Full Text of SB1415 103rd General Assembly
SB1415 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2023 and 2024 SB1415 Introduced 2/7/2023, by Sen. Mike Porfirio SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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70 ILCS 2605/3 | from Ch. 42, par. 322 |
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Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Requires the advice and consent of the Senate for Governor appointments to fill a trustee vacancy in the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. Provides that if, during a recess of the Senate, there is a vacancy in an office of trustee, the Governor shall make a temporary appointment until the next meeting of the Senate when the Governor shall make a nomination to fill the vacant office. Effective immediately.
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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 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act | 5 | | is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
| 6 | | (70 ILCS 2605/3) (from Ch. 42, par. 322)
| 7 | | Sec. 3.
The corporate authority of the Sanitary District | 8 | | of Chicago shall
consist of nine trustees. Such trustees shall | 9 | | be elected for staggered
terms at the election provided by the | 10 | | general election law. Three trustees
shall be elected at each | 11 | | such election to succeed the 3 trustees whose terms
expire in | 12 | | such year.
| 13 | | Such trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday after | 14 | | the first Monday
in the month following the month of their | 15 | | election and shall hold their
offices for six years and until | 16 | | their successors shall be elected and qualified.
In all | 17 | | elections for trustees each elector may vote for as many | 18 | | candidates
as there are trustees to be elected, but no elector | 19 | | may give to such candidates
more than one vote, it being the | 20 | | intent and purpose of this Act to prohibit
cumulative voting | 21 | | in the selection of members of the board of the sanitary | 22 | | district.
| 23 | | The election of trustees shall be in accordance with the |
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| 1 | | provisions of
the general election law.
| 2 | | By reason of the importance and character of the services | 3 | | performed by
the sanitary district, there is a great need and | 4 | | it is in the public interest
that such services be performed in | 5 | | as near a non-partisan character as possible.
| 6 | | When a vacancy exists in the office of trustees of any | 7 | | sanitary district
organized under the provisions hereof, the | 8 | | vacancy shall be filled by appointment
by the Governor , by and | 9 | | with the advice and consent of the Senate, until the next | 10 | | regular election at which trustees of the
Sanitary District of | 11 | | Chicago are elected, and thereafter until a successor
shall be | 12 | | elected and qualified. If, during a recess of the Senate, | 13 | | there is a vacancy in an office of trustee, the Governor shall | 14 | | make a temporary appointment until the next meeting of the | 15 | | Senate when the Governor shall make a nomination to fill the | 16 | | vacant office.
| 17 | | Such sanitary district shall from the time of the first | 18 | | election held by
it under this Act be construed in all courts | 19 | | to be
a body corporate and politic, and by the name and style | 20 | | of the sanitary
district of...., and by such name and style may | 21 | | sue and be sued, contract
and be contracted with, acquire and | 22 | | hold real estate and personal property
necessary for corporate | 23 | | purposes,
and adopt a common seal and alter the same at | 24 | | pleasure.
| 25 | | The board of trustees shall have the power to change the | 26 | | name of the Sanitary
District of Chicago by ordinance and |
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| 1 | | public notice without impairing the
legal status of acts | 2 | | theretofore performed by said district. Thereafter
any and all | 3 | | references to the Sanitary District of Chicago in this Act or
| 4 | | otherwise shall mean and include the name under which such | 5 | | sanitary district
is then operating. No rights, duties or | 6 | | privilege of such a sanitary district,
or those of any person, | 7 | | existing before the change of name shall be affected
by a | 8 | | change, in the name of a sanitary district. All proceedings | 9 | | pending
in any court in favor of or against such sanitary | 10 | | district may continue
to final consummation under the name in | 11 | | which they were commenced.
| 12 | | (Source: P.A. 83-345.)
| 13 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 14 | | becoming law.
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