The Department of Agriculture shall examine the petition and if it finds that the petition bears the requisite number of signatures and otherwise meets the requirements of sections 2-2428 to 2-2449, it shall fix a time and place for hearing upon such petition and cause notice thereof to be given to all persons having any interest in the organization of the proposed district by publication once in each of the counties lying wholly or partly within the proposed district in a legal newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in such counties. Such notice shall state (1) the fact of filing of the petition;
(2) in summary form, the information required by subsection
(1) of section 2-2430 to be included in the petition;
(3) the purpose of the formation of such proposed district;
(4) the time and place of hearing such petition; and
(5) the purpose of such hearing. Such hearing shall be held at such time and place as designated by the department, not less than twenty days nor more than forty days after the filing of the petition.
