Full Text of HB6841 096th General Assembly
HB6841 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 HB6841
Introduced 3/23/2010, by Rep. Jack D. Franks SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/1A-45 new |
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10 ILCS 5/28-1 |
from Ch. 46, par. 28-1 |
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Amends the Election Code. Requires that the State Board of Elections certify an advisory question for the 2010 general election ballot to each election authority serving a unit of local government with a red light camera system as to whether the unit and its police department should cease issuing tickets from that system for right turns against red traffic signals. Repealed January 1, 2011. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning elections.
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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 Election Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 28-1 and by adding Section 1A-45 as follows: | 6 |
| (10 ILCS 5/1A-45 new) | 7 |
| Sec. 1A-45. 2010 red light camera advisory question. For | 8 |
| the 2010 general election ballot, the State Board of Elections | 9 |
| shall certify the following advisory question to each election | 10 |
| authority whose jurisdiction includes territory in a unit of | 11 |
| local government with an automatic traffic law enforcement | 12 |
| system (red light camera system): | 13 |
| "Should the (insert name of unit of local government) and | 14 |
| its police department cease issuing traffic citations from an | 15 |
| automatic traffic law enforcement system (red light camera | 16 |
| system) for any right turn made against a red traffic signal?". | 17 |
| The question shall be placed upon the 2010 general election | 18 |
| ballot, with votes for or against the question recorded as | 19 |
| "yes" or "no", respectively, in accordance with this Code. | 20 |
| This Section is repealed January 1, 2011.
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| (10 ILCS 5/28-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 28-1)
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| Sec. 28-1.
The initiation and submission of all public |
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| questions to
be voted upon by the electors of the State or of | 2 |
| any political
subdivision or district or precinct or | 3 |
| combination of precincts shall be
subject to the provisions of | 4 |
| this Article.
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| Questions of public policy which have any legal effect | 6 |
| shall be
submitted to referendum only as authorized by a | 7 |
| statute which so
provides or by the Constitution. Advisory | 8 |
| questions of public policy
shall be submitted to referendum | 9 |
| pursuant to Section 28-5 or pursuant to
a statute which so | 10 |
| provides.
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| The method of initiating the submission of a public | 12 |
| question shall be
as provided by the statute authorizing such | 13 |
| public question, or as
provided by the Constitution.
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| All public questions shall be initiated, submitted and | 15 |
| printed on the
ballot in the form required by Section 16-7 of | 16 |
| this Act, except as may
otherwise be specified in the statute | 17 |
| authorizing a public question.
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| Whenever a statute provides for the initiation of a public | 19 |
| question
by a petition of electors, the provisions of such | 20 |
| statute shall govern
with respect to the number of signatures | 21 |
| required, the qualifications of
persons entitled to sign the | 22 |
| petition, the contents of the petition, the
officer with whom | 23 |
| the petition must be filed, and the form of the
question to be | 24 |
| submitted. If such statute does not specify any of the
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| foregoing petition requirements, the corresponding petition | 26 |
| requirements
of Section 28-6 shall govern such petition.
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| Irrespective of the method of initiation, not more than 3 | 2 |
| public
questions other than (a) back door referenda, (b) | 3 |
| referenda to
determine whether a disconnection may take place | 4 |
| where a city coterminous
with a township is proposing to annex | 5 |
| territory from an adjacent township, (c) referenda held under | 6 |
| the provisions of the Property Tax Extension
Limitation Law in | 7 |
| the Property Tax Code, or (d) referenda held under
Section | 8 |
| 2-3002 of the Counties Code , or (e) the 2010 red light camera | 9 |
| advisory question submitted pursuant to Section 1A-45 of this | 10 |
| Code may be submitted to
referendum with respect to a political
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| subdivision at the same election.
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| If more than 3 propositions are timely initiated or | 13 |
| certified for
submission at an election with respect to a | 14 |
| political subdivision, the
first 3 validly initiated, by the | 15 |
| filing of a petition or by the
adoption of a resolution or | 16 |
| ordinance of a political subdivision, as the
case may be, shall | 17 |
| be printed on the ballot and submitted at that
election. | 18 |
| However, except as expressly authorized by law not more than
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| one proposition to change the form of government of a | 20 |
| municipality
pursuant to Article VII of the Constitution may be | 21 |
| submitted at an
election. If more than one such proposition is | 22 |
| timely initiated or
certified for submission at an election | 23 |
| with respect to a municipality,
the first validly initiated | 24 |
| shall be the one printed on the ballot and
submitted at that | 25 |
| election.
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| No public question shall be submitted to the voters of a |
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| political
subdivision at any regularly scheduled election at | 2 |
| which such voters are
not scheduled to cast votes for any | 3 |
| candidates for nomination for, election
to or retention in | 4 |
| public office, except that if, in any existing or proposed
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| political subdivision in which the submission of a public | 6 |
| question at a
regularly scheduled election is desired, the | 7 |
| voters of only a portion of
such existing or proposed political | 8 |
| subdivision are not scheduled to cast votes
for nomination for, | 9 |
| election to or retention in public office at such election,
but | 10 |
| the voters in one or more other portions of such existing or | 11 |
| proposed
political subdivision are scheduled to cast votes for | 12 |
| nomination for, election
to or retention in public office at | 13 |
| such election, the public question shall be
voted upon by all | 14 |
| the qualified voters of the entire existing or proposed
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| political subdivision at the election.
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| Not more than 3 advisory public questions may be submitted | 17 |
| to the
voters of the entire state at a general election. If | 18 |
| more than 3 such advisory
propositions are initiated, the first | 19 |
| 3 timely and validly initiated
shall be the questions printed | 20 |
| on the ballot and submitted at that
election; provided however, | 21 |
| that a question for a proposed amendment to
Article IV of the | 22 |
| Constitution pursuant to Section 3, Article XIV of the
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| Constitution, or for a question submitted under the Property | 24 |
| Tax Cap
Referendum Law, shall not be included in the foregoing | 25 |
| limitation.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-308, eff. 7-23-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 2 |
| becoming law.
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