Illinois Statutes Chapter 70. Special Districts § 3405/4a. Organization of district without election

§ 4a. A surface water protection district may be organized without an election upon petition by all the owners of the land included in the proposed district. Such petition shall be addressed to the same court as is provided in Section 3 for petitions and shall, with respect to content, comply with the provisions of Section 3, except that the prayer of the petition shall be for the entry of an order organizing and incorporating the territory described in the petition as a surface water protection district, rather than that the question be submitted to the legal voters of the proposed district.

A hearing upon the subject of the petition shall be fixed and notice thereof given and the hearing held in the manner provided in Section 3.

If the court finds that the petition does not comply with the provisions of this Act or that the allegations of the petition are not true, the court shall dismiss the petition; but if the court finds that the petition complies with the provisions of this Act and that the allegations of the petition are true, the court shall enter an order defining and fixing the boundaries of the district and organizing and incorporating it as a surface water protection district. Such order shall be filed in the records of the court and a copy thereof sent to the appropriate clerk in any other county in the same manner as is provided in Section 4 for orders entered thereunder.