SB0923 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB0923

Introduced 2/7/2017, by Sen. Melinda Bush

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

50 ILCS 110/1	from Ch. 102, par. 4.10
50 ILCS 110/2	from Ch. 102, par. 4.11
50 ILCS 110/3	from Ch. 102, par. 4.12

Amends the Public Officer Simultaneous Tenure Act. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to simultaneously hold the office of county board member and township supervisor or township trustee (currently, it is lawful to be a county board member and a township supervisor and, in counties of less than 100,000 population, a county board member and township trustee). Provides that it is unlawful (currently, lawful) for any person to simultaneously hold the office of a county board member and a township assessor or town clerk. Validates lawful actions of individuals who were previously allowed to simultaneously hold specified offices before the effective date of this amendatory Act.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Public Officer Simultaneous Tenure Act is amended by changing Sections 1, 2, and 3 as follows:

(50 ILCS 110/1) (from Ch. 102, par. 4.10)

Sec. 1. Legislative findings; purpose). The General Assembly finds and declares that questions raised regarding the legality of simultaneously holding the office of county board member and township supervisor are warranted unwarranted, and in counties of less than 100,000 population such questions regarding the legality of simultaneously holding the office of county board member and township trustee are unwarranted; that the General Assembly viewed the office of township supervisor, and in counties of less than 100,000 population the office of township trustee, and the office of county board member as incompatible compatible; and that to settle the question of legality and avoid confusion among such counties and townships as may be affected by such questions it is unlawful lawful to hold the office of county board member simultaneously with the office of township supervisor or , and in counties of less than 100,000 population with the office of township trustee, in accordance with this Act.

(Source: P.A. 82-554.)

(50 ILCS 110/2) (from Ch. 102, par. 4.11)

Sec. 2. Simultaneous tenure declared to be unlawful lawful. It is unlawful lawful for any person to hold the office of county board member and township supervisor or , and in counties of less than 100,000 population the office of county board member and township trustee, simultaneously. It is also unlawful lawful for any person to hold the office of county board member and the office of township assessor or town clerk, simultaneously, in counties of less than 300,000 population.

(Source: P.A. 90-748, eff. 8-14-98.)

(50 ILCS 110/3) (from Ch. 102, par. 4.12)

Sec. 3. All actions of persons that this Act applied to before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly such person, as township supervisor, in counties of less than 100,000 population as township trustee, or county board member after December 1, 1974, which were are otherwise in accordance with law, are hereby validated for actions that occurred on or before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly. However, any actions in in violation of the provisions of this Act after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly are unlawful.

(Source: P.A. 82-554.)