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Public Act 096-1283
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| HB6380 Enrolled | LRB096 21001 RLJ 36845 b |
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AN ACT concerning local government.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Joliet Regional Port District Act is amended |
by changing Sections 14, 15, 16, and 18 as follows:
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(70 ILCS 1825/14) (from Ch. 19, par. 264) |
Sec. 14. Board; compensation. The governing and |
administrative body of the Port District shall
be a Board |
consisting of 10 9 members, to be known as the Joliet Regional |
Port
District Board. All members of the Board shall be |
residents of Will County.
The members of the Board shall serve |
without compensation but shall be
reimbursed for actual |
expenses incurred by them in the performance of their
duties. |
However, any member of the Board who is appointed to the office |
of
secretary or treasurer may receive compensation for his or |
her services as such
officer. No member of the Board or |
employee of the District shall have any
private financial |
interest, profit or benefit in any contract, work or
business |
of the District nor in the sale or lease of any property to or
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from the District. |
(Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)
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(70 ILCS 1825/15) (from Ch. 19, par. 265) |
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Sec. 15. Appointment of Board. Within 60 days after this |
Act becomes effective the Governor, by
and with the advice and |
consent of the Senate shall appoint 3 members of
the Board who |
reside within the District outside the corporate boundaries
of |
the City city of Joliet for initial terms expiring June 1st of |
the years
1959, 1961, and 1963, respectively, and the Mayor, |
with the advice and
consent of the City Council of the City of |
Joliet, shall appoint 3 members
of the Board who reside within |
the City of Joliet for initial terms
expiring June 1st of the |
years 1958, 1960, and 1962, respectively. Of the 3
members each |
appointed by the Governor and the Mayor not more than 2 shall
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be affiliated with the same political party at the time of |
appointment. Beginning with the first appointment made by the |
Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, after the |
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General |
Assembly, the Governor must appoint members who reside within |
the District outside the corporate boundaries of the City of |
Joliet and the Village of Romeoville. Within 60 days after the |
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General |
Assembly, the County Executive of Will County, with the advice |
and consent of the County Board, shall appoint 3 members of the |
Board for terms expiring June 1st of 2008, 2010, and 2012, |
respectively. Within 60 days after the effective date of this |
amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, the President of |
the Village of Romeoville, with the advice and consent of the |
corporate authorities of the Village of Romeoville, shall |
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appoint one member of the Board who resides within the Village |
of Romeoville for an initial term expiring June 1st of 2016. |
At the expiration of the term of any member, his or her |
successor shall be
appointed by the Governor, Mayor, President |
of the Village of Romeoville, or County Executive of Will |
County in like
manner and with like regard to political party |
affiliation and place of
residence of the appointee, as |
appointments for the initial terms. |
All successors shall hold office for the term of 6 years |
from the first
day of June of the year in which the term of |
office commences, except in
the case of an appointment to fill |
a vacancy. In case of vacancy in the
office of any member |
appointed by the Governor during the recess of the
Senate, the |
Governor shall make a temporary appointment until the next
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meeting of the Senate when he or she shall nominate some person |
to fill such
office; and any person so nominated, who is |
confirmed by the Senate, shall
hold his or her office during |
the remainder of the term and until his or her successor
shall |
be appointed and qualified. If the Senate is not in session at |
the
time this Act takes effect, the Governor shall make |
temporary appointments
as in case of vacancies. The Governor, |
the Mayor, the President of the Village of Romeoville, and the |
County Executive shall certify their respective appointments |
to the
Secretary of State. Within 30 days after certification |
of his or her appointment,
and before entering upon the duties |
of his or her office, each member of the Board
shall take and |
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subscribe the constitutional oath of office and file it in
the |
office of the Secretary of State. |
(Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)
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(70 ILCS 1825/16) (from Ch. 19, par. 266) |
Sec. 16. Removal and vacancies. Members of the Board shall |
hold office until their respective
successors have been |
appointed and qualified. Any member may resign from
his or her |
office to take effect when his or her successor has been |
appointed and has
qualified. The Governor, the Mayor, the |
President of the Village of Romeoville, and the County |
Executive of Will County, respectively, may remove any member |
of the Board they
have appointed in case of incompetency, |
neglect of duty, or malfeasance in
office. They shall give such |
member a copy of the charges against him or her and
an |
opportunity to be publicly heard in person or by counsel in his |
or her own
defense upon not less than ten days' notice. In case |
of failure to qualify
within the time required, or of |
abandonment of his or her office, or in case of
death, |
conviction of a felony or removal from office, the office of |
such
member shall become vacant. Each vacancy shall be filled |
for the unexpired
term by appointment in like manner as in case |
of expiration of the term of
a member of the Board. |
(Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)
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(70 ILCS 1825/18) (from Ch. 19, par. 268) |
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Sec. 18. Board meetings; quorum; veto. Regular meetings of |
the Board shall be held at least once in each
calendar month, |
the time and place of such meetings to be fixed by the
Board. |
Six Five members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the
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transaction of business. All action of the Board shall be by |
ordinances or
resolution and the affirmative vote of at least 6 |
5 members shall be
necessary for the adoption of any ordinance |
or resolution. All such
ordinances and resolutions before |
taking effect shall be approved by the
chairman of the Board, |
and if he or she approves thereof he or she shall sign the |
same,
and such as he or she does not approve he or she shall |
return to the Board with his
or her objections thereto in |
writing at the next regular meeting of the Board
occurring |
after the passage thereof. But in the case the chairman fails |
to
return any ordinance or resolution with his or her |
objections thereto by the time
aforesaid, he or she shall be |
deemed to have approved the same and it shall take
effect |
accordingly. Upon the return of any ordinance or resolution by |
the
chairman with his or her objections, the vote by which the |
same was passed shall
be reconsidered by the Board, and if upon |
such reconsideration said
ordinance or resolution is passed by |
the affirmative vote of at least 7 6
members, it shall go into |
effect notwithstanding the veto of the chairman.
All |
ordinances, resolutions and all proceedings of the District and |
all
documents and records in its possession shall be public |
records, and open
to public inspection, except such documents |