(65 ILCS 5/10-1-43) (from Ch. 24, par. 10-1-43)
Sec. 10-1-43.
The electors of any municipality may adopt and become
entitled to the benefits of this Division 1 in the following manner:
Whenever 1,000 of the legal voters of such municipality, voting at the
last preceding election petition the circuit court for the county in
which the municipality is located to order submitted to a
vote of the electors of
such municipality the proposition as to whether such municipality and
the electors thereof shall adopt and become entitled to the benefits of
this Division 1, the circuit court shall order such proposition
certified and submitted
accordingly at the next succeeding
election in accordance with the general election law, and if such proposition
is not adopted at such election the
same shall in like manner be ordered to a vote of the electors of such
municipality by the circuit court upon like application at any election
thereafter, and an order shall be
entered of record in the circuit court for the submission of
such proposition as aforesaid. The clerk of the circuit court shall certify
the proposition for submission.
If the required number of 1,000 electors exceeds a number equal to
1/8 of the legal voters of any such municipality voting at the last
preceding municipal election, then such petition or application need not be signed
or made by more than 1/8 of the legal voters of such municipality voting
at the last preceding municipal election.
If this Division 1 is adopted by a municipality that before adoption
was subject to the provisions of Division 2.1 of this Article 10, the
provisions of this Division 1 shall apply except as to the board of fire
and police commissioners and firemen and policemen. The provisions of
Division 2.1 shall continue to apply to the board of fire and police
commissioners and firemen and policemen.
A municipality that has adopted this Division 1 may abolish it in the
same manner prescribed for its adoption.
(Source: P.A. 88-264.)
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