Full Text of SB0343 94th General Assembly
SB0343eng 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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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 Metro-East Park and Recreation District Act | 5 |
| is amended by changing Sections 5, 10, and 20 as follows:
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| (70 ILCS 1605/5)
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| Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act:
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| "Board" means the board of directors of the Metro-East Park | 9 |
| and Recreation
District.
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| "Chief executive officer" means the chairman of the county | 11 |
| board of a county.
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| "County" means Madison, St. Clair, Monroe, Clinton, or | 13 |
| Jersey , or Macoupin County.
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| "District" or "Metro-East District" means the Metro-East | 15 |
| Park and Recreation
District
created
under this Act.
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| "Governing body" means a county board.
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| "Metro-East Park and Recreation Fund" means the
fund held | 18 |
| by the District
that is the repository for all
taxes and other
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| moneys raised by or for the District
under this Act.
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| "Metro-East region" means Madison, St. Clair, Monroe, | 21 |
| Clinton, Macoupin, and Jersey
Counties.
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| "Park district" means a park district organized under the | 23 |
| Park District Code.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-103, eff. 7-13-99.)
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| (70 ILCS 1605/10)
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| Sec. 10. Creation of Metro-East Park and Recreation | 27 |
| District.
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| (a) The Metro-East Park and Recreation District may be | 29 |
| created,
incorporated,
and
managed under this Section and may | 30 |
| exercise the powers given to the
District
under this Act.
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| county
may be included in the Metro-East District if the voters |
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| in the
county or
counties to be included in the District vote | 2 |
| to be included in the District.
Any recreation
system or public | 3 |
| parks system that exists within the Metro-East District
created
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| under this
Section shall remain in existence with the same | 5 |
| powers and responsibilities it
had prior to
the creation of the | 6 |
| Metro-East District. Nothing in this Section shall be
construed | 7 |
| in any
manner to limit or prohibit:
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| (1) later establishment or cessation of any park or | 9 |
| recreation system
provided for by law; or
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| (2) any powers and responsibilities of any park or | 11 |
| recreation system
provided for by law.
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| (b) When the Metro-East District is organized, it shall be | 13 |
| a body corporate
and
a
political subdivision of this State, and | 14 |
| the District shall be known as the
"Metro-East
Park and | 15 |
| Recreation District", and in that name may sue and be sued, | 16 |
| issue
general
revenue bonds, and impose and collect taxes or | 17 |
| fees under this Act.
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| (c) The Metro-East District shall have as its primary duty | 19 |
| the development,
operation, and maintenance of a public system | 20 |
| of interconnecting trails and
parks
throughout the counties | 21 |
| comprising the District. The Metro-East District shall
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| supplement
but shall not substitute for the powers and | 23 |
| responsibilities of the other parks
and
recreation systems | 24 |
| within the Metro-East District and shall have the power to
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| contract with
the State of Illinois, the United States | 26 |
| Government, and other parks and recreation systems as well as | 27 |
| with the departments or agencies of any of those governmental | 28 |
| bodies and with other public and private
entities. | 29 |
| (d) All counties and communities comprising the Metro-East | 30 |
| Park and Recreation District shall make available upon written | 31 |
| request from the District, at no cost to the District, any and | 32 |
| all technical information and data necessary for the | 33 |
| implementation of the District's goals.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-103, eff. 7-13-99.)
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| (70 ILCS 1605/20)
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| Sec. 20. Board of directors.
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| (a) If the Metro-East District is created by only one | 3 |
| county, the District
shall be
managed by a board of directors | 4 |
| consisting of 3 members.
Two members shall be appointed by the | 5 |
| chief executive officer, with the advice
and consent of the | 6 |
| county board, of the county in which the District is
located,
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| and one member shall be appointed by the minority members of | 8 |
| the county board
with
the advice and consent of the county | 9 |
| board.
The first appointment shall be
made within 90
days and | 10 |
| not sooner than 60 days after the District has been organized. | 11 |
| Each
member of
the board so appointed shall be a legal voter in | 12 |
| the District. The first
directors shall be
appointed to hold | 13 |
| office for terms of one, 2, and 3 years, and until June 30
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| thereafter,
respectively, as determined by lot. Thereafter, | 15 |
| successors shall be appointed
in the same
manner no later than | 16 |
| the first day of the month in which the term of a director
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| expires. All terms expire if another county joins the District.
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| A vacancy occurring otherwise than by expiration of term | 19 |
| shall be filled
in the same manner as the original appointment.
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| (b) If the Metro-East District is created by more than one | 21 |
| county, each
county that elects to join the District shall
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| represented by a certain number of board members. The board | 23 |
| members shall
be
distributed from the counties electing to join | 24 |
| the District as follows:
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| (1) The chief executive officer, with the advice and | 26 |
| consent of the county
board, of St.
Clair county shall | 27 |
| appoint 2 members and the minority members of the county
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| board, with the advice and consent of the county board, | 29 |
| shall appoint one
member.
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| (2) The chief executive officer, with the advice and | 31 |
| consent of the county
board, of
Madison County shall | 32 |
| appoint 2 members and the minority members of the county
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| board, with the advice and consent of the county board, | 34 |
| shall appoint one
member.
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| (3) The chief executive officer, with the advice and | 36 |
| consent of the county
board, of
Clinton County shall |
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| appoint one member.
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| (4) The chief executive officer, with the advice and | 3 |
| consent of the county
board, of
Jersey County shall appoint | 4 |
| one member.
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| (5) The chief executive officer, with the advice and | 6 |
| consent of the county
board, of
Monroe County shall appoint | 7 |
| one member.
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| (6) The chief executive officer, with the advice and | 9 |
| consent of the county board, of Macoupin County shall | 10 |
| appoint one member.
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| The board members shall serve 3-year terms, except that | 12 |
| board members first
appointed shall be appointed to serve terms | 13 |
| of one, 2, or 3 years as determined
by lot,
provided that board | 14 |
| members from counties eligible to appoint more than one
member
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| may not serve identical initial terms. On the expiration of the | 16 |
| initial terms
of
appointment and on the expiration of any | 17 |
| subsequent term, the resulting vacancy
shall be
filled in the | 18 |
| same manner as the original appointment.
Board members shall | 19 |
| serve until
their
successors are appointed. Board members are | 20 |
| eligible for reappointment.
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| (c) No board member may hold a public office in any county | 22 |
| within the
Metro-East District, other than the office of notary | 23 |
| public. Board members must
be
citizens of the
United States and | 24 |
| they must reside within the county from which they are
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| appointed. No
board member may receive compensation for | 26 |
| performance of duties as a board
member.
No board member may be | 27 |
| financially interested directly or indirectly in any
contract
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| entered into under this Act.
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| (d) Promptly after their appointment, the initial board | 30 |
| members shall hold an
organizational meeting at which they | 31 |
| shall elect a president and any other
officers that
they deem | 32 |
| necessary from among their number. The members shall make and | 33 |
| adopt
any
bylaws, rules, and regulations for their guidance and | 34 |
| for the government of the
parks,
neighborhood trails, and | 35 |
| recreational grounds and facilities that may be
expedient and | 36 |
| not
inconsistent with this Act.
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| (e) Board members shall have the exclusive control of the | 2 |
| expenditures of all
money collected to the credit of the | 3 |
| Metro-East Park and Recreation Fund
created pursuant
to Section | 4 |
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| public
parks,
neighborhood trails, recreational facilities, | 6 |
| and grounds owned, maintained, or
managed
by the Metro-East | 7 |
| District. All moneys received for those purposes shall be
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| deposited in
the
Metro-East Park and Recreation Fund. The board | 9 |
| shall have power to purchase or
otherwise secure ground to be | 10 |
| used for parks, neighborhood trails, recreational
facilities,
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| and grounds; shall have power to appoint suitable persons to | 12 |
| maintain the
parks,
neighborhood trails, recreational grounds, | 13 |
| and facilities and to administer
recreational
programs and to | 14 |
| fix their compensation; and shall have power to remove those
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| appointees.
The board shall keep accurate records of all its | 16 |
| proceedings and actions and
shall comply with the provisions of | 17 |
| the
Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-103, eff. 7-13-99.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 20 |
| becoming law.
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