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