same, shall be evidence in all courts and places, in the same manner that copies of records are evidence in other cases, and with like effect.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

55 ILCS 5/1-3011

    (55 ILCS 5/1-3011) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3011)
    Sec. 1-3011. Fixing county seat. For the purpose of fixing the permanent location of the county seat of such new county, the voters of said county shall, at said election for county officers, vote for some place, to be designated upon their ballots, for a county seat; upon which ballot shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, "For County Seat," after which words shall be written or printed the name of the place intended for the county seat. The place receiving a majority of all the legal votes cast upon the question shall be the county seat of said county. But if no place shall receive a majority of all the votes cast upon the question, then it shall be the duty of the county board of said county to choose from the two places having the greatest number of legal voters at the former election; and the place so chosen shall be the permanent county seat of said county.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)