HB6380eng 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB6380 Engrossed LRB096 21001 RLJ 36845 b

AN ACT concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Joliet Regional Port District Act is amended by changing Sections 14, 15, 16, and 18 as follows:

(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 from the District.

(Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)

(70 ILCS 1825/15) (from Ch. 19, par. 265)

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 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 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 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 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.)

(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.)

(70 ILCS 1825/18) (from Ch. 19, par. 268)

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 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 and records as are kept or prepared by the Board for use in negotiations, legal actions or proceedings to which the District is a party.

(Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.