HB2500sam001 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Richard J. Winkel Jr.

Filed: 5/12/2005

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2500

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2500 on page 1, line 4, after "by", by inserting "changing Section 7-1-13 and by"; and

on page 1, between lines 5 and 6, by inserting the following:

"(65 ILCS 5/7-1-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-13)

Sec. 7-1-13. Surrounded or nearly surrounded territory. Whenever any unincorporated territory containing 60 acres or less, is wholly bounded by (a) one or more municipalities, (b) one or more municipalities and a creek in a county with a population of 400,000 or more, or one or more municipalities and a river or lake in any county, (c) one or more municipalities and the Illinois State boundary, (d) one or more municipalities and property owned by the State of Illinois, except highway right-of-way owned in fee by the State, (e) one or more municipalities and a forest preserve district, or (f) if the territory is a triangular parcel of less than 10 acres, one or more municipalities and an interstate highway owned in fee by the State and bounded by a frontage road, that territory may be annexed by any municipality by which it is bounded in whole or in part, by the passage of an ordinance to that effect after notice is given as provided in this Section. In counties adjacent to another state, adjacent to a lake in excess of 20,000 square miles, and having a population of not less than 500,000 nor more than 1,000,000 persons, any unincorporated territory containing 75 acres or less that is wholly bounded by one municipality no larger in population than 500 persons may be annexed, on or before December 31, 2005, by the municipality by which it is wholly bounded, upon the passage of an ordinance to that effect after notice is given as provided in this Section. The corporate authorities shall cause notice, stating that annexation of the territory described in the notice is contemplated under this Section, to be published once, in a newspaper of general circulation within the territory to be annexed, not less than 10 days before the passage of the annexation ordinance. When the territory to be annexed lies wholly or partially within a township other than that township where the municipality is situated, the annexing municipality shall give at least 10 days prior written notice of the time and place of the passage of the annexation ordinance to the township supervisor of the township where the territory to be annexed lies. The ordinance shall describe the territory annexed and a copy thereof together with an accurate map of the annexed territory shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of the county wherein the annexed territory is situated and a document of annexation shall be filed with the county clerk and County Election Authority. Nothing in this Section shall be construed as permitting a municipality to annex territory of a forest preserve district in a county with a population of 3,000,000 or more without obtaining the consent of the district pursuant to Section 8.3 of the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-769; 87-895.)"; and

on page 1, below line 30, by adding the following:

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