(70 ILCS 2205/16.1) (from Ch. 42, par. 262.1)

Sec. 16.1. No issue of bonds of the district shall be valid (except bonds to refund an existing bonded indebtedness) unless the proposition of issuing the bonds has first been submitted at a regular election to the voters of the district in accordance with the general election law and has been approved by a majority of those voting on the proposition.

The proposition shall be substantially in the following form:

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Shall bonds for the purpose

of....(state purpose), in the YES

sum of $....(insert amount), be ----------------------------------------------------------------------

issued by the board of trustees NO

of the....(insert name of district)?

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(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)