(510 ILCS 101/25)
Sec. 25.
Governing council.
With a favorable vote of
swine producers subject to the marketing program in the State of Illinois to
adopt by referendum an
Illinois Swine Market Development Program, there shall be
established an Illinois Swine Market Development Council governed
by a board of directors of 7 members who shall be elected at the
same time as the initial referendum and thereafter as provided for
in this Act and marketing program. Swine producers who are subject to the
program shall elect a
director from each of 7 compact and contiguous districts,
apportioned as nearly as practical according to the swine-on-farms census
report taken from the latest available United States
Department of Agriculture records.
No county in Illinois shall be apportioned into more than one
district. The 7 districts shall be re-apportioned by the Council
every 9 years, according to the latest available United States
Department of Agriculture swine-on-farms census records. An
elected director shall not become ineligible to serve his or her
elected term through any re-apportionment.
The 7 directors shall be elected to serve a 3-year term and
may be re-elected to serve an additional consecutive term. An
elected director must be a resident of Illinois and must be a
swine producer subject to the program who has been a swine producer for at
least the 5
years prior to his or her election. A qualified swine producer
may be elected to serve on the Council only if he or she has
submitted, by registered mail to the Illinois Swine Market
Development office, a nominating petition containing signatures
of 25 or more swine producers subject to the program from the district he or
she seeks to
represent, except that in the case of the initial election of
Council directors, the nominating petition shall be mailed by
registered mail to the Board. The candidate receiving the
greatest number of votes cast from that district shall be elected.
All Council directors shall be unsalaried. Council directors
may, however, be reimbursed for travel and other expenses incurred
in carrying out the intent and purposes of this Act and marketing
program.
It is the responsibility of the Council to conduct the
election of Council directors within 30 days before the end of any
elected Council director's term of office. Newly elected Council
directors shall assume their office at the first meeting of the
Council after their election to office, which shall be convened
within 30 days after the election. Notice of the meeting shall be
sent to the directors of the Council at least 10 days before the
meeting. The notice must state the time, date, and place of the
meeting.
Reasonable notice of elections of directors of the Council
must be given at least once in trade publications and in the
public press at least 30 days before the election.
The Council may declare an office of director vacant and
appoint a swine producer subject to the program from that district to serve the
unexpired
term of any director unable or unwilling to complete his or her
term of office.
(Source: P.A. 92-158, eff. 7-25-01.)
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