(70 ILCS 605/Art. VIII heading)

(70 ILCS 605/8-1) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-1) Sec. 8-1. Annexation and detachment. Lands may be annexed to or detached from a district, subdistrict or minor subdistrict in the manner provided in this Article. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-2) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-2) Sec. 8-2. Annexation-Right of outside lands to use district drains. Any owner of land which lies outside of a district, subdistrict or minor subdistrict but within the same natural drainage area, or involved in the same system of drainage as the lands within the district, subdistrict or minor subdistrict, may connect his land to any open ditch of the district, subdistrict or minor subdistrict, or, with the prior consent of the commissioners, to any covered drain of the district, subdistrict or minor subdistrict. Any connection so made shall be subject to the conditions of Section 12-1. When any such connection is made, the landowner involved shall be deemed to have consented to the annexation of such land to the district, subdistrict or minor subdistrict. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-3) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-3) Sec. 8-3. Annexation-Petition by commissioners. When any land lying outside of a district has been connected to a district drain or has been or will be benefited or protected by any district work done or ordered to be done, the commissioners may petition the court to annex such land to the district. The petition shall include a description of the land proposed to be annexed, the name of the owner, when known, and a general description of the connection which has been made or a general description of the manner in which the land has been or will be benefited or protected. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-4) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-4) Sec. 8-4. Annexation-Petition by landowners. When the owners of lands lying outside of a district but within the same natural drainage basin or involved in the same system of drainage as the lands within the district, desire to have their lands annexed to the district, they may so petition the court. The petition must meet the proportional requirements of Section 3-3 as to signers and shall include a description of the lands proposed to be annexed and the names of the owners, when known. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-5) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-5) Sec. 8-5. Annexation-Setting petition for hearing-Notice. Upon the filing of a petition for annexation, it shall be presented to the Court, which shall fix the date and hour for hearing. The clerk of the court shall give notice of the hearing to the owners of the lands proposed to be annexed substantially in the form provided in Section 4-21 and in the manner and for the length of time provided in Section 4-22. The notice shall include a description of the lands sought to be annexed. If the petition is filed by the landowners and all of the owners of the lands sought to be annexed have signed the petition, then no notice, other than 10 days notice in writing sent by the clerk to the commissioners, need be given. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-6) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-6) Sec. 8-6. Annexation - Hearing - Order - Appeals. Any owner of land lying in the territory sought to be annexed may file objections to the petition at or prior to the time fixed for hearing and, after filing such objections may be heard with reference thereto and introduce evidence thereon. At the hearing, the court shall determine whether the lands sought to be annexed are connected with a district drain or have been or will be benefited or protected by any work of the district done or ordered to be done and, if the petition was filed by the landowners, whether the lands sought to be annexed are within the same natural drainage basin or involved in the same system of drainage as lands within the district and whether the petition is signed by the requisite number of owners owning the required proportion of the area sought to be annexed. If the court finds for the petitioners, it shall order the lands annexed to the district. The order of annexation shall include a description of the territory annexed and a description of the boundaries of that territory. The order shall be final and separate or joint appeals may be taken by the parties affected thereby, as in other civil cases. The taking of an appeal or the reversal of the order upon any such appeal shall not impair or invalidate such annexation as to lands not involved in the appeal, unless the reversal of the order by the reviewing court as to the owners so appealing would work a substantial hardship on the owners or some of the owners not appealing and the appeal has been made to operate as a stay of the enforcement of the judgment. When any such an appeal is taken, the commissioners or any landowner not appealing may, within 15 days after the notice of appeal has been made to operate as a stay of the enforcement of the judgment, move the trial court to stay the proceedings as to the owners of the lands not appealing, pending the determination of the appeal, upon the grounds that the reversal of the order by the reviewing court as to the owners appealing would work a substantial hardship on all or some of the owners not appealing. In the event the proceedings are so stayed and the order appealed from is thereafter affirmed, or the appeal is dismissed, then, upon the receipt of final process from the reviewing court the trial court shall vacate the stay and the proceedings shall thereafter continue in the same manner as though no appeal had been taken. In the event the proceedings are so stayed and the order appealed from is reversed then, upon the receipt of final process from the reviewing court the trial court may modify or vacate the original order as to the lands not appealing as justice may require under the circumstances. (Source: P.A. 83-345.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-7) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-7) Sec. 8-7. Assessment of annexed lands. Lands annexed to a district shall be subject to assessment for their just proportion of the cost of any work done or to be done by the district. The lands so annexed shall be assessed with the other lands in the district unless the assessment of the lands previously in the district has already been made, in which event the lands so annexed shall be assessed in like proceedings and with a like right of appeal. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-8) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-8) Sec. 8-8. Detachment-Petition. When any land lying within a district is not connected to a district drain and is not and cannot presently be benefited or protected by any work of the district, the commissioners or the owner of such land may petition the court to detach the same from the district. The petition shall include a description of the land proposed to be detached, the name of the owner, when known, and the reason or reasons why such land is not and cannot presently be benefited or protected. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-9) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-9) Sec. 8-9. Detachment-Setting petition for hearing-Notice. Upon the filing of a petition for detachment, it shall be presented to the court, which shall fix the date and hour for hearing. The clerk of the court shall give notice of the hearing to the owners of all of the lands in the district substantially in the form provided in Section 4-21 and in the manner and for the length of time provided in Section 4-22, except that when notice is given by publication no notice by mailing shall be required. The notice shall include a description of the land sought to be detached. If the petition is filed by the owner of the land sought to be detached, then 10 days notice shall also be given by the clerk to the commissioners by mailing a copy of such notice to each commissioner. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-10) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-10) Sec. 8-10. Detachment-Hearing-Order-Costs-Appeals. At the hearing, the court shall determine whether the allegations of the petition are true. Any owner of land within the district and the commissioners may appear and be heard with reference thereto without filing formal pleadings. If, at the hearing, the court finds that the land proposed to be detached has been assessed for benefits and that the work for which such assessment was levied has not been abandoned, then the land shall be presumed to have been benefited. If the court finds for the petitioners, it shall order the land detached. The order shall include a description of the land so detached. The costs of the proceedings may be taxed against the petitioners, the detached land or the objectors, as justice may require, without regard to the outcome of the proceeding. The order shall be final and separate or joint appeals may be taken by any person interested, as in other civil cases. (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3809.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-11) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-11) Sec. 8-11. Detachment-Land lying in two districts. When any land lies within the boundaries of 2 districts and such land is not connected to a district drain in one of the districts and is not and cannot presently be benefited or protected by the work of that district, the landowner and the commissioners of that district may jointly petition the court to detach such land from that district. The petition may be heard without notice or upon such notice as the court may direct. The remedy provided by this section shall be considered cumulative, and it shall not operate to deprive the owner of such land of the right to have his land detached from a district in the manner provided elsewhere in this Article. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-12) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-12) Sec. 8-12. Detaching lands from one district and annexing to another district. When any land lies within a district and such land is not connected to a district drain and is not and cannot presently be benefited or protected by the work of that district, but such land is or can be benefited by the work of another district, the landowners and the commissioners of the 2 districts may enter into an agreement to detach the land from the former district and to annex the land to the latter district. Such agreement shall be in writing and shall become effective only upon the approval of the circuit court of the county or counties in which the districts were organized. Such approval may be granted upon petition of the landowner or the commissioners, and the petition may be heard without notice or upon such notice as the court may direct. (Source: Laws 1965, p. 678.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-13) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-13) Sec. 8-13. Detachment-Effect on assessment. An order detaching land from a district shall not in itself operate to abate any assessment previously levied against the detached land. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-14) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-14) Sec. 8-14. Annexing lands to and detaching lands from subdistricts and minor subdistricts. Lands may be annexed to or detached from subdistricts or minor subdistricts in the same manner and with the same effect as is hereinbefore provided for the annexation of lands to and the detachment of lands from main districts. When land is annexed to a main district, it may, in the same proceeding and without a separate petition or a separate hearing, be annexed to a subdistrict or a minor subdistrict. When land is detached from a main district, it shall, in the same proceeding and without a separate petition or a separate hearing, be detached from any subdistrict or minor subdistrict in which such detached land is situated. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-15) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-15) Sec. 8-15. Detachment of lands in municipal corporation exercising drainage powers- Power of court. When a drainage district contains lands lying within a municipal corporation which has constructed drains or levees and which is exercising storm drainage powers in that territory of the same nature as the drainage powers being exercised by the drainage district then all the lands within such municipal corporation and within the drainage district may be detached from the drainage district by the court upon petition of the landowners in the territory sought to be detached, the commissioners of the drainage district or the corporate authorities of the municipal corporation. When any lands are so detached from a drainage district and the drainage system of the drainage district is so situated that it will continue to protect the detached lands from overflow or continue to provide an outlet for the storm drainage of those lands, the municipal corporation shall be liable to the drainage district for its proportionate share of the cost of future construction, repair and maintenance work on the levee or outlet, based upon the benefits to be received by the detached lands. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-16) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-16) Sec. 8-16. Detachment of lands in municipal corporation exercising drainage powers-Petition-Signers-Contents. A petition of landowners under Section 8-15 must be signed by not less than 100 adult owners of land in the territory sought to be detached, unless there are fewer than 200 adult landowners in such territory, in which event the petition shall be signed by not less than a majority of the adult landowners. Each petition under Section 8-15, whether by landowners, commissioners or corporate authorities, shall contain (a) a description of the boundaries of the territory sought to be detached, (b) the name of the drainage district from which detachment is sought, (c) the name of the municipal corporation in which the lands are situated, (d) a general description of the drains or levees which the municipal corporation has constructed and is maintaining in the exercise of its storm drainage powers, (e) a statement that the storm drainage powers being exercised by the municipal corporation in the territory sought to be detached are of the same nature as the drainage powers being exercised by the drainage district, (f) a statement that the lands sought to be detached constitute all the lands which lie within both the drainage district and the municipal corporation, and (g) a request that such lands be detached from the drainage district. The petition must be verified and shall have attached thereto a map showing the territory sought to be detached. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-17) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-17) Sec. 8-17. Detachment of lands in municipal corporation exercising drainage powers - Setting petition for hearing - Notice. Upon the filing of the petition, it shall be presented to the court, which shall fix the date and hour for hearing, which date shall be not less than 20 nor more than 60 days from the filing thereof. The clerk of the court shall give notice of the hearing on the petition by publishing a notice in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the drainage district is situated. The notice shall be entitled "Notice of Hearing on Petition to Detach Lands from .... Drainage District" and shall be addressed "To All Persons Interested". The notice must set forth (a) in what court and on what date the petition was filed, (b) a brief summary of the contents of the petition, and (c) the place, date and hour the petition will be heard. The notice shall be published at least once each week for 2 successive weeks. The first publication of the notice shall be at least 2 weeks prior to the date fixed for hearing. When the drainage district is situated in 2 or more counties, then such notice shall be given as aforesaid by publishing the same in a newspaper of general circulation published in each of said counties. If no newspaper of general circulation is published in any such county then publication of the notice shall be in a newspaper having general circulation in that county. Within 4 days after the first publication of the notice, the clerk shall mail a copy thereof to each commissioner of the drainage district and to the corporate authorities of the municipal corporation. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-18) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-18) Sec. 8-18. Detachment of lands in municipal corporation exercising drainage powers- Objections to petition. Any landowner in the drainage district, the drainage district or the municipal corporation may file objections to the petition at or prior to the time fixed for hearing and, after filing such objections, may be heard with reference thereto and introduce evidence thereon. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-19) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-19) Sec. 8-19. Detachment of lands in municipal corporation exercising drainage powers- Hearing-Order. If upon hearing the petition, the court finds that it is not properly signed, that the allegations of the petition are not true or that the proposed detachment is not in the best interest of the district and of the lands proposed to be detached, then the court shall deny the petition. If the court finds for the petitioners and has not been requested in writing to ascertain the proportionate share of the cost of reconstruction, repair and maintenance work on the levee or outlet of the drainage district which shall be borne by the municipal corporation in the future, then the court shall order the lands detached from the district. If, however, the court finds for the petitioners and has been requested in writing to ascertain such proportionate share and appropriate pleadings have been filed, then the court shall continue the hearing for the purpose of hearing additional evidence and ascertaining such proportionate share. When the court has ascertained the proportionate share of the cost of such work which the municipal corporation should bear or such proportion has been fixed by an agreement between the commissioners of the drainage district and the corporate authorities of the municipal corporation and approved by the court, the court shall order the lands detached from the district and by that order establish such proportionate share in accordance with its findings or in accordance with the approved agreement. The failure of a district to proceed with a claim against a municipal corporation for the proportionate share of the cost of future work under this section shall not bar the district from bringing an action against the municipal corporation in the manner provided in Article II of this Act. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-20) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-20) Sec. 8-20. Detachment of lands in municipal corporation exercising drainage powers- Effect of order detaching. The detachment order so entered shall not operate to abate, or to release the lien of, any assessment previously levied against the lands detached or to relieve such lands from liability for assessment by the drainage district for the purpose of paying indebtedness or obligations of the drainage district outstanding at the time of detachment. Immediately upon the entry of the detachment order, all drains, levees, drainage structures and easements of the drainage district in the detached area shall become the property of the municipal corporation without the payment of compensation therefor, and the municipal corporation shall thereafter be charged with the duty of keeping such property in repair. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-21) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-21) Sec. 8-21. Detachment of lands in municipal corporation exercising drainage powers- Appeals. Any order entered on such a detachment petition shall be final, whether granting or denying detachment, and separate or joint appeals may be taken as in other civil cases. (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3809.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-22) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-22) Sec. 8-22. Detachment of Lands in Municipal Corporation Exercising Drainage Powers - Enforcement of Order - Modification. The proportionate share of the cost of future work by the drainage district to be borne by the municipal corporation shall constitute the measure of liability of the municipal corporation to the drainage district and may be enforced by mandamus. The proportionate share as fixed by the court may be set aside or modified by a subsequent contract approved by the court or may be set aside or modified by the court upon application by the drainage district or by the municipal corporation when circumstances have so changed as to make the proportionate share inequitable or unjust as to either party. Notice of the hearing on any petition to modify the proportionate share shall be given as the court may direct. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

(70 ILCS 605/8-22.1) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-22.1) Sec. 8-22.1. In districts where the county collector collects all drainage assessments provided for by this Act, the commissioners of the main district shall provide the county clerk of the county in which a district, subdistrict or minor subdistrict lies with a legal description of the boundaries of such district, subdistrict or minor subdistrict. Within 60 days of any change in such boundaries, the commissioner shall provide the county clerk with a legal description of the new boundaries. (Source: P.A. 81-983.)