Local Government Committee
Filed: 2/22/2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 620
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 620 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by adding Section | ||||||
5 | 5-12020 as follows: | ||||||
6 | (55 ILCS 5/5-12020 new) | ||||||
7 | Sec. 5-12020. Wind farms. A county may establish standards | ||||||
8 | for wind farms and electric-generating wind devices. The | ||||||
9 | standards may include, without limitation, the height of the | ||||||
10 | devices and the number of devices that may be located within a | ||||||
11 | geographic area. A county may also regulate the siting of wind | ||||||
12 | farms and electric-generating wind devices in unincorporated | ||||||
13 | areas of the county outside of the zoning jurisdiction of a | ||||||
14 | municipality and the 1.5 mile radius surrounding the zoning | ||||||
15 | jurisdiction of a municipality. There shall be at least one | ||||||
16 | public hearing not more than 30 days prior to a siting decision |
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1 | by the county board. Notice of the hearing shall be published | ||||||
2 | in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. Counties | ||||||
3 | may allow test wind towers to be sited without formal approval | ||||||
4 | by the county board. Test wind towers must be dismantled within | ||||||
5 | 3 years of installation. For the purposes of this Section, | ||||||
6 | "test wind towers" are wind towers that are designed solely to | ||||||
7 | collect wind generation data. | ||||||
8 | Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | ||||||
9 | adding Section 11-13-26 as follows: | ||||||
10 | (65 ILCS 5/11-13-26 new) | ||||||
11 | Sec. 11-13-26. Wind farms. A municipality may regulate wind | ||||||
12 | farms and electric-generating wind devices within its zoning | ||||||
13 | jurisdiction and within the 1.5 mile radius surrounding its | ||||||
14 | zoning jurisdiction. There shall be at least one public hearing | ||||||
15 | not more than 30 days prior to a siting decision by the | ||||||
16 | corporate authorities of a municipality. Notice of the hearing | ||||||
17 | shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the | ||||||
18 | municipality. A municipality may allow test wind towers to be | ||||||
19 | sited without formal approval by the corporate authorities of | ||||||
20 | the municipality. Test wind towers must be dismantled within 3 | ||||||
21 | years of installation. For the purposes of this Section, "test | ||||||
22 | wind towers" are wind towers that are designed solely to | ||||||
23 | collect wind generation data.
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1 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
2 | becoming law.".
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