96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB1899

 

Introduced 2/20/2009, by Sen. William R. Haine

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
70 ILCS 2205/1   from Ch. 42, par. 247

    Amends the Sanitary District Act of 1907. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a petition to incorporate as a sanitary district.


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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 Sanitary District Act of 1907 is amended by
5 changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6     (70 ILCS 2205/1)  (from Ch. 42, par. 247)
7     Sec. 1. Whenever any area of contiguous territory within
8 the the limits of two counties, having within its limits two or
9 more incorporated cities or villages, and an aggregate
10 population of not less than 3,500 inhabitants, shall be so
11 situate as to be subject to overflow from any river or
12 tributary thereof, and the maintenance of one or more levees
13 for the protection of the same against such overflow, and of a
14 new or improved outlet for the drainage thereof, will conduce
15 to the preservation of the public health and safety, the same
16 may be incorporated as a sanitary district, in the manner
17 following: Any three hundred legal voters resident within the
18 limits of such proposed district, may petition the circuit
19 court for the county in which the majority of such petitioners
20 reside, to cause the question to be submitted to the legal
21 voters of said proposed district, whether they will organize as
22 a sanitary district under this act. Such petition shall contain
23 the name of such proposed sanitary district, and a definite

 

 

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1 description of the territory intended to be embraced therein:
2 Provided, no territory shall be included within more than one
3 sanitary district under this act.
4 (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3817.)