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90_HB2792
105 ILCS 5/11A-2 from Ch. 122, par. 11A-2
Amends the School Code. Changes references to the
offices of regional superintendent and State Superintendent
by referring to those offices as, respectively, regional
superintendent of schools and State Superintendent of
Education. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section
2 11A-2.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
6 Section 11A-2 as follows:
7 (105 ILCS 5/11A-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 11A-2)
8 Sec. 11A-2. Organization of community unit districts;
9 territorial requirement. (1) Any contiguous and compact
10 territory of at least $12,000,000 equalized assessed
11 valuation and having a population of not less than 4,000 and
12 not more than 500,000, no part of which is included within
13 any unit district, may be organized into a community unit
14 school district as provided in this Article; (2) the
15 territory of 2 or more entire unit school districts that are
16 contiguous to each other and the territory of which taken as
17 a whole is compact may be organized into a community unit
18 school district as provided in this Article; or (3) the
19 territory of one or more entire unit school districts that
20 are contiguous to each other plus any contiguous and compact
21 territory, no part of which is included within any unit
22 district, and the territory of which taken as a whole is
23 compact may be organized into a community unit school
24 district as provided in this Article; however, a petition or
25 petitions may be filed hereunder proposing to divide a unit
26 school district into 2 or more parts and proposing to include
27 all of such parts in 2 or more community unit districts. As
28 used in this Section, a unit school district includes, but is
29 not limited to, a special charter unit school district.
30 The regional superintendent of schools shall not accept
31 for filing hereunder any petition which includes therein any
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1 territory already included as part of the territory described
2 in another petition filed hereunder. Hearings on a petition
3 filed hereunder shall not be commenced so long as any part of
4 the territory described therein shall include territory
5 described, whether by amendment or otherwise, in another
6 petition filed hereunder. A petition may be filed hereunder
7 which contains less than the required minimum equalized
8 assessed valuation or population requirements provided that
9 such a petition shall not be approved by the regional
10 superintendent of schools and State Superintendent of
11 Education unless it is determined: (1) that there is a
12 compelling reason for granting the petition; (2) that the
13 territory involved cannot currently be organized as part of a
14 petition which meets the minimum requirements; (3) that the
15 granting of the petition will not interfere with the ultimate
16 reorganization of the territory into a school district which
17 meets the minimum requirements; (4) that the granting of the
18 petition is in the best educational interests of the pupils
19 affected; and (5) that the granting of the petition is
20 financially beneficial to the affected school districts.
21 (Source: P.A. 88-555, eff. 7-27-94.)
22 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
23 becoming law.