Bill Text: IL HB3144 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Township Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning duplicate township names.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3144 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB3144-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB3144 Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
60 ILCS 1/5-55
Amends the Township Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning duplicate township names.
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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 Township Code is amended by changing Section
5-55 as follows:
(60 ILCS 1/5-55)
Sec. 5-55. Duplicate township names. If the the Secretary
of State, on comparing the abstracts of the reports from the
several counties, finds that any 2 or more townships are named
alike, he shall so inform the clerk of the county which last
adopted the name. The county board of that county shall, at its
next meeting, adopt for the township some different name. When
the name is adopted, the county clerk shall inform the
Secretary of State as provided in Section 5-50.
(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)