Full Text of HB1511 097th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning courts.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Jury Commission Act is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 1 as follows:
| 6 | | (705 ILCS 310/1) (from Ch. 78, par. 24)
| 7 | | Sec. 1.
(a) In every county of this State now containing, | 8 | | or which may
hereafter
contain more than 75,000 inhabitants, | 9 | | and in any other county with a
population less than 3,000,000 | 10 | | in which the
county board by resolution determines that jury | 11 | | commissioners shall be
appointed, the circuit judges in the | 12 | | circuit of which the county is a part,
or a majority of them, | 13 | | shall choose 3 competent and discreet electors, who
shall not | 14 | | be so chosen on account of party affiliations, who shall be | 15 | | known
as jury commissioners. Such commissioners shall, in | 16 | | counties now containing
the required number of inhabitants, be | 17 | | chosen on the first Monday of July,
1897, and in counties | 18 | | hereafter containing the required number of
inhabitants such | 19 | | commissioners shall be chosen on the first Monday of July,
| 20 | | after it shall have been determined by the last preceding | 21 | | national census
that the inhabitants of such county are of the | 22 | | number required or after the
county board by resolution | 23 | | determines that jury commissioners shall be
appointed, as the |
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| 1 | | case may be. Of the first 3 so chosen, one shall hold his
| 2 | | office for one year, one for 2 years and one for 3 years, to be | 3 | | determined
by lot, and every year thereafter one such officer | 4 | | shall be chosen for the
term of 3 years. Each of such | 5 | | commissioners, before entering upon the
duties of his office, | 6 | | shall take and subscribe to an oath of office before
one of | 7 | | such judges, and shall execute a bond to the People of the | 8 | | State of
Illinois in such sums and with such sureties as shall | 9 | | be required by such
judge and be, by him, approved, conditioned | 10 | | for the faithful discharge of
his duties as such commissioner | 11 | | during his term of office. The majority of
the Circuit judges | 12 | | herein referred to may remove either of such
commissioners, | 13 | | assigning reasons therefor, and fill all vacancies occurring
in | 14 | | the office of any such commissioners by death, resignation or | 15 | | removal.
| 16 | | In a county with a population of at least 200,000 but less | 17 | | than 300,000, the circuit judges in the circuit of which the | 18 | | county is a part,
or a majority of them, may choose to appoint | 19 | | 4, rather than 3, jury commissioners. | 20 | | (b) In counties with a population of at least 3,000,000, | 21 | | the chief judge
of the circuit of that county may discontinue | 22 | | the appointment of jury
commissioners for that county. If the | 23 | | chief judge of a circuit in a county
with
a population of at | 24 | | least 3,000,000 discontinues the appointments of the jury
| 25 | | commissioners, the functions of the jury commissioners may be | 26 | | performed by a
jury administrator.
The jury commissioners in |
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| 1 | | office at the time of the
discontinuance shall complete their | 2 | | terms of office and shall discharge their
duties and | 3 | | responsibilities as assigned by the chief judge of that | 4 | | circuit.
| 5 | | (Source: P.A. 90-481, eff. 1-1-98.)
| 6 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 7 | | becoming law.
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