Full Text of HB3953 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 2A-1.2 as follows:
| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/2A-1.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-1.2)
| 7 | | Sec. 2A-1.2. Consolidated Schedule of Elections - Offices | 8 | | Designated.
| 9 | | (a) At the general election in the appropriate | 10 | | even-numbered years, the
following offices shall be filled or | 11 | | shall be on the ballot as otherwise
required by this Code:
| 12 | | (1) Elector of President and Vice President of the | 13 | | United States;
| 14 | | (2) United States Senator and United States | 15 | | Representative;
| 16 | | (3) State Executive Branch elected officers;
| 17 | | (4) State Senator and State Representative;
| 18 | | (5) County elected officers, including State's | 19 | | Attorney, County Board
member, County Commissioners, and | 20 | | elected President or Chairman of the County Board or
County | 21 | | Chief Executive;
| 22 | | (6) Circuit Court Clerk;
| 23 | | (7) Regional Superintendent of Schools, except in |
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| 1 | | counties or
educational service regions in which that | 2 | | office has been abolished;
| 3 | | (8) Judges of the Supreme, Appellate and Circuit | 4 | | Courts, on the question
of retention, to fill vacancies and | 5 | | newly created judicial offices;
| 6 | | (9) (Blank);
| 7 | | (10) Trustee of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of | 8 | | Chicago, and elected
Trustee of other Sanitary Districts;
| 9 | | (11) Special District elected officers, not otherwise | 10 | | designated in this
Section, where the statute creating or | 11 | | authorizing the creation of
the district requires an annual | 12 | | election and permits or requires election
of candidates of | 13 | | political parties.
| 14 | | (b) At the general primary election:
| 15 | | (1) in each even-numbered year candidates of political | 16 | | parties shall be
nominated for those offices to be filled | 17 | | at the general election in that
year, except where pursuant | 18 | | to law nomination of candidates of political
parties is | 19 | | made by caucus.
| 20 | | (2) in the appropriate even-numbered years the | 21 | | political party offices of
State central committeeman, | 22 | | township committeeman, ward committeeman, and
precinct | 23 | | committeeman shall be filled and delegates and alternate | 24 | | delegates
to the National nominating conventions shall be | 25 | | elected as may be required
pursuant to this Code. In the | 26 | | even-numbered years in which a Presidential
election is to |
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| 1 | | be held, candidates in the Presidential preference primary
| 2 | | shall also be on the ballot.
| 3 | | (3) in each even-numbered year, where the municipality | 4 | | has provided for
annual elections to elect municipal | 5 | | officers pursuant to Section 6(f) or
Section 7 of Article | 6 | | VII of the Constitution, pursuant to the Illinois
Municipal | 7 | | Code or pursuant to the municipal charter, the offices of | 8 | | such
municipal officers shall be filled at an election held | 9 | | on the date of the
general primary election, provided that | 10 | | the municipal election shall be a
nonpartisan election | 11 | | where required by the Illinois Municipal Code. For
partisan | 12 | | municipal elections in even-numbered years, a primary to | 13 | | nominate
candidates for municipal office to be elected at | 14 | | the general primary
election shall be held on the Tuesday 6 | 15 | | weeks preceding that election.
| 16 | | (4) in each school district which has adopted the | 17 | | provisions of
Article 33 of the School Code, successors to | 18 | | the members of the board
of education whose terms expire in | 19 | | the year in which the general primary is
held shall be | 20 | | elected.
| 21 | | (c) At the consolidated election in the appropriate | 22 | | odd-numbered years,
the following offices shall be filled:
| 23 | | (1) Municipal officers, provided that in | 24 | | municipalities in which
candidates for alderman or other | 25 | | municipal office are not permitted by law
to be candidates | 26 | | of political parties, the runoff election where required
by |
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| 1 | | law, or the nonpartisan election where required by law, | 2 | | shall be held on
the date of the consolidated election; and | 3 | | provided further, in the case of
municipal officers | 4 | | provided for by an ordinance providing the form of
| 5 | | government of the municipality pursuant to Section 7 of | 6 | | Article VII of the
Constitution, such offices shall be | 7 | | filled by election or by runoff
election as may be provided | 8 | | by such ordinance;
| 9 | | (2) Village and incorporated town library directors;
| 10 | | (3) City boards of stadium commissioners;
| 11 | | (4) Commissioners of park districts;
| 12 | | (5) Trustees of public library districts;
| 13 | | (6) Special District elected officers, not otherwise | 14 | | designated in this
section, where the statute creating or | 15 | | authorizing the creation of the district
permits or | 16 | | requires election of candidates of political parties;
| 17 | | (7) Township officers, including township park | 18 | | commissioners, township
library directors, and boards of | 19 | | managers of community buildings, and
Multi-Township | 20 | | Assessors;
| 21 | | (8) Highway commissioners and road district clerks;
| 22 | | (9) Members of school boards in school districts which | 23 | | adopt Article 33
of the School Code;
| 24 | | (10) The directors and chairman of the Chain O Lakes - | 25 | | Fox River Waterway
Management Agency;
| 26 | | (11) Forest preserve district commissioners elected |
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| 1 | | under Section 3.5 of
the Downstate Forest Preserve District | 2 | | Act;
| 3 | | (12) Elected members of school boards, school | 4 | | trustees, directors of
boards of school directors, | 5 | | trustees of county boards of school trustees
(except in | 6 | | counties or educational service regions having a | 7 | | population
of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants) and members of | 8 | | boards of school inspectors,
except school boards in school
| 9 | | districts that adopt Article 33 of the School Code;
| 10 | | (13) Members of Community College district boards;
| 11 | | (14) Trustees of Fire Protection Districts;
| 12 | | (15) Commissioners of the Springfield Metropolitan | 13 | | Exposition and
Auditorium
Authority;
| 14 | | (16) Elected Trustees of Tuberculosis Sanitarium | 15 | | Districts;
| 16 | | (17) Elected Officers of special districts not | 17 | | otherwise designated in
this Section for which the law | 18 | | governing those districts does not permit
candidates of | 19 | | political parties.
| 20 | | (d) At the consolidated primary election in each | 21 | | odd-numbered year,
candidates of political parties shall be | 22 | | nominated for those offices to be
filled at the consolidated | 23 | | election in that year, except where pursuant to
law nomination | 24 | | of candidates of political parties is made by caucus, and
| 25 | | except those offices listed in paragraphs (12) through (17) of | 26 | | subsection
(c).
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| 1 | | At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate | 2 | | odd-numbered years,
the mayor, clerk, treasurer, and aldermen | 3 | | shall be elected in
municipalities in which
candidates for | 4 | | mayor, clerk, treasurer, or alderman are not permitted by
law | 5 | | to be candidates
of political parties, subject to runoff | 6 | | elections to be held at the
consolidated election as may be | 7 | | required
by law, and municipal officers shall be nominated in a | 8 | | nonpartisan election
in municipalities in which pursuant to law | 9 | | candidates for such office are
not permitted to be candidates | 10 | | of political parties.
| 11 | | At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate | 12 | | odd-numbered years,
municipal officers shall be nominated or | 13 | | elected, or elected subject to
a runoff, as may be provided by | 14 | | an ordinance providing a form of government
of the municipality | 15 | | pursuant to Section 7 of Article VII of the Constitution.
| 16 | | (e) (Blank).
| 17 | | (f) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, public | 18 | | questions may
be submitted to voters pursuant to this Code and | 19 | | any special election
otherwise required or authorized by law or | 20 | | by court order may be conducted
pursuant to this Code.
| 21 | | Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of officers | 22 | | established
in this Article, whenever a referendum is held for | 23 | | the establishment of
a political subdivision whose officers are | 24 | | to be elected, the initial officers
shall be elected at the | 25 | | election at which such referendum is held if otherwise
so | 26 | | provided by law. In such cases, the election of the initial |
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| 1 | | officers
shall be subject to the referendum.
| 2 | | Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of | 3 | | officials established
in this Article, any community college | 4 | | district which becomes effective by
operation of law pursuant | 5 | | to Section 6-6.1 of the Public Community College
Act, as now or | 6 | | hereafter amended, shall elect the initial district board
| 7 | | members at the next regularly scheduled election following the | 8 | | effective
date of the new district.
| 9 | | (g) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, if in | 10 | | any precinct
there are no offices or public questions required | 11 | | to be on the ballot under
this Code then no election shall be | 12 | | held in the precinct on that date.
| 13 | | (h) There may be conducted a
referendum in accordance with | 14 | | the provisions of Division 6-4 of the
Counties Code.
| 15 | | (Source: P.A. 89-5, eff. 1-1-96; 89-95,
eff. 1-1-96; 89-626, | 16 | | eff. 8-9-96; 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)
| 17 | | Section 10. The Counties Code is amended by changing | 18 | | Section 3-7005 as follows:
| 19 | | (55 ILCS 5/3-7005) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-7005)
| 20 | | Sec. 3-7005. Meetings. As soon as practicable after the | 21 | | members
of the Board have been appointed, they shall meet, upon | 22 | | the call of the
Sheriff, and shall organize by selecting a | 23 | | chairman and a secretary. The
initial chairman and secretary, | 24 | | and their successors, shall be selected by
the Board from among |
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| 1 | | its members for a term of 2 years or for the remainder
of their | 2 | | term of office as a member of the Board, whichever is the | 3 | | shorter.
Two members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for
| 4 | | the transaction of
business, except that as additional members | 5 | | are appointed under authority of
this amendatory Act of 1997, | 6 | | the number of members that must be present to
constitute a | 7 | | quorum shall be the number of members that constitute at least | 8 | | 40%
of the Board. The Board shall hold regular quarterly | 9 | | meetings and such other
meetings as may be called by the | 10 | | chairman.
| 11 | | Beginning with the 2012 general election, the chairman of | 12 | | the Board in a county with a population of more than 300,000 | 13 | | inhabitants shall be elected, and the term of the existing | 14 | | chairman as chairman shall end on December 31, 2012. The | 15 | | elected chairman shall first take office on January 1, 2013. | 16 | | The initial chairman elected shall serve a 4-year term. All | 17 | | successor chairmen shall serve a 4-year term. The elected | 18 | | chairman shall receive compensation pursuant to Section 3-7003 | 19 | | of this Code. | 20 | | (Source: P.A. 90-447, eff. 8-16-97; 90-511, eff. 8-22-97; | 21 | | 90-655, eff.
7-30-98.)
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