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55 ILCS 5/1-4011
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4011)Sec. 1-4011.     State's attorney.     The State's Attorney for  the petitioning county shall, during his term of office,  receive the same compensation he was receiving at the date of  the proclamation of the Governor, as aforesaid. He shall  commence and  prosecute all actions, suits, indictments and  informations of all kinds, arising in the territory which had  constituted the petitioning county before said proclamation,  in which the people of the State may be interested, and he  shall be assistant county attorney for the adjoining county  during his said term of office.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4012
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4012)Sec. 1-4012.     Superintendent of schools.     The  county superintendent of schools of the petitioning county  shall continue to act as such in the territory that constituted the  petitioning county before said proclamation, until his term of office shall  expire; at which time he shall deliver to the county superintendent of  schools of the adjoining county, without any demand therefor, all moneys,  books, papers and personal property, belonging to the office of the county  superintendent of the petitioning county, whenever the term of office of  the county superintendent of the petitioning county shall have expired, by  death, resignation, or lapse of time, all notes and mortgages, and other  contracts, payable to, or made in the name of the county superintendent of  the petitioning county may be collected, and in any manner enforced, by  suit, or otherwise, by and in the name of the county superintendent of the  adjoining county. The county superintendent of the petitioning county shall  be subject to the direction and control of the county board of the  adjoining county, in the same manner and to the same extent that he would  have been subject to the county board of the petitioning county, if the  same had continued to have a separate existence as a county.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4013
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4013)Sec. 1-4013.     County board.     The members of the county board of the  petitioning county and the county board of the adjoining county, after the  date of the Governor's proclamation aforesaid, shall sit together at all  regular and called meetings, as the county board of the adjoining county as  it will be constituted after the proclamation aforesaid. Whenever the term  of office of any one of the members of the county board of the petitioning  county shall expire, by his death or resignation, or refusal to act, or by  lapse of time, the expiration of said term, and the manner thereof shall be  entered upon the records of the said county board of the adjoining county,  and no successor to him shall be elected, and whenever the term of office  of any member of the county board of the adjoining county, elected before  the date of the Governor's proclamation aforesaid, shall expire in any of  the modes hereinbefore mentioned after the date of said proclamation, a  successor to him shall be elected in the adjoining county at large, as it  shall be constituted after the date of the proclamation aforesaid,  including the territory that had constituted the petitioning county before  said proclamation.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4014
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4014)Sec. 1-4014.     Death of officer of petitioning county.     If any  county officer of the petitioning county shall die before his term of  office shall have expired, after the proclamation aforesaid, no successor  to him shall be elected to fill his unexpired term.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4015
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4015)Sec. 1-4015.     Town officers.     If both the petitioning and adjoining  counties are under township organization, the town officers shall not be in  any manner affected by the union and annexation aforesaid. If the  petitioning county is under township organization, and the adjoining county  is not under township organization, the town officers shall continue to act  as such until their respective terms of office shall expire; and the  members of the county board of the petitioning county shall all sit with,  and as a part of the county board of the adjoining county, as hereinbefore  provided; and after the term of office of said town officers and said  county board of the petitioning county shall expire the said township  organization shall cease to exist. If the adjoining county is under  township organization, and the petitioning county is not under township  organization, immediately after the proclamation of the Governor aforesaid,  the territory that had constituted the petitioning county shall be divided  into towns, in the manner provided in the Township Code.    (Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4016
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4016)Sec. 1-4016.     Legislative and judicial apportionment to remain.     The territory which constituted the petitioning county shall  continue and remain until the next apportionment of the state for  congressional, legislative or judicial purposes part of the same  congressional district, of the same senatorial district, of the same  judicial grand division, of the same judicial appellate district and of the  same judicial circuit that it constituted part of at the date of the  proclamation aforesaid; and at any election, where the territory that had  constituted the respective counties before said proclamation is in  different districts, the county clerk of the adjoining county shall keep  separate the votes polled in the territory constituting the respective  counties before said proclamation, until the next apportionment aforesaid,  and shall report and return the same separately to the Secretary of State.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4017
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4017)Sec. 1-4017.     Transfer of causes.     All cases of every kind that are on  the docket of the circuit court of the petitioning county at the date of  the Governor's proclamation aforesaid, shall be transferred by the clerk of  the circuit court of the adjoining county to the docket of the circuit  court of that county; and all criminal cases so transferred shall be tried  by a jury drawn in the manner provided by law from the qualified jurors  residing within the limits of the territory that had constituted the  petitioning county before the proclamation aforesaid, unless the defendant  in any such criminal case shall consent in open court to be tried by a jury  of the adjoining county.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-4018
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-4018)Sec. 1-4018.     Debts; taxes; issuing bonds.     The adjoining county shall  not become liable for the debts of the petitioning county. The county board  of the adjoining county shall have all the powers which the county board of  the petitioning county had at the date of the said proclamation of the  Governor, to levy taxes upon all the property in the territory which had  before the aforesaid proclamation constituted the petitioning county, to  pay the debts of the petitioning county. The county board of the adjoining  county shall have full power to compromise the debts of the petitioning  county; and shall have full power to issue bonds in settlement or  compromise of the debts of the petitioning county, which debts may be  funded by the adjoining county in bonds issued by that county, setting  forth upon their face that the principal and interest of said bonds shall  be paid from taxes levied upon the property within the territory which had  constituted the petitioning county. And the county board of the adjoining  county may submit to the legal voters of the adjoining county, as it will  be constituted after the said proclamation of the Governor, a proposition  to consolidate the debts of the petitioning and adjoining counties; and if  a majority of legal voters of said adjoining county, and a majority of the  legal voters residing in the territory that had constituted the petitioning  county, at any general election shall be in favor of the consolidation of  said debts, the same shall be consolidated, and bonds may be issued  therefor in the name of the adjoining county. All suits that might have  been brought against the petitioning county, may be brought after the  proclamation aforesaid against the adjoining county; and any judgment that  may be rendered in said suits may be paid by taxation upon the property in  the territory that had constituted the petitioning county. In any funding  of the consolidated debts of the said petitioning or adjoining county, the  bonds issued shall not bear a greater rate of  interest than five per cent.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/Div. 1-5 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 Division 1-5.      County Seats
55 ILCS 5/1-5001
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-5001)Sec. 1-5001.     Boundaries.     In counties of 300,000 inhabitants or  over, where the county seat is entirely located within the corporate limits  of a city or village, the boundaries of such county seat shall be the same  as the boundaries of such city or village, as the same are now, or may  hereafter be, constituted.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-5002
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-5002)Sec. 1-5002.     Boundaries; Counties of 300,000 or less.     In counties of 300,000 inhabitants or less, where the county seat is  entirely located within the corporate limits of a city or village, the  boundaries of such county seat shall be the same as the boundaries of such  city or village, as the same are now or hereafter constituted. However, the  county board may by resolution adopted by a majority thereof extend the  boundaries of such county seat to add to the territorial area of such  county seat such unincorporated land in the county contiguous to the county  seat as the resolution may describe; but in no event may such extension  include any land situated more than one mile from the county seat as then  existing.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-5003
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-5003)Sec. 1-5003.     Time of holding elections.     All elections for the removal  of county seats shall be held at general elections in accordance with the  general election law.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-5004
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-5004)Sec. 1-5004.     Notice of petition to move county seat.     Public  notice shall be given of the intention to circulate a  petition praying for an election for the removal of the county seat of any  county from its then present location to some other point within said  county, and in said petition designated, at least 10 days before the same  is circulated, by publication in some newspaper printed in said county, and  by posting 3 printed notices in 3 public places at the county seat, one of  which shall be placed on the door of the county seat building, and a like  number at the place to which the county seat is proposed to be removed, in  which notices the intent of such petition shall be set forth; and all  signers to such petition procured before such notice is given or procured,  6 months before the first day of September next following shall be void,  and stricken from such petition; and whenever such petition or petitions  addressed to the circuit court of such county, and stating the time when  such election shall be held, shall be signed by a number of legal voters of  said county, at general elections, who are not residents of the city or  township (if the county seat is not in a city) in which the county seat is  located, equal in number to two-fifths of all the votes cast in said county  at the last preceding presidential election therein, and shall be filed in  the office of the clerk of the circuit court of said county, not less than  40 nor more than 80 days before the first day of the next September such  petition shall be deemed a proposal to remove the county seat of such  county, and the point designated in said petition shall be deemed and taken  as fixed by said petition, in pursuance of law, whenever the court shall  order an election to such point as hereinafter provided, as the point to  which it is proposed to remove the county seat of such county. There shall  also be filed in the office of said clerk, with said petitions, an  affidavit of 3 legal voters of said county, stating whether or not the  point named in the said petition or petitions, to which it is proposed to  remove the county seat of such county, is nearer to or further from the  center of such county than the county seat; which affidavit may be  traversed by the affidavit of any other 3 legal voters of said county,  within 10 days from the filing thereof; and if so traversed the court  shall, at such time during the said month of September as such court shall  fix upon after hearing evidence in the case, decide whether or not the  point to which it is proposed to remove the county seat is nearer to or  further from the center of said county than the county seat.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-5005
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-5005)Sec. 1-5005.     Qualifications of petitioner.     Each petitioner signing  such petition shall write or cause to be written opposite to his name on  said petition, the name of the city and ward in which he then resides, if  he resides in a city, or if he does not reside in a city, then the name of  the precinct or township in which he resides at the time of signing such  petition; and no person shall sign such petition unless he shall be, at the  time, a legal voter in said county at general elections.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-5006
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-5006)Sec. 1-5006.     Petition open to inspection.     Said petition or petitions  shall, after the same are filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit  court, be open to the inspection of any and all citizens of the county, but  shall not be removed therefrom.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-5007
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-5007)Sec. 1-5007.     Contesting petition.     Any citizen and legal voter at  general elections in said county may contest the right of any person, whose  name is subscribed to said petition, to sign such petition under this  Division, and shall also have the right to  contest said petition as to any names subscribed thereto that he shall have  good reason to believe, and does believe, as fictitious, and no other:  Provided, he shall, 10 days before the first day of the said month of  September file in the office of the clerk of the court of such county a  list of the names of such persons whose right to sign such petition he is  desirous of contesting, together with his affidavit, indorsed thereon, that  he has good reason to believe, and does verily believe, that such persons  named in said list are not legal voters of such county, and had no right in  law to sign said petition; and shall also file in the office of said clerk,  10 days before said first day of September a list of such names as he has  reason to believe are fictitious, together with his affidavit, indorsed  thereon, that he has good reason to believe, and does verily believe, that  such names are fictitious; and such persons shall have the right to contest  such petitions only as to the names included in said lists.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-5009
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-5009)Sec. 1-5009.     Precedence of cases of contest.     All cases of contest  arising upon said petitions or affidavit shall have precedence over all  other cases during September in such court, and shall be heard and  determined before the expiration of said month if possible.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-5010
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-5010)Sec. 1-5010.     Challengers.     Whenever the court shall order any county  seat election under the provisions of this Division, the court shall  appoint three resident legal voters of the point to which it is proposed to  remove the county seat, for each and every voting place in the city,  precinct or township in which the county seat is situated, also to appoint  three resident legal voters of the county seat for each and every voting  place in the city, precinct or township to which it is proposed to remove  the county seat, to sit with the regular judges to act as challengers of  election at the voting places to which they are respectively assigned, and  it shall be their duty to act as such challengers and to challenge any and  all persons whom they have good reason to believe are not legal voters at  such county seat election, and they shall sit with such judges of election  until the close of said election, and during the canvass of the votes at  said election. The said challengers, who are thus appointed to act with the  regular judges of election, may, if they desire so to do, make an affidavit  before any person authorized to administer oaths, setting forth in such  affidavit that they have been appointed, as above provided, out of the  city, precinct, township or ward where they would otherwise be voters, and  that they desire to vote at such county seat election; which affidavit,  together with the ballot, shall be sealed up in an envelope and left with  one of the judges of election for the precinct, and on the day of election  shall be by him presented to the board of election and opened in their  presence. The affidavit shall be filed, kept and returned with the ballots  for that precinct as other affidavits are, and the ballot shall be numbered  and deposited in the ballot box, and the name entered on the poll books the  same as other votes are.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-5011
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-5011)Sec. 1-5011.     Form of proposition.     The proposition at any county seat  referendum shall be in substantially the following form: "For removal," or  "Against removal."    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-5012
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-5012)Sec. 1-5012.     No registration required.     No registration of voters  shall be made or required for holding any county seat election under this  Division. The board of election shall, in each township, precinct or ward,  keep two lists or poll books of the names of the persons whose votes are  received; each name shall be numbered, and a corresponding number marked on  each ballot before it is placed in the ballot box, which said poll books  shall each be certified as correct by the judges of election. At the close  of the polls in each precinct, township or ward, the board of election  shall canvass the votes cast at such poll or voting district, and shall  make two tally lists, one of which, together with one of the aforesaid poll  books, and the ballots cast in such precinct, township or ward, properly  strung, and the affidavits made at such election, and certificate of the  result of the election made and certified by such board, shall be sealed up  together and delivered by one of the board of election, to be selected by  the board at that time, to the county clerk, within four days thereafter.  The other poll book and tally list shall be retained by one of the judges  of election for that township, precinct or ward.    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
55 ILCS 5/1-5013
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 55 - COUNTIES|55 ILCS 5/ - Counties Code.|Article 1 - General Provisions

 (from Ch. 34, par. 1-5013)Sec. 1-5013.     Qualifications of voters; oaths.     No person shall  vote at the election who does not possess the qualifications mentioned in  the affidavit in this Section. Any person offering to vote at any county  seat election, whose right to vote shall be challenged by any challenger,  member of the board of election, or by any voter of the county, shall  answer under oath such questions as may be propounded to him touching his  qualifications as a voter, and shall take and subscribe the following oath:  State of Illinois, .... County.I do solemnly swear that I am a citizen of the United States, and of  this State; that I am of the age of 18 years or over; that I have resided in  this State for 30 days immediately preceding this election; that I am a  bona fide resident of this county, and have permanently resided herein for  the last 30 days immediately preceding this election; that I am a legal  voter of (here insert the name of the election precinct), and have  permanently resided therein for the last 30 days immediately preceding this  election, and that I have not voted at this election.(Signed)    A .... B ....He shall also procure two witnesses, who are at that time legal voters  of the township or precinct, who shall take and subscribe the following  oath, namely: State of Illinois, .... County.We the undersigned do solemnly swear that we are voters, and legally  entitled to vote at this election; that we have known A .... B .... the  person now offering to vote at this election, for 30 days; that he has  been a permanent resident of this county for 30 days last past, and for  the 30 days immediately preceding this election has permanently resided in  (township or precinct.)    C .... D .... E .... F ....Which oaths shall be subscribed and sworn before any officer authorized  to administer oaths. The board of election shall receive and count the vote  of any challenged person who shall present to them, with his vote, the  oaths aforesaid. The oaths shall all be carefully preserved by the board of  election, and returned and kept with the poll book, tally list and ballots,  as provided by this Division. Any person swearing falsely concerning his right  to vote, or concerning the right of another to vote at any such election,  or any person who shall cast a fraudulent vote at any such election or who  shall vote at such election, not having a right to vote at such election,  or who shall cast a vote at such election in any other name than his own,  or who shall vote more than once at such election, shall be guilty of a  Class 4 felony.    (Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1028.)