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90_HB2857
70 ILCS 2605/3 from Ch. 42, par. 322
Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act.
Requires the election of trustees from subdistricts created
by law and implemented at the general elections in 2000,
2002, and 2004 as current terms expire. Staggers terms of 4
years and 2 years, rather than 6 years. Requires the General
Assembly to redistrict after each federal decennial census
after 2002. Provides that, until redistricting, territory
added to the district shall become part of the subdistrict
with which it shares the greatest common boundary.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
2 District Act by changing Section 3.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
6 Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
7 (70 ILCS 2605/3) (from Ch. 42, par. 322)
8 Sec. 3. Election of trustees.
9 (a) The corporate authority of the Sanitary District of
10 Chicago shall consist of 9 nine trustees. The General
11 Assembly, by law, shall divide the district into 9
12 subdistricts at least 30 days before the first day set by the
13 Election Code for the filing of candidate petitions for the
14 election of trustees in 2000. The subdistricts shall be as
15 nearly equal in population and as compact and contiguous as
16 possible. In the year following each federal decennial census
17 year after 2002, the General Assembly, by law, shall
18 redistrict the 9 subdistricts. Any territory that is added to
19 the district shall become a part of that subdistrict with
20 which it shares the greatest common boundary until the next
21 redistricting by the General Assembly.
22 (b) At the general election in 2000, one trustee from
23 each of subdistricts 1, 4, and 7 shall be elected. At the
24 general election in 2002, one trustee from each of
25 subdistricts 2, 5, and 8 shall be elected, as well as
26 trustees from other subdistricts whose terms have expired.
27 At the general election in 2004, one trustee from each of
28 subdistricts 3, 6, and 9 shall be elected, as well as
29 trustees from other subdistricts whose terms have expired.
30 Thereafter, trustees shall be elected at each general
31 election to fill expired terms or vacancies as provided in
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1 this Section.
2 Trustees from subdistricts 1, 4, and 7 shall be elected
3 for terms of 2 years, 4 years, 4 years, and 2 years until the
4 election in 2012, at and after which they shall be elected
5 for terms of 4 years, 4 years, and 2 years. Trustees from
6 subdistricts 2, 5, and 8 shall be elected for terms of 4
7 years, 2 years, and 4 years. Trustees from subdistricts 3,
8 6, and 9 shall be elected for 4-year terms until the election
9 in 2012, at and after which they shall be elected for terms
10 of 2 years, 4 years, and 4 years.
11 Such trustees shall be elected for staggered terms at the
12 election provided by the general election law. Three trustees
13 shall be elected at each such election to succeed the 3
14 trustees whose terms expire in such year.
15 (c) Such Trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday
16 after the first Monday in the month following the month of
17 their election and shall hold their offices as provided in
18 subsection (b) for six years and until their successors shall
19 be elected and qualified. In all elections for trustees each
20 elector may vote for as many candidates as there are trustees
21 to be elected, but no elector may give to such candidates
22 more than one vote, it being the intent and purpose of this
23 Act to prohibit cumulative voting in the selection of members
24 of the board of the sanitary district.
25 (d) The election of trustees shall be in accordance with
26 the provisions of the general election law.
27 (e) By reason of the importance and character of the
28 services performed by the sanitary district, there is a great
29 need and it is in the public interest that those such
30 services be performed in as near a non-partisan character as
31 possible.
32 (f) If a vacancy occurs in the office of a trustee
33 elected before the implementation of subdistricts, the
34 Governor shall fill the vacancy by appointment for the
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1 remainder of the unexpired term and until his or her
2 successor is elected and qualified. When a vacancy exists in
3 the office of a trustee elected from a subdistrict trustees
4 of any sanitary district organized under this Act the
5 provisions hereof, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment
6 by the Governor until the next regular election at which
7 trustees from that subdistrict of the Sanitary District of
8 Chicago are elected, and thereafter until a successor shall
9 be elected for the remainder of the unexpired term and
10 qualified.
11 (g) The Such sanitary district shall from the time of
12 the first election held by it under this Act be construed in
13 all courts to be a body corporate and politic, and by the
14 name and style of the sanitary district of...., and by that
15 such name and style may sue and be sued, contract and be
16 contracted with, acquire and hold real estate and personal
17 property necessary for corporate purposes, and adopt a common
18 seal and alter the seal same at pleasure.
19 (h) The board of trustees shall have the power to change
20 the name of the Sanitary District of Chicago by ordinance and
21 public notice without impairing the legal status of acts
22 previously theretofore performed by that said district.
23 Thereafter any and all references to the Sanitary District of
24 Chicago in this Act or otherwise shall mean and include the
25 name under which the such sanitary district is then
26 operating. No rights, duties or privilege of that such a
27 sanitary district, or those of any person, existing before
28 the change of name shall be affected by a change, in the name
29 of a sanitary district. All proceedings pending in any court
30 in favor of or against the such sanitary district may
31 continue to final consummation under the name in which they
32 were commenced.
33 (Source: P.A. 83-345.)