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                                     LRB093 08447 SJM 08669 b

 1        AN ACT concerning park districts.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The  Park District Code is amended by adding
 5    Section 5-2e as follows:

 6        (70 ILCS 1205/5-2e new)
 7        Sec. 5-2e. Park  district  property  within  municipality
 8    with  recreation  board; disconnection. Whenever any property
 9    within a park district created  under  this  Code  also  lies
10    within  the boundaries of a municipality that has established
11    a recreation board under  Section  11-95-3  of  the  Illinois
12    Municipal  Code  and  the property is being taxed by both the
13    park district and the municipality for  recreation  services,
14    10% or more of the legal voters residing within the territory
15    may  propose  to be disconnected and may file a petition with
16    the circuit court for the county that  contains  the  largest
17    portion  of  the  territory  to  cause  the  question  to  be
18    submitted to the legal voters of the territory proposed to be
19    disconnected.
20        The  court  shall  order  the  question  of disconnection
21    submitted to the electors  residing  in  the  territory.  The
22    Clerk  of the Circuit Court shall certify the question to the
23    proper election authorities at an election in accordance with
24    the general election law for submission.
25        The  question  cast  at  this  election   shall   be   in
26    substantially the following form:
27             Shall  the (describe territory) be disconnected from
28        (name of park district)?
29        The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
30        If  a  majority  of  the   electors   voting   upon   the
31    disconnection    question   vote   for   disconnection;   the
 
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 1    disconnection shall be effective.

 2        Section 99. Effective date. This Act  takes  effect  upon
 3    becoming law.