Sen. M. Maggie Crotty

Filed: 4/9/2008

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2677

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2677 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5 changing Section 7-1-13 as follows:
 
6     (65 ILCS 5/7-1-13)  (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-13)
7     Sec. 7-1-13. Annexation.
8     (a) Whenever any unincorporated territory containing 60
9 acres or less, is wholly bounded by (a) one or more
10 municipalities, (b) one or more municipalities and a creek in a
11 county with a population of 400,000 or more, or one or more
12 municipalities and a river or lake in any county, (c) one or
13 more municipalities and the Illinois State boundary, (d) one or
14 more municipalities and property owned by the State of
15 Illinois, except highway right-of-way owned in fee by the
16 State, (e) one or more municipalities and a forest preserve

 

 

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1 district or park district, or (f) if the territory is a
2 triangular parcel of less than 10 acres, one or more
3 municipalities and an interstate highway owned in fee by the
4 State and bounded by a frontage road, that territory may be
5 annexed by any municipality by which it is bounded in whole or
6 in part, by the passage of an ordinance to that effect after
7 notice is given as provided in subsection (b) of this Section.
8 The corporate authorities shall cause notice, stating that
9 annexation of the territory described in the notice is
10 contemplated under this Section, to be published once, in a
11 newspaper of general circulation within the territory to be
12 annexed, not less than 10 days before the passage of the
13 annexation ordinance. When the territory to be annexed lies
14 wholly or partially within a township other than that township
15 where the municipality is situated, the annexing municipality
16 shall give at least 10 days prior written notice of the time
17 and place of the passage of the annexation ordinance to the
18 township supervisor of the township where the territory to be
19 annexed lies. The ordinance shall describe the territory
20 annexed and a copy thereof together with an accurate map of the
21 annexed territory shall be recorded in the office of the
22 recorder of the county wherein the annexed territory is
23 situated and a document of annexation shall be filed with the
24 county clerk and County Election Authority. Nothing in this
25 Section shall be construed as permitting a municipality to
26 annex territory of a forest preserve district in a county with

 

 

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1 a population of 3,000,000 or more without obtaining the consent
2 of the district pursuant to Section 8.3 of the Cook County
3 Forest Preserve District Act nor shall anything in this Section
4 be construed as permitting a municipality to annex territory
5 owned by a park district without obtaining the consent of the
6 district pursuant to Section 8-1.1 of the Park District Code.
7     (b) The corporate authorities shall cause notice, stating
8 that annexation of the territory described in the notice is
9 contemplated under this Section, to be published once, in a
10 newspaper of general circulation within the territory to be
11 annexed, not less than 10 days before the passage of the
12 annexation ordinance. The corporate authorities shall also,
13 not less than 15 days before the passage of the annexation
14 ordinance, serve written notice, either in person or, at a
15 minimum, by certified mail, on the taxpayer of record of the
16 proposed annexed territory as appears from the authentic tax
17 records of the county. When the territory to be annexed lies
18 wholly or partially within a township other than the township
19 where the municipality is situated, the annexing municipality
20 shall give at least 10 days prior written notice of the time
21 and place of the passage of the annexation ordinance to the
22 township supervisor of the township where the territory to be
23 annexed lies.
24     (c) When notice is given as described in subsection (b) of
25 this Section, no other municipality may annex the proposed
26 territory for a period of 60 days from the date the notice is

 

 

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1 mailed or delivered to the taxpayer of record unless that other
2 municipality has initiated annexation proceedings or a valid
3 petition as described in Section 7-1-2, 7-1-8, 7-1-11 or 7-1-12
4 of this Code has been received by the municipality prior to the
5 publication and mailing of the notices required in subsection
6 (b).
7 (Source: P.A. 94-396, eff. 8-1-05.)".