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1 AN ACT concerning county officers.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by adding
5 Section 2-4006.5 as follows:
6 (55 ILCS 5/2-4006.5 new)
7 Sec. 2-4006.5. Commissioners in certain counties.
8 (a) If a county elects 3 commissioners at large under
9 Section 2-4006, registered voters of such county may, by a
10 vote of a majority of those voting on such proposition,
11 determine to increase the size of the board of county
12 commissioners to 5 members who shall be elected from single
13 member districts. In order for such question to be placed
14 upon the ballot, such petition must contain the signatures of
15 not fewer than 10% of the registered voters of such county.
16 The number of commissioners may not be increased and
17 commissioners may not be elected from single member districts
18 until the question of electing 5 commissioners from single
19 member districts has been submitted to the electors of the
20 county at a regular election and approved by a majority of
21 the electors voting on the question. The commissioners must
22 certify the question to the proper election authority, which
23 must submit the question at an election in accordance with
24 the Election Code.
25 The question must be in substantially the following form:
26 Shall the board of county commissioners of (name of
27 county) consist of 5 commissioners elected from single
28 member districts?
29 The votes must be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
30 If a majority of the electors voting on the question vote
31 in the affirmative, a 5-member board of county commissioners
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1 shall be established to be elected from single member
2 districts.
3 (b) If the voters of the county decide to elect 5
4 commissioners from single member districts, the General
5 Assembly shall, by law, on or before August 31 of the year
6 following the 2000 federal decennial census divide the county
7 into 5 compact and contiguous county commission districts
8 that are substantially equal in population. On or before May
9 31 of the year following each federal decennial census
10 thereafter, the board of county commissioners shall
11 reapportion the county commission districts to be compact,
12 contiguous, and substantially equal in population.
13 (c) The commissioners elected at large at or before the
14 general election in 2000 shall continue to serve until the
15 expiration of their terms. Of those commissioners, the
16 commissioner whose term expires in 2002 shall be assigned to
17 district 1; the commissioner whose term expires in 2004 shall
18 be assigned to district 2; and the commissioner whose term
19 expires in 2006 shall be assigned to district 3.
20 (d) At the general election in 2002, one commissioner
21 from each of districts 1, 4, and 5 shall be elected. At the
22 general election in 2004, one commissioner from each of
23 districts 1, 2, and 5 shall be elected. At the general
24 election in 2006, one commissioner from each of districts 2,
25 3, and 4 shall be elected. At the general election in 2008,
26 one commissioner from each of districts 1, 3, and 5 shall be
27 elected. At the general election in 2010, one commissioner
28 from each of districts 2 and 4 shall be elected. At the
29 general election in 2012, commissioners from each district
30 shall be elected. Thereafter, commissioners shall be elected
31 at each general election to fill expired terms.
32 In the year following the decennial census of 2010 and
33 every 10 years thereafter, the commissioners, publicly by
34 lot, shall divide the districts into 2 groups. One group of
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1 3 commissioners shall serve terms of 4 years, 4 years, and 2
2 years and one group of 2 commissioners shall serve terms of 2
3 years, 4 years, and 4 years.
4 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5 becoming law.
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