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91_SB1557
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1 AN ACT to amend the School Code by changing Section 7-2.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing
5 Section 7-2 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 5/7-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 7-2)
7 Sec. 7-2. Districts in two or more counties; Change of
8 boundaries. Boundaries of existing school districts lying
9 within 2 two or more counties may be changed by detachment,
10 annexation, division, dissolution or any combination thereof
11 by the concurrent action of, taken following a joint hearing
12 before, the regional boards of school trustees of each region
13 affected. For purposes of this Section and Section 7-6, an
14 educational service region shall be deemed to be a region
15 affected if any portion of the territory which the petition
16 seeks to have detached from any school district is located in
17 the region. The petition may be by the boards of each
18 district affected, or by a majority of the legal voters
19 residing in each district affected, or by two-thirds of the
20 legal voters residing in any territory proposed to be
21 detached from one or more districts or in each of one or more
22 districts proposed to be annexed to another district. The
23 original petition shall be filed with the regional board of
24 school trustees of the region in which the territory being
25 detached is located or if territory is being detached from
26 more than one region then the petition shall be filed with
27 the regional board of school trustees of the region in which
28 the regional superintendent has supervision over the greatest
29 portion of such territory. A certified true copy of the
30 petition shall be filed with the regional board of school
31 trustees of each other region affected. Notwithstanding any
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1 other provisions of this Article, if pursuant to a petition
2 filed under this Section all of the territory of a school
3 district is to be annexed to another school district, any
4 action by the regional boards of school trustees in granting
5 the petition and any changes in school district boundaries
6 pursuant to that action is subject to and the change in
7 school district boundaries shall not be made except upon
8 approval at a regular scheduled election, in the manner
9 provided by Section 7-7.7, of a proposition for the
10 annexation of all of the territory of that school district to
11 the other school district.
12 The regional board of school trustees in whose region the
13 joint hearing on the original petition is conducted shall
14 send a certified true copy of the transcript of the hearing
15 to each other region affected. If there are no legal voters
16 residing within the territory proposed to be detached from
17 one or more districts, then the petition may be signed by all
18 of the owners of record of the real estate of the territory.
19 The annexing district is that district to which territory is
20 proposed to be added.
21 Where there is only one school building in an approved
22 operating district, the building and building site may not be
23 included in any detachment proceeding unless petitioned by
24 two-thirds of the eligible voters within the entire district
25 wherein the school is located.
26 After September 23, 1983, no petition shall be filed
27 under Sections 7-1 and 7-2 to form a new school district
28 under this Article except that such a petition may be filed
29 under Section 7-1 to form a new school district where the
30 boundaries of such new school district lie entirely within
31 the boundaries of a military base or installation operated
32 and maintained by the government of the United States.
33 (Source: P.A. 90-459, eff. 8-17-97.)