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91_HB2343eng

 
HB2343 Engrossed                               LRB9105126MWgc

 1        AN ACT to amend the Plat Act by changing Section 3.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Plat Act is amended by changing Section 3
 5    as follows:

 6        (765 ILCS 205/3) (from Ch. 109, par. 3)
 7        Sec. 3. The acknowledgment and recording of such plat, or
 8    the acknowledgment and the filing of the same shall  be  held
 9    in  all  courts  to  be  a  conveyance  in fee simple of such
10    portions of the premises platted as are marked  or  noted  on
11    such plat as donated or granted to the public, or any person,
12    religious  society,  corporation  or  body  politic, and as a
13    general warranty against the donor,  his  or  her  heirs  and
14    representatives,  to  such donee or grantee, for their use or
15    for the use and purposes therein named or intended,  and  for
16    no  other  use  or purpose; and the premises intended for any
17    street, alley, way, common or other public use in  any  city,
18    village  or  town,  or addition thereto, shall be held in the
19    corporate name thereof in trust  to  and  for  the  uses  and
20    purposes set forth or intended.
21        The  location  and construction of municipal utilities is
22    an intended use of  a  fee  simple  right-of-way  dedication,
23    provided  that  all  jurisdictions  with  an  interest in the
24    right-of-way  permit  the  installation  of   the   municipal
25    utilities.
26    (Source: P.A. 83-345.)

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