093_HB1312 LRB093 04068 MKM 04107 b 1 AN ACT in relation to counties. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing 5 Section 1-2001 as follows: 6 (55 ILCS 5/1-2001) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-2001) 7 Sec. 1-2001. Petition for transfer of territory. When a 8 majority of the legal voters, residing upon any territory, 9 not less than half of one congressional township, petitions 10shall petitionthe county board of their own county, and also 11 of the county to which they desire such territory to be 12 transferred, for leave to have such territory transferred to 13 such county, it shall be the duty of the several county 14 boards so petitioned to certify the proposition to the proper 15 election officials, who shall submit the question at a 16 referendum in their respective counties in accordance with 17 the general election law. 18 (Source: P.A. 86-962.)