(70 ILCS 5/18) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 68.18)
Sec. 18.
Acquisition, construction or improvement of airport - Notice - Bond issues -
Disconnection and reconnection of land.
After the site of any airport to be acquired, established or constructed
by the Authority has been determined upon by the Board of Commissioners of
an Authority, the Board shall cause notice to be published at least once in
a daily or weekly newspaper having a general circulation within the
Authority, stating the location of the site, and if there be no such
newspaper, such notice shall be posted in 5 of the most public places
within said Authority. No tax secured bonds shall be issued under the
provisions of this act by any Authority to pay the cost of acquiring any
such airport site or of establishing, constructing, developing, improving
or extending an airport on any such site until 60 days after such
publication or posting has been made. After the first issue of any such tax
secured bonds by an Authority, no other or further notice need be published
or posted in connection with and preliminary to making or financing of any
improvement, enlargement or extension of any such public airport, its site,
or the establishment or extension of its approaches, or clear zones or the
installation or extension of any safety or other facility appurtenant to
the airport. Any territory within the corporate limits of the Authority
containing 20 or more acres, may be disconnected from such airport
Authority, upon the filing of a petition in the Circuit Court, alleging (1)
that the land is without the corporate limits of any municipality and is
not laid out into lots or blocks or otherwise subdivided for urban
development as residential, commercial or industrial property or used for
commercial or industrial purposes, (2) that the land is not included within
any airport or the site of any proposed airport and is not within an area
over or on which an approach to an airport has been or is proposed to be
established, (3) that the land is not within the provisions of, or affected
by, or necessary for the enforcement of, any zoning or other lawful and
reasonable regulation established by such Authority, (4) that it is not
reasonably necessary for the Authority to have jurisdiction over such land
for the protection of property within, and the inhabitants of, the
remaining territory of the Authority from any hazard or nuisance resulting
from the flight of aircraft, or for the prevention of accidents resulting
from the flight of aircraft, and (5) that the disconnection of such land
will not destroy the contiguity of the remaining territory within such
airport authority.
The petition seeking disconnection of territory now within the corporate
limits of any Authority which has heretofore been determined upon as the
site of an airport and has caused notice to be published or posted, must be
filed within one year after the effective date of this amendatory Act of
1963. Thereafter, any petition seeking disconnection of any other territory
must be filed within one year after the date on which the notice of
acquisition, establishment or construction of a site for an airport is
published or posted, as provided for by this Section, by the Authority in
which such territory is located. No regulation of the Authority shall be
adopted for the sole purpose of enabling the Authority to retain any
territory within its corporate limits by preventing, through such
regulation, the disconnection of such territory as herein provided. The
Authority from which disconnection is sought shall be made a defendant to
such petition, and it or taxpayers residing in the Authority may appear and
defend against the petition. If the court finds that the allegations of the
petition are true, it shall order the specified land disconnected from the
designated Authority, and shall attach to any such order of disconnection
the condition that such land or any part thereof shall be reconnected and
restored to such Authority by order of court, upon petition of the
Authority and notice to be given as hereinafter provided, and after a
public hearing, should any such condition thereafter cease to be the fact
in respect to such land.
Owners of separate parcels of land which abut or adjoin may join in a
single petition and any such parcels described in such petition may be
considered as one parcel for the purpose of determining whether the area
has 20 or more acres and of determining whether or not the disconnection of
such land or any parcel thereof will destroy the contiguity of the
remaining territory of the Authority. Separate petitions filed by owners of
separate parcels of land which are contiguous with each other, or which
considered together form one contiguous area of 20 or more acres may be
considered to relate to one area and may be consolidated for hearing and
heard together for the purpose of determining whether or not the
disconnection of the entire area described in the several petitions will
destroy the contiguity of the remaining territory of the Authority, and if
such contiguity is not thereby destroyed, each petition shall be deemed to
comply with the foregoing condition respecting the continuing contiguity of
the remaining territory of the Authority.
At any time after the disconnection of any land from an Authority, such
Authority may file a petition in the Circuit Court where such disconnection
proceeding was had for the reconnection of such land. Contiguous tracts of
land under separate ownership may be joined in a single proceeding. If it
is found upon such reconnection proceeding that one or more of the
conditions for the disconnection of such land no longer exist, such land
shall be reconnected with the Authority, provided that no such reconnection
proceeding shall attach noncontiguous area to the Authority or destroy the
contiguity of the Authority as theretofore established.
Upon the filing of such a petition for reconnection, the
Court shall set the petition for
hearing not less than 30 nor more than 60 days after the filing thereof,
and the Clerk of the Court shall cause notice to be published of the filing
of such petition in a daily or weekly newspaper having a general
circulation within the Authority describing the land or territory proposed
for reconnection and, if there be no such newspaper, such notice shall be
posted in 5 public places within the Authority, at least one of which shall
be upon such land or territory or a public place upon land adjacent
thereto. The first such notice shall be published, or such notice shall be
posted, within 10 days of the filing of such petition and, if published,
such publication shall be made on 3 successive weeks, such notice shall be
addressed to Whom it May Concern, and shall give the date, time and place
of the hearing on such petition. The petition shall allege facts upon the
basis of which such land or territory should be reconnected as herein
provided, and if the Court shall find, upon the hearing of such petition,
that the facts alleged are sufficient to support the prayer of the petition
and are true in respect to any land or territory described therein, the
reconnection of such land or territory to the Authority shall be ordered
forthwith by the Court and shall be effective as of the date of the filing
of such petition.
An appeal from a final order in a disconnection or reconnection
proceeding may be taken as in other civil cases.
Within 90 days after the order in any such
proceeding or proceedings shall become final, the change or changes thereby
affected in the corporate limits of the Authority, if any, shall be set
forth in a certificate signed by the Circuit Judge before whom such
proceedings have transpired which shall be filed in such organization
proceedings, and a certified copy of the same shall be filed in the office
of the recorder of each county in which the Authority
is situated.
Any lands disconnected from an Authority shall continue subject to taxes
to pay the principal and interest of any bonds issued by the Authority
prior to the filing of the petition for the disconnection of such lands
from the Authority.
(Source: P.A. 83-358.)
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