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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6070
Introduced 2/6/2004, by Tom Cross SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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315 ILCS 25/2 |
from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.9 |
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Amends the Urban Community Conservation Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning legislative findings.
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A BILL FOR
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HB6070 |
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LRB093 15549 DRJ 41156 b |
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| AN ACT concerning urban problems.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Urban Community Conservation Act is amended |
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| by changing Section 2 as follows:
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| (315 ILCS 25/2) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.9)
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| Sec. 2. Legislative finding and declaration.
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| It is hereby found and declared that there exist in many |
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| urban
communities within this State conservation areas, as |
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| defined in this Act
herein; that
these conservation areas are |
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| rapidly deteriorating and declining in
desirability as |
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| residential communities and may soon become slum and
blighted |
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| areas if their decline is not checked; that the stable economic
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| and physical development of these areas is endangered by the |
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| presence of
blighting factors as manifested by progressive and |
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| advanced deterioration
of structures, by the over-use of |
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| housing and other facilities, by a lack
of physical maintenance |
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| of existing structures, by obsolete and inadequate
community |
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| facilities and a lack of sound community planning; that as a
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| result and concomitant of the decline of conservation areas, |
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| there is a
growth of delinquency, crime, and of housing and |
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| zoning law violations in
such areas, together with an abnormal |
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| exodus of families; that the decline
of these areas threatens |
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| to impair the tax base of such communities and
produce the |
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| conditions characteristic of slum and blighted areas which
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| threaten the health, safety, morals, and welfare of the public; |
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| that in
order to promote and protect the health, safety, morals |
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| and welfare of the
public it is necessary to provide for the |
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| protection of such conservation
areas and prevent their |
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| deterioration into slum and blighted areas. The
granting to the |
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| municipalities of this State of the powers herein provided
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| directed to that end, and the use of such rights and powers for |