Public Act 100-0351
 
HB0776 EnrolledLRB100 05662 AWJ 15679 b


  
    AN ACT concerning local government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Park District Code is amended  by changing 
Section 2-10a as follows:
 



    (70 ILCS 1205/2-10a)  (from Ch. 105, par. 2-10a)



    Sec. 2-10a. 
Any district may provide by referendum, or by 
resolution of
the board, that the board shall be comprised of 7 
commissioners.  Any such
referendum shall be initiated and held 
in the same manner as is provided
by the general election law.

    If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition is in 
favor of the 7-member
board, or if the board adopts a 
resolution stating that it is acting pursuant
to this Section 
in order to create a 7-member board, then whichever of the

following transition schedules are appropriate shall be 
applied:  At the
election of commissioners next following by at 
least 60 days the date on
which the proposition to create a 
7-member board was approved at referendum
or by resolution, the 
number of commissioners to be elected shall be 2 more
than the 
number that would otherwise have been elected. If this results

in the election, pursuant to Section 2-12 of this Act, of 4 
commissioners
at that election, one of the 4, to be determined 
by lot within 30 days after
the  election, shall serve for a 
term of 4 years or 2 years as the case
may be, instead of 6 
years, so that his term will expire in the same year
in which 
the term of only one of the incumbent commissioners expires.

Thereafter
all commissioners shall be elected for 6-year terms 
as provided in Section
2-12. If the creation of a 7-member 
board results in the election of either
3 or 4 commissioners, 
pursuant to Section 2-12a of this Act, at that election,
2 of 
them, to
be determined by lot within 30 days after the 
election, shall serve for
terms of 2 years instead of 4 years. 
Thereafter all commissioners shall
be elected for 4-year terms 
as provided in Section 2-12a of this Act.

    In any district where a 7-member board has been created 
pursuant to this
Section whether by referendum or by 
resolution, the number of commissioners
may later be reduced to 
5, but only by a referendum initiated and held in
the same 
manner as prescribed in this Section for creating a 7-member 
board.
No proposition to reduce the number of commissioners 
shall affect the terms
of any commissioners holding office at 
the time of the referendum or to
be elected within 60 days of 
the referendum. If a majority of the votes cast on the 
proposition is in favor of reducing a 7-member board to a 
5-member board, then, at the election of commissioners next 
following by at least 60 days the date on which the proposition 
was approved at referendum, the number of commissioners to be 
elected shall be 2 less than the number that would otherwise 
have been elected and whichever of the following transition 
schedules are appropriate shall be applied: (i) if this results 
in the election of no commissioners for a 6-year term pursuant 
to Section 2-12 of this Act, then at the next election in which 
3 commissioners are scheduled to be elected to 6-year terms as 
provided in Section 2-12, one of the 3, to be determined by lot 
within 30 days after the election, shall serve for a term of 4 
years or 2 years, as the case may be, instead of 6 years, so 
that his or her term will expire in the same year in which the 
term of no incumbent commissioner is scheduled to expire; 
thereafter, all commissioners shall be elected for 6-year terms 
as provided in Section 2-12; or (ii) if the reduction to a 
5-member board results in the election of one commissioner to a 
4-year term, pursuant to Section 2-12a of this Act, then at the 
next election in which 4 commissioners are scheduled to be 
elected to 4-year terms as provided in Section 2-12a, one of 
the 4, to be determined by lot within 30 days after the 
election, shall serve for a term of 2 years, instead of 4 
years, so that his or her term will expire in the same year in 
which the term of only one incumbent commissioner is scheduled 
to expire; thereafter, all commissioners shall be elected for 
4-year terms as provided in Section 2-12a. 

(Source: P.A. 81-1490.)

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