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90_HB2890
10 ILCS 5/7-1 from Ch. 46, par. 7-1
Amends the Election Code. Changes a population
description from "over 5,000" to "greater than 5,000" in the
political party nominations Article.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Election Code by changing Section
2 7-1.
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 7-1 as follows:
7 (10 ILCS 5/7-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-1)
8 Sec. 7-1. Application of Article.
9 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, the
10 nomination of all candidates for all elective State,
11 congressional, judicial, and county officers, State's
12 Attorneys (whether elected from a single county or from more
13 than one county), city, village, and incorporated town and
14 municipal officers, trustees of sanitary districts, township
15 officers in townships of greater than over 5,000 population
16 coextensive with or included wholly within cities or villages
17 not under the commission form of government, precinct,
18 township, ward, and State central committeemen, and delegates
19 and alternate delegates to national nominating conventions by
20 all political parties, as defined in Section 7-2 of this
21 Article 7, shall be made in the manner provided in this
22 Article 7 and not otherwise. The nomination of candidates
23 for electors of President and Vice President of the United
24 States shall be made only in the manner provided for in
25 Section 7-9 of this Article.
26 (b) This Article 7 shall not apply to (i) the nomination
27 of candidates for school elections and township elections,
28 except in those townships specifically mentioned in
29 subsection (a) and except in those cases in which a township
30 central committee determines under Section 6A-2 of the
31 Township Law of 1874 or Section 45-55 of the Township Code
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1 that its candidates for township offices shall be nominated
2 by primary in accordance with this Article, (ii) the
3 nomination of park commissioners in park districts organized
4 under the Park District Code, (iii) the nomination of
5 officers of cities and villages organized under special
6 charters, or (iv) the nomination of municipal officers for
7 cities, villages, and incorporated towns with a population of
8 5,000 or less, except where a city, village, or incorporated
9 town with a population of 5,000 or less has by ordinance
10 determined that political parties shall nominate candidates
11 for municipal office in the city, village, or incorporated
12 town by primary in accordance with this Article. In that
13 event, the municipal clerk shall certify the ordinance to the
14 proper election officials no later than November 15 in the
15 year preceding the consolidated primary election.
16 (c) The words "township officers" or "township offices"
17 shall be construed, when used in this Article, to include
18 supervisors.
19 (d) As provided in Sections 3.1-25-20 through 3.1-25-60
20 of the Illinois Municipal Code, a village may adopt a system
21 of nonpartisan primary and general elections for the election
22 of village officers.
23 (Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-5, eff. 1-1-96.)