(70 ILCS 705/16a) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 37a)
Sec. 16a.
The owner or owners of record of any area of land
consisting of one or more tracts, lying within the corporate limits of
any fire protection district, which (1) is located on the border of the
fire protection district; (2) if disconnected will not result in the
isolation of any part of the fire protection district from the remainder
of the district; and (3) is adjacent to another fire protection district
may, with the consent of the boards of trustees of the disconnecting and
annexing district, have such area disconnected from the district and
added to the adjacent district as follows:
The owner or owners of record of any such area of land shall file a
petition in the court in which the fire protection district from which
disconnection is sought was organized, alleging facts showing that such
area meets the requirements of this Section. If the court finds that the
allegations of the petition are true, that the area of land meets the
requirements of this Section, and that the boards of trustees of the
disconnecting and annexing districts consent to the transfer of such
area, the court shall order the specified land disconnected from the one
district and transferred to the other, and such land shall thenceforth
cease to be a part of the fire protection district of which it was a
part and shall become an integral part of the fire protection district
to which transfer was sought and shall be subject to all the enjoyments
and responsibilities of the latter district. In each case in which a
transfer is effected under this Section, the circuit clerk in whose
court the transfer proceedings were conducted shall certify copies of
the transfer order and file or send them to the proper county clerk or
clerks for filing and to the Office of the State Fire Marshal.
(Source: P.A. 85-556.)
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