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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.)