93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6725

 

Introduced 02/09/04, by Marlow H. Colvin

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
70 ILCS 1005/1   from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 74

    Amends the Mosquito Abatement District Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning a petition for a referendum on the question of organizing a mosquito abatement district.


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A BILL FOR

 

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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 amended
5 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 not
8 less than 300 inhabitants and no part of which is already
9 included in a mosquito abatement district may be organized as a
10 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 the
14 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 the
18 territory proposed to be organized as a mosquito abatement
19 district, and in case the such territory includes more than one
20 city, village or incorporated town, or any portions thereof, or
21 includes one or more cities, villages or incorporated towns, or
22 any portion thereof and territory not a part of any city,
23 village or incorporated town, then the such petition must be
24 signed by at least 5% of the legal voters residing in each of
25 these the said cities, villages, or incorporated towns, or
26 portions thereof, and by at least 5% of the legal voters
27 residing in the territory not a part of any city, village or
28 incorporated town. Such petition addressed to the court must
29 shall contain a definite description of the boundaries of the
30 territory proposed to be organized as a mosquito abatement
31 district, and must shall set forth the name of the proposed
32 district, which name shall be The.... Mosquito Abatement

 

 

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1 District.
2 (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)