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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5changing Section 11-15.1-2.1 as follows:
 
6    (65 ILCS 5/11-15.1-2.1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-15.1-2.1)
7    Sec. 11-15.1-2.1. Annexation agreement; municipal
8jurisdiction.
9    (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), property
10that is the subject of an annexation agreement adopted under
11this Division is subject to the ordinances, control, and
12jurisdiction of the annexing municipality in all respects the
13same as property that lies within the annexing municipality's
14corporate limits.
15    (b) This Section shall not apply in (i) a county with a
16population of more than 3,000,000, (ii) a county that borders a
17county with a population of more than 3,000,000 or (iii) a
18county with a population of more than 246,000 according to the
191990 federal census and bordered by the Mississippi River,
20unless the parties to the annexation agreement have, at the
21time the agreement is signed, ownership or control of all
22property that would make the property that is the subject of
23the agreement contiguous to the annexing municipality, in which

 

 

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1case the property that is the subject of the annexation
2agreement is subject to the ordinances, control, and
3jurisdiction of the municipality in all respects the same as
4property owned by the municipality that lies within its
5corporate limits.
6    (b-5) The limitations of item (iii) of subsection (b) do
7not apply to property that is the subject of an annexation
8agreement adopted under this Division within one year after the
9effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General
10Assembly with a coterminous home rule municipality, as of June
111, 2009, that borders the Mississippi River, in a county with a
12population in excess of 258,000, according to the 2000 federal
13census, if all such agreements entered into by the municipality
14pertain to parcels that comprise a contiguous area of not more
15than 120 acres in the aggregate.
16    (c) Except for property located in a county referenced in
17subsection (b) of this Section, if any property or any portion
18of a if property that is the subject of an annexation agreement
19is located more than 1.5 miles from a municipality's corporate
20limits in a county where the county board has voted to maintain
21the ordinances, control, and jurisdiction of the property by a
22two-thirds affirmative vote the corporate boundaries of the
23annexing municipality, that property is subject to the
24ordinances, control, and jurisdiction of the county annexing
25municipality unless the county board retains jurisdiction by
26the affirmative vote of two-thirds of its members.

 

 

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1    (d) If the county board retains jurisdiction under
2subsection (c) of this Section, the annexing municipality may
3file a request for jurisdiction with the county board on a case
4by case basis. If the county board agrees by the affirmative
5vote of a majority of its members, then the property covered by
6the annexation agreement shall be subject to the ordinances,
7control, and jurisdiction of the annexing municipality.
8(Source: P.A. 95-175, eff. 1-1-08; 95-922, eff. 8-26-08;
996-163, eff. 1-1-10; 96-188, eff. 8-10-09; 96-1000, eff.
107-2-10.)
 
11    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12becoming law.