105 ILCS 5/ School Code.

(105 ILCS 5/12-23) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-23)

Sec. 12-23. Detachment of territory from non-high school district.

When all of the territory of the non-high school district is annexed to one or more districts, the funds remaining to the credit of the non-high school district and property of such district shall within 60 days be apportioned and paid by the county board of school trustees to the respective school districts to which non-high school territory has been annexed since May 1, 1945, on the basis of the assessed valuation of the non-high school territory annexed at the date of the annexation to the respective school districts.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)

(105 ILCS 5/12-24) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-24)

Sec. 12-24. Elimination of non-high school district. The territory of the non-high school district or unit district not maintaining a high school in existence on January 1, 1950 of any county having a population of 500,000 or less shall be automatically eliminated from the non-high school district or unit district, unless (1) the non-high school territory is adjacent to a district created by a special Act whose boundaries are required by such Act to be coterminous with some city or village or to a district maintaining grades 1 through 12 and (2) has children in such territory who customarily attend the high school of such district and (3) has no school district operating grades 9 through 12 to which such territory could be annexed without impairing the educational opportunities of the children of such territory and in such case the territory shall remain non-high school territory.

Any such non-high school district including any unit district not maintaining a high school pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall pay tuition for high school students at a rate to be mutually agreed by the boards of education of each district affected.

When territory is eliminated from a non-high school district or unit district not maintaining a high school it shall be annexed by the county board of school trustees as provided in Section 7-27 of this Code (now repealed).

Any non-high school district affected by such elimination and annexation may continue to exercise all previously conferred and existing powers pending final administrative or judicial affirmance thereof.

(Source: P.A. 100-374, eff. 8-25-17.)

(105 ILCS 5/12-25) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-25)

Sec. 12-25. Non-high territory surrounded by water or possessing an ancient grant.

Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Article for the elimination of non-high school territory and in addition to the exemptions provided in this Article for the elimination of non-high school territory, any non-high school territory that has no direct land connection with any school district to which it could be annexed or any school district whose inhabitants were entitled to the use and benefit of certain lands by virtue of an ancient grant prior to the admission of Illinois to the Union and which grant was recognized and confirmed by the government of the United States, may be permitted to remain non-high school territory, in whole or in part, or may be eliminated, in whole or in part, from the non-high school district of the county as part of an attachment, assignment, annexation, detachment, division, or dissolution action of the regional board of school trustees. In the event an elementary district is non-recognized by the State Board of Education, the elementary district and that portion of any non-high school district with coterminous boundaries with such elementary district shall be assigned, annexed, and attached to a unit district or to an elementary district and a high school district by the regional board of school trustees under the guidelines of Section 7-11.

(Source: P.A. 86-139.)

(105 ILCS 5/12-26) (from Ch. 122, par. 12-26)

Sec. 12-26. Transferred territory liable for indebtedness-Levy of tax.

If any non-high school district or protectorate high school district has outstanding debts and obligations other than bonded indebtedness the territory constituting the district at the time the indebtedness is incurred shall remain liable for the indebtedness even though the district is dissolved or a part of the territory is detached from or ceases to be a part of such district.

The board of education of the non-high school district or protectorate high school district at the time of making its annual tax levy or prior to the time it ceases to exist shall prepare and file with the county clerk a map of the district showing the territory embraced therein prior to any dissolution or change in the boundary thereof and shall also file with the county clerk a statement certified by the county superintendent of schools showing the amount of outstanding debts or obligations other than bonded indebtedness of the district remaining unpaid, the time when the indebtedness was created, the changes in the boundary of the district and the date of such changes.

The board of education shall determine and certify to the county clerk the amount of tax required for the purpose of paying the outstanding debts or obligations other than bonded indebtedness and the county clerk shall extend each year upon all the territory so liable a rate of tax necessary to raise the amount thereof at the maximum rate permissible at the time the territory ceased to be non-high school territory or protectorate high school territory until such outstanding debts or obligations other than bonded indebtedness have been paid.

When collected the tax shall be paid to the county superintendent of schools who shall pay the debts and obligations other than bonded indebtedness in the order that they were incurred.

(Source: P.A. 76-124.)

(105 ILCS 5/Art. 13 heading) ARTICLE 13. SCHOOLS FOR DESIGNATED PURPOSES

(105 ILCS 5/prec. Sec. 13-1 heading)

CONTINUATION SCHOOLS

(105 ILCS 5/13-1)

Sec. 13-1. (Repealed).

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 31. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)

(105 ILCS 5/13-2)

Sec. 13-2. (Repealed).

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 31. Repealed by P.A. 94-1105, eff. 6-1-07.)