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90_HB2460
70 ILCS 2905/3-1 from Ch. 42, par. 503-1
Amends the Metro-East Sanitary District Act of 1974 to
provide that the district shall be governed by a board of 7
commissioners (now 5). Provides for the appointment of
another commissioner by the appointing authority of the
county with only 2 commissioners on the board, and provides
that the Governor shall appoint one commissioner at large
from the district. Provides that only 4 (now 3) of the
commissioners on the board may be members of the same
political party.
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1 AN ACT concerning water management.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Metro-East Sanitary District Act of 1974
5 is amended by changing Section 3-1 as follows:
6 (70 ILCS 2905/3-1) (from Ch. 42, par. 503-1)
7 Sec. 3-1. Appointment of commissioners. The district
8 shall be governed by a Board of Commissioners, consisting of
9 7 5 commissioners. Three of the commissioners shall be
10 residents of that portion of the district in the county
11 having the greater equalized assessed valuation of the
12 district, and 2 shall be residents of that portion of the
13 district in the other county. The appointment of
14 commissioners from each county, except for the gubernatorial
15 appointee, shall be made by the chairman of the county board
16 of that county with the advice and consent of the county
17 board, except that in the case of a home rule county as
18 defined by Article VII, Section 6, of the Constitution of
19 1970 the appointment shall be made by the chief executive
20 officer of the county with the advice and consent of the
21 county board. As soon as possible after the effective date of
22 this amendatory Act of 1998, the appointing authority of the
23 county with only 2 commissioners on the district board shall
24 appoint, with the advice and consent of the county board,
25 another commissioner from that county to a term of 2 years,
26 and the Governor shall appoint one commissioner at large from
27 the district to a term of 4 years.
28 Of the 7 5 commissioners, no more than 4 3 may be of the
29 same political party. Of the 3 commissioners from each the
30 county entitled to 3 appointments, no more than 2 may be of
31 the same political party. The 2 commissioners from the other
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1 county shall not be of the same political party.
2 The County Board Chairman of either county may remove any
3 of the commissioners from his county, except for the
4 gubernatorial appointee, with the advice and consent of the
5 county board.
6 In the first appointments to the Board of Commissioners
7 (without reference to the initial terms of appointment under
8 this amendatory Act of 1998), the appointing authority
9 appointing 3 directors shall designate one appointee to serve
10 for a term of one year, one for a term of 3 years and one for
11 a term of 5 years, and the appointing authority appointing 2
12 directors shall designate one to serve for a term of 2 years
13 and one for a term of 4 years. After the initial terms of
14 appointment, the commissioners Thereafter one commissioner
15 shall be appointed by the appropriate appointing authority
16 each year for a term of 5 years to succeed the directors
17 director whose terms expire term expires in that year. Any
18 vacancy on the Board of Commissioners shall be filled by
19 appointment by the appropriate appointing authority for the
20 remainder of the unexpired term.
21 If the relative equalized assessed valuation changes so
22 that the position of the 2 counties with respect to majority
23 and minority representation on the board is reversed, the
24 next appointment that would otherwise have been made by the
25 appointing authority for the county formerly entitled to 3
26 directors shall be made by the appointing authority for the
27 other county.
28 (Source: P.A. 83-1422.)