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Full Text of HB4253  93rd General Assembly

HB4253 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 


 
93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4253

 

Introduced 1/29/2004, by Terry R. Parke

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
65 ILCS 5/7-1-13   from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-13

    Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning annexation of unincorporated territory.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning municipalities.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5 changing Section 7-1-13 as follows:
 
6     (65 ILCS 5/7-1-13)  (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-13)
7     Sec. 7-1-13. Whenever any unincorporated territory
8 containing sixty 60 acres or less, is wholly bounded by (a) one
9 or more municipalities, (b) one or more municipalities and a
10 creek in a county with a population of 400,000 or more, or one
11 or more municipalities and a river or lake in any county, (c)
12 one or more municipalities and the Illinois State boundary, (d)
13 one or more municipalities and property owned by the State of
14 Illinois, except highway right-of-way owned in fee by the
15 State, (e) one or more municipalities and a forest preserve
16 district, or (f) if the territory is a triangular parcel of
17 less than 10 acres, one or more municipalities and an
18 interstate highway owned in fee by the State and bounded by a
19 frontage road, that territory may be annexed by any
20 municipality by which it is bounded in whole or in part, by the
21 passage of an ordinance to that effect after notice is given as
22 provided in this Section. The corporate authorities shall cause
23 notice, stating that annexation of the territory described in
24 the notice is contemplated under this Section, to be published
25 once, in a newspaper of general circulation within the
26 territory to be annexed, not less than 10 days before the
27 passage of the annexation ordinance. When the territory to be
28 annexed lies wholly or partially within a township other than
29 that township where the municipality is situated, the annexing
30 municipality shall give at least 10 days prior written notice
31 of the time and place of the passage of the annexation
32 ordinance to the township supervisor of the township where the

 

 

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1 territory to be annexed lies. The ordinance shall describe the
2 territory annexed and a copy thereof together with an accurate
3 map of the annexed territory shall be recorded in the office of
4 the recorder of the county wherein the annexed territory is
5 situated and a document of annexation shall be filed with the
6 county clerk and County Election Authority. Nothing in this
7 Section shall be construed as permitting a municipality to
8 annex territory of a forest preserve district in a county with
9 a population of 3,000,000 or more without obtaining the consent
10 of the district pursuant to Section 8.3 of the Cook County
11 Forest Preserve District Act.
12 (Source: P.A. 86-769; 87-895.)