(70 ILCS 2605/234) (from Ch. 42, par. 349.234)

Sec. 234. District enlarged.

(a) As of August 18, 1978, the corporate limits of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago are hereby extended so as to embrace and include within the same the territory situated in County of Cook and State of Illinois, described as follows:

The East half of the North half of the South West Quarter of Section 28, Township 42 North, Range 10, East of the Third Principal Meridian and also that part of the North West Quarter of said Section 28 described as follows: Beginning at the South East corner thereof, thence North 1.25 degrees, West. 6.94 chains; thence West 20.17 chains; thence South 1.25 degrees, East 6.94 chains; thence East 20.17 chains to place of beginning, in Cook County, Illinois.

(b) Within 30 days after August 18, 1978, the corporate authorities of The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago shall cause to be published for 3 successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the territory described in subsection (a), a notice that the voters of that described territory (describing it) have 30 days within which to file a petition with the Clerk of The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago praying that the question of adoption of this Act be submitted to a vote of the electors of such territory, and that, if no such petition is filed, the described territory will become a part of The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago. If such petition, signed by not less than 10% of the legal voters within the described territory, praying that the question of the adoption of this Act shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of such territory shall be filed with the clerk of said sanitary district, then and in such case the question of the adoption of this Act shall be submitted to a vote of the electors, as in the petition prayed, at any general or municipal election held after the filing of such petition, and in such case, this Act shall not be in force unless a majority of the votes cast at said election, upon the question of the adoption of this Act, shall be in favor of the adoption thereof.

In case the petition is filed, it shall be the duty of the election officers having charge of the preparation of the ballots and the giving of the notices of election and of the counting and canvassing and making returns of the ballots, to take all necessary steps and do all necessary acts to cause the said question of the adoption of this Act to be submitted to a vote as hereinabove provided, and to cause the results of such election to be canvassed and certified as provided by law in similar cases.

(Source: P.A. 87-834.)