------------------------------------------------------------------------ For making the transfer for fire protection purposes from the Fire Protection District to the Village (City) of , remaining liable for a proportionate share of the bonded indebtedness outstanding as of the date of disconnection, if any, of the district from which disconnection is proposed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Against making the transfer for fire protection purposes from the Fire Protection District to the Village (City) of , remaining liable for a proportionate share of the bonded indebtedness outstanding as of the date of disconnection, if any, of the district from which disconnection is proposed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
If a majority of the votes cast upon the question of making the transfer shall be in favor of the transfer, the territory shall then cease to be a part of the fire protection district or districts to which it has been attached and shall receive fire protection services from the municipality of which it is a part. In each case in which a transfer is effected under this Section, the circuit clerk in whose court the transfer proceedings have been conducted shall certify copies of all orders entered in effecting the transfer and file or send them to the proper county clerk or clerks for filing and to the Office of the State Fire Marshal.
Upon the filing of the petition the court shall set a date for a hearing not less than 2 weeks nor more than 4 weeks after the date the petition is filed. The court, or the circuit clerk or sheriff upon order of the court, shall give 2 weeks notice of the hearing by publishing the notice in one or more daily or weekly newspapers of general circulation in the county or in each county where the district from which the territory is sought to be transferred is organized and by posting at least 10 copies of the notice in conspicuous places in the district from which the territory is sought to be transferred. In addition, the court shall cause a copy of the notice to be personally served on the corporate authorities of the municipality to which the transfer is sought at least one week before the date set for the hearing. In that notice or in any accompanying notice to be served upon the corporate authorities at the same time, a recital shall be made stating that the corporate authorities, at any time before the date of the hearing or within additional time granted by the court upon written request filed on or before that date, may file a written refusal to accept the territory as a part of the municipality. The notification need not be given to the corporate authorities if they file in the proceeding their written appearances or written consent to the transfer.
If the court finds that the petition is filed by a majority of all owners, whether corporate or individual, of real property within the district and that the provisions of subsection (a) have been met, the court shall order the disconnection, and the territory shall cease to be a part of the fire protection district or districts to which it has been attached and shall receive fire protection services from the municipality of which it is a part.
In each case in which a transfer is effected under this subsection, the circuit court in which the transfer proceedings have been conducted shall certify copies of all orders entered in effecting the transfer and shall file them with or send them to the proper county clerk or clerks for filing. The court also shall send them to the Office of the State Fire Marshal.
This subsection (h) applies only to petitions to disconnect where the territory being disconnected is a portion of a fire protection district and the territory being disconnected is within an unincorporated area wholly surrounded by the municipality having between 50,000 and 55,000 inhabitants.
70 ILCS 705/20a