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91_HB0887

 
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Election  Code  by  changing  Section
 2    28-3.

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

 5        Section 5.  The Election  Code  is  amended  by  changing
 6    Section 28-3 as follows:

 7        (10 ILCS 5/28-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 28-3)
 8        Sec.   28-3.  Petitions  for  the  submission  of  public
 9    questions shall consist of sheets of uniform  size  and  each
10    sheet  shall  contain,  above  the  space  for  signature, an
11    appropriate  heading,  giving  the  information  as  to   the
12    question of public policy to be submitted, and specifying the
13    state  at  large  or the political subdivision or district or
14    precinct or combination of precincts or  other  territory  in
15    which  it  is  to  be  submitted and, where by law the public
16    question must be submitted  at  a  particular  election,  the
17    election  at  which  it  is to be submitted. In the case of a
18    petition for the submission of a public question described in
19    subsection (b)  of  Section  28-6,  the  heading  shall  also
20    specify  the  regular election at which the question is to be
21    submitted and include the precincts included in the territory
22    concerning which the public question is to be  submitted,  as
23    well  as  a common description of such territory in plain and
24    nonlegal language, such description to describe the territory
25    by reference to streets,  natural  or  artificial  landmarks,
26    addresses  or  any  other  method  which would enable a voter
27    signing  the  petition  to  be  informed  of  the   territory
28    concerning  which  the  question  is  to  be  submitted.  The
29    heading of each sheet shall be the same. Such petition  shall
30    be   signed   by  the  registered  voters  of  the  political
31    subdivision  or  district  or  precinct  or  combination   of
 
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 1    precincts  in  which  the  question of public policy is to be
 2    submitted in their own proper persons only, and opposite  the
 3    signature  of  each  signer  his  residence  address shall be
 4    written or printed, which residence address shall include the
 5    street address or rural route number of the  signer,  as  the
 6    case  may  be, as well as the signer's city, village or town;
 7    provided that the county or city, village or town, and  state
 8    of  residence of such electors may be printed on the petition
 9    forms where all of the such  electors  signing  the  petition
10    reside  in  the  same  county  or  city, village or town, and
11    state.  Standard abbreviations may be  used  in  writing  the
12    residence  address,  including  street  number,  if  any.  No
13    signature  shall  be  valid  or be counted in considering the
14    validity  or  sufficiency  of  such   petition   unless   the
15    requirements of this Section are complied with.
16        At  the  bottom  of  each sheet of such petition shall be
17    added a statement, signed by a registered voter, who has been
18    a registered voter at all times  he  or  she  circulated  the
19    petition,   of  the  political  subdivision  or  district  or
20    precinct or combination of precincts in which the question of
21    public policy is to be submitted, stating the street  address
22    or  rural  route  number of the voter, as the case may be, as
23    well as the voter's city, village or  town,  certifying  that
24    the  signatures  on that sheet of the petition were signed in
25    his presence and are genuine, and that to  the  best  of  his
26    knowledge  and belief the persons so signing were at the time
27    of signing the petition registered voters  of  the  political
28    subdivision   or  district  or  precinct  or  combination  of
29    precincts in which the question of public  policy  is  to  be
30    submitted  and that their respective residences are correctly
31    stated therein. Such statement shall be sworn to before  some
32    officer authorized to administer oaths in this State.
33        Such  sheets,  before being filed with the proper officer
34    or board shall be bound securely and numbered  consecutively.
 
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 1    The sheets shall not be fastened by pasting them together end
 2    to  end,  so  as  to  form  a  continuous strip or roll.  All
 3    petition  sheets  which  are  filed  with  the  proper  local
 4    election officials, election authorities or the  State  Board
 5    of  Elections  shall  be  the original sheets which have been
 6    signed  by  the  voters  and  by  the  circulator,  and   not
 7    photocopies  or  duplicates of such sheets.  A petition, when
 8    presented or filed, shall not be withdrawn, altered, or added
 9    to, and no signature shall be revoked except by revocation in
10    writing presented or filed with the  board  or  officer  with
11    whom  the  petition is required to be presented or filed, and
12    before the presentment or filing of such petition, except  as
13    may  otherwise be provided in another statute which authorize
14    the public question. Whoever forges any name of a signer upon
15    any petition shall be deemed guilty  of  a  forgery,  and  on
16    conviction thereof, shall be punished accordingly.
17        In  addition  to  the  foregoing requirements, a petition
18    proposing an amendment to  Article  IV  of  the  Constitution
19    pursuant to Section 3 of Article XIV of the Constitution or a
20    petition   proposing  a  question  of  public  policy  to  be
21    submitted to the voters of  the  entire  State  shall  be  in
22    conformity  with  the  requirements  of  Section 28-9 of this
23    Article.
24        If multiple sets of petitions for submission of the  same
25    public  questions  are  filed,  the State Board of Elections,
26    appropriate election authority  or  local  election  official
27    where  the  petitions  are filed shall within 2 business days
28    notify the proponent of his or her multiple petition  filings
29    and  that  proponent has 3 business days after receipt of the
30    notice to notify the State Board  of  Elections,  appropriate
31    election  authority or local election official that he or she
32    may cancel  prior  sets  of  petitions.    If  the  proponent
33    notifies  the  State Board of Elections, appropriate election
34    authority  or  local  election  official,  the  last  set  of
 
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 1    petitions filed shall be the only petitions to be  considered
 2    valid  by  the State Board of Elections, appropriate election
 3    authority or local election official.  If the proponent fails
 4    to notify the State Board of Elections, appropriate  election
 5    authority  or local election official then only the first set
 6    of  petitions  filed  shall  be  valid  and  all   subsequent
 7    petitions shall be void.
 8    (Source: P.A. 86-867; 87-1052.)

 9        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
10    becoming law.

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