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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2283
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 2283 on page 2,
3 line 22, by inserting "Henderson, Warren, Morgan, Mercer,"
4 after "Schuyler"; and
5 on page 2, line 25, by inserting "Any territory that is
6 disconnected from the Mid-America Intermodal Authority Port
7 District shall cease to be under the jurisdiction of the
8 Mid-America Port Commission." after "Commission."; and
9 on page 4, by replacing lines 12 and 13 with the following:
10 "Section 900. The Mid-America Intermodal Authority Port
11 District Act is amended by changing Section 10 and by adding
12 Section 172 as follows:
13 (70 ILCS 1832/10)
14 Sec. 10. Mid-America Intermodal Authority Port District
15 created. There is created a political subdivision, body
16 politic, and municipal corporation by the name of the
17 Mid-America Intermodal Authority Port District embracing all
18 the area within the corporate limits of Adams, Brown, Cass,
19 Hancock, Pike, Schuyler, Henderson, Warren, Morgan, Mercer,
20 and Scott Counties. Territory may be annexed to the district
21 in the manner provided in this Act. The district may sue and
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1 be sued in its corporate name but execution shall not in any
2 case issue against any property of the district. It may adopt
3 a common seal and change the same at its pleasure.
4 (Source: P.A. 90-636, eff. 7-24-98.)
5 (70 ILCS 1832/172 new)
6 Sec. 172. Disconnection. The registered voters of a
7 county included in the District may petition the State Board
8 of Elections requesting the submission of the question of
9 whether the county should be disconnected from the District
10 to the electors of the county. The petition shall be
11 circulated in the manner required by Section 28-3 of the
12 Election Code and objections thereto and the manner of their
13 disposition shall be in accordance with Section 28-4 of the
14 Election Code. If a petition is filed with the State Board
15 of Elections, signed by not less than 5% of the registered
16 voters of the county, requesting that the question of
17 disconnection be submitted to the electors of the county, the
18 State Board of Elections must certify the question to the
19 proper election authority, which must submit the question at
20 a regular election held at least 78 days after the petition
21 is filed in accordance with the Election Code.
22 The question must be submitted in substantially the
23 following form:
24 Shall (name of county) be disconnected from the
25 Mid-America Intermodal Authority Port District?
26 The votes must be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
27 If a majority of the electors voting on the question vote
28 in the affirmative, the county shall be disconnected from the
29 District.
30 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
31 becoming law.".