104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB4278
 
Introduced 1/14/2026, by Rep. Rita Mayfield
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
70 ILCS 1205/2-25  from Ch. 105, par. 2-25
    Amends the Park District Code. Provides that, when the office of a member of the governing board of a park district may be declared vacant, the office is not vacant until the office is declared vacant at a meeting of the members of the board. Provides that the amendatory changes are declaratory of existing law.


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A BILL FOR
 
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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Park District Code is amended by changing 
5Section 2-25 as follows:
 
6    (70 ILCS 1205/2-25)  (from Ch. 105, par. 2-25)
7    Sec. 2-25. Vacancies. Whenever any member of the governing 
8board of any park district (i) dies, (ii) resigns, (iii) 
9becomes under legal disability, (iv) ceases to be a legal 
10voter in the district, (v) is convicted in any court located in 
11the United States of any infamous crime, bribery, perjury, or 
12other felony, (vi) refuses or neglects to take his or her oath 
13of office, (vii) neglects to perform the duties of his or her 
14office or attend meetings of the board for the length of time 
15as the board fixes by ordinance, or (viii) for any other reason 
16specified by law, that office may be declared vacant. However, 
17the office is not vacant until the office is declared vacant at 
18a meeting of the members of the board. Vacancies shall be 
19filled by appointment by a majority of the remaining members 
20of the board. Any person so appointed shall hold his or her 
21office until the next regular election for this office, at 
22which a member shall be elected to fill the vacancy for the 
23unexpired term, subject to the following conditions:
 
 
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1        (1) If the vacancy occurs with less than 28 months 
2    remaining in the term, the person appointed to fill the 
3    vacancy shall hold his or her office until the expiration 
4    of the term for which he or she has been appointed, and no 
5    election to fill the vacancy shall be held.
6        (2) If the vacancy occurs with more than 28 months 
7    left in the term, but less than 151 days before the next 
8    regularly scheduled election for this office, the person 
9    appointed to fill the vacancy shall hold his or her office 
10    until the second regularly scheduled election for the 
11    office following the appointment, at which a member shall 
12    be elected to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term.
13    The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 104th 
14General Assembly are declaratory of existing law. 
15(Source: P.A. 104-434, eff. 11-21-25.)