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65 ILCS 5/7-1-18
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-18)Sec. 7-1-18.         The municipality to which the whole of another municipality is  annexed under Section 7-1-16 and 7-1-17 shall assume and pay all debts and  liabilities, and shall perform all contracts of the annexed municipality.  Upon annexation, the title to all property which belonged to the annexed  municipality vests in the annexing municipality, to be held, however, for  the same purposes and uses, and subject to the same conditions as before  annexation.The annexing municipality shall assume and pay all debts and liabilities  and shall perform all contracts of all school districts and townships  wholly within the annexing municipality as it has been enlarged. The  annexing municipality is vested with the title to all property belonging to  all school districts and townships wholly within the enlarged annexing  municipality, to be held, however, for the same purposes and uses and  subject to the same conditions as before annexation.If the bonds of the annexed municipality, or of any school district or  township now wholly within the enlarged annexing municipality, have been  registered with the State Auditor of Public Accounts, the county clerk of  the county wherein the annexing municipality is situated shall certify  forthwith the fact of the annexation to the State Auditor. The State  Auditor thereafter shall not certify any tax rate to the county clerk, nor  shall the county clerk thereafter extend any tax rate, for the payment of  the bonds, or interest thereon, merely upon the taxable property in the  municipality that has been annexed, or in the school district or township  that is wholly within the enlarged annexing municipality. All property in  the enlarged annexing municipality, without discrimination between the  territory in the annexed and the annexing municipalities, shall be subject  to taxation to pay the debts, bonds, and obligations of the municipality.  If a portion of a school district or township is within and a portion is  without the annexed municipality, the debts and liabilities of that school  district or township shall be paid and the property divided in the same  manner as is provided in Sections 7-1-31 and 7-1-32.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-18.5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

Sec. 7-1-18.5.     Maintenance of sanitary sewers.     A municipality located in a  county with a population of 3,000,000 or more to which territory is annexed  after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly is  responsible for the operation and maintenance of any existing sanitary sewerage  system serving the annexed territory, unless the sanitary sewerage system is  under the jurisdiction of another unit of local government other than the  Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.    (Source: P.A. 92-255, eff. 8-3-01.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-19
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-19)Sec. 7-1-19.         When the whole of a municipality is annexed to another  municipality, and the annexed municipality has passed the annual  appropriation ordinance, but not an ordinance levying a tax for the purpose  of collecting a sufficient sum of money to defray the total amount of  appropriations for all corporate purposes for that fiscal year, the  annexing municipality may include the amount of the appropriations of the  annexed municipality in the annual tax levy of the annexing municipality,  the same as though the appropriations had been made by the annexing  municipality. The fund derived from this part of the tax levy shall be used  by the annexing municipality for the purpose for which the appropriations  were made by the annexed municipality.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-20
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-20)Sec. 7-1-20.         The annexation of the whole of a municipality to another  municipality, shall not adversely affect proceedings for the collection or  enforcement of any tax or special assessment, but they shall proceed to a  finality as though no annexation had taken place. The proceeds thereof  shall be paid over to the treasurer of the annexing municipality, to be  used, however, for the purpose for which the tax was levied or assessed.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-21
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-21)Sec. 7-1-21.         All suits pending in any court on behalf of or against any  municipality, when the whole municipality is annexed to another  municipality, may be prosecuted or defended in the name of the annexed  municipality. All judgments obtained for any annexed municipality shall be  collected and enforced by the annexing municipality for its benefit.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-22
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-22)Sec. 7-1-22.         Upon the annexation of the whole of a municipality to another  municipality, all public books, papers, and documents filed in any office  or with any officer of the annexed municipality, shall be transferred to  and filed in the appropriate office or with the appropriate officer of the  annexing municipality, as the corporate authorities of the annexing  municipality shall direct. All persons having possession of these books,  papers, and documents shall deliver them to and file them in or with the  appropriate office or officer.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-23
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-23)Sec. 7-1-23.         Upon the annexation of the whole of a municipality to another  municipality, all policemen and firemen lawfully in the employ of the  annexed municipality shall be transferred to and become a part of the  police department and fire department, respectively, of the annexing  municipality.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-24
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-24)Sec. 7-1-24.         On petition in writing, signed by one-half of the electors and  one-half of the owners of record of land in any territory, not exceeding in  area 160 acres, situated within any municipality, which territory is  contiguous to another municipality, the corporate authorities of the  municipality within which the territory is situated, may consent, by  ordinance, that this territory be disconnected from such municipality and  annexed to the other municipality to which the territory is contiguous. The  ordinance must be passed by a majority vote of the corporate authorities of  the disconnecting municipality. Thereupon the corporate authorities of the  annexing municipality, by ordinance passed by a majority vote, may annex  the territory. The territory, however, shall not be disconnected from the  municipality of which it is a part until it is annexed to the municipality  to which it is contiguous.The clerk of the annexing municipality, within 90 days after the passage  of the annexing ordinance, shall file for recordation a certified copy of  the ordinance, with an accurate map of the territory annexed, with the  recorder of the county in which the annexed territory is situated.    (Source: P.A. 83-358.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-25
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-25)Sec. 7-1-25.         Any unoccupied territory, lying along the boundary line  between 2 adjoining municipalities, may be excluded from one of the  adjoining municipalities and annexed to the other adjoining municipality,  as follows:The corporate authorities of the excluding municipality shall adopt an  ordinance providing for such exclusion, and the corporate authorities of  the annexing municipality shall adopt an ordinance providing for the  annexation of this territory. Upon the adoption of these ordinances, the  territory is thereby excluded from the one municipality and annexed to the  other. The chief executive officer of each municipality thereupon shall  file for recordation an accurate map of the excluded or added territory, as  the case may be, together with a certified copy of the ordinance for  exclusion or annexation with the recorder of the county in which  the excluded or added territory, as the case may be, is situated.    (Source: P.A. 83-358.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-27
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-27)Sec. 7-1-27.         Territory, within a municipality, which (1) is not less  than one-half square mile in area, but less than the whole of the  municipality, and which (2) is contiguous to another municipality, may  be annexed to the latter municipality as follows:A petition, signed by not less than 100 of the electors of the  territory, shall be presented to the circuit court for the county  wherein the annexing municipality is situated. The petition shall  describe the territory and request that the question of the annexation  of the territory be submitted to the electors of the territory and also  to the electors of the disconnecting and annexing municipalities.  If the petition is in conformity with the law, the court  shall order the question of annexation of the  territory submitted to the specified electors at a general  municipal election to  be held in each of the municipalities affected. The clerk of the circuit  court shall certify the question for submission. No election for the  annexation of any part of a municipality to another municipality shall  be held within 22 months after a proposition to annex the whole or any  part of a municipality to another municipality has been voted upon at  any election.    (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-28
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-28)Sec. 7-1-28.         The question shall be in substantially  the following form:    --------------------------------------------------------------Shall the territory (heredescribe it) be disconnected              YESfrom the municipality of....        --------------------------and annexed to the municipality           NOof....?--------------------------------------------------------------The certificate shall include in the results statements of the total vote  cast at the election and the vote  for and against the proposition in each municipality and in the territory  sought to be annexed alone.If a majority of the voters in the territory sought to be annexed,  voting upon the proposition at any election, vote against disconnection  and annexation, any petition thereafter presented to the court for  disconnection and annexation of the same territory shall be signed by  not less than 1/8 of the electors of the territory sought to be  annexed.If a majority of the voters of each municipality, as well as a  majority of the voters within the limits of the territory sought to be  annexed, voting upon the question of disconnection and annexation, vote  "Yes", the jurisdiction of the annexing municipality is extended over  the territory sought to be annexed, and the disconnecting municipality  loses jurisdiction over the territory.    (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-29
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-29)Sec. 7-1-29.         If, as provided in Sections 7-1-16, 7-1-17, 7-1-27 and  7-1-28, petitions are presented to the court for the annexation of the  whole and also for the annexation of a part or parts of a municipality  to another municipality, the court shall order submitted  to the electors the  question specified in each petition. If the result of the voting at the  election is against annexation of the whole, but favors annexation of a  part, which is contiguous to the annexing municipality, this part is  annexed to the annexing municipality, despite the unfavorable vote as to  the annexation of the whole municipality. The same shall be true if the  vote favors annexation of 2 or more parts, if the parts form a  contiguous territory which is also contiguous to the annexing  municipality.    (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-30
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-30)Sec. 7-1-30.         Whenever a part of a municipality has been annexed to an  adjoining township, which is wholly within the limits of another  municipality, under the Township Code, the  annexed territory may be annexed to the municipality within  which the township lies as follows: A petition may be presented to the  county board of the county within which is situated the annexing  municipality. It shall be signed by a majority of the electors of the  territory annexed to the township. If the county board finds that the  petition is signed by a majority of the electors of the territory, it shall  annex the territory to the designated municipality by resolution.  Thereupon, except as is otherwise provided in Section 7-1-1, the limits and  the authority of the annexing municipality shall be extended to include the  territory previously annexed to the township.    (Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-31
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-31)Sec. 7-1-31.         After a part of a municipality is disconnected and annexed to  another municipality, the indebtedness and liabilities of the municipality  from which the part is disconnected shall be assumed and paid by the  enlarged annexing municipality, in the same proportion as the taxable  property in the disconnected part bears to the taxable property in the  municipality from which the part was disconnected as it existed immediately  before the disconnection, according to the last assessment for taxation.  This duty to assume and pay a proportionate share of indebtedness and  liabilities shall also apply to the indebtedness and liabilities of the  school district or township in which the disconnected part was situated.The amount of the indebtedness and liabilities to be assumed and paid by  the enlarged annexing municipality shall be determined by the corporate  authorities of the annexing municipality and of the municipality from which  a part was disconnected, or, as the case may be, by the school authorities  of the school district or township in which the disconnected part was  situated.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-32
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-32)Sec. 7-1-32.         If the specified authorities agree as to the amount to be paid  by the enlarged annexing municipality, each of the authorities concerned  shall pass an ordinance or a resolution reciting the amount to be paid. A  certified copy of the ordinance or resolution shall be filed by the clerk  of the annexing municipality with the county clerk of the county in which  the annexing municipality is situated. The county clerk shall send a  certified copy to the State Auditor of Public Accounts. This ordinance or  resolution shall be conclusive as to the amount of indebtedness and  liabilities to be assumed and paid by the enlarged annexing municipality.If the authorities cannot agree, the matter shall be determined by the  circuit court of the county in which the annexing municipality is situated,  upon a petition of either municipality or of any taxpayer of either  municipality. The court shall hear the controversy without further  pleadings, and without a jury, and then shall pronounce a judgment in  accordance with the rule of apportionment stated in Section 7-1-31.A certified copy of the judgment shall be filed with the clerk of each  municipality and with the county clerk of the county in which the annexing  municipality is situated. The county clerk shall send a certified copy of  the judgment to the State Auditor of Public Accounts. The judgment shall be  final and conclusive as to the indebtedness and liabilities to be assumed  and paid by the enlarged annexing municipality.The State Auditor shall not thereafter certify any tax rate to the  county clerk, nor shall the county clerk extend any tax rate upon the  taxable property of the annexed part for the payment of any of the bonds,  or interest thereon, issued by the municipality from which the part was  disconnected.    (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3740.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-33
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-33)Sec. 7-1-33.         Upon annexation, the title and possession of all municipal and  school property located in the annexed part vests in the annexing  municipality. There shall be an adjustment of the municipal and school  properties owned by the municipality, school district, or township from  which a part is disconnected in order that all of this property may be  divided between that municipality, school district, or township and the  enlarged annexing municipality, on the same basis and by the same  authorities or court as is provided in Sections 7-1-31 and 7-1-32 for a  division of indebtedness and liabilities. If the public property that  becomes vested in the enlarged annexing municipality because of its  location in the part that was disconnected and annexed exceeds in value the  proportionate part to which the annexing municipality is thus entitled,  then the enlarged annexing municipality shall pay to the municipality,  school district, or township, as the case may be, a sum equal to the  difference between what it received and what it should have received on the  basis specified in Sections 7-1-31 and 7-1-32 for the division of  indebtedness and liabilities. Likewise, if the public property located in  that part of the municipality, school district, or township, that remains  after the disconnection occurs, exceeds in value the proportionate part to  which the municipality, school district, or township is entitled, then the  municipality, school district, or township, as the case may be, shall pay  to the enlarged annexing municipality a sum equal to the difference between  what it received and what it should have received on the basis specified in  Sections 7-1-31 and 7-1-32 for the division of indebtedness and  liabilities.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-34
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-34)Sec. 7-1-34.         If a part of a municipality is annexed to another  municipality, and if before the annexation the corporate authorities of the  divided municipality have made the annual tax levy for the fiscal year in  which the annexation occurs, all taxes payable under this levy shall be  paid to the treasurer of the divided municipality. But this treasurer shall  pay to the treasurer of the annexing municipality that part of all taxes  collected on account of the property located in the annexed territory,  under the specified levy, as the unexpired part of the fiscal year for the  divided municipality bears to its total fiscal year.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-35
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-35)Sec. 7-1-35.         If a part of a municipality is annexed to another  municipality, and if proceedings were instituted before annexation to make  improvements in or on streets within the annexed territory by special  assessment or special taxation, the proceedings may be carried to a  finality, whether the whole improvement is within the annexed territory or  not. If the whole improvement is made within the annexed territory, the  amount collected by the proceedings shall be paid over to the annexing  municipality, to be used by that municipality for the purpose for which the  proceedings were instituted. If only a part of the improvement is made  within the annexed territory, the municipality from which the territory is  disconnected may proceed with the improvement as though no annexation had  taken place.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-36
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-36)Sec. 7-1-36.         After a part of a municipality is annexed to another  municipality, proceedings theretofore instituted to take land for the  purpose of opening any street, alley, or other public way, within the  annexed territory may proceed to a finality, if the annexing municipality  so elects. If the annexing municipality elects to proceed, the proceedings  shall be continued in the name of the municipality from which the territory  has been disconnected as though the annexed territory had not been  disconnected. All funds received from any special assessment or special tax  levied or assessed for the special purpose shall be paid to the annexing  municipality, to be used by that municipality for the purpose for which the  funds were collected.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-37
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-37)Sec. 7-1-37.         After a part of a municipality is annexed to another  municipality, both the annexed territory and the divided municipality shall  have a right to service from any waterworks, gas, or electric light system,  owned, prior to annexation, by the municipality that has been divided, on  the same terms, that existed before annexation.The annexed territory or the divided municipality may have its right  terminated by the joint action of the corporate authorities of the annexing  municipality and of the divided municipality. If they cannot agree, the  question of termination shall be determined by the circuit court of the  county within which the annexing municipality is situated, on the petition  of any interested person. The court shall determine the question without a  jury, and shall enter  judgment as right  and justice require. This judgment shall be appealable as in other civil  cases.    (Source: P.A. 83-345.)
65 ILCS 5/7-1-38
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 7 - Territory

 (from Ch. 24, par. 7-1-38)Sec. 7-1-38.         If a part of a municipality is annexed to another  municipality, and if the corporate authorities of the divided municipality  and of the annexing municipality cannot agree by ordinance as to their  respective rights and duties arising out of the disconnection and  annexation, the circuit court of the county within which either  municipality is situated, upon petition of either municipality, shall hear  and determine the questions in dispute. The court shall enter judgment as  the right of the matter may demand and this judgment shall be appealable as  in other civil cases. No petition under this section may be filed within 60  days after the annexation, or request the determination of questions  arising under Sections 7-1-31 through 7-1-33 and Section 7-1-37.    (Source: P.A. 84-547.)