(110 ILCS 665/10-15)
Sec. 10-15.
Membership; terms; vacancies.
The Board shall consist of 7
voting members appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, and one voting member who is a student at Eastern Illinois
University. The student member shall be chosen by a campus-wide student
election. The student member shall serve a term of one year beginning on July
1 of each year, except that the student member initially selected shall serve
a term beginning on the date of his or her selection and expiring on the next
succeeding June 30. To be eligible for selection as a student member and to
be eligible to remain as a student member of the Board, the student member
must be a resident of this State, must have and maintain a grade point average
that is equivalent to at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale, and must be a full time
student enrolled at all times during his or her term of office except for that
part of the term which follows the completion of the last full regular semester
of an academic year and precedes the first full regular semester of the
succeeding academic year at the university (sometimes commonly referred to as
the summer session or summer school). If a student member serving on the Board
fails to continue to meet or maintain the residency, minimum grade point
average, or enrollment requirement established by this Section, his or her
membership on the Board shall be deemed to have terminated by operation of law.
Of the members first appointed by the Governor, 4 shall be appointed for terms
to expire on the third Monday in January, 1999, and 3 shall be appointed for
terms to expire on the third Monday in January, 2001. If the Senate is not in
session on the effective date of this Article, or if a vacancy in an appointive
membership occurs at a time when the Senate is not in session, the Governor
shall make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the Senate when he
shall nominate persons to fill such memberships for the remainder of their
respective terms. No more than 4 of the members appointed by the Governor
shall be affiliated with the same political party. Each member appointed by
the Governor must be a resident of this State. A failure to meet or maintain
this residency requirement constitutes a resignation from and creates a vacancy
in the Board. Upon the expiration of the terms of members appointed by the
Governor, their respective successors shall be appointed for terms of 6 years
from the third Monday in January of each odd-numbered year. Any members
appointed to the Board shall continue to serve in such capacity until their
successors are appointed and qualified.
(Source: P.A. 91-778, eff. 1-1-01;
91-798, eff. 7-9-00; 92-16, eff. 6-28-01.)
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