Full Text of HB5309 101st General Assembly
HB5309 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2019 and 2020 HB5309 Introduced , by Rep. Michael T. Marron SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/6-17 | from Ch. 46, par. 6-17 |
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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.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning elections.
| 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 | | 6-17 as follows:
| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/6-17) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-17)
| 7 | | Sec. 6-17. Dissolution. | 8 | | (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whenever Whenever | 9 | | 1,000 of the legal voters in a city of 250,000
population or | 10 | | less where this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 of this
Act or | 11 | | the Act of which they are a continuation have been adopted | 12 | | shall
petition the circuit court in the county in which such | 13 | | city is located to
submit to a vote of the electors of such | 14 | | city the proposition as to whether
such city and the electors | 15 | | thereof shall reject the Articles,
the court shall enter an | 16 | | order of record approving such petition and
thereupon the court
| 17 | | shall submit such proposition to the legal voters of such city | 18 | | at the next
succeeding general, state, county or municipal | 19 | | election to be held in such
county in not less than 30 days | 20 | | after the entry of such order. If 1,000
shall exceed one-eighth | 21 | | of the legal voters of any such city then such petition
need | 22 | | not be signed or made by more than one-eighth of
the legal | 23 | | voters of such city. Notice of election shall be given by the
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| 1 | | court at least 20 days prior to such election by
publication in | 2 | | one or more newspapers of general circulation published
within | 3 | | such city.
| 4 | | (b) The county board of Vermilion County may, by ordinance, | 5 | | certify and cause to be submitted to the voters of Vermilion | 6 | | County, at the next general election, the question of | 7 | | dissolution of a municipal board of election commissioners | 8 | | within the county and transfer its function to the Vermilion | 9 | | County clerk. The ballots which shall be used for voting on the | 10 | | dissolution of a municipal board of election commissioners | 11 | | shall be substantially in the following form: | 12 | | "Shall the (name of municipal board of election | 13 | | commissioners) within Vermilion County be dissolved and | 14 | | its functions transferred to the Vermilion County clerk?" | 15 | | The votes shall be recorded as "yes" or "no". | 16 | | If a majority of the votes of Vermilion County cast are in | 17 | | favor of the proposition to dissolve the municipal board of | 18 | | election and transfer its functions to the Vermilion County | 19 | | clerk, then the municipal board of election commissioners is | 20 | | dissolved. | 21 | | On the effective date of the dissolution, all the rights, | 22 | | powers, duties, assets, property, liabilities, obligations, | 23 | | and responsibilities of the municipal board of election | 24 | | commissioners shall, by operation of law, vest in and be | 25 | | assumed by the Vermilion County clerk. | 26 | | (Source: P.A. 83-1362.)
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