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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section
511-4.1 as follows:
 
6    (10 ILCS 5/11-4.1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1)
7    Sec. 11-4.1.
8    (a) In appointing polling places under this Article, the
9county board or board of election commissioners shall, insofar
10as they are convenient and available, use schools and other
11public buildings as polling places.
12    (b) Upon request of the county board or board of election
13commissioners, the proper agency of government (including
14school districts and units of local government) shall make a
15public building under its control available for use as a
16polling place on an election day and for a reasonably necessary
17time before and after election day, without charge. If the
18county board or board of election commissioners chooses a
19school to be a polling place, then the school district must
20make the school available for use as a polling place. However,
21for the day of the election, a school district is encouraged to
22(i) close the school or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that
23day with students not in attendance may choose to (i) keep the

 

 

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1school open or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that day.
2    (c) A government agency which makes a public building under
3its control available for use as a polling place shall (i)
4ensure the portion of the building to be used as the polling
5place is accessible to handicapped and elderly voters and (ii)
6allow the election authority to administer the election as
7authorized under this Code.
8    (d) If a qualified elector's precinct polling place is a
9school and the elector will be unable to enter that polling
10place without violating Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of
112012 because the elector is a child sex offender as defined in
12Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012, that elector may
13vote by absentee ballot in accordance with Article 19 of this
14Code or may vote early in accordance with Article 19A of this
15Code.
16(Source: P.A. 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)
 
17    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18becoming law.