(605 ILCS 5/6-111) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-111)

Sec. 6-111.

The territory within any county having less than 500,000
inhabitants may be organized into a county unit road district for all
purposes relating to the construction, repair, maintenance and
supervision of district roads in the county in the manner hereinafter
provided. A petition signed by not less than 5% of the legal voters or
50 legal voters, whichever is fewer, in each of at least a majority of
the townships in a county under township organization or road districts
in a county not under township organization shall be filed with the
county clerk of the county requesting the county clerk to submit
to referendum in such county to establish a county
unit road district in such county for all
district road purposes. The petition shall request that such proposition be
submitted at the general election in the next succeeding November of an
even-numbered year.

Upon the filing of such petition, the county clerk shall
submit such proposition at the general election in the
next succeeding November of an even-numbered year in accordance with the
general election law. Notice of the
referendum shall be given, and the election shall be held in the manner
provided by the general
election laws of the State. The proposition
shall be in substantially the following form:

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    Shall a county unit road             YES
district in.... County,           ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Illinois be established?                 NO
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Whenever in a county under township organization a majority of the
voters voting on such proposition in at least a majority of the townships
in such county and a majority of the voters voting on such proposition in
the entire county vote in favor of the proposition, and whenever in a
county not under township organization a majority of the voters voting
on such proposition in the entire county vote in favor of the proposition,
a county unit road district shall be established in such county for all
purposes relating to the construction, repair, maintenance and
supervision of district roads in such county which theretofore had been
under the jurisdiction of a highway commissioner, effective at the time
provided in Section 6-125 of this Act.

Any county unit road district established under this Section shall be
an independent county agency and any taxes levied for the county unit
road district under Section 6-512 of this Act shall be levied and
collected as other county taxes, but the county unit road district taxes
shall not be included in any constitutional or statutory tax limitation
for county purposes, but shall be in addition thereto and in excess
thereof.

(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)