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55 ILCS 5/1-3002

(55 ILCS 5/1-3002) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3002)

Sec. 1-3002.

Election; effect.

If it shall appear that a majority of
all the votes cast at such election, in each of the counties interested, is
in favor of the erection of such new county, the county clerk of each of
said counties shall certify the same to the Secretary of State, stating in
such certificate the name, territorial contents and boundaries of such new
county; whereupon the Secretary of State shall notify the Governor of the
result of such election, whose duty it shall be to order an election of
county officers for such new county in accordance with the general election
law for the election of county officers. At such election the qualified
voters of said new county shall elect all county officers for said county,
except as hereinafter excepted, who shall be commissioned and qualified in
the same manner as such officers are in other counties in this State, and
who shall continue in office until the next regular election for such
officers, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and who
shall have all the jurisdiction and perform all the duties which are or may
be conferred upon such officers in other counties of this State.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)