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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 2-17.5 as follows:
 
6    (70 ILCS 1205/2-17.5)
7    Sec. 2-17.5. Fox Valley Park District.
8    (a) The Fox Valley Pleasure Driveway and Park District is
9reorganized by operation of law as the Fox Valley Park District
10under this Code on July 16, 2014 (the effective date of Public
11Act 98-772) this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly.
12    (b) Each Fox Valley Park District commissioner shall be a
13legal voter and reside within the park district and, as to the
14subdistrict commissioners, each shall reside within the
15subdistrict from which he or she is elected. The proper
16election authority shall conduct the elections for
17commissioners at the time and in the manner provided by the
18general election law.
19    (c) Beginning with the consolidated election in 2017, 7
20commissioners shall be elected for 4-year terms, consisting of
216 commissioners from 3 2-member subdistricts districts, and 1
22commissioner elected at large. The terms of office of the
23initial commissioners elected under Public Act 98-772 this

 

 

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1amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly will run as
2follows, to be determined by lot: 4 members shall serve a
34-year term and may be re-elected for subsequent 4-year terms,
4and 3 members shall serve a 2-year term and may be re-elected
5for subsequent 4-year terms thereafter.
6    The initial three subdistricts districts of the Fox Valley
7Park District shall be as follows:
8        (1) Those portions of Kane County and Kendall County
9    west of the Fox River.
10        (2) Those portions of Kane County and Kendall County
11    east of the Fox River and south and west of a line
12    following Indian Trail Road from the center line of the Fox
13    River easterly to the intersection with Farnsworth Avenue,
14    then southerly along Farnsworth Avenue to the intersection
15    with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, then
16    easterly to the county line.
17        (3) Those portions of the district in DuPage County and
18    Will County and that portion of Kane County generally north
19    and east of a line following Indian Trail Road from the
20    center line of the Fox River easterly to the intersection
21    with Farnsworth Avenue, then southerly along Farnsworth
22    Avenue to the intersection with Burlington Northern Santa
23    Fe Railroad, then easterly to the county line.
24    In the year following the next decennial census and each
25decennial census thereafter, the board of commissioners shall
26reapportion the subdistricts districts to reflect the results

 

 

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1of the census. A nominating petition for a candidate for
2commissioner of a subdistrict or for a candidate for the
3at-large commissioner shall contain signatures of registered
4voters residing anywhere within the Fox Valley Park District,
5but at least 50 such registered voters or 2% of the total
6number of ballots cast Park District-wide in the last preceding
7election for commissioners in the Fox Valley Park District,
8whichever is less.
9    The term of office for the commissioners elected under this
10Section shall commence on the first Monday of the month
11following the month of election. The terms of all appointed
12trustees serving on July 16, 2014 (the effective date of Public
13Act 98-772) this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly
14shall end when their successors have been elected and
15qualified.
16    (d) The Fox Valley Park District board of commissioners
17shall elect officers of the board at the first meeting of the
18board following the next consolidated election for park
19district commissioners.
20    (e) As of July 16, 2014 (the effective date of Public Act
2198-772) this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, each
22Fox Valley Pleasure Driveway and Park District trustee in
23office shall, as a member of the board of the Fox Valley Park
24District, perform the duties and exercise the powers conferred
25upon park board commissioners under this Code, until his or her
26successor is elected and has qualified.

 

 

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1    (f) Any tax authorized by referendum or other means under
2this Code and levied by the Fox Valley Pleasure Driveway and
3Park District before July 16, 2014 (the effective date of
4Public Act 98-772) this amendatory Act of the 98th General
5Assembly shall not be affected or abrogated because of the name
6change, and the Fox Valley Park District may continue to levy
7and collect that tax.
8(Source: P.A. 98-772, eff. 7-16-14.)