Full Text of SB0072 101st General Assembly
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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 | | 7-11.1 as follows:
| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/7-11.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-11.1)
| 7 | | Sec. 7-11.1.
Whenever a vacancy in any elective county | 8 | | office is to be
filled by election pursuant to Section 25-11 of | 9 | | this Code or Section 2-6003 of the Counties Code , nominations | 10 | | shall be
made and any vacancy in nomination for a county office | 11 | | shall be filled pursuant
to this Section:
| 12 | | (1) If the vacancy in office occurs before the first date | 13 | | provided in
Section 7-12 for filing nomination papers for the | 14 | | primary in the next even
numbered year following the | 15 | | commencement of the term, nominations for the
election for | 16 | | filling such vacancy shall be made pursuant to this Article 7
| 17 | | as provided for other county offices.
| 18 | | (2) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (3.5), if If | 19 | | the vacancy in office occurs during the time provided in | 20 | | Section
7-12 for filing nomination papers for county offices | 21 | | for the primary in the
next even-numbered year following | 22 | | commencement of the term of office in
which such vacancy | 23 | | occurs, the time for filing nomination papers for such
office |
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| 1 | | for the primary shall not be more than 91 days and not less | 2 | | than 85
days prior to the date of the primary election.
| 3 | | (3) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (3.5), if If | 4 | | the vacancy in office occurs after the last day provided in
| 5 | | Section 7-12 for filing nomination papers for any elective | 6 | | county office a
vacancy in nomination shall be deemed to have | 7 | | occurred and the county
central committee or the appropriate | 8 | | county board district committee of
each established political | 9 | | party shall nominate, by resolution, a candidate
to fill such | 10 | | vacancy in nomination for election to such office at such
| 11 | | general election. In the nomination proceedings to fill such | 12 | | vacancy in
nomination, each member of the county central | 13 | | committee, or the county
board district committee, as the case | 14 | | may be, shall have the voting
strength as set forth in Sections | 15 | | 7-8 and 7-8.01, respectively. The name
of the candidate so | 16 | | nominated shall not appear on the ballot at the general
primary | 17 | | election. Such vacancy in nomination shall be filled prior to | 18 | | the
date of certification of candidates for the general | 19 | | election. | 20 | | (3.5) If the vacancy in the Office of President of the Cook | 21 | | County Board occurs on or after the first day provided in | 22 | | Section 7-12 for filing nomination papers for the primary in | 23 | | the next even-numbered year following the commencement of the | 24 | | term, a vacancy in nomination shall be deemed to have occurred | 25 | | and the county central committee of each established political | 26 | | party shall nominate, by resolution, a candidate to fill such |
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| 1 | | vacancy in nomination for the election to such office at such | 2 | | general election. In the nomination proceedings to fill such | 3 | | vacancy in nomination, each member of the county central | 4 | | committee shall have the voting strength as set forth in | 5 | | Section 7-8. The office shall not appear on the ballot at the | 6 | | general primary election. Any vacancy in nomination occurring | 7 | | on or after the primary and prior to certification must be | 8 | | filled prior to the date of certification. Any vacancy in | 9 | | nomination occurring after certification but prior to 15 days | 10 | | before the general election shall be filled within 8 days after | 11 | | the event creating the vacancy in nomination.
| 12 | | (4) The resolution to fill the vacancy shall be duly | 13 | | acknowledged before
an officer qualified to take | 14 | | acknowledgments of deeds and shall include,
upon its face, the | 15 | | following information:
| 16 | | (a) the name of the original nominee and the office | 17 | | vacated;
| 18 | | (b) the date on which the vacancy occurred;
| 19 | | (c) the name and address of the nominee selected to fill | 20 | | the vacancy and
the date of selection.
| 21 | | The resolution to fill the vacancy shall be accompanied by | 22 | | a Statement of
Candidacy, as prescribed in Section 7-10, | 23 | | completed by the selected nominee
and a receipt indicating that | 24 | | such nominee has filed a Statement of
Economic Interests as | 25 | | required by the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act.
| 26 | | The provisions of Sections 10-8 through 10-10.1 relating to |
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| 1 | | objections to
nomination papers, hearings on objections and | 2 | | judicial review, shall also
apply to and govern objections to | 3 | | nomination papers and resolutions for
filling vacancies in | 4 | | nomination filed pursuant to this Section.
| 5 | | Unless otherwise specified herein, the nomination and | 6 | | election provided
for in this Section shall be governed by this | 7 | | Code.
| 8 | | (Source: P.A. 84-1308.)
| 9 | | Section 10. The Counties Code is amended by changing | 10 | | Section 2-6003 as follows:
| 11 | | (55 ILCS 5/2-6003) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6003)
| 12 | | Sec. 2-6003. Vacancy in office of president. In case of the | 13 | | death,
resignation, removal from office or other inability to | 14 | | act of the president
so elected, the board of commissioners | 15 | | shall within 30 days appoint, by election, one of their number | 16 | | to serve as president. If if more than 28 months of the | 17 | | unexpired term remain, a special election shall be held the
| 18 | | vacancy shall be filled at the next general election to elect a | 19 | | person , at which election one
of the regularly elected or | 20 | | appointed members of the board of commissioners
shall be | 21 | | elected to serve the unexpired term of the president. In the | 22 | | case of a special election under this Section, the appointed | 23 | | officer shall serve until the election results are certified | 24 | | and the person elected at the special election is qualified. If |
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| 1 | | 28 months or less less than
two years and sixty days of the | 2 | | unexpired term remain, the appointed officer shall serve for | 3 | | the remainder of the term board of
commissioners shall elect | 4 | | one of their number to serve the unexpired term
of the | 5 | | president .
| 6 | | (Source: P.A. 86-962.)
| 7 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 8 | | becoming law.
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