Full Text of SB2942 93rd General Assembly
SB2942 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 SB2942
Introduced 2/6/2004, by Mattie Hunter SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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70 ILCS 3615/3.01 |
from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 703.01 |
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Amends the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Board of Directors.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning transportation.
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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 Regional Transportation Authority Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 3.01 as follows:
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| (70 ILCS 3615/3.01) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 703.01)
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| Sec. 3.01. Board of Directors. Upon expiration
expiration | 8 |
| of the term of the members
of the Transition Board as provided | 9 |
| for in Section 3.09,
the corporate authorities and governing | 10 |
| body of the Authority shall
be a Board consisting of 13 | 11 |
| Directors appointed as follows:
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| (a) Four Directors appointed by the Mayor of the City of
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| Chicago, with the advice and consent of the City Council of the | 14 |
| City of
Chicago, and a fifth director who shall be the Chairman | 15 |
| of the Chicago
Transit Authority. Each such Director shall | 16 |
| reside in the City of Chicago
except the Chairman of the | 17 |
| Chicago Transit Authority who shall reside
within the | 18 |
| metropolitan area as defined in the Metropolitan Transit | 19 |
| Authority Act.
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| (b) Four Directors appointed by the members of the Cook | 21 |
| County Board
elected from that part of Cook County outside of | 22 |
| Chicago, or, in the
event such Board of Commissioners becomes | 23 |
| elected from single member
districts, by those Commissioners | 24 |
| elected from districts, a majority of
the electors of which | 25 |
| reside outside Chicago. In either case, such appointment
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| be with the concurrence of four such Commissioners.
Each such | 27 |
| Director shall reside in that part of Cook County outside
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| Chicago.
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| (c) Two Directors appointed by the Chairmen of the county | 30 |
| boards
of Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will Counties, with the | 31 |
| concurrence of not less
than a majority of the Chairmen from | 32 |
| such counties, from nominees by
the Chairmen. Each such |
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| Chairman may nominate not more than 2 persons for
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| position. Each such Director shall reside in a county in the | 3 |
| metropolitan
region other than Cook or DuPage Counties.
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| (d) One Director shall be appointed by the Chairman
of the | 5 |
| Board of DuPage County with the advice and consent of the | 6 |
| County
Board of DuPage County and shall reside in DuPage | 7 |
| County.
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| (e) Before January 1, 1987, for the term expiring July 1,
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| 1989, the Chairman shall be appointed
by the Governor. | 10 |
| Thereafter the Chairman shall be appointed by the other
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| Directors with the concurrence of three-fourths of such | 12 |
| Directors. The
chairman shall not be appointed from among the | 13 |
| other Directors. The chairman
shall be a resident of the | 14 |
| metropolitan region.
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| (f) Except as otherwise provided by this Act no Director
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| shall, while serving as such, be an officer,
a member of the | 17 |
| Board of Directors or Trustees or an employee of any | 18 |
| transportation
agency, or be an employee of the State of | 19 |
| Illinois or any department or
agency thereof, or of any unit of | 20 |
| local government or receive any compensation
from any elected | 21 |
| or appointed office under the Constitution and laws of
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| Illinois; except that a Director may be a member of a school | 23 |
| board.
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| (g) Each appointment made under this Section and
under | 25 |
| Section 3.03 shall be certified by the appointing authority to | 26 |
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Board, which shall maintain the certifications as part of | 27 |
| the official
records of the Authority; provided that the | 28 |
| initial appointments shall
be certified to the Secretary of | 29 |
| State, who shall transmit the
certifications to the Board | 30 |
| following its organization. All appointments
made by the | 31 |
| Governor shall be made with the advice and consent of the | 32 |
| Senate.
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| (h) The Board of Directors shall be so appointed as to | 34 |
| represent the
City of Chicago, that part of Cook County outside | 35 |
| the City of Chicago,
and that part of the metropolitan region | 36 |
| outside Cook County on the one
man one vote basis. After each |
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| Federal decennial census the General
Assembly shall review the | 2 |
| composition of the Board and, if a change is
needed to comply | 3 |
| with this requirement, shall provide for the necessary
revision | 4 |
| by July 1 of the third year after such census.
Provided, | 5 |
| however, that the Chairman of the Chicago Transit Authority
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| shall be a Director of the Authority and shall be considered as | 7 |
| representing
the City of Chicago for purposes of this | 8 |
| paragraph.
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| Insofar as may be practicable, the changes in Board | 10 |
| membership
necessary to achieve this purpose shall take effect | 11 |
| as appropriate
members terms expire, no member's term being | 12 |
| reduced by reason of such
revision of the composition of the | 13 |
| Board.
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| (Source: P.A. 83-1417.)
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