95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB2343

 

Introduced 2/26/2007, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Linda Chapa LaVia

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
60 ILCS 1/5-40

    Amends the Township Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning township names.


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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 Township Code is amended by changing Section
5 5-40 as follows:
 
6     (60 ILCS 1/5-40)
7     Sec. 5-40. Township names. Townships shall be named in
8 accordance with the the express wish of the inhabitants of the
9 township. If there is not a degree of unanimity as to the name,
10 the commissioners may designate the name. The county board may
11 change the name of any township in its county upon a petition
12 of a majority of the voters of the township. No 2 townships in
13 the State shall have the same name.
14 (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)