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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1027

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 1027  by  replacing
 3    everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 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.  This  Section  applies  only to park districts
20    located within 2 counties, one with a population of 3,000,000
21    or more and the other with a population between  500,000  and
22    550,000,  and a municipality with a population between 55,000
 
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 1    and 60,000.
 2        The court  shall  order  the  question  of  disconnection
 3    submitted  to  the  electors  residing  in the territory. The
 4    Clerk of the Circuit Court shall certify the question to  the
 5    proper election authorities at an election in accordance with
 6    the general election law for submission.
 7        The   question   cast   at  this  election  shall  be  in
 8    substantially the following form:
 9             Shall the (describe territory) be disconnected  from
10        (name of park district)?
11        The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
12        If   a   majority   of   the  electors  voting  upon  the
13    disconnection   question   vote   for   disconnection;    the
14    disconnection shall be effective.
15        This Section is repealed on January 1, 2005.

16        Section  99.  Effective  date. This Act takes effect upon
17    becoming law.".