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                                     LRB093 10778 MKM 19776 a

 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1049

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 1049, AS  AMENDED,
 3    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 4    following:

 5        "Section 5. The Park District Code is amended  by  adding
 6    Section 5-2e as follows:

 7        (70 ILCS 1205/5-2e new)
 8        Sec.  5-2e.  Park  district  property within municipality
 9    with recreation  board  or  within  a  supervised  recreation
10    system; disconnection.  Any territory of a park district that
11    is  located  within  a  municipality  that  has established a
12    recreation  board  under  Section  11-95-3  of  the  Illinois
13    Municipal Code, or a supervised recreation system that levies
14    taxes  for  the  establishment,  conduct,   and   maintenance
15    thereof,  may  be  disconnected from the park district if the
16    affected land owners are levied a tax  by  both  governmental
17    bodies  for  recreational services. A petition must be signed
18    by 10% of the  owners  of  record  of  the  land  within  the
19    territory  proposed  to  be  disconnected.  The petition must
20    allege the  facts  in  support  of  the  disconnection.   The
21    petition  shall  be  filed  with  the  municipal  clerk.  The
22    corporate  authorities  of  the  municipality  shall adopt an
 
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 1    ordinance that provides that the question of disconnection be
 2    submitted to the electors of the  territory  proposed  to  be
 3    disconnected.
 4        Upon adoption of the ordinance, the municipal clerk shall
 5    certify the ordinance and the question to the proper election
 6    authorities, who shall submit the question to the electors of
 7    the  territory  at an election in accordance with the general
 8    election law.
 9        The  question  cast  at  this  election   shall   be   in
10    substantially the following form:
11             Shall  (describe  territory)  be  disconnected  from
12        (name  of park district) and the levy of any taxes by the
13        Park District be discontinued?
14        The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
15        If a majority of the votes cast upon the question are  in
16    favor  of  disconnection, the territory shall be disconnected
17    from the park district, the  park  district  shall  cease  to
18    exercise   its  power  or  authority  over  the  disconnected
19    territory, and the levy of any taxes (except for taxes levied
20    pursuant to Section 3-7 for contracted indebtedness)  by  the
21    park district shall be discontinued.

22        Section  99.  Effective  date. This Act takes effect upon
23    becoming law.".