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1 AN ACT concerning local government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Mosquito Abatement District Act is
5 amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
6 (70 ILCS 1005/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 74)
7 Sec. 1. Any contiguous territory having a population of
8 not less than 300 inhabitants and no part of which is already
9 included in a mosquito abatement district may be organized as
10 a mosquito abatement district in the following manner:
11 Any 5% of the legal voters within the limits of the
12 proposed mosquito abatement district may petition the circuit
13 court for the county in which such territory lies, to order
14 the question whether such territory shall be organized as a
15 mosquito abatement district under this Act to be submitted to
16 the legal voters of such territory, but every petition must
17 shall be signed by at least 25 legal voters residing within
18 the territory proposed to be organized as a mosquito
19 abatement district, and in case the such territory includes
20 more than one city, village or incorporated town, or any
21 portions thereof, or includes one or more cities, villages or
22 incorporated towns, or any portion thereof and territory not
23 a part of any city, village or incorporated town, then the
24 such petition must be signed by at least 5% of the legal
25 voters residing in each of these the said cities, villages,
26 or incorporated towns, or portions thereof, and by at least
27 5% of the legal voters residing in the territory not a part
28 of any city, village or incorporated town. Such petition
29 addressed to the court must shall contain a definite
30 description of the boundaries of the territory proposed to be
31 organized as a mosquito abatement district, and must shall
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1 set forth the name of the proposed district, which name shall
2 be The.... Mosquito Abatement District.
3 (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)