HB6720 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6720

Introduced 02/09/04, by Marlow H. Colvin

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

55 ILCS 5/1-2001

from Ch. 34, par. 1-2001

Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a petition for transfer of territory.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning counties.

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

Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section 1-2001 as follows:

(55 ILCS 5/1-2001) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-2001)

Sec. 1-2001. Petition for transfer of territory. When a majority of the legal voters, residing upon any territory, not less than half of one congressional township, shall petition the county board of their own county, and also of the county to which they desire such territory to be transferred, for leave to have such territory transferred to such county, it shall be the duty of the several county boards so petitioned to certify the proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit the question at a referendum in their respective counties in accordance with the general election law.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)