Full Text of SB1498 94th General Assembly
SB1498 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 SB1498
Introduced 2/23/2005, by Sen. Bill Brady SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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70 ILCS 5/3.1 |
from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 68.3a |
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Amends the Airport Authorities Act. Provides, with respect to the appointment of boards of commissioners for airport authorities, that if an authority has 2 or more municipalities with a population of 5,000 or more within the authority, then each municipality shall appoint one commissioner and the county board president in the county in which the airport authority is located shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the county board, 3 (now, 2) commissioners at large (now, one commissioner is appointed from areas outside the municipalities). Deletes a requirement that a commissioner representing the area within an authority that is located outside of any municipality shall reside within the area. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Airport Authorities Act is amended by | 5 |
| changing Section 3.1 as follows:
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| (70 ILCS 5/3.1) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 68.3a)
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| Sec. 3.1. Boards of commissioners - Appointment. The Boards | 8 |
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Commissioners of Authorities shall be appointed as follows:
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| (1) In case there are one or more municipalities having a | 10 |
| population of
5,000 or more within the Authority, the | 11 |
| commissioners shall be appointed as
follows:
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| (a) Where there is only one such municipality, 3 | 13 |
| commissioners shall be
appointed from such municipality, | 14 |
| and 2 commissioners shall be appointed at
large.
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| (b) Where there are 2 or more such municipalities, one | 16 |
| commissioner
shall be appointed from each such | 17 |
| municipality, one commissioner shall be
appointed from the | 18 |
| areas within the authority located outside of such
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| municipalities, and 3
2 commissioners shall be appointed at | 20 |
| large; except
that when the physical facilities of the | 21 |
| airport of the Authority are located
wholly within a single | 22 |
| county with a population between 600,000 and
3,000,000 | 23 |
| there shall be one commissioner appointed from each | 24 |
| municipality
within the corporate limits of the Authority | 25 |
| having 5,000 or more
population and 5 commissioners | 26 |
| appointed at large. If the
Authority is located wholly | 27 |
| within the corporate limits of such
municipalities, 2 | 28 |
| commissioners shall be appointed from the one of such
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| municipalities having the largest population, and one | 30 |
| commissioner shall be
appointed from each of the other such | 31 |
| municipalities, and 2 commissioners
shall be appointed at | 32 |
| large.
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| (c) Commissioners representing the area within an | 2 |
| Authority located
outside of any municipality having 5,000 | 3 |
| or more population and
commissioners appointed at large | 4 |
| when the authority is wholly contained
within a single | 5 |
| county shall be appointed by the presiding officer of the
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| county board with the advice and consent of the county | 7 |
| board, and when the
physical facilities of the airport of | 8 |
| the Authority are located wholly within
a single county | 9 |
| with a population between 600,000 and 3,000,000 the
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| commissioners appointed at large shall be appointed by the
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| chairman of the county board of such county, and any
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| commissioner representing the area within any such | 13 |
| municipality shall be
appointed by its mayor or the | 14 |
| presiding officer of its governing body. If
however the | 15 |
| district is located in more than one county other than a
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| county with a population between 600,000 and 3,000,000, the | 17 |
| members of the
General Assembly whose legislative | 18 |
| districts encompass any portion of the
Authority shall | 19 |
| appoint the commissioners representing the area within an
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| Authority located outside of any municipality having 5,000 | 21 |
| or more
population and commissioners at large but any | 22 |
| commissioner representing the
area within any such | 23 |
| municipality shall be appointed by its mayor or the
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| presiding officer of its governing body.
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| (d) A commissioner representing the area within any | 26 |
| such municipality
shall reside within its corporate | 27 |
| limits. A commissioner representing the
area within an | 28 |
| authority and located outside of any such municipality | 29 |
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reside within such area. A commissioner appointed at | 30 |
| large may reside
either within or without any such | 31 |
| municipality but must reside within the
territory of the | 32 |
| authority. Should any commissioner cease to reside within
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| that part of the territory he represents, or should the | 34 |
| territory in which
he resides cease to be a part of the | 35 |
| authority, then his office shall be
deemed vacated, and | 36 |
| shall be filled by appointment for the remainder of the
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| term as hereinafter provided.
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| (2) In case there are no municipalities having a population | 3 |
| of 5,000 or
more within such authority located wholly within a | 4 |
| single county, such
order shall so find, and in such case the | 5 |
| Board shall consist of 5
commissioners who shall be appointed | 6 |
| at large by the presiding officer of
the county board with the | 7 |
| advice and consent of the county board. If
however the district | 8 |
| is located in more than one county, the members of the
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| Assembly whose legislative districts encompass any portion of | 10 |
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Authority shall appoint the commissioners at large.
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| (3) Should a municipality which is wholly within an | 12 |
| authority attain, or
should such a municipality be established, | 13 |
| having a population of 5,000 or
more after the entry of said | 14 |
| order by the circuit court, the presiding
officer of such | 15 |
| municipality may petition the circuit court for an order
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| finding and determining the population of such municipality | 17 |
| and, if it is
found and determined upon the hearing of said | 18 |
| petition that the population
of such municipality is 5,000 or | 19 |
| more, the board of commissioners of such
authority as | 20 |
| previously established shall be increased by one commissioner
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| who shall reside within the corporate limits of such | 22 |
| municipality and shall
be appointed by its presiding officer. | 23 |
| The initial commissioner so
appointed shall serve for a term of | 24 |
| 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 years, as may be
determined by lot, and his | 25 |
| successors shall be similarly appointed and
shall serve for | 26 |
| terms of 5 years. All provisions of this section applicable
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| commissioners representing municipal areas shall apply to any | 28 |
| such
commissioner. Each such commissioner shall reside within | 29 |
| the authority and
shall continue to reside therein.
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| (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, | 31 |
| the Board of
Commissioners of a Metropolitan Airport Authority | 32 |
| shall consist of 9
commissioners.
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| Seven commissioners shall be residents of the county with
a | 34 |
| population between 600,000 and 3,000,000 within which the | 35 |
| Metropolitan
Airport Authority was established. These | 36 |
| commissioners shall be
appointed by the county board chairman |
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| of the county
with a population between 600,000 and 3,000,000 | 2 |
| within which the
Metropolitan Airport Authority was | 3 |
| established, with the advice and
consent of the county board of | 4 |
| that county.
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| Two commissioners shall be residents of the territory of | 6 |
| the Authority
located outside the county with a population | 7 |
| between 600,000 and 3,000,000.
These commissioners shall be | 8 |
| appointed jointly by the mayors of the
municipalities having a | 9 |
| population over 5,000 that are located outside the
county with | 10 |
| a population between 600,000 and 3,000,000, with the advice and
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| consent of the governing bodies of those municipalities.
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| The transition from the pre-existing composition of the | 13 |
| Metropolitan
Airport Authority Board of Commissioners to the | 14 |
| composition specified in
this amendatory Act of 1991 shall be | 15 |
| accomplished as follows:
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| (A) The appointee who was required to be a resident | 17 |
| of the area
outside of the county with a population | 18 |
| between 600,000 and 3,000,000 may
serve until his or | 19 |
| her term expires. The replacement shall be one of the 2
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| appointees who shall be residents of the territory of | 21 |
| the Authority located
outside the county with a | 22 |
| population between 600,000 and 3,000,000.
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| (B) The other 8 commissioners may serve until their | 24 |
| terms expire. Upon
the occurrence of the second vacancy | 25 |
| among these 8 commissioners after the
effective date of | 26 |
| this amendatory Act of 1991, the replacement shall be | 27 |
| the
second of the 2 appointees who shall be residents | 28 |
| of the territory of the
Authority located outside of | 29 |
| the county with a population between 600,000
and | 30 |
| 3,000,000. Upon the expiration of the terms of the | 31 |
| other 7
commissioners, the replacements shall be | 32 |
| residents of the county with a
population between | 33 |
| 600,000 and 3,000,000.
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| (C) All commissioners appointed after the | 35 |
| effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1991, and | 36 |
| their successors, shall be appointed in the
manner set |
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| forth in this amendatory Act of 1991.
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| (Source: P.A. 87-699.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 4 |
| becoming law.
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