2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 60 - TOWNSHIPS › 60 ILCS 1/ - Township Code. › Article 25 - Discontinuance Of Township Organization

(60 ILCS 1/Art. 25 heading)
ARTICLE 25.  
		DISCONTINUANCE
OF TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION
(60 ILCS 1/25-5)
Sec. 25-5. 
		Petition and referendum to discontinue township organization. 
		Upon the petition of at least 10% of the registered voters of
each
township of a county, as
determined on the date registration closed before the regular election next
preceding the last day on which the petition may be filed, that
has adopted township organization, the county board shall certify and
cause to be submitted to the voters of the county, at the next general
election, the question of the continuance of township organization.  A
signature on a petition shall not be valid or counted in considering the
petition unless the form requirements are complied with and the date of each
signature is less than 90 days before the last day for filing the petition.
The statement of the person who circulates the petition must include an
attestation (i) indicating the dates on which that sheet was circulated, (ii)
indicating the first and last date on which that sheet was circulated, or (iii)
certifying that none of the signatures on the sheet was signed more than 90
days before the last day for filing the petition.  The proposition shall be
substantially in the form:
Shall township organization be continued in (name of     county)?
		The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
The petition shall be treated and the proposition certified in the manner
provided by the general election law. After the proposition has once been
submitted to the electorate, the proposition shall not be resubmitted for 4
years.
(Source: P.A. 89-235, eff. 8-4-95; 90-112, eff. 1-1-98.)
(60 ILCS 1/25-10)
Sec. 25-10. 
		Cessation of township organization. 
		If it appears by the returns
of the election that a majority of the votes in at least three-fourths of the
townships, containing at least a
majority of the population in the county, cast on the
question of the
continuance of township organization at the election are against the
continuance of township organization, then township organization shall cease in
the county as soon as a county board is elected and qualified. All laws
relating to counties not under township organization shall be applicable to the
county, the same as if township organization had never been adopted in it.
(Source: P.A. 88-62; 89-365, eff. 8-18-95.)
(60 ILCS 1/25-15)
Sec. 25-15. Selection of county governing body; election. When township organization
ceases in any county as provided in this Article, the county board may by ordinance or resolution restructure into a commission form of government on or before 180 days after a township organization ceases. If the county board votes to assume a commission form of government, an election shall be held in
the county at the next general election in an even-numbered year for 3 county
commissioners who shall hold office for 2, 4, and 6 years, respectively, and
until their successors are elected and qualified.  Terms shall be determined by
lot. At each succeeding general election after the first, one commissioner
shall be elected.
(Source: P.A. 100-107, eff. 1-1-18.)
(60 ILCS 1/25-20)
Sec. 25-20. 
		County commissioners' assumption of duties. 
		The county
commissioners elected under Section 25-15 shall assume the duties of their
office on the first Monday of the month following their election.  They shall
be the legal successors to the county board of the county and shall have all
the rights and emoluments, and be subject to all the liabilities as provided in
other cases of counties not under township organization.
(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
(60 ILCS 1/25-25)
Sec. 25-25. Disposal of township records and property. When township
organization is discontinued in any county, the records of the several
townships shall be deposited in the county clerk's office. The county
board or board of county commissioners of the county may close up all unfinished business of the several
townships and sell or dispose of any of the property belonging to a township
for the benefit of the inhabitants of the township, as fully as might have been
done by the townships themselves.  The county board or board of county commissioners may pay all the
indebtedness of any township existing at the time of the discontinuance of
township organization and cause the amount of the indebtedness, or so much as
may be necessary, to be levied upon the property of the township.
(Source: P.A. 100-107, eff. 1-1-18.)