Bill Text: IL HB1602 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning venue of actions by or against counties.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1602 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB1602-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB1602 Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Patrick J Verschoore SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
55 ILCS 5/1-6001 from Ch. 34, par. 1-6001
Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning venue of actions by or against counties.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
1-6001 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/1-6001) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-6001)
Sec. 1-6001. Venue of suits by or against county. All
actions, local or transitory, against any county, may be
commenced and and prosecuted to final judgment in the circuit
court in the county against which the action is brought. Any
action, local or transitory, in which any county shall be
plaintiff, may be commenced and prosecuted to final judgment in
the county in which the defendant in such action resides.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)