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70 ILCS 2205/1

(70 ILCS 2205/1) (from Ch. 42, par. 247)

Sec. 1.

Whenever any area of contiguous territory within the limits
of two counties, having within its limits two or more
incorporated cities or villages, and an aggregate population of not less
than 3,500 inhabitants, shall be so situate as to be subject to overflow
from any river or tributary thereof, and the maintenance of one or more
levees for the protection of the same against such overflow, and of a
new or improved outlet for the drainage thereof, will conduce to the
preservation of the public health and safety, the same may be
incorporated as a sanitary district, in the manner following: Any three
hundred legal voters resident within the limits of such proposed
district, may petition the circuit court for the county in which the
majority of such petitioners reside, to cause the question to be
submitted to the legal voters of said proposed district, whether they
will organize as a sanitary district under this act. Such petition shall
contain the name of such proposed sanitary district, and a definite
description of the territory intended to be embraced therein: Provided,
no territory shall be included within more than one sanitary district
under this act.

(Source: Laws 1967, p. 3817.)