(65 ILCS 5/9-2-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-10)
Sec. 9-2-10.
At the time and place fixed in the specified notice for the
public hearing, the board of local improvements shall meet and hear the
representations of any person desiring to be heard on the subject of the
necessity for the proposed improvement, the nature thereof, or the cost as
estimated. In case any person appears to object to the proposed improvement
or any of the elements thereof, the board shall adopt a new resolution
abandoning the proposed scheme or adhering thereto, or changing, altering,
or modifying the extent, nature, kind, character, and estimated cost,
provided the change does not increase the estimated cost of the improvement
to exceed 20% of the same, without a further public hearing thereon, as it
considers most desirable. Thereupon, if the proposed improvement is not
abandoned, the board shall have an ordinance prepared therefor, to be
submitted to the corporate authorities. This ordinance shall prescribe the
nature, character, locality, and description of the improvement and shall
provide whether the improvement shall be made wholly or in part by special
assessment or special taxation of contiguous property. This ordinance may
provide that specifications for the proposed improvement be made part of
the ordinance by reference to specifications previously adopted by
ordinance by the municipality, or to specifications adopted or published by
the State of Illinois or a political subdivision thereof, provided that a
copy of the specifications so adopted by reference is on file in the office
of the clerk of the municipality. If the improvement is to be paid in part
only by special assessment or special taxation, the ordinance shall so
state.
If property is to be taken or damaged for the improvement, the ordinance
shall describe the property with reasonable certainty.
In cities having a population of 500,000 or over when a remonstrance
petition is filed by the owners of a majority of the frontage on the line
of the proposed improvement with the board of local improvements within 30
days after the public hearing thereon, the board shall thereupon stay all
proceedings therein for one year from that date. This remonstrance petition
shall contain the signatures of the owners or legal representatives, the
description of the property owned or represented, and the number of feet so
owned or represented and shall be verified by affidavit of one or more
property owners fronting on the line of the proposed improvement, setting
forth that the party making the affidavit is a property owner, fronting on
the proposed improvement and that the parties who signed the petition are
the owners or legal representatives of the property described therein.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2425.)
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