(65 ILCS 5/7-4-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-4-8)
Sec. 7-4-8.
The police of any municipality in such a police district have
full authority and power as peace officers and may go
into any part of the district to exercise that authority and power. For these
purposes the mayor of any municipality in the district, and the chiefs of
police therein, shall use the police forces under their control anywhere in
the district.
(Source: P.A. 90-593, eff. 6-19-98; 91-319, eff. 7-29-99.)
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(65 ILCS 5/Art. 7 Div. 5 heading) DIVISION 5.
CHANGE OF SITE
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(65 ILCS 5/7-5-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-5-1)
Sec. 7-5-1.
Whenever a municipality incorporated under any general or
special law is in danger of losing all or the greater portion of the land
within its corporate limits by reason of the washing away of the bank of
any river, or whenever the inhabitants of any limited territory who, as
inhabitants of that territory, have land within this State held as a common
by virtue of a grant by any person or government having power to make that
grant, are in danger of losing all or the greater portion of the territory
by reason of the washing away of the bank of any river, that municipality
or those inhabitants may acquire by gift or purchase suitable real estate
to which the site of that municipality, or of the residence of those
inhabitants may be removed. However, this real estate shall be within 3
miles of the former nearest limit of that municipality or territory and
shall not be more than is reasonably necessary for the purposes of a new
site.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/7-5-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-5-2)
Sec. 7-5-2.
Whenever a municipality or territory is endangered as specified
in Section 7-5-1, upon written petition, describing the property sought to
be acquired, and signed by not less than three-fourths of the electors of
that municipality or territory, and by the owners in fee simple of not less
than one-half in value of the remaining territory within the limits of that
municipality or territory, the corporate authorities of that municipality,
or the trustees of the lands held as a common, by ordinance, may authorize
acquisition of the title to the real estate described in the petition.
Upon the passage of the ordinance, that municipality or the inhabitants
of that territory may acquire the title to the real estate described in the
petition and ordinance, either by gift or by purchase. A deed of conveyance
to the municipality by its corporate name, or to the trustees of the land
held as a common, shall vest the title to this real estate for the purposes
of this article.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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