Bill Text: IL SB2530 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Authorizes a municipality to opt out of a police district by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the municipality's corporate authority. Provides that a municipality that opts out of a police district may later opt in to the district by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the corporate authority. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-12-21 - Assigned to Executive Committee [SB2530 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB2530-Engrossed.html

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SB2530 Engrossed LRB096 17043 RLJ 32357 b
AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Section 7-4-7 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/7-4-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 7-4-7)
Sec. 7-4-7. Police district.
(a) The territory which is embraced within the corporate
limits of adjoining municipalities within any county in this
State shall be a police district.
(b) On or after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 96th General Assembly, the corporate authorities of a
municipality located within a county with a population between
39,001 and 39,499, based on the 2000 federal decennial census,
may, by an affirmative vote of the majority of its members,
dissolve its police district. A municipality that dissolves a
police district under this subsection (b) may reconstitute the
police district by an affirmative vote of a majority of the
members of the corporate authority.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.