Full Text of SB2779 101st General Assembly
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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 Park District Code is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 2-17.5 as follows: | 6 | | (70 ILCS 1205/2-17.5) | 7 | | Sec. 2-17.5. Fox Valley Park District. | 8 | | (a) The Fox Valley Pleasure Driveway and Park District is | 9 | | reorganized by operation of law as the Fox Valley Park District | 10 | | under this Code on July 16, 2014 ( the effective date of Public | 11 | | Act 98-772) this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly . | 12 | | (b) Each Fox Valley Park District commissioner shall be a | 13 | | legal voter and reside within the park district and, as to the | 14 | | subdistrict commissioners, each shall reside within the | 15 | | subdistrict from which he or she is elected . The proper | 16 | | election authority shall conduct the elections for | 17 | | commissioners at the time and in the manner provided by the | 18 | | general election law. | 19 | | (c) Beginning with the consolidated election in 2017, 7 | 20 | | commissioners shall be elected for 4-year terms, consisting of | 21 | | 6 commissioners from 3 2-member subdistricts districts, and 1 | 22 | | commissioner elected at large. The terms of office of the | 23 | | initial commissioners elected under Public Act 98-772 this |
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| 1 | | amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly will run as | 2 | | follows, to be determined by lot: 4 members shall serve a | 3 | | 4-year term and may be re-elected for subsequent 4-year terms, | 4 | | and 3 members shall serve a 2-year term and may be re-elected | 5 | | for subsequent 4-year terms thereafter. | 6 | | The initial three subdistricts districts of the Fox Valley | 7 | | Park District shall be as follows: | 8 | | (1) Those portions of Kane County and Kendall County | 9 | | west of the Fox River. | 10 | | (2) Those portions of Kane County and Kendall County | 11 | | east of the Fox River and south and west of a line | 12 | | following Indian Trail Road from the center line of the Fox | 13 | | River easterly to the intersection with Farnsworth Avenue, | 14 | | then southerly along Farnsworth Avenue to the intersection | 15 | | with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, then | 16 | | easterly to the county line. | 17 | | (3) Those portions of the district in DuPage County and | 18 | | Will County and that portion of Kane County generally north | 19 | | and east of a line following Indian Trail Road from the | 20 | | center line of the Fox River easterly to the intersection | 21 | | with Farnsworth Avenue, then southerly along Farnsworth | 22 | | Avenue to the intersection with Burlington Northern Santa | 23 | | Fe Railroad, then easterly to the county line. | 24 | | In the year following the next decennial census and each | 25 | | decennial census thereafter, the board of commissioners shall | 26 | | reapportion the subdistricts districts to reflect the results |
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| 1 | | of the census. A nominating petition for a candidate for | 2 | | commissioner of a subdistrict or for a candidate for the | 3 | | at-large commissioner shall contain signatures of registered | 4 | | voters residing anywhere within the Fox Valley Park District, | 5 | | but at least 50 such registered voters or 2% of the total | 6 | | number of ballots cast Park District-wide in the last preceding | 7 | | election for commissioners in the Fox Valley Park District, | 8 | | whichever is less. | 9 | | The term of office for the commissioners elected
under this
| 10 | | Section shall commence on the first Monday
of the month | 11 | | following the month of election. The terms of all appointed | 12 | | trustees serving on July 16, 2014 ( the effective date of Public | 13 | | Act 98-772) this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly | 14 | | shall end when their successors have been elected and | 15 | | qualified. | 16 | | (d) The Fox Valley Park District board of commissioners | 17 | | shall elect officers of the board at the first meeting of the | 18 | | board following the next consolidated election for park | 19 | | district commissioners. | 20 | | (e) As of July 16, 2014 ( the effective date of Public Act | 21 | | 98-772) this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly , each | 22 | | Fox Valley Pleasure Driveway and Park District trustee in | 23 | | office shall, as a member of the board of the Fox Valley Park | 24 | | District, perform the duties and exercise the powers conferred | 25 | | upon park board commissioners under this Code, until his or her | 26 | | successor is elected and has qualified. |
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| 1 | | (f) Any tax authorized by referendum or other means under | 2 | | this Code and levied by the Fox Valley Pleasure Driveway and | 3 | | Park District before July 16, 2014 ( the effective date of | 4 | | Public Act 98-772) this amendatory Act of the 98th General | 5 | | Assembly shall not be affected or abrogated because of the name | 6 | | change, and the Fox Valley Park District may continue to levy | 7 | | and collect that tax.
| 8 | | (Source: P.A. 98-772, eff. 7-16-14.)
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