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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 adding Section
5 5-1129 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/5-1129 new)
7     Sec. 5-1129. Annexation agreements. The county board of a
8 county referenced in subsection (c) of Section 11-15.1-2.1 of
9 the Illinois Municipal Code may, in accordance with subsection
10 (c) of Section 11-15.1-2.1 of the Illinois Municipal Code,
11 retain jurisdiction over land that is the subject of an
12 annexation agreement and is located more than 1.5 miles from
13 the corporate boundaries of the municipality.
 
14     Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
15 changing Section 11-15.1-2.1 as follows:
 
16     (65 ILCS 5/11-15.1-2.1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-15.1-2.1)
17     Sec. 11-15.1-2.1. Annexation agreement; municipal
18 jurisdiction.
19     (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), property
20 Property that is the subject of an annexation agreement adopted
21 under this Division is subject to the ordinances, control, and

 

 

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1 jurisdiction of the annexing municipality in all respects the
2 same as property that lies within the annexing municipality's
3 corporate limits.
4     (b) This Section shall not apply in (i) a county with a
5 population of more than 3,000,000, (ii) a county that borders a
6 county with a population of more than 3,000,000 or (iii) a
7 county with a population of more than 246,000 according to the
8 1990 federal census and bordered by the Mississippi River,
9 unless the parties to the annexation agreement have, at the
10 time the agreement is signed, ownership or control of all
11 property that would make the property that is the subject of
12 the agreement contiguous to the annexing municipality, in which
13 case the property that is the subject of the annexation
14 agreement is subject to the ordinances, control, and
15 jurisdiction of the municipality in all respects the same as
16 property owned by the municipality that lies within its
17 corporate limits.
18     (c) In the case of property that is located in Boone,
19 DeKalb, Grundy, Kankakee, Kendall, LaSalle, Ogle, or Winnebago
20 County, if the property that is the subject of an annexation
21 agreement is located within 1.5 miles of the corporate
22 boundaries of the municipality, that property is subject to the
23 ordinances, control, and jurisdiction of the annexing
24 municipality. If the property is located more than 1.5 miles
25 from the corporate boundaries of the annexing municipality,
26 that property is subject to the ordinances, control, and

 

 

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1 jurisdiction of the annexing municipality unless the county
2 board retains jurisdiction by the affirmative vote of
3 two-thirds of its members.
4     (d) If the county board retains jurisdiction under
5 subsection (c) of this Section, the annexing municipality may
6 file a request for jurisdiction with the county board on a case
7 by case basis. If the county board agrees by the affirmative
8 vote of a majority of its members, then the property covered by
9 the annexation agreement shall be subject to the ordinances,
10 control, and jurisdiction of the annexing municipality.
11 (Source: P.A. 87-1137.)