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90_SB1210eng

      10 ILCS 5/28-3            from Ch. 46, par. 28-3
          Amends the Election  Code.   Provides  that  any  writing
      revoking  a  signature  on a petition for the submission of a
      public question shall be  notarized.   Effective  January  1,
      1998.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Property Tax Code by changing Section
 2    27-55.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Property Tax Code is amended by  changing
 6    Section 27-55 as follows:
 7        (35 ILCS 200/27-55)
 8        Sec. 27-55.  Objection petition.  If a petition signed by
 9    at  least  51%  of  the  electors residing within the special
10    service area and by at least 51% of the owners of  record  of
11    the  land  included  within  the  boundaries  of  the special
12    service area is filed with  the  municipal  clerk  or  county
13    clerk, as the case may be, within 60 days following the final
14    adjournment  of the public hearing, objecting to the creation
15    of the special service district, the enlargement of the area,
16    the levy or imposition of a tax or the issuance of bonds  for
17    the  provision  of  special  services  to  the  area, or to a
18    proposed increase in the tax rate, the district shall not  be
19    created  or  enlarged,  or  the  tax  shall  not be levied or
20    imposed nor the rate increased, or no bonds  may  be  issued.
21    Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, a signature on
22    the  petition  may not be revoked after the petition has been
23    filed unless the revocation is  in  writing,  signed  by  the
24    person   whose   signature   appears  on  the  petition,  and
25    subscribed and sworn to before a notary public.  The  subject
26    matter  of the petition shall not be proposed relative to any
27    signatories of the petition within the next  2  years.   Each
28    resident  of  the  special service area registered to vote at
29    the time of the  public  hearing  held  with  regard  to  the
30    special  service  area  shall be considered an elector.  Each
31    person in whose name legal title to land included within  the
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 1    boundaries  of  the special service area is held according to
 2    the records of the county in which the land is located  shall
 3    be  considered an owner of record.  Owners of record shall be
 4    determined at the time of the public hearing held with regard
 5    to a special service area.  Land owned in the name of a  land
 6    trust, corporation, estate or partnership shall be considered
 7    to have a single owner of record.
 8    (Source: P.A. 82-640; 88-455.)
 9        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
10    becoming law.

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