99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB3179

 

Introduced , by Rep. John E. Bradley

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/2-4006.5

    Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning commissioners in certain counties.


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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 Counties Code is amended by changing Section
52-4006.5 as follows:
 
6    (55 ILCS 5/2-4006.5)
7    Sec. 2-4006.5. Commissioners in certain counties.
8    (a) If a county elects 3 commissioners at large under
9Section 2-4006, registered voters of such county may, by a vote
10of a majority of those voting on such proposition, determine to
11change the method of electing the board of county commissioners
12by electing either 3 or 5 members from single member districts.
13In order for such question to be placed upon the ballot, such
14petition must contain the signatures of not fewer than 10% of
15the the registered voters of such county.
16    Commissioners may not be elected from single member
17districts until the question of electing either 3 or 5
18commissioners from single member districts has been submitted
19to the electors of the county at a regular election and
20approved by a majority of the electors voting on the question.
21The commissioners must certify the question to the proper
22election authority, which must submit the question at an
23election in accordance with the Election Code.

 

 

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1    The question must be in substantially the following form:
2        Shall the board of county commissioners of (name of
3    county) consist of (insert either 3 or 5) commissioners
4    elected from single member districts?
5The votes must be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
6    If a majority of the electors voting on the question vote
7in the affirmative, a 3-member or 5-member board of county
8commissioners, as the case may be, shall be established to be
9elected from single member districts.
10    (b) If the voters of the county decide to elect either 3 or
115 commissioners from single member districts, the board of
12county commissioners shall on or before August 31 of the year
13following the 2000 federal decennial census divide the county
14into either 3 or 5 compact and contiguous county commission
15districts that are substantially equal in population. On or
16before May 31 of the year following each federal decennial
17census thereafter, the board of county commissioners shall
18reapportion the county commission districts to be compact,
19contiguous, and substantially equal in population.
20    (c) The commissioners elected at large at or before the
21general election in 2000 shall continue to serve until the
22expiration of their terms. Of those commissioners, the
23commissioner whose term expires in 2002 shall be assigned to
24district 1; the commissioner whose term expires in 2004 shall
25be assigned to district 2; and the commissioner whose term
26expires in 2006 shall be assigned to district 3.

 

 

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1    (d) If the voters of the county decide to elect 5
2commissioners from single member districts, at the general
3election in 2002, one commissioner from and residing in each of
4districts 1, 4, and 5 shall be elected. At the general election
5in 2004, one commissioner from and residing in each of
6districts 1, 2, and 5 shall be elected. At the general election
7in 2006, one commissioner from and residing in each of
8districts 2, 3, and 4 shall be elected. At the general election
9in 2008, one commissioner from and residing in each of
10districts 1, 3, and 5 shall be elected. At the general election
11in 2010, one commissioner from each of districts 2 and 4 shall
12be elected. At the general election in 2012, commissioners from
13and residing in each district shall be elected. Thereafter,
14commissioners shall be elected at each general election to fill
15expired terms. Each commissioner must reside in the district
16that he or she represents from the time that he or she files
17his or her nomination papers until his or her term expires.
18    In the year following the decennial census of 2010 and
19every 10 years thereafter, the commissioners, publicly by lot,
20shall divide the districts into 2 groups. One group shall serve
21terms of 4 years, 4 years, and 2 years and one group shall
22serve terms of 2 years, 4 years, and 4 years.
23(Source: P.A. 91-846, eff. 6-22-00; 92-189, eff. 8-1-01.)