HB2097enr 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB2097 Enrolled LRB103 29525 LNS 55920 b

AN ACT concerning property.

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

Section 5. Property. The Director of Corrections, on behalf of the State of Illinois, is authorized to execute and deliver to the City of Crest Hill, for and in consideration of $1 paid to the Department of Corrections, a quit claim deed to the following described real property:

That part of the East half of the Northeast quarter of Section thirty two (32), lying North of the right of the way of the Joliet, Aurora and Northern Railway Company, now the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company, excepting therefrom a strip of land twenty four (24) feet in width off the West side thereof, containing in said tract hereby conveyed twenty five (25) acres, more or less.

Section 10. Conveyance.

(a) Upon the payment of the sum of $1 to the Department of Corrections, and subject to the conditions set forth in subsection (b), the Director of Corrections, on behalf of the State of Illinois and the Department of Corrections, shall convey by quit claim deed all right, title, and interest of the State of Illinois and the Department of Corrections in and to the real property described in Section 5 to the City of Crest Hill.

(b) The conveyance of real property authorized by Section 5 shall be made subject to existing public utilities, existing public roads, and any and all reservations, easements, encumbrances, covenants, and restrictions of record.

(c) The quit claim deed to the City of Crest Hill shall state on its face and be subject to the conditions that the real property shall be used by the City of Crest Hill for a Lake Michigan water receiving station and other public purposes, and that if the real property is used for any other purposes, or if an attempt is made to sell the property, then title shall revert without further action to the State of Illinois.

Section 15. Recording. The Director of Corrections shall prepare one or more quit claim deeds to convey the real property. The Director may also record a certified copy of this Act. Each quit claim deed shall reference this Act and contain the reversionary language from subsection (c) of Section 10. All documents of conveyance shall be recorded in the county in which the land is located.

Section 20. "An Act concerning land", approved May 27, 2022, Public Act 102-1015, is amended by changing Section 1-10 as follows:

(P.A. 102-1015, Sec. 1-10)

Sec. 1-10. The conveyance of real property authorized by Section 1-5 shall be made subject to: (1) existing public utilities, existing public roads, and any and all reservations, easements, encumbrances, covenants, and restrictions of record; and (2) the express condition that if the real property ceases to be used for public purposes, it shall revert to the State of Illinois, Department of Natural Resources Corrections.

(Source: P.A. 102-1015, eff. 5-27-22.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.