Bill Text: IL HB2196 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Sanitary District Act of 1907. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a petition to incorporate as a sanitary district.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2196 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2196-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2196 Introduced , by Rep. Jay Hoffman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 2205/1 from Ch. 42, par. 247
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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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Sanitary District Act of 1907 is amended by
changing Section 1 as follows:
(70 ILCS 2205/1) (from Ch. 42, par. 247)
Sec. 1. Whenever any area of contiguous territory within
the the limits of two counties, having within its limits two or
more incorporated cities or villages, and an aggregate
population of not less than 3,500 inhabitants, shall be so
situate as to be subject to overflow from any river or
tributary thereof, and the maintenance of one or more levees
for the protection of the same against such overflow, and of a
new or improved outlet for the drainage thereof, will conduce
to the preservation of the public health and safety, the same
may be incorporated as a sanitary district, in the manner
following: Any three hundred legal voters resident within the
limits of such proposed district, may petition the circuit
court for the county in which the majority of such petitioners
reside, to cause the question to be submitted to the legal
voters of said proposed district, whether they will organize as
a sanitary district under this act. Such petition shall contain
the name of such proposed sanitary district, and a definite

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description of the territory intended to be embraced therein:
Provided, no territory shall be included within more than one
sanitary district under this act.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 3817.)