Bill Text: IL SB1024 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the Public Library District Act of 1991. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the automatic disconnection of territory.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-23 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB1024 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB1024-Introduced.html


102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB1024

Introduced 2/25/2021, by Sen. Don Harmon

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
75 ILCS 16/15-85

Amends the Public Library District Act of 1991. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the automatic disconnection of territory.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning local government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Public Library District Act of 1991 is
5amended by changing Section 15-85 as follows:
6 (75 ILCS 16/15-85)
7 Sec. 15-85. Automatic disconnection from district.
8 (a) Any territory within a public library district that
9that is or has been annexed to a municipality (where that
10municipality maintains a public library) is, by operation of
11law, disconnected from the public library district as of the
12January first next after the territory is annexed.
13 (a-5) If at anytime prior to, on, or after the effective
14date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, the
15City of Springfield, Illinois, annexes territory within the
16Chatham Area Public Library District, or any successor
17thereto, for the development and construction of the proposed
18Hunter Lake to serve as an additional water supply for the City
19of Springfield and under subsection (a) that territory is
20disconnected from the Chatham Area Public Library District,
21then all remaining territory of the Chatham Area Public
22Library District is nevertheless deemed contiguous for the
23purposes of this Act. The remaining territory continues to be

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1a part of the Chatham Area Public Library District or any
2successor thereto.
3 (b) A disconnection by operation of law under this Section
4does not occur if, within 60 days after the annexation, the
5public library district files with the appropriate circuit
6court a petition alleging that the disconnection will cause
7the territory remaining in the district to be noncontiguous or
8that the loss of assessed valuation by reason of the
9disconnection will impair the ability of the district to
10render fully adequate library service to the territory
11remaining in the district.
12 (c) When a petition is filed under subsection (b), the
13court shall set it for hearing. At the hearing, the district
14has the burden of proving the truth of the allegations in its
15petition. In determining whether to grant the petition, the
16court may consider at least the following factors:
17 (i) whether disconnection will cause the territory
18 remaining in the district to be noncontiguous;
19 (ii) whether the loss of assessed valuation by reason
20 of the disconnection will impair the ability of the
21 district to render fully adequate library service to the
22 territory remaining in the district;
23 (iii) the convenience of the residents of the annexed
24 territory and whether a plan exists enabling the residents
25 of the annexed territory to use either the public library
26 district facilities or the library facilities of the city,

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1 village, or incorporated town to which the territory has
2 been annexed; and
3 (iv) whether the city, village, or incorporated town
4 has annexed any other territory within the district within
5 the preceding 2 years and the cumulative effect of those
6 annexations on the financial viability of the district.
7 The Court may consider comments by the Illinois State
8Library, the annexing municipality and its public library, and
9the library system or systems to which the affected libraries
10belong. This does not create a right of intervention in these
11parties.
12 (d) After the hearing, the Court may grant the relief it
13deems appropriate, including, but not limited to, any of the
14following: (i) denial of the disconnection; (ii) disconnection
15of the territory from the public library district; (iii)
16disconnection of the territory from the public library
17district in parts over a specific period of time not to exceed
185 years; (iv) court approval of a voluntary agreement between
19the parties that provides for the sharing of real estate tax
20revenues from the annexed territory for a limited period of
21time not to exceed 5 years unless extended by mutual agreement
22of the parties; or (v) submission of the question of
23disconnection of the territory to the electors of the annexed
24territory at a referendum to be held at the next general
25election in accordance with the general election law. The
26proposition at such a referendum shall be in substantially the

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1following form:
2 Shall (describe annexed territory) be disconnected
3 from (name of public library district)?
4 If a referendum is held, the result of the election shall
5be entered of record in the Court. If a majority of votes cast
6upon the question in the annexed territory are for
7disconnection of the annexed territory from the public library
8district, the territory shall be disconnected from the public
9library district.
10 (e) If there are any general obligation bonds of the
11public library district outstanding and unpaid at the time the
12territory is disconnected from the public library district by
13operation of this Section, the disconnected territory shall
14remain liable for its proportionate share of that bonded
15indebtedness, and the public library district may continue to
16levy and extend taxes upon the taxable property in the
17territory for the purpose of amortizing the bonds until
18sufficient funds to retire the bonds have been collected.
19 (f) The county clerk must extend taxes to pay the
20principal of and interest on any general obligation bonds
21issued to refund any bond described in subsection (e), as
22provided in the bond ordinances on file in the office of the
23county clerk, against all taxable property in the district,
24including taxable property that was in the district on the
25date that the bonds being refunded were issued; provided,
26however, that (i) the net interest rate on the refunding bonds

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1may not exceed the net interest rate on the refunded bonds,
2(ii) the final maturity date of the refunding bonds may not
3extend beyond the final maturity date of the refunded bonds,
4and (iii) the debt service payable on the refunding bonds in
5any year may not exceed the debt service that would have been
6payable on the refunded bonds in that year. This subsection is
7inoperative after June 30, 2002.
8(Source: P.A. 96-249, eff. 8-11-09.)
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