SB2022 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB2022

Introduced 2/7/2008, by Sen. Michael W. Frerichs

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

65 ILCS 5/11-13-6

from Ch. 24, par. 11-13-6

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that notice of a public hearing with respect to a zoning change or special use permit must be sent by certified mail to all landowners and governmental entities whose property or district boundaries are within 1.5 miles of any parcel in an unincorporated area for which a zoning change is proposed or on which a special use permit is sought. Provides that notice must be published not more than 45 nor less than 30 days prior to the hearing (now, not more than 30 nor less than 15 days prior to the hearing). Effective immediately.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by changing Section 11-13-6 as follows:

(65 ILCS 5/11-13-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-13-6)

Sec. 11-13-6. No variation shall be made by the board of appeals in municipalities of 500,000 or more population or by ordinance in municipalities of lesser population except in a specific case and after a public hearing before the board of appeals of which there shall be a notice of the time and place of the hearing published at least once, not more than 45 30 nor less than 30 15 days before the hearing, in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality which is published in the county where the municipality is located, and notice sent by certified mail to all landowners and governmental entities whose property or district boundaries are within 1.5 miles of any parcel in an unincorporated area for which a zoning change is proposed or on which a special use permit is sought. This notice shall contain the particular location for which the variation is requested as well as a brief statement of what the proposed variation consists.

(Source: P.A. 80-452.)

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