SB2323sam001 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Thomas Cullerton

Filed: 3/8/2016

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2323

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2323 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Mosquito Abatement District Act is amended by adding Section 11a as follows:

(70 ILCS 1005/11a new)

Sec. 11a. Dissolution of DuPage County mosquito abatement districts. On the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly:

(a) all mosquito abatement districts in DuPage County are dissolved and discontinued and all the rights, powers, duties, assets, property, liabilities, obligations, and responsibilities of each mosquito abatement district shall vest in and be assumed by the township in which the mosquito abatement district is located. If the mosquito abatement district is located in more than one township, each township which contains any part of the mosquito abatement district shall assume the rights, powers, duties, assets, property, liabilities, obligations, and responsibilities of that part of the mosquito abatement district located within its territory. If a parcel of property owned by the mosquito abatement district is located in more than one township, all townships in which any portion of the property lies shall determine and agree on the use or dividing of the property; and if all townships in which any portion of the property lies cannot agree on the use or dividing of the property then the county board shall determine the use or dividing of the property;

(b) all trustees of a dissolved mosquito abatement district shall cease to hold office. Each district board of trustees created under subsection (d) shall exercise all duties and responsibilities of the trustees of each dissolved mosquito abatement district or part of a district for which a township assumed responsibility;

(c) each township board of trustees shall assume all taxing authority of each dissolved mosquito abatement district or part of a district dissolved for which a township assumed responsibility under this Section; and

(d) new mosquito abatement districts are created in each township of DuPage county. In each township of DuPage County, the supervisor, assessor, and highway commissioner, or their designees, shall serve as the board of the mosquito abatement district in that township. Each mosquito abatement district created under this Section, and each board created under this subsection (d), shall have all the rights, powers, duties, obligations, and responsibilities of any mosquito abatement district or board created under this Act including, but not limited to, the ability to levy and collect taxes under this Act.".