95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB3642


 
Introduced 2/28/2007, by Rep. Charles E. Jefferson
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














65 ILCS 5/7-1-13
  from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-13







    Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning annexation of unincorporated territory.
















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HB3642

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    AN ACT concerning local government.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by 
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changing Section 7-1-13 as follows:
 



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    (65 ILCS 5/7-1-13)  (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-13)



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    Sec. 7-1-13. Whenever any unincorporated territory 
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containing 60
acres or less, is wholly bounded by (a) one or 
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more municipalities, (b)
one or more municipalities and
and a 
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creek in a county with a population of
400,000 or more, or one 
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or more municipalities and a river or lake in any
county, (c) 
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one or more municipalities and the Illinois State
boundary, (d) 
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one or more municipalities and property owned by the
State of 
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Illinois, except highway right-of-way owned in fee by the 
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State,
(e) one or more municipalities and a forest preserve 
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district or park district, or
(f) if the territory is a 
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triangular parcel of less than 10 acres, one or
more 
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municipalities and an interstate highway owned in fee by the 
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State and
bounded by a frontage road, that territory may be 
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annexed
by any municipality by which it is bounded in whole or 
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in part,
by the passage of an ordinance to that effect after 
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notice is given as
provided in this Section. The corporate 
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authorities shall cause notice,
stating that annexation of the 
 


 






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territory described in the notice is
contemplated under this 
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Section, to be published once, in a newspaper of
general 
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circulation within the territory to be annexed, not less than 
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10
days before the passage of the annexation ordinance.  When 
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the
territory to be annexed lies wholly or partially within a 
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township other
than that township where the municipality is 
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situated, the annexing
municipality shall give at least 10 days 
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prior written notice of the time
and place of the passage of 
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the annexation ordinance to the township
supervisor of the 
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township where the territory to be annexed lies. The
ordinance 
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shall describe the territory annexed and a copy thereof 
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together
with an accurate map of the annexed territory shall be 
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recorded in the
office of the recorder of the county wherein 
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the annexed territory is
situated and a document of annexation 
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shall be filed with the county clerk
and County Election 
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Authority. Nothing in this Section shall be construed
as 
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permitting a municipality to annex territory of a forest 
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preserve
district in a county with a population of 3,000,000 or 
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more without
obtaining the consent of the  district pursuant to 
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Section 8.3 of the
Cook County Forest Preserve District Act nor 
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shall anything in this Section be construed as permitting a 
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municipality to annex territory owned by a park district 
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without obtaining the consent of the district pursuant to 
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Section 8-1.1 of the Park District Code.
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(Source: P.A. 94-396, eff. 8-1-05.)