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() 55 ILCS 5/Div. 2-6
(55 ILCS 5/Div. 2-6 heading)
Division 2-6.
Commissioners in Cook County
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55 ILCS 5/2-6001
(55 ILCS 5/2-6001) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6001)
Sec. 2-6001.
Election of Cook County commissioners.
There shall
be elected every 4 years by the legal voters of Cook County 17
county commissioners who shall hold their office respectively for the term
of 4 years and until their successors are elected and qualified. Elections
shall be held at the time provided by the general election law.
Their term of office shall commence on the first Monday of the month
following the month of their election. Ten of the commissioners shall be
elected from the city of Chicago by the legal voters of that city, and 7
of the commissioners shall be elected from the towns outside of the city
by the legal voters of those towns. If a vacancy occurs in the office of a
commissioner from the city of Chicago, the remaining commissioners from the
city of Chicago shall appoint a suitable person from the city of Chicago to
fill the vacancy. If a vacancy occurs in the office of a commissioner from
the towns outside the city of Chicago, the remaining commissioners from
those towns shall appoint a suitable person from those towns to fill the
vacancy.
(Source: P.A. 86-962; 87-570.)
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55 ILCS 5/2-6002
(55 ILCS 5/2-6002) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6002)
Sec. 2-6002.
Election of president of board.
Every
legal voter in said county may vote for and designate (upon
his ballot cast for county commissioners) one of the candidates for
commissioner to be president of the county board, and the person who shall
receive the highest number of such votes shall be declared elected
president of said board.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/2-6003
(55 ILCS 5/2-6003) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6003)
Sec. 2-6003. Vacancy in office of president. In case of the death,
resignation, removal from office or other inability to act of the president
so elected, the board of commissioners shall within 30 days appoint, by election, one of their number to serve as president. If more than 28 months of the unexpired term remain, a special election shall be held at the next general election to elect a person to serve the unexpired term of the president. In the case of a special election under this Section, the appointed officer shall serve until the election results are certified and the person elected at the special election is qualified. If 28 months or less of the unexpired term remain, the appointed officer shall serve for the remainder of the term.
(Source: P.A. 101-188, eff. 8-2-19.)
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55 ILCS 5/2-6004
(55 ILCS 5/2-6004) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6004)
Sec. 2-6004.
Terms of office of commissioners.
The terms of office of
such commissioners shall begin on the first Monday of the month following
the month of their election, and they shall hold their office respectively
until their successors are elected and qualified.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/2-6005
(55 ILCS 5/2-6005) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6005)
Sec. 2-6005.
Oath of commissioners.
The said commissioners shall
severally, before they enter upon the discharge of their duties, take the
oath of office prescribed by the Constitution, and they shall be known as
the board of commissioners of Cook County, and as such board shall possess
the powers, perform the duties and be subject to the rules, regulations and
restrictions hereinafter specified.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/2-6006
(55 ILCS 5/2-6006) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6006)
Sec. 2-6006.
Meetings of board of commissioners.
The board of
commissioners shall hold regular meetings on the first Monday of December,
January, February, March, June and September in each year, except that when
such a regularly scheduled meeting would fall on a legal holiday under
Section 17 of "An Act to revise the law in relation to promissory notes,
bonds, due bills and other instruments in writing", approved March 18,
1874, as amended, the board shall hold the meeting on the day immediately
following such a holiday. It shall be the duty of the president of the
board of commissioners to call special meetings of the board whenever, in
his opinion, the same may be necessary; and he shall preside at all the
meetings of the board, and generally perform the duties usually performed
by a presiding officer; provided, that in the absence of the president, or
of his inability to act, a president pro tempore may be elected, who shall,
during such absence or inability possess all the powers and perform all the
duties by law vested in and required of the president.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/2-6007
(55 ILCS 5/2-6007) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6007)
Sec. 2-6007.
Voting by president.
The president of the board of
commissioners shall have the same privilege of voting as any other
commissioner; but he shall not have a casting vote upon any question upon
which he has voted as commissioner.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/2-6008
(55 ILCS 5/2-6008) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6008)
Sec. 2-6008. Approval of ordinances. All ordinances, resolutions or
motions shall be submitted to
said board of commissioners in writing, or reduced to writing before any
vote shall be taken thereon; and if adopted by the board, the same shall
not take effect until after the same shall have been approved in writing by
the president of said board, except as hereinafter provided. It shall be
the duty of the clerk of said board to deliver to the president thereof,
upon his request, the original (or a copy) of each ordinance, resolution or
motion, so passed or adopted by said board as aforesaid, within one day
after its passage or adoption; and in case the president approves thereof,
he shall sign the same, and it shall thereupon be in full force and effect.
In case the president shall not approve any such ordinance, resolution or
motion, he shall, within five days after the receipt of the same as
aforesaid, return it to the clerk of said board, with his objections
thereto in writing. Such veto by the president may extend to any one or
more items or appropriations contained in any resolution making an
appropriation, or to the entire resolution; and in case the veto only
extends to a part of such resolution making an appropriation, the residue
thereof not embraced within the veto shall take effect and be in force from
the time of the receipt by said clerk of such veto of such part. Upon the
return of any such ordinance, resolution or motion by the president, with
his objections thereto as aforesaid, the vote by which the same was passed
shall be reconsidered by the board of commissioners as to so much thereof
as may have been vetoed; and if, after such reconsideration, three-fifths
of
all the members elected to the board shall agree to pass the same by yeas
and nays, to be entered on the journal, the same shall take effect,
notwithstanding the president may have refused to approve thereof. In case
the president shall fail or omit to either sign and approve or return, with
his objections as aforesaid, any such ordinance, motion or resolution which
shall have been passed or adopted by the board within six days after it
shall have been so passed or adopted, the same shall take effect without
the approval of the president.
(Source: P.A. 96-816, eff. 11-9-09.)
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55 ILCS 5/2-6009
(55 ILCS 5/2-6009) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6009)
Sec. 2-6009.
Powers and duties of commissioners.
Said board of
commissioners shall have the management of the affairs of said Cook County,
in the manner provided by law, and may exercise the same powers, perform
the same duties, and shall be subject to the same rules, regulations and
penalties prescribed by law for the county board in other counties, except
as herein otherwise provided; and shall also be subject to the rules,
regulations and restrictions herein provided.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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55 ILCS 5/2-6010
(55 ILCS 5/2-6010) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-6010)
Sec. 2-6010.
Delegation of powers; appropriations; indebtedness.
The
said board of commissioners shall have no power or authority to delegate to
any committee or other person or persons the "power to act", when such
"power to act" shall involve the letting of any contract or the expenditure
of public money exceeding the sum of $2,500; and any action of said board,
or of any committee thereof, or of any other person or persons in violation
of this Section shall be null and void. No money shall be appropriated or
ordered paid by said county commissioners beyond the sum of $2,500, unless
such appropriation shall have been authorized by a vote of at least
two-thirds of the members elected to the said county board. And no officer
of Cook County, or other person, shall incur any indebtedness on behalf of
the county, unless first authorized by said board of commissioners.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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