97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB1278

 

Introduced 02/08/11, by Rep. Robert Rita

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
70 ILCS 2605/3  from Ch. 42, par. 322

    Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Provides for the election of Metropolitan Water Reclamation District commissioners from the same subdistricts as members of the Cook County Board of Review. Phases in the election from the subdistricts at the 2012, 2014, and 2016 general elections. Authorizes cumulative voting for commissioners. Changes the terms of commissioners from 6 years to a combination of 4-year and 2-year terms. Effective immediately.


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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 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act
5is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
 
6    (70 ILCS 2605/3)   (from Ch. 42, par. 322)
7    Sec. 3. The corporate authority of the Sanitary District of
8Chicago shall consist of 9 commissioners nine trustees.
9Commissioners shall be elected at the general election from the
10same geographical subdistricts from which members of the Cook
11County Board of Review are elected. No political party shall
12limit its nominations to less than 2 candidates for
13commissioner in any subdistrict. In electing commissioners,
14including those for nomination, each elector may cast 3 votes
15for one candidate or distribute them equally among no more than
163 candidates. The candidates highest in votes shall be declared
17elected.
18    Three commissioners shall be elected from the first
19subdistrict in 2012 for terms of 4 years and in 2016 for terms
20of 2 years.
21    Three commissioners shall be elected from the second
22subdistrict in 2014 for terms of 4 years.
23    Three commissioners shall be elected from the third

 

 

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1subdistrict in 2016 for terms of 2 years.
2    Beginning with the election of commissioners in 2018,
3commissioners from the first subdistrict shall be elected for
44-year terms, 4-year terms, and 2-year terms; commissioners
5from the second subdistrict shall be elected for 4-year terms,
62-year terms, and 4-year terms; and commissioners from the
7third subdistrict shall be elected for 2-year terms, 4-year
8terms, and 4-year terms. Such trustees shall be elected for
9staggered terms at the election provided by the general
10election law. Three trustees shall be elected at each such
11election to succeed the 3 trustees whose terms expire in such
12year.
13    The commissioners Such trustees shall take office on the
14first Tuesday after the first Monday in the month following the
15month of their election and shall hold their offices for six
16years and until their successors shall be elected and
17qualified. In all elections for trustees each elector may vote
18for as many candidates as there are trustees to be elected, but
19no elector may give to such candidates more than one vote, it
20being the intent and purpose of this Act to prohibit cumulative
21voting in the selection of members of the board of the sanitary
22district.
23    The election of the commissioners trustees shall be in
24accordance with the provisions of the general election law.
25    By reason of the importance and character of the services
26performed by the sanitary district, there is a great need and

 

 

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1it is in the public interest that those such services be
2performed in as near a non-partisan character as possible.
3    When a vacancy exists in the office of commissioner
4trustees of any sanitary district organized under the
5provisions hereof, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment
6by the Governor. If 28 or fewer months remain in the term of
7the vacant office, the appointment shall be for the remainder
8of the term. If more than 28 months remain in the term of the
9vacant office, the appointment shall be until the next general
10regular election at which a commissioner shall be trustees of
11the Sanitary District of Chicago are elected for the remainder
12of the term, and thereafter until a successor shall be elected
13and qualified.
14    The Such sanitary district shall from the time of the first
15election held by it under this Act be construed in all courts
16to be a body corporate and politic, and by the name and style
17of the sanitary district of...., and by such name and style may
18sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, acquire and
19hold real estate and personal property necessary for corporate
20purposes, and adopt a common seal and alter the same at
21pleasure.
22    The board of commissioners trustees shall have the power to
23change the name of the Sanitary District of Chicago by
24ordinance and public notice without impairing the legal status
25of acts theretofore performed by said district. Thereafter any
26and all references to the Sanitary District of Chicago in this

 

 

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1Act or otherwise shall mean and include the name under which
2such sanitary district is then operating. No rights, duties or
3privilege of such a sanitary district, or those of any person,
4existing before the change of name shall be affected by a
5change, in the name of a sanitary district. All proceedings
6pending in any court in favor of or against such sanitary
7district may continue to final consummation under the name in
8which they were commenced.
9(Source: P.A. 83-345.)
 
10    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11becoming law.