Illinois Compiled Statutes
60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code.
Article 10 - Alteration Of Township Boundaries By County Board

(60 ILCS 1/Art. 10 heading)

 
(60 ILCS 1/10-5)
Sec. 10-5.
County board powers.
The county board of each county, except as
provided in Article 15, may (i) alter the boundaries of townships, (ii) change
township lines, (iii) divide, enlarge, consolidate, and create new townships in
its county, (iv) make alterations of the township boundaries, and (v) create a
new township whenever, in any territory of not less than 36 square miles or
possessing an equalized assessed valuation for taxation purposes of not less
than $6,000,000 for the preceding 2 years, three-fourths or more of the voters
residing in the territory petition for a new township. The new territory
proposed to be organized into a new township shall, however, contain at least
200 legal voters, and the respective remaining portions of each of the
townships from which the new township is taken shall also contain at least 200
legal voters and shall either contain not less than 36 square miles or possess
an equalized assessed valuation for taxation purposes of not less than
$6,000,000 for the preceding 2 years. The county board, however, before taking
any final action in any of the matters relating to any of these townships,
shall hold a public hearing on those matters after notice of the hearing has
been published at least 3 times in a newspaper having a general circulation in
the townships affected. The first of the notices shall be published at least 60
days before the date of the hearing. No incorporated town, however, may be
divided unless the proposition has been certified to the appropriate election
authorities, the referendum is held in accordance with the general election
law, and consent to the division is given by a majority of all the electors in
the incorporated town voting on the proposition.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-10)
Sec. 10-10.
Election in new township.
When 2 or more townships are united
into one, or when a township is divided into 2 or more townships, a new
election shall be ordered in the new township or townships by the county board
and held at the time scheduled under the general election law for the holding
of township elections. The election shall be conducted in the manner prescribed
by the general election law. When parts of several townships are taken to make
a new township, an election need not be ordered in the townships from which
territory is taken. If, however, any officer of one of those townships
continues to reside in the new township, his or her office shall be declared
vacant and filled as in other cases of vacancy.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-15)
Sec. 10-15.
Terms of officers of new township.
The officers elected or
appointed at a township meeting shall hold their offices until the next annual
township meeting and until their successors are elected and qualified.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-20)
Sec. 10-20.
Detachment of part of township.
(a) If any township lies partly within and partly without any city, village,
or incorporated town and both the city, village, or incorporated town and the
township are charged with the duty of providing relief and support to poor and
indigent persons in the territory lying within both the township and the city,
village, or incorporated town, the county board may upon its own motion detach
the part of the township within the city, village, or incorporated town and may
annex the detached part to one or more townships wholly within the city,
village, or incorporated town.
(b) The township officers of any township from which territory is detached
shall continue as officers of the township until the expiration of the
respective terms for which they were elected or appointed and until their
successors are elected or appointed and qualified, without regard to
whether they reside in the township or the territory detached from the
township.
(c) All property belonging to the township from which territory is
detached and all debts of that township before the detachment shall
respectively remain the sole property and obligations of that
township.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-25)
Sec. 10-25. Plan for changes in townships.
(a) The county board of each county may, subject to a referendum in the
townships affected as provided in this Section, adopt a plan for altering the
boundaries of townships, changing township lines, dividing, enlarging, or
consolidating townships, or creating new townships, so that each township shall
possess an equalized assessed valuation of not less than $10,000,000 as of the
1982 assessment year.
(b) No alteration or change in boundaries shall be effective unless
approved by a referendum in each township affected. The election authority
shall submit to the voters of each township affected, at a regular
election to be held not less than 60 days after the plan is adopted,
the question of approving the alteration or change. The alterations or changes,
if approved by the voters, shall take effect on the date of the next township
election and shall be applicable to that election. If there is doubt as to the
township clerk with whom nomination papers for that election should be filed,
the county board shall designate the clerk. In the alteration of boundaries, a
county board may not disturb urban or coterminous townships in existence on
October 1, 1978.

(Source: P.A. 100-107, eff. 1-1-18.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-30)
Sec. 10-30.
Election after alteration of township boundaries.
When township
boundaries have been altered under this Article, an election for township
officers shall be held in the new townships at the time scheduled under the
general election law for the election of township officers. The election shall
be conducted in the manner prescribed by the general election law.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-35)
Sec. 10-35.
Assessment and collection of taxes.
The union of 2 or more
townships or the division or alteration of a township after the assessor's
books have been made out in any year shall not in any manner affect the
assessment or collection of taxes assessable and collectible in that year, and
those taxes may be assessed and collected in the same manner and by the same
officers as if no division, union, or alteration had taken place. If any
township has territory detached from it under Section 10-20, however, any tax
previously levied by the township for the purpose of caring for poor and
indigent persons for the present fiscal year shall be abated and shall not
be extended by the county clerk.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-40)
Sec. 10-40.
Disposition of township property.
When a township possessing
real estate is divided into 2 or more townships, the supervisors and assessors
of the several townships constituted by the division shall meet as soon as may
be practicable after the first township meeting subsequently held in those
townships. They may make an agreement concerning the disposition of the
township property and the apportionment of the proceeds as is equitable and may
take all measures and execute all conveyances necessary to carry the agreement
into effect.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-45)
Sec. 10-45.
Meeting of supervisors and assessors.
Except as provided by
Section 10-20, when 2 or more townships possessing real estate are united, or
when a part of any township possessing real estate is annexed to another
township or townships or taken to form a part of a new township, the
supervisors and assessors of the township so united or the township from which
the territory is taken and the supervisors and assessors of the township or
townships to which the territory is annexed or of which it constitutes a part
shall, as soon as may be practicable after the alteration, meet for the purpose
and possess the powers provided in Section 10-40.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-50)
Sec. 10-50.
Apportionment of township personal property.
Except as provided
by Section 10-20, when 2 or more townships, any one or more of which possess or
are entitled to moneys, rights or credits, or other personal estate, are
united, or when a township possessing or entitled to moneys, rights or credits,
or other personal estates is divided or altered, the personal estate, including
moneys, shall be apportioned between the townships interested in that personal
estate by the supervisors and assessors of the townships according to the
amount of taxable property in the township or townships united, divided, or
altered as that amount existed immediately before the union, division, or
alteration. That amount shall be ascertained by the last assessment list of
the township or townships. The supervisors and assessors shall meet for this
purpose as soon as may be practicable after the union, division, or alteration.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-55)
Sec. 10-55.
Notice of supervisors and assessors meeting.
Whenever a meeting
of the supervisors and assessors of 2 or more townships is required to carry
into effect the provisions of this Article, the meeting may be called by either
of the supervisors. The supervisor calling the meeting shall give to all the
other officers at least 10 days' written notice of the time and place at which
the meeting is to be held.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-60)
Sec. 10-60.
Cemetery exempt.
Section 10-55 shall not apply to any cemetery
or burial ground. A cemetery or burial ground shall belong to the township
within which it is situated after a division is made.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-65)
Sec. 10-65.
Apportionment of township debts.
Except as provided by Section
10-20, debts owed by a township or townships united, divided, or altered under
this Article shall be apportioned in the same manner as the personal property
of the township or townships, and each township shall thereafter be charged
with its share of those debts according to the apportionment.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-70)
Sec. 10-70.
Apportionment by court.
If the several townships cannot agree on
a division or apportionment of the real or personal property or debts or any
part of the property or debts as provided in Sections 10-40 through 10-65, the
dispute shall be submitted to the circuit court of the county. The court shall
hear and determine the matter in a summary manner, without pleadings, and shall
pronounce judgment as the right of the case may be.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
(60 ILCS 1/10-75)
Sec. 10-75.
Inapplicability.
This Article does not apply to multi-township
jurisdictions for assessment purposes as provided in Sections 2-5 through
2-30 and Sections 2-70 and 9-30 of the Property Tax Code, and the establishment
or discontinuance of or withdrawal from a multi-township assessment district is
not an alteration of the boundaries of any township, a change in township
lines, a division, enlargement, or consolidation of any township, or the
creation of a new township for purposes of this Code.

(Source: P.A. 88-62; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)

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