94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB0486

 

Introduced 1/27/2005, by Rep. Karen May

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/5-1041   from Ch. 34, par. 5-1041
55 ILCS 5/5-1042   from Ch. 34, par. 5-1042
65 ILCS 5/11-12-5   from Ch. 24, par. 11-12-5

    Amends the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code to authorize the county boards of certain counties to establish rules and regulations and authorizes certain municipal commissions and planning departments to implement a comprehensive plan by ordinance for the provision of public grounds for park districts, fire protection districts, township fire departments, and local law enforcement agencies. Authorizes the county boards of certain counties to establish rules and regulations and authorizes certain municipal plan commissions and planning departments to implement a comprehensive plan by ordinance for the provision of public grounds for park districts, fire protection districts, township fire departments, and local law enforcement agencies. Effective immediately.


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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 Counties Code is amended by changing
5 Sections 5-1041 and 5-1042 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 streets
10 and highways and of floodplain, stormwater and floodwater
11 runoff channels and basins, and the provision of necessary
12 public grounds for schools, public libraries, fire protection
13 districts, township fire departments, park districts, parks,
14 or playgrounds, or local law enforcement agencies in any map,
15 plat or subdivision of any block, lot or sub-lot or any part
16 thereof or any piece or parcel of land, not being within any
17 city, village or incorporated town. The rules and regulations
18 may include such reasonable requirements with respect to water
19 supply and sewage collection and treatment as may be
20 established by the Environmental Protection Agency, and such
21 reasonable requirements with respect to floodplain and
22 stormwater management as may be established by the County
23 Stormwater Management Committee established under Section
24 5-1062 of this Code, and such reasonable requirements with
25 respect to street drainage and surfacing as may be established
26 by the county engineer or superintendent of highways and which
27 by resolution shall be deemed to be the minimum requirements in
28 the interest of the health, safety, education and convenience
29 of the public of the county; and may provide by resolution that
30 the map, plat or subdivision shall be submitted to the county
31 board or to some officer to be designated by the county board
32 for their or his approval. The county board shall have a

 

 

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

 

 

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1 General Assembly applies to all impact fees or developer
2 donations paid into a school district or held in a separate
3 account or escrow fund by any school district or county for a
4 school district.
5     For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
6 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
7 expenditures thereof, "fire protection districts" is defined
8 as including land or site improvements, including fire
9 protection district buildings or other infrastructure
10 necessitated by and specifically and uniquely attributable to
11 the development or subdivision in question. This amendatory Act
12 of the 94th General Assembly applies to all impact fees or
13 developer donations paid into a fire protection district or
14 held in a separate account or escrow fund by any fire
15 protection district or county for a fire protection district.
16     For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
17 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
18 expenditures thereof, "township fire departments" is defined
19 as including land or site improvements, including township fire
20 department buildings or other infrastructure necessitated by
21 and specifically and uniquely attributable to the development
22 or subdivision in question. This amendatory Act of the 94th
23 General Assembly applies to all impact fees or developer
24 donations paid into a township fire department or held in a
25 separate account or escrow fund by any township fire department
26 or county for a township fire department.
27     For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
28 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
29 expenditures thereof, "park districts, parks, or playgrounds"
30 is defined as including land or site improvements, including
31 park district buildings or other infrastructure necessitated
32 by and specifically attributable to the development or
33 subdivision in question. This amendatory Act of the 94th
34 General Assembly applies to all impact fees and developer
35 donations paid into a park district or held in a separate
36 account or escrow fund by any park district or county for a

 

 

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1 park district.
2     For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
3 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
4 expenditures thereof, "local law enforcement agencies" is
5 defined as including land or site improvements, including law
6 enforcement agency buildings or other infrastructure
7 necessitated by and specifically attributable to the
8 development or subdivision in question. This amendatory Act of
9 the 94th General Assembly applies to all impact fees and
10 developer donations paid to a local law enforcement agency or
11 held in a separate account or escrow fund by any local law
12 enforcement agency or county for a law enforcement agency.
13     No officer designated by a county board for the approval of
14 plats shall engage in the business of surveying, and no map,
15 plat or subdivision shall be received for record or have any
16 validity which has been prepared by or under the direction of
17 such plat officer.
18     It is the intention of this amendatory Act of 1990 to
19 repeal the language added to Section 25.09 of "An Act to revise
20 the law in relation to counties", approved March 31, 1874, by
21 P.A. 86-614, Section 25.09 of that Act being the predecessor of
22 this Section.
23 (Source: P.A. 92-479, eff. 1-1-02; 93-330, eff. 7-24-03.)
 
24     (55 ILCS 5/5-1042)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1042)
25     Sec. 5-1042. Maps, plats and subdivisions in certain
26 counties. In any county with a population not in excess of
27 500,000 located in the area served by the Northeastern Illinois
28 Metropolitan Planning Commission, a county board may establish
29 by ordinance or resolution of record reasonable rules and
30 regulations governing the location, width and course of streets
31 and highways, and the provision of public grounds for schools,
32 public libraries, fire protection districts, township fire
33 departments, park districts, parks, or playgrounds, or local
34 law enforcement agencies in any map, plat or subdivision of any
35 block, lot or sub-lot or any part thereof or any piece or

 

 

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1 parcel of land in the county, not being within any city,
2 village or incorporated town in the county which rules and
3 regulations may include such reasonable requirements with
4 respect to water supply and sewage collection and treatment,
5 and such reasonable requirements with respect to street
6 drainage and surfacing, as may be established by the county
7 board as minimum requirements in the interest of the health,
8 safety and convenience of the public of the county; and may
9 require by ordinance or resolution of record that any map, plat
10 or subdivision shall be submitted to the county board or some
11 officer to be designated by the county board for its or his
12 approval in the manner provided in Section 5-1041, and to
13 require bonds and charge fees as provided in Section 5-1041.
14 This Section is subject to the provisions of Section 5-1123.
15     For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
16 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
17 expenditures thereof, "public grounds for schools" is defined
18 as including land or site improvements, which include school
19 buildings or other infrastructure necessitated and
20 specifically and uniquely attributable to the development or
21 subdivision in question. This amendatory Act of the 93rd
22 General Assembly applies to all impact fees or developer
23 donations paid into a school district or held in a separate
24 account or escrow fund by any school district or county for a
25 school district.
26     For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
27 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
28 expenditures thereof, "fire protection districts" is defined
29 as including land or site improvements, including fire
30 protection district buildings or other infrastructure
31 necessitated by and specifically and uniquely attributable to
32 the development or subdivision in question. This amendatory Act
33 of the 94th General Assembly applies to all impact fees or
34 developer donations paid into a fire protection district or
35 held in a separate account or escrow fund by any fire
36 protection district or county for a fire protection district.

 

 

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1     For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
2 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
3 expenditures thereof, "township fire departments" is defined
4 as including land or site improvements, including township fire
5 department buildings or other infrastructure necessitated by
6 and specifically and uniquely attributable to the development
7 or subdivision in question. This amendatory Act of the 94th
8 General Assembly applies to all impact fees or developer
9 donations paid into a township fire department or held in a
10 separate account or escrow fund by any township fire department
11 or county for a township fire department.
12     For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
13 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
14 expenditures thereof, "park districts, parks, or playgrounds"
15 is defined as including land or site improvements, including
16 park district buildings or other infrastructure necessitated
17 by and specifically attributable to the development or
18 subdivision in question. This amendatory Act of the 94th
19 General Assembly applies to all impact fees and developer
20 donations paid into a park district or held in a separate
21 account or escrow fund by any park district or county for a
22 park district.
23     For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
24 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
25 expenditures thereof, "local law enforcement agencies" is
26 defined as including land or site improvements, including law
27 enforcement agency buildings or other infrastructure
28 necessitated by and specifically attributable to the
29 development or subdivision in question. This amendatory Act of
30 the 94th General Assembly applies to all impact fees and
31 developer donations paid to a local law enforcement agency or
32 held in a separate account or escrow fund by any local law
33 enforcement agency or county for a law enforcement agency.
34 (Source: P.A. 93-330, eff. 7-24-03.)
 
35     Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by

 

 

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1 changing Section 11-12-5 as follows:
 
2     (65 ILCS 5/11-12-5)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-12-5)
3     Sec. 11-12-5. Every plan commission and planning
4 department authorized by this division 12 has the following
5 powers and whenever in this division 12 the term plan
6 commission is used such term shall be deemed to include the
7 term planning department:
8     (1) To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities a
9 comprehensive plan for the present and future development or
10 redevelopment of the municipality. Such plan may be adopted in
11 whole or in separate geographical or functional parts, each of
12 which, when adopted, shall be the official comprehensive plan,
13 or part thereof, of that municipality. This plan may include
14 reasonable requirements with reference to streets, alleys,
15 public grounds, and other improvements hereinafter specified.
16 The plan, as recommended by the plan commission and as
17 thereafter adopted in any municipality in this state, may be
18 made applicable, by the terms thereof, to land situated within
19 the corporate limits and contiguous territory not more than one
20 and one-half miles beyond the corporate limits and not included
21 in any municipality. Such plan may be implemented by ordinances
22 (a) establishing reasonable standards of design for
23 subdivisions and for resubdivisions of unimproved land and of
24 areas subject to redevelopment in respect to public
25 improvements as herein defined; (b) establishing reasonable
26 requirements governing the location, width, course, and
27 surfacing of public streets and highways, alleys, ways for
28 public service facilities, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, street
29 lights, park districts, parks, or playgrounds, school grounds,
30 public libraries, fire protection districts, township fire
31 departments, local law enforcement agencies, size of lots to be
32 used for residential purposes, storm water drainage, water
33 supply and distribution, sanitary sewers, and sewage
34 collection and treatment; and (c) may designate land suitable
35 for annexation to the municipality and the recommended zoning

 

 

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1 classification for such land upon annexation.
2     (2) To recommend changes, from time to time, in the
3 official comprehensive plan.
4     (3) To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities,
5 from time to time, plans for specific improvements in pursuance
6 of the official comprehensive plan.
7     (4) To give aid to the municipal officials charged with the
8 direction of projects for improvements embraced within the
9 official plan, to further the making of these projects, and,
10 generally, to promote the realization of the official
11 comprehensive plan.
12     (5) To prepare and recommend to the corporate authorities
13 schemes for regulating or forbidding structures or activities
14 which may hinder access to solar energy necessary for the
15 proper functioning of solar energy systems, as defined in
16 Section 1.2 of The Comprehensive Solar Energy Act of 1977, or
17 to recommend changes in such schemes.
18     (6) To exercise such other powers germane to the powers
19 granted by this article as may be conferred by the corporate
20 authorities.
21     (7) For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
22 developer donations or impact fees, and specifically for
23 expenditures thereof, "school grounds" is defined as including
24 land or site improvements, which include school buildings or
25 other infrastructure necessitated and specifically and
26 uniquely attributed to the development or subdivision in
27 question. This amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly
28 applies to all impact fees or developer donations paid into a
29 school district or held in a separate account or escrow fund by
30 any school district or municipality for a school district.
31     (8) For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
32 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
33 expenditures thereof, "fire protection districts" is defined
34 as including land or site improvements, including fire
35 protection district buildings or other infrastructure
36 necessitated by and specifically and uniquely attributable to

 

 

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1 the development or subdivision in question. This amendatory Act
2 of the 94th General Assembly applies to all impact fees or
3 developer donations paid into a fire protection district or
4 held in a separate account or escrow fund by any fire
5 protection district or municipality for a fire protection
6 district.
7     (9) For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
8 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
9 expenditures thereof, "township fire departments" is defined
10 as including land or site improvements, including township fire
11 department buildings or other infrastructure necessitated by
12 and specifically and uniquely attributable to the development
13 or subdivision in question. This amendatory Act of the 94th
14 General Assembly applies to all impact fees or developer
15 donations paid into a township fire department or held in a
16 separate account or escrow fund by any township fire department
17 or municipality for a township fire department.
18     (10) For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
19 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
20 expenditures thereof, "park districts, parks, or playgrounds"
21 is defined as including land or site improvements, including
22 park district buildings or other infrastructure necessitated
23 by and specifically attributable to the development or
24 subdivision in question. This amendatory Act of the 94th
25 General Assembly applies to all impact fees and developer
26 donations paid into a park district or held in a separate
27 account or escrow fund by any park district or municipality for
28 a park district.
29     (11) For purposes of implementing ordinances regarding
30 developer donations or impact fees and only for the purpose of
31 expenditures thereof, "local law enforcement agencies" is
32 defined as including land or site improvements, including law
33 enforcement agency buildings or other infrastructure
34 necessitated by and specifically attributable to the
35 development or94th subdivision in question. This amendatory
36 Act of the 94th General Assembly applies to all impact fees and

 

 

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1 developer donations paid to a local law enforcement agency or
2 held in a separate account or escrow fund by any local law
3 enforcement agency or municipality for a law enforcement
4 agency.
5 (Source: P.A. 93-330, eff. 7-24-03.)
 
6     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7 becoming law.