Full Text of HB6380 96th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning local government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Joliet Regional Port District Act is amended | 5 |
| by changing Sections 14, 15, 16, and 18 as follows: | 6 |
| (70 ILCS 1825/14) (from Ch. 19, par. 264) | 7 |
| Sec. 14. Board; compensation. The governing and | 8 |
| administrative body of the Port District shall
be a Board | 9 |
| consisting of 10 9 members, to be known as the Joliet Regional | 10 |
| Port
District Board. All members of the Board shall be | 11 |
| residents of Will County.
The members of the Board shall serve | 12 |
| without compensation but shall be
reimbursed for actual | 13 |
| expenses incurred by them in the performance of their
duties. | 14 |
| However, any member of the Board who is appointed to the office | 15 |
| of
secretary or treasurer may receive compensation for his or | 16 |
| her services as such
officer. No member of the Board or | 17 |
| employee of the District shall have any
private financial | 18 |
| interest, profit or benefit in any contract, work or
business | 19 |
| of the District nor in the sale or lease of any property to or
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| from the District. | 21 |
| (Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.) | 22 |
| (70 ILCS 1825/15) (from Ch. 19, par. 265) |
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| Sec. 15. Appointment of Board. Within 60 days after this | 2 |
| Act becomes effective the Governor, by
and with the advice and | 3 |
| consent of the Senate shall appoint 3 members of
the Board who | 4 |
| reside within the District outside the corporate boundaries
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| the City city of Joliet for initial terms expiring June 1st of | 6 |
| the years
1959, 1961, and 1963, respectively, and the Mayor, | 7 |
| with the advice and
consent of the City Council of the City of | 8 |
| Joliet, shall appoint 3 members
of the Board who reside within | 9 |
| the City of Joliet for initial terms
expiring June 1st of the | 10 |
| years 1958, 1960, and 1962, respectively. Of the 3
members each | 11 |
| appointed by the Governor and the Mayor not more than 2 shall
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| be affiliated with the same political party at the time of | 13 |
| appointment. Beginning with the first appointment made by the | 14 |
| Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, after the | 15 |
| effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | 16 |
| Assembly, the Governor must appoint members who reside within | 17 |
| the District outside the corporate boundaries of the City of | 18 |
| Joliet and the Village of Romeoville. Within 60 days after the | 19 |
| effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General | 20 |
| Assembly, the County Executive of Will County, with the advice | 21 |
| and consent of the County Board, shall appoint 3 members of the | 22 |
| Board for terms expiring June 1st of 2008, 2010, and 2012, | 23 |
| respectively. Within 60 days after the effective date of this | 24 |
| amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, the President of | 25 |
| the Village of Romeoville, with the advice and consent of the | 26 |
| corporate authorities of the Village of Romeoville, shall |
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| appoint one member of the Board who resides within the Village | 2 |
| of Romeoville for an initial term expiring June 1st of 2016. | 3 |
| At the expiration of the term of any member, his or her | 4 |
| successor shall be
appointed by the Governor, Mayor , President | 5 |
| of the Village of Romeoville , or County Executive of Will | 6 |
| County in like
manner and with like regard to political party | 7 |
| affiliation and place of
residence of the appointee, as | 8 |
| appointments for the initial terms. | 9 |
| All successors shall hold office for the term of 6 years | 10 |
| from the first
day of June of the year in which the term of | 11 |
| office commences, except in
the case of an appointment to fill | 12 |
| a vacancy. In case of vacancy in the
office of any member | 13 |
| appointed by the Governor during the recess of the
Senate, the | 14 |
| Governor shall make a temporary appointment until the next
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| meeting of the Senate when he or she shall nominate some person | 16 |
| to fill such
office; and any person so nominated, who is | 17 |
| confirmed by the Senate, shall
hold his or her office during | 18 |
| the remainder of the term and until his or her successor
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| be appointed and qualified. If the Senate is not in session at | 20 |
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time this Act takes effect, the Governor shall make | 21 |
| temporary appointments
as in case of vacancies. The Governor, | 22 |
| the Mayor , the President of the Village of Romeoville , and the | 23 |
| County Executive shall certify their respective appointments | 24 |
| to the
Secretary of State. Within 30 days after certification | 25 |
| of his or her appointment,
and before entering upon the duties | 26 |
| of his or her office, each member of the Board
shall take and |
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| subscribe the constitutional oath of office and file it in
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| office of the Secretary of State. | 3 |
| (Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.) | 4 |
| (70 ILCS 1825/16) (from Ch. 19, par. 266) | 5 |
| Sec. 16. Removal and vacancies. Members of the Board shall | 6 |
| hold office until their respective
successors have been | 7 |
| appointed and qualified. Any member may resign from
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| office to take effect when his or her successor has been | 9 |
| appointed and has
qualified. The Governor, the Mayor , the | 10 |
| President of the Village of Romeoville, and the County | 11 |
| Executive of Will County, respectively, may remove any member | 12 |
| of the Board they
have appointed in case of incompetency, | 13 |
| neglect of duty, or malfeasance in
office. They shall give such | 14 |
| member a copy of the charges against him or her and
an | 15 |
| opportunity to be publicly heard in person or by counsel in his | 16 |
| or her own
defense upon not less than ten days' notice. In case | 17 |
| of failure to qualify
within the time required, or of | 18 |
| abandonment of his or her office, or in case of
death, | 19 |
| conviction of a felony or removal from office, the office of | 20 |
| such
member shall become vacant. Each vacancy shall be filled | 21 |
| for the unexpired
term by appointment in like manner as in case | 22 |
| of expiration of the term of
a member of the Board. | 23 |
| (Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.) | 24 |
| (70 ILCS 1825/18) (from Ch. 19, par. 268) |
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| Sec. 18. Board meetings; quorum; veto. Regular meetings of | 2 |
| the Board shall be held at least once in each
calendar month, | 3 |
| the time and place of such meetings to be fixed by the
Board. | 4 |
| Six Five members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the
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| transaction of business. All action of the Board shall be by | 6 |
| ordinances or
resolution and the affirmative vote of at least 6 | 7 |
| 5 members shall be
necessary for the adoption of any ordinance | 8 |
| or resolution. All such
ordinances and resolutions before | 9 |
| taking effect shall be approved by the
chairman of the Board, | 10 |
| and if he or she approves thereof he or she shall sign the | 11 |
| same,
and such as he or she does not approve he or she shall | 12 |
| return to the Board with his
or her objections thereto in | 13 |
| writing at the next regular meeting of the Board
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| after the passage thereof. But in the case the chairman fails | 15 |
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return any ordinance or resolution with his or her | 16 |
| objections thereto by the time
aforesaid, he or she shall be | 17 |
| deemed to have approved the same and it shall take
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| accordingly. Upon the return of any ordinance or resolution by | 19 |
| the
chairman with his or her objections, the vote by which the | 20 |
| same was passed shall
be reconsidered by the Board, and if upon | 21 |
| such reconsideration said
ordinance or resolution is passed by | 22 |
| the affirmative vote of at least 7 6
members, it shall go into | 23 |
| effect notwithstanding the veto of the chairman.
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| ordinances, resolutions and all proceedings of the District and | 25 |
| all
documents and records in its possession shall be public | 26 |
| records, and open
to public inspection, except such documents |
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| and records as are kept or
prepared by the Board for use in | 2 |
| negotiations, legal actions or proceedings
to which the | 3 |
| District is a party. | 4 |
| (Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 6 |
| becoming law.
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