Full Text of HB4616 96th General Assembly
HB4616 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 HB4616
Introduced , by Rep. Michael P. McAuliffe SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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55 ILCS 5/2-6008 |
from Ch. 34, par. 2-6008 |
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Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the Cook County Board of Commissioners may override a veto by the County Board President by an affirmative vote of three-fifths of its members (instead of four-fifths). Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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HB4616 |
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LRB096 14496 RLJ 29324 b |
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| AN ACT concerning local government.
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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 Counties Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 2-6008 as follows:
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| (55 ILCS 5/2-6008) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6008)
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| Sec. 2-6008. Approval of ordinances. All ordinances, | 8 |
| resolutions or
motions shall be submitted to
said board of | 9 |
| commissioners in writing, or reduced to writing before any
vote | 10 |
| shall be taken thereon; and if adopted by the board, the same | 11 |
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not take effect until after the same shall have been | 12 |
| approved in writing by
the president of said board, except as | 13 |
| hereinafter provided. It shall be
the duty of the clerk of said | 14 |
| board to deliver to the president thereof,
upon his or her | 15 |
| request, the original (or a copy) of each ordinance, resolution | 16 |
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motion, so passed or adopted by said board as aforesaid, | 17 |
| within one day
after its passage or adoption; and in case the | 18 |
| president approves thereof,
he or she shall sign the same, and | 19 |
| it shall thereupon be in full force and effect.
In case the | 20 |
| president shall not approve any such ordinance, resolution or
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| motion, he or she shall, within five days after the receipt of | 22 |
| the same as
aforesaid, return it to the clerk of said board, | 23 |
| with his or her objections
thereto in writing. Such veto by the |
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| president may extend to any one or
more items or appropriations | 2 |
| contained in any resolution making an
appropriation, or to the | 3 |
| entire resolution; and in case the veto only
extends to a part | 4 |
| of such resolution making an appropriation, the residue
thereof | 5 |
| not embraced within the veto shall take effect and be in force | 6 |
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the time of the receipt by said clerk of such veto of such | 7 |
| part. Upon the
return of any such ordinance, resolution or | 8 |
| motion by the president, with
his or her objections thereto as | 9 |
| aforesaid, the vote by which the same was passed
shall be | 10 |
| reconsidered by the board of commissioners as to so much | 11 |
| thereof
as may have been vetoed; and if, after such | 12 |
| reconsideration, three-fifths
four-fifths of
all the members | 13 |
| elected to the board shall agree to pass the same by yeas
and | 14 |
| nays, to be entered on the journal, the same shall take effect,
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| notwithstanding the president may have refused to approve | 16 |
| thereof. In case
the president shall fail or omit to either | 17 |
| sign and approve or return, with
his or her objections as | 18 |
| aforesaid, any such ordinance, motion or resolution which
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| have been passed or adopted by the board within six days after | 20 |
| it
shall have been so passed or adopted, the same shall take | 21 |
| effect without
the approval of the president.
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| (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 24 |
| becoming law.
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