Full Text of SB1431 98th General Assembly
SB1431ham001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Joe Sosnowski Filed: 5/24/2013
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1431
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1431 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 25-11 as follows:
| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/25-11) (from Ch. 46, par. 25-11)
| 7 | | Sec. 25-11.
When a vacancy occurs in any elective county | 8 | | office, forest preserve district office, or in a
county of less | 9 | | than 3,000,000 population in the office of clerk of the circuit
| 10 | | court, in a county which is not a home rule unit, the county | 11 | | board , forest preserve district board of commissioners, or | 12 | | board
of county commissioners shall at their next meeting | 13 | | declare that such vacancy exists and
notification thereof
shall | 14 | | be given to the county central committee or the appropriate | 15 | | county board
or board of county commissioners district | 16 | | committee of each established
political party within 3 days of |
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| 1 | | the
occurrence of the county board meeting where a vacancy was | 2 | | declared . The vacancy shall be filled
within 60 days of the | 3 | | notification by appointment of the chairman of the county board
| 4 | | or board of county commissioners with the advice and consent of | 5 | | the county
board or board of county commissioners.
In counties | 6 | | in which forest preserve district commissioners are
elected by | 7 | | districts and are not also members of the county board, | 8 | | however,
vacancies in the office of forest preserve district | 9 | | commissioner shall be
filled within 60 days of the notification | 10 | | by appointment of the president of the forest preserve
district | 11 | | board of commissioners with the advice and consent of the | 12 | | forest
preserve district board of commissioners. In counties in | 13 | | which the forest
preserve district president is not also a | 14 | | member of the county board, vacancies
in
the office of forest | 15 | | preserve district president shall be filled within 60 days
of | 16 | | the notification by the forest preserve district board of | 17 | | commissioners by appointing one of the
commissioners to serve | 18 | | as president.
The appointee
shall be a member of the same | 19 | | political party as the person he
succeeds was at the time of | 20 | | his election and shall be otherwise
eligible to serve.
The | 21 | | appointee shall serve the remainder of the unexpired term. | 22 | | However, if
more than 28 months remain in the term, the | 23 | | appointment shall be until the
next general election at which | 24 | | time the vacated office shall be
filled by election for the | 25 | | remainder of the term. In the
case of a vacancy in a seat on a | 26 | | county board or board of county
commissioners which
has been |
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| 1 | | divided into districts under Section 2-3003 or 2-4006.5 of
the | 2 | | Counties Code, the appointee must also be a resident of the
| 3 | | county board or county commission district.
If a county | 4 | | commissioner ceases to reside in the district that he or
she | 5 | | represents, a vacancy in that office exists.
| 6 | | Except as otherwise provided by county ordinance or by law, | 7 | | in
any county which is a home rule unit, vacancies in elective
| 8 | | county offices, other than the office of chief executive | 9 | | officer,
and vacancies in the office of clerk of the circuit | 10 | | court in a county of
less than 3,000,000 population, shall be | 11 | | filled
by the county board or board of county commissioners.
| 12 | | (Source: P.A. 92-189, eff. 8-1-01; 92-583, eff. 6-26-02.)
| 13 | | Section 10. The Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act is | 14 | | amended by changing Sections 1.2 and 2a as follows:
| 15 | | (50 ILCS 105/1.2)
| 16 | | Sec. 1.2. County board member; education office. A member | 17 | | of the county
board
in any a county having fewer than 40,000 | 18 | | inhabitants , during the term of
office for which he or she is | 19 | | elected, may also hold the office of member of
the board of | 20 | | education, regional board of school trustees, board of school
| 21 | | directors, board of a community college district, board of a | 22 | | fire protection district, or board of school inspectors.
| 23 | | (Source: P.A. 97-460, eff. 8-19-11.)
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| 1 | | (50 ILCS 105/2a) (from Ch. 102, par. 2a)
| 2 | | Sec. 2a. Township supervisors and trustees. No township
| 3 | | supervisor or trustee, during the term of office for which he | 4 | | or
she is elected, may accept, be appointed to, or hold any | 5 | | office
by the appointment of the board of township trustees | 6 | | unless he or
she first resigns from the office of supervisor or | 7 | | trustee or
unless the appointment is specifically authorized by | 8 | | law. A
supervisor or trustee may, however, serve as a volunteer | 9 | | fireman
and receive compensation for that service. A township | 10 | | supervisor or trustee may also serve on the zoning board of | 11 | | appeals for the county. Any appointment in
violation of this | 12 | | Section is void.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to | 13 | | prohibit an elected township
official from holding elected | 14 | | office in another unit of local government as
long as there is | 15 | | no contractual relationship between the township and the other
| 16 | | unit of local government. This amendatory Act of 1995 is | 17 | | declarative of
existing law and is not a new enactment.
| 18 | | (Source: P.A. 89-89, eff. 6-30-95.)
| 19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 20 | | becoming law.".
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