HB5309 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB5309

Introduced , by Rep. Michael T. Marron

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

10 ILCS 5/6-17

from Ch. 46, par. 6-17

Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board of Vermilion County may certify and cause to be submitted to the voters of Vermilion County, at the next general election, the question of dissolution of a municipal board of election commissioners within the county and transfer its function to the Vermilion County clerk.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning elections.

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

Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section 6-17 as follows:

(10 ILCS 5/6-17) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-17)

Sec. 6-17. Dissolution.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whenever Whenever 1,000 of the legal voters in a city of 250,000 population or less where this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 of this Act or the Act of which they are a continuation have been adopted shall petition the circuit court in the county in which such city is located to submit to a vote of the electors of such city the proposition as to whether such city and the electors thereof shall reject the Articles, the court shall enter an order of record approving such petition and thereupon the court shall submit such proposition to the legal voters of such city at the next succeeding general, state, county or municipal election to be held in such county in not less than 30 days after the entry of such order. If 1,000 shall exceed one-eighth of the legal voters of any such city then such petition need not be signed or made by more than one-eighth of the legal voters of such city. Notice of election shall be given by the court at least 20 days prior to such election by publication in one or more newspapers of general circulation published within such city.

(b) The county board of Vermilion County may, by ordinance, certify and cause to be submitted to the voters of Vermilion County, at the next general election, the question of dissolution of a municipal board of election commissioners within the county and transfer its function to the Vermilion County clerk. The ballots which shall be used for voting on the dissolution of a municipal board of election commissioners shall be substantially in the following form:

"Shall the (name of municipal board of election commissioners) within Vermilion County be dissolved and its functions transferred to the Vermilion County clerk?"

The votes shall be recorded as "yes" or "no".

If a majority of the votes of Vermilion County cast are in favor of the proposition to dissolve the municipal board of election and transfer its functions to the Vermilion County clerk, then the municipal board of election commissioners is dissolved.

On the effective date of the dissolution, all the rights, powers, duties, assets, property, liabilities, obligations, and responsibilities of the municipal board of election commissioners shall, by operation of law, vest in and be assumed by the Vermilion County clerk.

(Source: P.A. 83-1362.)