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1 AN ACT to amend the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
2 District Act by changing Section 3.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
6 Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
7 (70 ILCS 2605/3) (from Ch. 42, par. 322)
8 Sec. 3. Election of trustees. The corporate authority
9 of the Sanitary District of Chicago shall consist of nine
10 trustees. Such trustees shall be elected for staggered terms
11 at the election provided by the general election law. Three
12 trustees shall be elected at each such election to succeed
13 the 3 trustees whose terms expire in such year.
14 Such trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday
15 after the first Monday in the month following the month of
16 their election and shall hold their offices for six years and
17 until their successors shall be elected and qualified. In all
18 elections for trustees each elector may vote for as many
19 candidates as there are trustees to be elected, but no
20 elector may give to such candidates more than one vote, it
21 being the intent and purpose of this Act to prohibit
22 cumulative voting in the selection of members of the board of
23 the sanitary district.
24 The election of trustees shall be in accordance with the
25 provisions of the general election law.
26 By reason of the importance and character of the services
27 performed by the sanitary district, there is a great need and
28 it is in the public interest that such services be performed
29 in as near a non-partisan character as possible.
30 When a vacancy exists in the office of trustees of any
31 sanitary district organized under the provisions hereof, the
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1 vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Governor until
2 the next regular election at which trustees of the Sanitary
3 District of Chicago are elected, and thereafter until a
4 successor shall be elected and qualified.
5 Such sanitary district shall from the time of the first
6 election held by it under this Act be construed in all courts
7 to be a body corporate and politic, and by the name and style
8 of the sanitary district of...., and by such name and style
9 may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, acquire
10 and hold real estate and personal property necessary for
11 corporate purposes, and adopt a common seal and alter the
12 same at pleasure.
13 The board of trustees shall have the power to change the
14 name of the Sanitary District of Chicago by ordinance and
15 public notice without impairing the legal status of acts
16 theretofore performed by said district. Thereafter any and
17 all references to the Sanitary District of Chicago in this
18 Act or otherwise shall mean and include the name under which
19 such sanitary district is then operating. No rights, duties
20 or privilege of such a sanitary district, or those of any
21 person, existing before the change of name shall be affected
22 by a change, in the name of a sanitary district. All
23 proceedings pending in any court in favor of or against such
24 sanitary district may continue to final consummation under
25 the name in which they were commenced.
26 (Source: P.A. 83-345.)
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