Full Text of HB3519 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning elections.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 1-3 as follows:
| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/1-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 1-3)
| 7 | | Sec. 1-3. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise | 8 | | requires:
| 9 | | 1. "Election" includes the submission of all questions of | 10 | | public
policy, propositions, and all measures submitted to | 11 | | popular vote, and
includes primary elections when so indicated | 12 | | by the context.
| 13 | | 2. "Regular election" means the general, general primary,
| 14 | | consolidated and consolidated primary elections regularly | 15 | | scheduled in Article
2A. The even numbered year municipal | 16 | | primary established in Article 2A is
a regular election only | 17 | | with respect to those municipalities in which a
primary is | 18 | | required to be held on such date.
| 19 | | 3. "Special election" means an election not regularly | 20 | | recurring at fixed
intervals, irrespective of whether it is | 21 | | held at the same time and place and by
the same election | 22 | | officers as a regular election.
| 23 | | 4. "General election" means the biennial election at which |
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| 1 | | members of
the General Assembly are elected. "General primary | 2 | | election", "consolidated election" and "consolidated primary | 3 | | election" mean
the respective elections or the election dates | 4 | | designated and established
in Article 2A of this Code.
| 5 | | 5. "Municipal election" means an election or primary, | 6 | | either regular
or special, in cities, villages, and | 7 | | incorporated towns; and "municipality"
means any such city, | 8 | | village or incorporated town.
| 9 | | 6. "Political or governmental subdivision" means any unit | 10 | | of local
government, or school district in which elections are | 11 | | or may be held.
"Political or governmental subdivision" also | 12 | | includes, for election purposes,
Regional Boards of School | 13 | | Trustees, and Township Boards of School Trustees.
| 14 | | 7. The word "township" and the word "town" shall apply
| 15 | | interchangeably to the type of governmental organization | 16 | | established in
accordance with the provisions of the Township | 17 | | Code. The term
"incorporated town" shall mean a municipality | 18 | | referred to as an
incorporated town in the Illinois Municipal | 19 | | Code, as now or hereafter
amended.
| 20 | | 8. "Election authority" means a county clerk or a Board of | 21 | | Election
Commissioners.
| 22 | | 9. "Election Jurisdiction" means (a) an entire county, in | 23 | | the case of
a county in which no city board of election | 24 | | commissioners is located or
which is under the jurisdiction of | 25 | | a county board of election commissioners;
(b) the territorial | 26 | | jurisdiction of a city board of election commissioners;
and (c) |
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| 1 | | the territory in a county outside of the jurisdiction of a city
| 2 | | board of election commissioners. In each instance election | 3 | | jurisdiction
shall be determined according to which election | 4 | | authority maintains the
permanent registration records of | 5 | | qualified electors.
| 6 | | 10. "Local election official" means the clerk or secretary | 7 | | of a unit
of local government or school district, as the case | 8 | | may be, the treasurer
of a township board of school trustees, | 9 | | and the regional superintendent
of schools with respect to the | 10 | | various school officer elections and school
referenda for which | 11 | | the regional superintendent is assigned election duties
by The | 12 | | School Code, as now or hereafter amended.
| 13 | | 11. "Judges of election", "primary judges" and similar | 14 | | terms, as
applied to cases where there are 2 sets of judges, | 15 | | when used in
connection with duties at an election during the | 16 | | hours the polls are
open, refer to the team of judges of | 17 | | election on duty during such hours;
and, when used with | 18 | | reference to duties after the closing of the polls,
refer to | 19 | | the team of tally judges designated to count the vote after the
| 20 | | closing of the polls and the holdover judges designated | 21 | | pursuant to
Section 13-6.2 or 14-5.2. In such case, where, | 22 | | after the closing of the
polls, any act is required to be | 23 | | performed by each of the judges of
election, it shall be | 24 | | performed by each of the tally judges and by each
of the | 25 | | holdover judges.
| 26 | | 12. "Petition" of candidacy as used in Sections 7-10 and |
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| 1 | | 7-10.1
shall consist of a statement of candidacy, candidate's | 2 | | statement
containing oath, and sheets containing signatures of | 3 | | qualified primary
electors bound together.
| 4 | | 13. "Election district" and "precinct", when used with | 5 | | reference to
a 30-day residence requirement, means the smallest | 6 | | constituent territory
in which electors vote as a unit at the | 7 | | same polling place in any
election governed by this Act.
| 8 | | 14. "District" means any area which votes as a unit for the | 9 | | election of
any officer, other than the State or a unit of | 10 | | local government or school
district, and includes, but is not | 11 | | limited to, legislative, congressional
and judicial districts, | 12 | | judicial circuits, county board districts,
municipal and | 13 | | sanitary district wards, school board districts, and | 14 | | precincts.
| 15 | | 15. "Question of public policy" or "public question"
means | 16 | | any question, proposition or measure submitted to the voters at | 17 | | an
election dealing with subject matter other than the | 18 | | nomination or election
of candidates and shall include, but is | 19 | | not limited to, any bond or tax
referendum, and questions | 20 | | relating to the Constitution.
| 21 | | 16. "Ordinance providing the form of government of a | 22 | | municipality
or county pursuant to Article VII of the | 23 | | Constitution" includes ordinances,
resolutions and petitions | 24 | | adopted by referendum which provide for the form
of government, | 25 | | the officers or the manner of selection or terms of office
of | 26 | | officers of such municipality or county, pursuant to the |
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| 1 | | provisions of
Sections 4, 6 or 7 of Article VII of the | 2 | | Constitution.
| 3 | | 17. "List" as used in Sections 4-11, 4-22, 5-14, 5-29, | 4 | | 6-60, and 6-66
shall include a computer tape or computer disc | 5 | | or other electronic data
processing information containing | 6 | | voter information.
| 7 | | 18. "Accessible" means accessible to persons with | 8 | | disabilities and elderly
individuals for the purpose of voting | 9 | | or registration, as determined by
rule of the State Board of | 10 | | Elections.
| 11 | | 19. "Elderly" means 65 years of age or older.
| 12 | | 20. "Person with a disability" means a person having a | 13 | | temporary or permanent physical disability.
| 14 | | 21. "Leading political party" means one of the two | 15 | | political parties
whose candidates for governor at the most | 16 | | recent three gubernatorial
elections received either the | 17 | | highest or second highest average number of
votes. The | 18 | | political party whose candidates for governor received the
| 19 | | highest average number of votes shall be known as the first | 20 | | leading
political party and the political party whose | 21 | | candidates for governor
received the second highest average | 22 | | number of votes shall be known as the
second leading political | 23 | | party.
| 24 | | 22. "Business day" means any day in which the office of an | 25 | | election
authority, local election official or the State Board | 26 | | of Elections is open
to the public for a minimum of 7 hours.
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| 1 | | 23. "Homeless individual" means any person who has a | 2 | | nontraditional
residence, including, but not limited to, a | 3 | | shelter, day shelter, park
bench, street corner, or space under | 4 | | a bridge.
| 5 | | 24. "Signature" means a name signed in ink or signed in | 6 | | digitized form. This definition does not apply to a nominating | 7 | | or candidate petition or a referendum petition. | 8 | | 25. "Intelligent mail barcode tracking system" means a | 9 | | printed trackable barcode attached to the return business reply | 10 | | envelope for mail-in ballots under Article 19 or Article 20 | 11 | | that allows an election authority to determine the date the | 12 | | envelope was mailed in absence of a postmark. | 13 | | (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 99-522, eff. 6-30-16.)
| 14 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 15 | | becoming law.
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