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55 ILCS 5/1-2006
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-2006)Sec. 1-2006.     Territory released.     When the county to which such  territory is transferred shall also be indebted, the county board of such  county shall release such transferred territory from the payment of such  indebtedness to an amount equal to that which said territory is required to  pay to the county from which it was transferred.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-2007
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-2007)Sec. 1-2007.     When elections at discretion of county board.     When  a majority of the legal voters of any territory, less  than half of one congressional township, shall petition the county  boards as provided in Section 1-2001, the said  county boards may, in their discretion, order referenda to be held as  herein provided; and in any case where referenda have been held under this  Division, and the result has been adverse to the petitioners,  it shall be in the discretion of the said boards to order another  referendum, on a petition to transfer the same territory, within three  years from the time of holding such former referendum.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/Div. 1-3 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 Division 1-3.      New Counties
55 ILCS 5/1-3001
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3001)Sec. 1-3001.     Petition to form new county.     Whenever it is desired to form a new county out of one or more  of the then existing counties, and a petition praying for the erection of  such new county, stating and describing the territory proposed to be taken  for such new county, together with the name of such proposed new county,  signed by a majority of the legal voters residing in the territory to be  stricken from such county or counties, shall be presented to the county  board of each county to be affected by such division, and it appearing that  such new county can be constitutionally formed, it shall be the duty of  such county board or county boards to make an order providing for the  submission of the question of the erection of such new county to a vote of  the people of the counties to be affected.  The County Board or boards  shall certify the question to the proper election officials, who shall  submit the question to the voters at a general election, in  accordance with the general election law. The form of the proposition  shall be as follows: "For new county," and "Against new county."    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-3002
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3002)Sec. 1-3002.     Election; effect.     If it shall appear that a majority of  all the votes cast at such election, in each of the counties interested, is  in favor of the erection of such new county, the county clerk of each of  said counties shall certify the same to the Secretary of State, stating in  such certificate the name, territorial contents and boundaries of such new  county; whereupon the Secretary of State shall notify the Governor of the  result of such election, whose duty it shall be to order an election of  county officers for such new county in accordance with the general election  law for the election of county officers. At such election the qualified  voters of said new county shall elect all county officers for said county,  except as hereinafter excepted, who shall be commissioned and qualified in  the same manner as such officers are in other counties in this State, and  who shall continue in office until the next regular election for such  officers, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and who  shall have all the jurisdiction and perform all the duties which are or may  be conferred upon such officers in other counties of this State.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-3003
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3003)Sec. 1-3003.     Township or precinct officers; continuance in office.     All the township or precinct officers, who were previously elected  and qualified in the county or counties from which such new county has been  formed, whose term of office shall not have expired at the time of said  election, and whose residence shall be embraced within the limits of said  new county, shall continue in office until their terms of office shall  expire, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-3004
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3004)Sec. 1-3004.     Canvass and return of votes.     The votes for the county  officers of said new county shall be canvassed, and returns made, by the  county clerk or county clerks of the county or counties from which such new  county was formed, as provided by the general election law.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-3005
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3005)Sec. 1-3005.     County deemed organized.     The oath of office may be  administered to the several county officers of such new county by any  person authorized by law to administer oaths; and as soon as such county  officers are duly qualified, the county shall be regarded as legally  organized, and for judicial purposes shall be deemed and taken as belonging  to the circuit in which such new county, or the greater part thereof, is  embraced, and the circuit court shall be held at such place in the new  county as the county board thereof shall designate, until the county seat  thereof shall be permanently located.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-3006
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3006)Sec. 1-3006.     Transfer of suits and judgments.     The courts of  any county or counties from which such new county is erected may, by proper  order, transfer any suit or other legal proceeding affecting real estate in  such new county, to the proper court of such new county, or may transfer  any suit and all papers and records pertaining thereto to such new county,  when all the parties thereto are residents of such new county; but all  judgments and other liens in the county or counties from which such new  county was erected, shall have the same effect as if no new county had  been erected.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-3007
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3007)Sec. 1-3007.     Adjustment of property and debts.     All the property, both  real and personal, and all debts, liabilities and choses in action of every  kind, belonging to the county or counties from which such new county was  formed, shall be divided by the several county boards of the counties  interested, between the county or counties from which such new county is  formed and the new county, in proportion to the assessed value of property  for the last preceding year which has been taken from such original county  or counties and carried to such new county; and if such boards cannot agree  upon such division, they may refer the matter of difference to arbitrators,  or the rights to such property may be settled by a civil action filed by  either party for that purpose. In case the property cannot be divided or  removed, the county receiving the same shall pay to the other a  proportionate value for the same.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-3008
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3008)Sec. 1-3008.     Appointment of commissioner to copy records.     The  presiding officer of the county board of such new county, with  the advice and consent of that county board, shall, at any session of said  board, by an order to be entered of record, appoint some competent person a  commissioner, for the purpose hereinafter expressed, who shall take an oath  of office before some person authorized by law to administer oaths. Said  board shall, at the same time, provide a sufficient number of blank books,  and deliver them to said commissioner, who shall receipt for the same to  the county clerk of said county.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-3009
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3009)Sec. 1-3009.     Transcription of records.     As soon as said books shall be  delivered to said commissioner, he shall record in each a copy of the order  of his appointment and of his oath of office, and shall thereupon proceed  to transcribe, into such books, from the records of the county or several  counties from which the new county is formed, all such deeds, mortgages and  title papers of every description, with the certificate of acknowledgment  thereto, and the date of the filing of the same for record, of lands lying  in said new county which previously were recorded in the counties from  which such new county was formed; and there shall be allowed said  commissioner such sum as his services aforesaid are reasonably worth, to be  paid out of the county treasury of the said new county.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-3010
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3010)Sec. 1-3010.     Index of records; evidence.     The commissioner shall note,  at the end of each paper he shall transcribe, the book and page from which  the same was transcribed, and shall make a correct double index of the  records; and on the completion of his duties, the commissioner shall return  the books to the recorder of the new county, with his certificate attached  thereto, showing that he has complied with the law; whereupon they shall be  taken and considered, to all intents and purposes, as books of records of  deeds, mortgages and title papers for the new county. And copies of  the record, certified by the officer having the custody of the same, shall  be evidence in all courts and places, in the same manner that copies of  records are evidence in other cases, and with like effect.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-3011
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-3011)Sec. 1-3011.     Fixing county seat.     For the purpose of fixing the  permanent location of the county seat of such new county, the voters of  said county shall, at said election for county officers, vote for some  place, to be designated upon their ballots, for a county seat; upon which  ballot shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed,  "For County Seat," after which words shall be written or printed the name  of the place intended for the county seat. The place receiving a majority  of all the legal votes cast upon the question shall be the county seat of  said county. But if no place shall receive a majority of all the votes cast  upon the question, then it shall be the duty of the county board of said  county to choose from the two places having the greatest number of legal  voters at the former election; and the place so chosen shall be the  permanent county seat of said county.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/Div. 1-4 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 Division 1-4.      Uniting Counties
55 ILCS 5/1-4001
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4001)Sec. 1-4001.     Petition to unite counties.     Whenever any number of legal  voters, not less than two hundred, one-half of such number being owners or  life tenants of real estate, residing in any county in this State, shall  petition the county board of their own county, for leave to have their own  county united and annexed to any adjoining county, and shall also petition  the county board of the adjoining county, to which they desire their county  to be united and annexed, for leave to have their own county united and  annexed to such adjoining county, it shall be the duty of the several  county boards so petitioned, to order that the propositions provided for in  this Division shall be submitted to the legal voters of their respective  counties.  The several county boards shall certify the propositions to the  proper election officials who shall submit the question at a general  election in accordance with the general election law. In addition to the  requirements of the general election law, the notices of said election  shall include the name of each of the two counties, and shall state that  the proposition to be voted upon will be whether the county of (naming the  county whose legal voters have petitioned for union and annexation) shall  be united and annexed to the county of (naming the adjoining county to  which the legal voters have petitioned to be united and annexed): Provided,  that such proposition shall not be submitted or voted upon more often than  once in 5 years.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4002
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4002)Sec. 1-4002.     Designation of counties.     In this Division and all  proceedings thereunder, the county whose legal voters shall petition the  several county boards as aforesaid, shall be  called the "petitioning  county," and the county to which said legal voters shall petition to be  united and annexed shall be called the "adjoining county."    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4003
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4003)Sec. 1-4003.     Form of proposition.     The proposition shall be  substantially in the following form: For uniting and annexing  the county of (naming the petitioning county) to the county of (naming  the adjoining county). Against uniting and annexing the county of  (naming the petitioning county) to the county of (naming the adjoining  county).    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4004
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4004)Sec. 1-4004.     Effect of vote.     If a majority of the votes  polled in each of such counties at such election shall be in  favor of said proposition, all that territory included within  the established boundaries of the petitioning county, shall be  united and annexed to the adjoining county, and such petitioning  county, shall cease to have any separate existence as a county,  but shall be merged into and form an integral part of such  adjoining county, in fact and in name, at the time and in the  manner hereinafter provided.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4005
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4005)Sec. 1-4005.     Proclamation by Governor.     Within ten days after such  election, the county clerk of each of such counties shall send a correct  and duly certified abstract of the votes polled at such election to the  Secretary of State; and if a majority of votes polled at such election in  each of said counties is found to be in favor of uniting and annexing the  petitioning county to the adjoining county, the Secretary of State shall  forthwith so notify the Governor of the state, and the Governor shall  thereupon, forthwith and without delay, issue his proclamation announcing  and declaring the result of such election; and on and after the date of  such proclamation the petitioning county shall cease to exist as a county,  and all that territory embraced in the limits of such petitioning county  shall be united and annexed to, and shall form an integral part of such  adjoining county.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4006
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4006)Sec. 1-4006.     Officers to hold office until expiration of term.     All the county officers of the petitioning county shall continue  to hold their respective offices until their respective terms of office  shall expire, and shall perform the duties of their respective offices  arising in the territory which, before the Governor's proclamation  aforesaid, had constituted the petitioning county, and shall receive the  fees and compensation thereof, in the manner hereinafter provided. They  shall keep their offices at the county seat of the adjoining county, in the  court house of said county, in such rooms as may be selected by the county  board of the adjoining county; and within ten days after the date of the  proclamation as aforesaid, by the Governor, they shall remove all the files  and records, books, papers, and furniture of their respective offices to  the court house of the adjoining county, which shall thereafter be held and  taken to be the files, records, books, papers and furniture of the  adjoining county as it shall be constituted after the date of the  proclamation aforesaid.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4007
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4007)Sec. 1-4007.     Process.     All process of every kind against any  person or property within the territory, which had constituted the  petitioning county before the proclamation aforesaid, during the  continuance of the term of office of the clerk of the circuit court and the  county clerk of the petitioning county, and after the union and annexation  aforesaid, may be issued by the clerk of circuit court or the county clerk  of the petitioning county, and they shall respectively, collect and account  to the county board of the adjoining county for the proper fees for issuing  the same, but all such process shall be signed by the proper clerk and have  the proper seal of the proper court of the adjoining county attached. The  sheriff of the petitioning county may serve all such process, referred to  in this Section; and shall collect and account to the county board of the  adjoining county for the proper fees for serving the same. The county clerk  and the clerk of the circuit court of the petitioning county shall each  receive the same compensation he was receiving by law at the date of the  aforesaid proclamation, which compensation shall be paid by the county  board of the adjoining county out of taxes collected from property in the  territory that had constituted the petitioning county before the aforesaid  proclamation.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4008
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4008)Sec. 1-4008.     Sheriff of petitioning county.     The sheriff of the  petitioning county shall continue after the date of the Governor's  proclamation, to perform the duties of sheriff in the territory that had  constituted the petitioning county before the proclamation, until his or  her term of office shall expire, at which time he or she shall deliver to  the sheriff of the adjoining county, without demand therefor, all books,  papers, and furniture pertaining to or connected with his or her office,  and also all moneys and process held by him or her as sheriff, and all  property attached or levied on by him or her as sheriff. He or she shall  have a right to collect all taxes collectible by him or her during his or  her term of office from all property in the territory that had constituted the  petitioning county before the proclamation. He or she shall receive the  same compensation he or she would have received as sheriff and ex-officio  collector of the petitioning county, as if the same had not been united and  annexed to the adjoining county; but after the date of the  Governor's proclamation all his or her acts shall be performed in the  name of the sheriff of the adjoining county. After the date of the  Governor's proclamation, the sheriff of the petitioning county  shall become the deputy of the sheriff of the adjoining county, and the  sheriff of the petitioning county may perform all the duties of sheriff, to  be performed during his or her term of office in the territory that had  constituted the petitioning county before the proclamation  without control of the sheriff of the adjoining county, and shall be liable  upon his or her bond as sheriff, and upon his or her bond as collector,  for any breach of the conditions thereof, in the same manner and to the  same extent as if the petitioning county had continued to exist as a  county. The compensation payable to the sheriff of the petitioning county,  shall be paid by order of the county board of the adjoining county, out of  taxes upon property in the territory that has constituted the petitioning  county before the Governor's proclamation, and he or she shall account to  the county board of the adjoining county for all fees collected by him or  her: Provided, that the sheriff of the petitioning county shall forfeit all  right to any compensation, if he or she is not ready and willing to perform  the duties he or she may perform under this Code.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4009
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4009)Sec. 1-4009.     Coroner.     The coroner of the petitioning county  shall perform all the duties required of him by law within the territory  that had constituted the petitioning county before the proclamation  aforesaid, until his term of office shall expire, and shall receive the  compensation to which he may be entitled by law, and whatever fees or  compensation may be payable by law out of the county treasury, shall be  certified and paid by the county board of the adjoining county to such  coroner, out of taxes collected from property in the territory that had  constituted the petitioning county.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4010
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4010)Sec. 1-4010.     County treasurer.     The county treasurer of the  petitioning county shall perform all the duties required of him by law, in  the territory that had constituted the petitioning county, during his term  of office. He shall assess the taxable property in the territory aforesaid,  and shall return his assessment books to the county clerk of the adjoining  county, and make all his reports to the county board of the adjoining  county; but he shall be liable upon his bond for any breach or breaches of  the conditions thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as if the  petitioning county had not been united and annexed to the adjoining county.  The compensation to which he may be entitled by law, shall be paid by the  county board of the adjoining county out of taxes collected from property  in the territory that had constituted the petitioning county, before the  proclamation aforesaid. So much of this Section as refers to assessing by  the treasurer, shall only be applicable where the petitioning county was  not under township organization at the date of the election aforesaid.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)