Public Act 093-0703
 
SB2442 Enrolled LRB093 18124 MKM 43816 b

    AN ACT concerning municipalities.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Section 11-91-1 as follows:
 
    (65 ILCS 5/11-91-1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-91-1)
    Sec. 11-91-1. Whenever the corporate authorities of any
municipality, whether incorporated by special act or under any
general law, determine that the public interest will be
subserved by vacating any street or alley, or part thereof,
within their jurisdiction in any incorporated area, they may
vacate that street or alley, or part thereof, by an ordinance.
The ordinance shall provide the legal description or permanent
index number of the particular parcel or parcels of property
acquiring title to the vacated property. But this ordinance
shall be passed by the affirmative vote of at least
three-fourths of the aldermen, trustees or commissioners then
holding office. This vote shall be taken by ayes and noes and
entered on the records of the corporate authorities.
    No ordinance shall be passed vacating any street or alley
under a municipality's jurisdiction and within an
unincorporated area without notice thereof and a hearing
thereon. At least 15 days prior to such a hearing, notice of
its time, place and subject matter shall be published in a
newspaper of general circulation within the unincorporated
area which the street or alley proposed for vacation serves. At
the hearing all interested persons shall be heard concerning
the proposal for vacation.
    The ordinance may provide that it shall not become
effective until the owners of all property or the owner or
owners of a particular parcel or parcels of property abutting
upon the street or alley, or part thereof so vacated, shall pay
compensation in an amount which, in the judgment of the
corporate authorities, shall be the fair market value of the
property acquired or of the benefits which will accrue to them
by reason of that vacation, and if there are any public service
facilities in such street or alley, or part thereof, the
ordinance shall may also reserve to the municipality or to the
public utility, as the case may be, owning such facilities,
such property, rights of way and easements as, in the judgment
of the corporate authorities, are necessary or desirable for
continuing public service by means of those facilities and for
the maintenance, renewal and reconstruction thereof. If the
ordinance provides that only the owner or owners of one
particular parcel of abutting property shall make payment, then
the owner or owners of the particular parcel shall acquire
title to the entire vacated street or alley, or the part
thereof vacated.
    The determination of the corporate authorities that the
nature and extent of the public use or public interest to be
subserved in such as to warrant the vacation of any street or
alley, or part thereof, is conclusive, and the passage of such
an ordinance is sufficient evidence of that determination,
whether so recited in the ordinance or not. The relief to the
public from further burden and responsibility of maintaining
any street or alley, or part thereof, constitutes a public use
or public interest authorizing the vacation.
    When property is damaged by the vacation or closing of any
street or alley, the damage shall be ascertained and paid as
provided by law.
(Source: P.A. 93-383, eff. 7-25-03.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.