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Public Act 096-1263
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| HB4821 Enrolled | LRB096 16468 JAM 31738 b |
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AN ACT concerning elections.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section |
9-15 as follows:
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(10 ILCS 5/9-15) (from Ch. 46, par. 9-15) |
Sec. 9-15. It shall be the duty of the Board- |
(1) to develop prescribed forms for notice to political |
committees of
their obligations under this Article and for |
identification of persons
examining statements or reports |
filed under this Article, and to supply
such forms, and the |
forms for filing statements of organization and required |
reports , reports of
campaign contributions, and annual reports |
of campaign contributions and
expenditures to the appropriate |
persons and election authorities; |
(2) to prepare, publish, and furnish to the appropriate |
persons and
election authorities a manual of instructions |
setting forth recommended
uniform methods of bookkeeping and |
reporting under this Article; |
(3) to prescribe suitable rules and regulations to carry |
out the
provisions of this Article. Such rules and regulations |
shall be published
and made available to the public at |
reasonable cost. The Board may
determine which of its |
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prescribed rules and regulations shall be binding on
the county |
clerks in carrying out their duties under this Article; |
(4) to send by first class mail, after the general primary |
election in
even numbered years, to the chairman of each |
regularly constituted
State central committee, county central |
committee and, in counties with a
population of more than |
3,000,000, to the committeemen of each township and
ward |
organization of each political party notice of their |
obligations under
this Article, along with a form for filing |
the statement of organization; . |
(5) to promptly make all reports and statements filed under |
this Article available for public inspection and copying no |
later than 2 business days after their receipt and to permit |
copying of any such report or statement at the expense of the |
person requesting the copy; |
(6) to develop a filing, coding, and cross-indexing system |
consistent with the purposes of this Article; |
(7) to compile and maintain a list of all statements or |
parts of statements pertaining to each candidate; |
(8) to prepare and publish such reports as the Board may |
deem appropriate; and |
(9) to annually notify each political committee that has |
filed a statement of organization with the Board of the filing |
dates for each quarterly report, provided that such |
notification shall be made by first-class mail unless the |
political committee opts to receive notification |