(110 ILCS 680/25-15)
Sec. 25-15. Membership; terms; vacancies. The Board shall consist of 9
voting members who are residents of this State and are appointed by the
Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and one voting
member who is a student at Northeastern Illinois University. The student
member shall be elected by a campus-wide election of all students of the
University. The student member shall serve a term of one year
beginning on
July 1 of each year, except that the student member initially selected
under
this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly shall serve a term beginning
on the date of his or her selection and expiring on the next succeeding June
30. A student member may serve only for one term. 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. If any member of the Board appointed by the
Governor fails to continue to meet or maintain the residency requirement
established by this Section, he or she shall resign membership on the Board
within 30 days thereafter and, failing submission of this resignation, 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 until their successors
are appointed and qualified, and 3 shall be appointed for terms to expire on
the third Monday in January, 2001 and until their successors are appointed and
qualified. The 2 additional members appointed by the Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, under this amendatory Act of the 91st General
Assembly, shall not be from the same political party and shall be appointed for
terms to expire on the third Monday in January, 2003 and until their successors
are appointed and qualified. Any vacancy in membership existing on January 1,
1999 shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, with the advice and
consent of the Senate, for a term to expire on the third Monday in January,
2003. 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 to fill the
vacancy. Members with these temporary appointments shall be deemed qualified
to serve upon appointment and shall continue to serve until the next meeting of
the Senate when the Governor shall appoint persons to fill such memberships,
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the remainder of their
respective terms. No more than 5 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 for other than temporary appointments, their respective successors
shall be appointed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 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. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 93-628, eff. 12-23-03.)
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