Sen. Chris Lauzen

Filed: 2/14/2006

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2933

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2933 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5 changing Sections 2-3-6 and 2-3-18 as follows:
 
6     (65 ILCS 5/2-3-6)  (from Ch. 24, par. 2-3-6)
7     Sec. 2-3-6.
8     (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), upon Upon the
9 filing of such a petition with the circuit clerk, the court
10 shall hear testimony and rule that the area under consideration
11 is or is not a village in fact. The ruling of the court shall be
12 entered of record in the court. If the court rules that the
13 area does not constitute a village in fact, the petition to
14 incorporate the area as a village is denied and no subsequent
15 petition concerning village incorporation of any of the land
16 described in the earlier petition may be filed within one year.
17 If the court rules that the area does constitute a village in
18 fact, such court shall enter an order so finding and the
19 proposition shall be certified and submitted to the electors of
20 such area in the manner provided by the general election law.
21 The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
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23     Shall the territory (here          YES
24 describe it) be incorporated as    --------------------------

 

 

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1 a village under the general law?       NO
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3     The result of the election shall be entered of record in
4 the court. If a majority of the votes cast at the election
5 favor incorporation as a village under the general law the
6 inhabitants of the territory described in the petition are
7 incorporated as a village under this Code with the name stated
8 in the petition.
9     (b) For a petition for incorporation filed in a county with
10 a population of more than 400,000 but less than 500,000 as
11 determined by the last preceding federal census, the following
12 procedures shall apply. After the filing of the petition, the
13 circuit court shall fix an initial date for hearing on the
14 petition, which shall be not more than 30 nor less than 20 days
15 after the filing of the petition, or 60 days following the
16 effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
17 Assembly, whichever date shall last occur. The petitioners
18 shall give notice of the incorporation petition not more than
19 30 nor less than 15 days before the date set for hearing. The
20 notice shall state that a petition for incorporation has been
21 filed and give the substance thereof including the name of the
22 proposed village, a description of the territory to be
23 incorporated, the approximate total land area of and the
24 approximate number of persons residing within the territory as
25 determined by the last federal census, and the date fixed for
26 hearing. This notice shall be given by publication thereof at
27 least once in one or more newspapers published in the proposed
28 village, or if no newspaper is published therein, then in one
29 or more newspapers with a general circulation within the
30 proposed village.
31     Not less than 5 days prior to the date fixed for the
32 initial hearing on the petition, any person owning real
33 property or residing within the territory described in the
34 petition or any other interested person may file with the

 

 

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1 circuit clerk his or her objections (1) that the petition does
2 not comply with the requirements of the statutory Section under
3 which it is filed, the objections specifying in what regard the
4 petition does not comply, (2) that the owner of real property
5 located on the perimeter of the proposed village, or property
6 which becomes on the border upon the exclusion of an adjoining
7 subdivision, does not desire incorporation and requests
8 exclusion from the proposed village, or (3) that the persons
9 filing a group objection constitute a majority of the owners of
10 record of land within a recorded subdivision and a majority of
11 the electors, if any, residing within the subdivision, that the
12 subdivision is located on the border of the proposed village or
13 is separated therefrom by property owned by a forest preserve
14 district, or will be on the border upon the exclusion of an
15 adjacent subdivision a majority of the owners of record, and
16 electors, if any, of which have also filed a group objection
17 pursuant to this item (3), do not desire incorporation and
18 request exclusion from the proposed village. No appearance or
19 filing fee shall be required if the objection is based solely
20 on item (2) or (3). The clerk of the circuit court may
21 prescribe a form to be used for perimeter objections. No
22 signature executed prior to the effective date of this
23 amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly shall be considered
24 defective by reason of predating that effective date.
25     The cause shall be heard without further pleadings.
26 Objections may be amended upon leave of court after the
27 determination of objections under items (2) and (3), or for
28 other cause as provided in the Code of Civil Procedure. At the
29 hearing, petitioners and any objector may be heard in person or
30 by counsel. The court may adjourn the hearing from time to time
31 as justice may require.
32     At the hearing, the court shall first hear and determine
33 all objections and requests for exclusion under items (2) and
34 (3). If the property of the objector or objectors is located on

 

 

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1 the perimeter of the proposed village and the exclusion of the
2 objector's territory will not destroy contiguity of the
3 remaining territory, the court shall sustain the objection, and
4 the petition and the legal description of the territory to be
5 incorporated shall be amended accordingly. For purposes of an
6 objection under item (2), two or more parcels may be combined
7 in one objection so long as the combined territory is located
8 on the perimeter. After the amendment of the petition, no
9 further proceedings shall be had unless and until the county
10 board shall have made the finding or findings required by
11 Section 2-3-18 of this Code.
12     If the petitioners fail to prove the allegations of the
13 petition, the petition shall be dismissed, but if the
14 petitioners prove the allegations of the petition, the court
15 shall enter an order making findings of fact in accordance with
16 the proof adduced. The order shall also designate the election
17 at which the question of incorporation shall be submitted.
18     The court shall certify its order and the proposition to
19 the proper election authorities to be voted upon by the
20 electors residing in the territory in the manner provided in
21 the general election law. The proposition shall be in
22 substantially the following form:
23     "Shall the territory (here describe it) be incorporated as
24 the village of (name) under the general law?"
25     The election authority must record the votes as "Yes" or
26 "No".
27     The results of the election shall be entered of record in
28 the court. If a majority of the votes cast at the election
29 favor incorporation as a village under the general law, the
30 inhabitants of the territory described in the petition are
31 incorporated as a village under this Code with the name stated
32 in the petition.
33 (Source: P.A. 83-343.)
 

 

 

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1     (65 ILCS 5/2-3-18)  (from Ch. 24, par. 2-3-18)
2     Sec. 2-3-18.
3     In any county of between 150,000 and 1,000,000 population
4 which has adopted an official plan under "An Act to provide for
5 regional planning and for the creation, organization and powers
6 of regional planning commissions", approved June 25, 1929, as
7 amended, the county board, by resolution, may provide that
8 before the question of incorporating a village under this
9 Division is submitted to the electors in response to a petition
10 filed under Section 2-3-5, 2-3-5a, or 2-3-10 the county board
11 must first determine that (1) the proposed incorporation is
12 compatible with the official plan for the development of the
13 county, and (2) the lands described in the petition as intended
14 to be embraced in the village constitute a sufficient tax base
15 as will insure the ability of the village to provide all
16 necessary municipal services to its inhabitants; provided
17 that, as to any petition filed after July 1, 2005 that is
18 pending on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act
19 of the 94th General Assembly, in a county with a population of
20 more than 400,000 but less than 500,000 as determined by the
21 last preceding federal census, whenever the area proposed for
22 incorporation contains more than 10,000 inhabitants as
23 determined by the last preceding federal census, and the
24 equalized assessed valuation of the area during the calendar
25 year immediately preceding the year in which the petition to
26 incorporate is filed is not less than $40,000 multiplied by the
27 number of inhabitants within the territory proposed to be
28 incorporated, as determined by the last preceding federal
29 census, (i) it will be conclusively presumed that the lands
30 described in the petition constitute a sufficient tax base to
31 ensure the ability of the village to provide all necessary
32 municipal services to its inhabitants, and no finding of the
33 county board shall be required as to the tax base or ability to
34 provide municipal services, and (ii) any provision of the

 

 

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1 official plan of the county that requires a showing of ability
2 to provide such municipal services shall be deemed satisfied;
3 provided further that, as to any such petition filed after July
4 1, 2005 in a county with a population of more than 400,000 but
5 less than 500,000 as determined by the last preceding federal
6 census, the court shall make the determination of the
7 applicability of the presumption provided in this Section only
8 after the amendment of the petition to exclude all territory
9 that has requested exclusion under Section 2-3-6 of this Code.
10 No county with a population of more than 400,000 but less than
11 500,000 as determined by the last preceding federal census
12 shall be required to provide any municipal services to a
13 village that has been incorporated without a determination of
14 the county board as to the ability of the proposed village to
15 provide such services having been made prior to the submission
16 of the question of incorporation to the electors. When such a
17 resolution is in effect, the court in which such a petition is
18 filed shall first require a showing that the required those
19 determinations have been made by the county board. If no such
20 showing is made, the court shall deny the petition. If such a
21 showing is made, the court shall proceed as provided in Section
22 2-3-6 or 2-3-11, as the case may be.
23 (Source: P.A. 76-676.)".
 
24     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25 becoming law.".