Public Act 100-0298
 
HB0512 EnrolledLRB100 07686 MLM 17752 b


  
    AN ACT concerning elections.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  


 
 
    Section 5. The Election Code is amended  by changing Section 
12-5 as follows:
 



    (10 ILCS 5/12-5)  (from Ch. 46, par. 12-5)



    Sec. 12-5. Notice for public questions. For all elections 
held after July
1, 1999, notice of public
questions shall be 
required only as set forth in this
Section or as set forth in 
Section 17-3 or 19-3 of the School Code.  Not
more than 60
30 
days nor less than 10 days before the date of a
regular 
election at which a public question is to be submitted to the 
voters of
a political or governmental subdivision, and at least 
20 days before an
emergency referendum, the election authority 
shall publish notice of the
referendum.  The notice shall be 
published once in a local, community newspaper
having general 
circulation in the political or governmental subdivision.  The

notice shall also be given at least 10 days before the date of 
the election by
posting a copy of the notice at the principal 
office of the election
authority.  The local election official 
shall also post a copy of the notice at
the principal office of 
the political or governmental
subdivision, or if there is no 
principal office at the building in which the
governing body of 
the political or governmental subdivision held its first

meeting of the calendar year in which the referendum is being 
held.  The
election authority and the political or governmental 
subdivision may, but are
not required to, post the notice 
electronically on their World Wide Web pages.
The notice, which 
shall appear over the name or title of the election
authority, 
shall be substantially in the following form:


        NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the election to be held 
    on
(insert day of the week),
(insert date of election), the 
    following proposition will be
submitted to the voters of 
    (name of political or governmental subdivision):


    (insert the public question as it will appear on the 
    ballot)


        The polls at the election will be open at 6:00 o'clock 
    A.M. and will
continue to be open until 7:00 o'clock P.M. 
    of that day.


        Dated (date of notice)


        (Name or title of the election authority)

The notice shall also include any additional information 
required by the statute authorizing the public question.  The 
notice may include an explanation, in neutral and plain 
language, of the question and its purposes supplied by the 
governing body of the political or governmental subdivision to 
whose voters the question is to be submitted. The notice shall 
set forth the
precincts and polling places at which the 
referendum will be conducted only in
the case of emergency 
referenda.

(Source: P.A. 92-6, eff. 6-7-01; 93-847, eff. 7-30-04.)