96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1616

 

Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Patrick J Verschoore

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/3-9001   from Ch. 34, par. 3-9001

    Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the bond and oath required of a State's attorney before taking office.


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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,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
5 3-9001 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/3-9001)  (from Ch. 34, par. 3-9001)
7     Sec. 3-9001. Oath; bond. Before entering upon the the
8 respective duties of their office, the state's attorneys shall
9 each be commissioned by the governor, and shall take the
10 following oath or affirmation:
11     I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be), that I
12 will support the constitution of the United States and the
13 constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will
14 faithfully discharge the duties of the office of state's
15 attorney according to the best of my ability.
16     Each State's attorney shall also execute a bond, to the
17 People of the State of Illinois, (or, if the county is
18 self-insured, the county through its self-insurance program
19 may provide bonding) with good and sufficient securities in the
20 penal sum of $5,000, to be approved by the circuit court for
21 his respective county, which approval shall be indorsed upon
22 the bond. The bond, with the approval thereof indorsed, shall
23 be entered of record in the circuit court, and then forwarded

 

 

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1 by the county clerk to the secretary of state, to be filed in
2 his office. Each of the bonds shall be conditioned upon the
3 faithful discharge of the duties of the office, and the paying
4 over all moneys as provided by law, which bond shall run to and
5 be for the benefit of the state, county, corporation or person
6 injured by a breach of any of the conditions thereof.
7 (Source: P.A. 88-387.)