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1     AN ACT in relation to municipalities.
 
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 Section
5 5-1041 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/5-1041)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1041)
7     Sec. 5-1041. Maps, plats and subdivisions. A county board
8 may prescribe, by resolution or ordinance, reasonable rules and
9 regulations governing the location, width, and course of
10 streets and highways and of floodplain, stormwater, and
11 floodwater runoff channels and basins, and the provision of
12 necessary public grounds for schools, public libraries, parks,
13 or playgrounds, in any map, plat, or subdivision of any block,
14 lot, or sub-lot or any part thereof or any piece or parcel of
15 land, not being within any city, village, or incorporated town.
16 The rules and regulations may include such reasonable
17 requirements with respect to water supply and sewage collection
18 and treatment as may be established by the Environmental
19 Protection Agency, and such reasonable requirements with
20 respect to floodplain and stormwater management as may be
21 established by the County Stormwater Management Committee
22 established under Section 5-1062 of this Code, and such
23 reasonable requirements with respect to street drainage and
24 surfacing as may be established by the county engineer or
25 superintendent of highways and which by resolution shall be
26 deemed to be the minimum requirements in the interest of the
27 health, safety, education and convenience of the public of the
28 county; and may provide by resolution that the map, plat or
29 subdivision shall be submitted to the county board or to some
30 officer to be designated by the county board for their or his
31 approval. The county board shall have a qualified engineer make
32 an estimate of the probable expenditures necessary to enable

 

 

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1 any person to conform with the standards of construction
2 established by the board pursuant to the provisions of this
3 Section. Except as provided in Section 3 of the Public
4 Construction Bond Act, each person who seeks the county board's
5 approval of a map, plat or subdivision shall post a good and
6 sufficient cash bond, irrevocable letter of credit, surety
7 bond, or other adequate security with the county clerk, in a
8 penal sum sufficient to cover the estimate of expenditures made
9 by the estimating engineer. The cash bond, irrevocable letter
10 of credit, surety bond, or other adequate security shall be
11 conditioned upon faithful adherence to the rules and
12 regulations of the county board promulgated pursuant to the
13 authorization granted to it by this Section or by Section
14 5-1062 of this Code, and in such cases no such map, plat or
15 subdivision shall be entitled to record in the proper county or
16 have any validity until it has been so approved. If the county
17 board requires a cash bond, letter of credit, surety, or any
18 other method to cover the costs and expenses and to insure
19 completion of the requirements, the requirements shall be
20 subject to the provisions of Section 5-1123 of this Code. This
21 Section is subject to the provisions of Section 5-1123.
22     The county board may, by resolution, provide a schedule of
23 fees sufficient to reimburse the county for the costs incurred
24 in reviewing such maps, plats and subdivisions submitted for
25 approval to the county board. The fees authorized by this
26 Section are to be paid into the general corporate fund of the
27 county by the party desiring to have the plat approved.
28     For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
29 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
30 expenditures thereof, "public grounds for schools" is defined
31 as including land or site improvements, which include school
32 buildings or other infrastructure necessitated and
33 specifically and uniquely attributable to the development or
34 subdivision in question. This amendatory Act of the 93rd
35 General Assembly applies to all impact fees or developer
36 donations paid into a school district or held in a separate

 

 

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1 account or escrow fund by any school district or county for a
2 school district.
3     No officer designated by a county board for the approval of
4 plats shall engage in the business of surveying, and no map,
5 plat or subdivision shall be received for record or have any
6 validity which has been prepared by or under the direction of
7 such plat officer.
8     It is the intention of this amendatory Act of 1990 to
9 repeal the language added to Section 25.09 of "An Act to revise
10 the law in relation to counties", approved March 31, 1874, by
11 P.A. 86-614, Section 25.09 of that Act being the predecessor of
12 this Section.
13 (Source: P.A. 92-479, eff. 1-1-02; 93-330, eff. 7-24-03.)