HB3144 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB3144

Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

60 ILCS 1/5-55

Amends the Township Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning duplicate township names.

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 Township Code is amended by changing Section 5-55 as follows:

(60 ILCS 1/5-55)

Sec. 5-55. Duplicate township names. If the the Secretary of State, on comparing the abstracts of the reports from the several counties, finds that any 2 or more townships are named alike, he shall so inform the clerk of the county which last adopted the name. The county board of that county shall, at its next meeting, adopt for the township some different name. When the name is adopted, the county clerk shall inform the Secretary of State as provided in Section 5-50.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)