Public Act 097-0404
 
HB1526 EnrolledLRB097 09483 KMW 49620 b

    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 11-15.1-2.1 as follows:
 
    (65 ILCS 5/11-15.1-2.1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-15.1-2.1)
    Sec. 11-15.1-2.1. Annexation agreement; municipal
jurisdiction.
    (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), property
that is the subject of an annexation agreement adopted under
this Division is subject to the ordinances, control, and
jurisdiction of the annexing municipality in all respects the
same as property that lies within the annexing municipality's
corporate limits.
    (b) This Section shall not apply in (i) a county with a
population of more than 3,000,000, (ii) a county that borders a
county with a population of more than 3,000,000 or (iii) a
county with a population of more than 246,000 according to the
1990 federal census and bordered by the Mississippi River,
unless the parties to the annexation agreement have, at the
time the agreement is signed, ownership or control of all
property that would make the property that is the subject of
the agreement contiguous to the annexing municipality, in which
case the property that is the subject of the annexation
agreement is subject to the ordinances, control, and
jurisdiction of the municipality in all respects the same as
property owned by the municipality that lies within its
corporate limits.
    (b-5) The limitations of item (iii) of subsection (b) do
not apply to property that is the subject of an annexation
agreement adopted under this Division within one year after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General
Assembly with a coterminous home rule municipality, as of June
1, 2009, that borders the Mississippi River, in a county with a
population in excess of 258,000, according to the 2000 federal
census, if all such agreements entered into by the municipality
pertain to parcels that comprise a contiguous area of not more
than 120 acres in the aggregate.
    (c) Except for property located in a county referenced in
subsection (b) of this Section, if any property or any portion
of a if property that is the subject of an annexation agreement
is located more than 1.5 miles from a municipality's corporate
limits in a county where the county board has voted to maintain
the ordinances, control, and jurisdiction of the property by a
two-thirds affirmative vote the corporate boundaries of the
annexing municipality, that property is subject to the
ordinances, control, and jurisdiction of the county annexing
municipality unless the county board retains jurisdiction by
the affirmative vote of two-thirds of its members.
    (d) If the county board retains jurisdiction under
subsection (c) of this Section, the annexing municipality may
file a request for jurisdiction with the county board on a case
by case basis. If the county board agrees by the affirmative
vote of a majority of its members, then the property covered by
the annexation agreement shall be subject to the ordinances,
control, and jurisdiction of the annexing municipality.
(Source: P.A. 95-175, eff. 1-1-08; 95-922, eff. 8-26-08;
96-163, eff. 1-1-10; 96-188, eff. 8-10-09; 96-1000, eff.
7-2-10.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 8/16/2011