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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 11-12-9 as follows:
 
6    (65 ILCS 5/11-12-9)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-12-9)
7    Sec. 11-12-9. If unincorporated territory is within one and
8one-half miles of the boundaries of two or more corporate
9authorities that have adopted official plans, the corporate
10authorities involved may agree upon a line which shall mark the
11boundaries of the jurisdiction of each of the corporate
12authorities who have adopted such agreement. On and after
13September 24, 1987, such agreement may provide that one or more
14of the municipalities shall not annex territory which lies
15within the jurisdiction of any other municipality, as
16established by such line. In the absence of such a boundary
17line agreement, nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as
18a limitation on the power of any municipality to annex
19territory. In arriving at an agreement for a jurisdictional
20boundary line, the corporate authorities concerned shall give
21consideration to the natural flow of storm water drainage, and,
22when practical, shall include all of any single tract having
23common ownership within the jurisdiction of one corporate

 

 

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1authority. Such agreement shall not become effective until
2copies thereof, certified as to adoption by the municipal
3clerks of the respective municipalities, have been filed in the
4Recorder's Office and made available in the office of the
5municipal clerk of each agreeing municipality.
6    Any agreement for a jurisdictional boundary line shall be
7valid for such term of years as may be stated therein, but not
8to exceed 20 years, and if no term is stated, shall be valid
9for a term of 20 years. The term of such agreement may be
10extended, renewed or revised at the end of the initial or
11extended term thereof by further agreement of the
12municipalities.
13    In the absence of such agreement, the jurisdiction of any
14one of the corporate authorities shall extend to a median line
15equidistant from its boundary and the boundary of the other
16corporate authority nearest to the boundary of the first
17corporate authority at any given point on the line.
18    On and after January 1, 2006, no corporate authority may
19enter into an agreement pursuant to this Section unless, not
20less than 30 days and not more than 120 days prior to formal
21approval thereof by the corporate authority, it shall have
22first provided public notice of the proposed boundary agreement
23by both of the following:
24        (1) the posting of a public notice for not less than 15
25    consecutive days in the same location at which notices of
26    village board or city council meetings are posted; and

 

 

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1        (2) publication on at least one occasion in a newspaper
2    of general circulation within the territory that is subject
3    to the proposed agreement.
4The validity of a boundary agreement may not be legally
5challenged on the grounds that the notice as required by this
6Section was not properly given unless the challenge is
7initiated within 12 months after the formal approval of the
8boundary agreement.
9    An agreement that addresses jurisdictional boundary lines
10shall be entirely unenforceable for any party thereto that
11subsequently enters into another agreement that addresses
12jurisdictional boundary lines that is in conflict with any of
13the terms of the first agreement without the consent of all
14parties to the first agreement. For purposes of this Section,
15it shall not be considered a "conflict" when a municipality
16that is a party to a jurisdictional boundary line agreement
17cedes property within its own jurisdiction to another
18municipality not a party to the same jurisdictional boundary
19line agreement.
20    This amendatory Act of 1990 is declarative of the existing
21law and shall not be construed to modify or amend existing
22boundary line agreements, nor shall it be construed to create
23powers of a municipality not already in existence.
24    Except for those provisions to take effect prospectively,
25this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly is declarative
26of existing law and shall not be construed to modify or amend

 

 

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1existing boundary line agreements entered into on or before the
2effective date of this amendatory Act, nor shall it be
3construed to create powers of a municipality not already in
4existence on the effective date of this amendatory Act.
5(Source: P.A. 94-374, eff. 7-29-05.)
 
6    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7becoming law.