98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB4968

 

Introduced , by Rep. Jim Durkin

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/2-1001  from Ch. 34, par. 2-1001

    Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning board meetings.


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A BILL FOR

 

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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 Counties Code is amended by changing Section
52-1001 as follows:
 
6    (55 ILCS 5/2-1001)  (from Ch. 34, par. 2-1001)
7    Sec. 2-1001. Regular meetings. Regular and and special
8meetings of the county board may be held in any public building
9located within the county that such county board is elected to
10serve. Prior notice of the building selected for the meeting
11shall be provided by the board chairman to each member of the
12county board in the manner provided pursuant to the rules of
13the county board. Regular meetings of the board shall be held
14in June and September, and at such other times as may be
15determined by the board.
16    At each regular and special meeting which is open to the
17public, members of the public and employees of the county shall
18be afforded time, subject to reasonable constraints, to comment
19to or ask questions of the board.
20(Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1028.)