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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6691
Introduced 02/09/04, by Lee A. Daniels SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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65 ILCS 5/1-1-2 |
from Ch. 24, par. 1-1-2 |
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Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section
concerning definitions.
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A BILL FOR
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HB6691 |
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LRB093 16189 MKM 41822 b |
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| AN ACT concerning municipalities.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by |
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| changing
Section 1-1-2 as follows:
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| (65 ILCS 5/1-1-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 1-1-2)
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| Sec. 1-1-2. Definitions. In this Code:
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| (1) "Municipal" or "municipality" means a city, village, or |
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| incorporated
town in the State of Illinois, but, unless the |
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| context otherwise provides,
"municipal" or "municipality" does |
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| not include a township, town when used
as the equivalent of a |
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| township, incorporated town that has
superseded
a civil |
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| township, county, school district, park district, sanitary |
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| district,
or any other similar governmental district. If |
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| "municipal" or "municipality"
is given a different definition |
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| in any particular Division or Section of
this Act, that |
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| definition controls
shall control in that
division or Section |
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| only.
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| (2) "Corporate authorities" means (a) the mayor and |
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| aldermen or similar body
when the reference is to cities, (b) |
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| the president and trustees
or similar body
when the reference |
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| is to villages or incorporated towns, and (c) the council
when |
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| the reference is to municipalities under the commission form of |
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| municipal
government.
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| (3) "Electors" means persons qualified to vote for elective |
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| officers at
municipal elections.
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| (4) "Person" means any individual, partnership, |
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| corporation, joint stock
association, or the State of Illinois |
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| or any subdivision of the State; and
includes
any trustee, |
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| receiver, assignee, or personal representative of any of
those |
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| entities.
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| (5) Except as otherwise provided by ordinance, "fiscal |
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| year" in all municipalities
with fewer than 500,000 |
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| inhabitants, and "municipal year" in
all municipalities,
means |
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| the period elapsing (a) between general municipal elections in |
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| succeeding
calendar years, or (b) if general municipal |
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| elections are held biennially,
then between a general municipal |
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| election and the same day of the same month
of the following |
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| calendar year, and between that day and the next succeeding
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| general municipal election, or (c) if general municipal |
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| elections are held
quadrennially, then between a general |
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| municipal election and the same day
of the same month of the |
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| following calendar year, and between that day and
the same day |
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| of the same month of the next following calendar year, and
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| between the last mentioned day and the same day of the same |
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| month of the
next following calendar year, and between the last |
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| mentioned day and the
next succeeding general municipal |
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| election. The fiscal year of each municipality
with 500,000 or |
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| more inhabitants shall commence on January 1.
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| (6) Where reference is made to a county within which a |
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| municipality,
district, area, or territory is situated, the |
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| reference is to the county
within which is situated the major |
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| part of the area of that
municipality, district, area, or |
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| territory, in case the municipality,
district, area, or |
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| territory is situated in 2 or more counties.
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| (7) Where reference is made for any purpose to any other |
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| Act, either specifically
or generally, the reference shall be |
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| to that Act and to all amendments to
that Act
now in force or |
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| that may be hereafter enacted.
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| (8) Wherever the words "city council", "aldermen", |
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| "commissioners", or
"mayor" occur, the provisions containing |
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| these words shall apply to the
board of trustees, trustees, and |
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| president, respectively, of villages and
incorporated towns |
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| and councilmen in cities, so far as those provisions
are |
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| applicable to them.
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| (9) The terms "special charter" and "special Act" are |
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| synonymous.
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| (10) "General municipal election" means the biennial |