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90_HB2827

      10 ILCS 5/1-6
          Amends the Election Code.  Provides that  when  computing
      the period in which an act must be performed and the first or
      last  day is a Saturday, Sunday, or State holiday, the period
      extends through the next business day  after  that  Saturday,
      Sunday, or State holiday.  Effective immediately.
                                                     LRB9009243JMdv
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the Election Code by changing Section
 2    1-6.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.   The  Election  Code  is amended by changing
 6    Section 1-6 as follows:
 7        (10 ILCS 5/1-6)
 8        Sec. 1-6.  Computing dates of  various  acts  Filing  and
 9    registration dates; Saturday, Sunday, and holidays.
10        (a)  If  the first or last day fixed by law to do any act
11    required or allowed by this Code for the filing of  petitions
12    or  certificates  of  nomination or petitions of objection to
13    nominating papers, or the last day fixed by law for the close
14    of registration or the last day fixed by law for  the  filing
15    of  certificates  of withdrawal of candidacy or of reports by
16    political committees required under Article  9,  falls  on  a
17    State  holiday  or  a  Saturday  or  a  Sunday, the filing or
18    registration period shall extend through the  first  business
19    day  next  following  the day otherwise fixed as the first or
20    last  day  for  filing  or   the   close   of   registration,
21    irrespective  of  whether  any  election  authority  or local
22    election official conducts business  on  the  State  holiday,
23    Saturday, or Sunday.
24        (b)  For  the  purposes  of this Section, "State holiday"
25    means New Year's Day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday,
26    Lincoln's  Birthday,  President's  Day,   Casimir   Pulaski's
27    Birthday,  Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor
28    Day, Columbus Day, Veterans' Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas
29    Day, and any other day from time  to  time  declared  by  the
30    President of the United States or the Governor of Illinois to
31    be  a  day during which the agencies of the State of Illinois
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 1    that are ordinarily open to do business with the public shall
 2    be closed for business.
 3        (c)  Notwithstanding any other provision  of  this  Code,
 4    nominating  papers,  petitions  of  objection  to  nominating
 5    papers,  certificates of withdrawal of candidacy, and reports
 6    of  political  committees  actually  received   by   election
 7    authorities  and local election officials on a State holiday,
 8    a Saturday, or a  Sunday  shall  not  be  deemed  invalid  or
 9    defective for that reason alone.
10    (Source: P.A. 89-653, eff. 8-14-96.)
11        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
12    becoming law.

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