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Full Text of HB0169  100th General Assembly

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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 Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act is
5amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6    (50 ILCS 105/1)  (from Ch. 102, par. 1)
7    Sec. 1. County board. No member of a county board, during
8the term of office for which he or she is elected, may be
9appointed to, accept, or hold any office other than (i)
10chairman of the county board or member of the regional planning
11commission by appointment or election of the board of which he
12or she is a member, (ii) alderman of a city or member of the
13board of trustees of a village or incorporated town if the
14city, village, or incorporated town has fewer than 1,000
15inhabitants and is located in a county having fewer than 50,000
16inhabitants, or (iii) trustee of a forest preserve district
17created under Section 18.5 of the Conservation District Act,
18unless he or she first resigns from the office of county board
19member or unless the holding of another office is authorized by
20law. Any such prohibited appointment or election is void. This
21Section shall not preclude a member of the county board from
22being appointed or selected to serve as (i) selected or from
23serving as a member of a County Extension Board as provided in

 

 

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1Section 7 of the County Cooperative Extension Law, (ii) as a
2member of an Emergency Telephone System Board as provided in
3Section 15.4 of the Emergency Telephone System Act, (iii) a
4member or as appointed members of the board of review as
5provided in Section 6-30 of the Property Tax Code, or (iv) a
6public administrator or public guardian as provided in Section
713-1 of the Probate Act of 1975. Nothing in this Act shall be
8construed to prohibit an elected county official from holding
9elected office in another unit of local government so long as
10there is no contractual relationship between the county and the
11other unit of local government. This amendatory Act of 1995 is
12declarative of existing law and is not a new enactment.
13(Source: P.A. 94-617, eff. 8-18-05.)
 
14    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
15becoming law.