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1 AN ACT concerning the Bi-State Development Agency.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Bi-State Development Agency Act is
5 amended by changing Sections 2 and 3 as follows:
6 (45 ILCS 105/2) (from Ch. 127, par. 63s-2)
7 Sec. 2. (a) Of the Commissioners first appointed one
8 shall be appointed to serve for a term of one year, one for
9 two years, one for three years, one for four years and one
10 for five years from the third Monday in January following his
11 appointment. Beginning with the appointment to be filled in
12 January of 2004, and the expiration of each term of each
13 commissioner thereafter, and each succeeding commissioner
14 thereafter, the Chairman of the County Board of the County of
15 Madison or the County of St. Clair, as the case may be,
16 shall, by and with the advice and consent of the respective
17 County Board At the expiration of the term of each
18 commissioner and of each succeeding commissioner, the
19 governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the
20 Senate, appoint a successor who shall hold office for a term
21 of five years. Each commissioner shall hold office until his
22 successor has been appointed and qualified. The commissioners
23 shall elect a chairman of the Illinois delegation annually
24 from among themselves One Commissioner shall be designated as
25 chairman of the Illinois delegation.
26 (b) The Chairman of the County Board of St. Clair County
27 shall appoint a commissioner for the term expiring in
28 January, 2004 and in the following year the Chairman of the
29 County Board of Madison County shall appoint a commissioner
30 for the term expiring in January of that year. Successive
31 appointments shall alternate between the Chairman of the St.
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1 Clair County Board and the Chairman of the Madison County
2 Board, except as may be modified by the provisions of
3 subsection (c).
4 (c) In the event that a tax has been imposed in Monroe
5 County consistent with the provisions of Section 5.01 of the
6 Local Mass Transit District Act, the Chairman of the Monroe
7 County Board shall, upon the expiration of the term of a
8 commissioner who is a resident of the County in which 3 of
9 the then remaining commissioners reside, appoint a
10 commissioner with the advice and consent of the Monroe County
11 Board. The commissioner appointed by the Monroe County Board
12 shall hold office for a term of 5 years and a successor shall
13 be appointed by the chairman of the Monroe County Board, with
14 the advice and consent of the Monroe County Board. The
15 appointments of the 4 remaining commissioners shall then
16 continue to alternate between St. Clair and Madison County so
17 that each County shall continue to retain the appointments of
18 2 commissioners. To the extent that this subsection (c)
19 conflicts with any other provision of this Section or Section
20 3, the provisions of this subsection (c) control.
21 (Source: Laws 1949, p. 448.)
22 (45 ILCS 105/3) (from Ch. 127, par. 63s-3)
23 Sec. 3. Vacancies occurring in the office of any
24 commissioner shall be filled by appointment by the Chairman
25 of the County Board that made the original appointment of
26 that commissioner, with the advice and consent of the
27 respective county board Governor, by and with the advice and
28 consent of the Senate, for the unexpired term. Any vacancies
29 occurring during the transition for the implementation of
30 this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly that were
31 appointed by the Governor, and not by the respective County
32 Board Chairmen, shall be filled by the appointment by the
33 County Board Chairman of Madison County if occurring in the
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1 years 2004, 2006, or 2008 or by the County Board Chairman of
2 St. Clair County if occurring in the years 2005 or 2007, each
3 with the advice and consent of the respective county board.
4 In any case of vacancy, while the Senate is not in session,
5 the Governor shall make a temporary appointment until the
6 next meeting of the Senate, when he shall nominate some
7 person to fill such office.
8 (Source: Laws 1949, p. 448.)