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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB1687
Introduced 2/14/2005, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Harry Osterman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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70 ILCS 2205/1 |
from Ch. 42, par. 247 |
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Amends the Sanitary District Act of 1907. Makes a technical change in a
Section concerning a petition to incorporate as a sanitary district.
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A BILL FOR
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HB1687 |
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LRB094 03146 MKM 33147 b |
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| AN ACT concerning local government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Sanitary District Act of 1907 is amended by |
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| changing Section 1 as follows:
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| (70 ILCS 2205/1) (from Ch. 42, par. 247)
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| Sec. 1. Whenever any area of contiguous territory within |
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the limits
of two counties, having within its limits two or |
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| more
incorporated cities or villages, and an aggregate |
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| population of not less
than 3,500 inhabitants, shall be so |
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| situate as to be subject to overflow
from any river or |
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| tributary thereof, and the maintenance of one or more
levees |
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| for the protection of the same against such overflow, and of a
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| new or improved outlet for the drainage thereof, will conduce |
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| to the
preservation of the public health and safety, the same |
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| may be
incorporated as a sanitary district, in the manner |
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| following: Any three
hundred legal voters resident within the |
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| limits of such proposed
district, may petition the circuit |
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| court for the county in which the
majority of such petitioners |
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| reside, to cause the question to be
submitted to the legal |
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| voters of said proposed district, whether they
will organize as |
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| a sanitary district under this act. Such petition shall
contain |
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| the name of such proposed sanitary district, and a definite
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| description of the territory intended to be embraced therein: |
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| Provided,
no territory shall be included within more than one |
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| sanitary district
under this act. |
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| (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3817.)
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