Public Act 0336 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

SB1661 Enrolled LRB096 10821 RLJ 21041 b

Public Act 096-0336

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Street Light District Act is amended by changing Section 2c as follows:

(70 ILCS 3305/2c) (from Ch. 121, par. 356c)

Sec. 2c. Disconnection. Any territory within a street lighting district that is or has been annexed to a city, village or incorporated town that provides street lighting within such city, village or incorporated town is, by operation of law, disconnected from the street lighting district as of the January first after such territory is annexed to the city, village or incorporated town, or in case territory has been so annexed prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1959, as of January 1, 1960. If there are any bonds of the street lighting district outstanding and unpaid at the time such territory is annexed to the city, village or incorporated town, such territory shall remain liable for its proportionate share of such bonded indebtedness and the street lighting district may continue to levy and extend taxes upon the taxable property in such territory for the purpose of amortizing such bonds until such time as such bonds are retired.

Territory shall not be disconnected from a street lighting district if all of the following criteria are met: (i) the municipality which contains all or part of the street lighting district does not levy a property tax on the taxable property in the territory, (ii) the municipality passes an ordinance permitting the street lighting district to operate and levy a tax, and (iii) the municipality does not collect a franchise fee from an electrical utility.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 2048.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.