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90_HB2944
65 ILCS 5/11-135-2 from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-2
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that water
commissioners shall be reimbursed for their reasonable and
necessary expenses in performing their official duties.
Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Municipal Code.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5 changing Section 11-135-2 as follows:
6 (65 ILCS 5/11-135-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-2)
7 Sec. 11-135-2. Upon the adoption of such an ordinance or
8 resolution by the corporate authorities of any such
9 municipality, the mayor or president, with the approval of
10 the corporate authorities, shall appoint a commissioner. The
11 commissioners so appointed by each of such municipalities
12 together with a like commissioner appointed by the presiding
13 officer of the county board with the advice and consent of
14 the county board of the county in which the major part of the
15 works of the water commission are, or are to be, located,
16 shall constitute a commission and public corporation with the
17 powers and duties specified in this Division 135. The
18 corporate name of the commission shall be "(here insert an
19 appropriate name indicative of the area) Water Commission"
20 and as such the Commission may contract and be contracted
21 with, and sue and be sued.
22 The commissioners so appointed shall serve for a term of
23 6 years, or until their successors have been appointed and
24 have qualified in the same manner as the original
25 appointments, except that the commissioners first appointed
26 shall determine by lot at their first meeting the respective
27 commissioners whose terms shall be for 2, 4 and 6 years from
28 the date of that meeting. Each commissioner appointed by a
29 mayor or president shall be an elector or the chief
30 administrator of the municipality for which he acts as
31 commissioner, and the commissioner appointed by the presiding
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1 officer of the county board shall be an elector of the county
2 in which the major works of the water commission are, or are
3 to be, located. Any commissioner so appointed may be a
4 member of the governing board or officer or employee of the
5 municipality or county from which the appointment is made. A
6 commissioner is eligible for reappointment upon the
7 expiration of his term. A vacancy shall be filled for the
8 balance of the unexpired term of the person who has ceased to
9 hold office by the mayor, president or county board presiding
10 officer who initially made such appointment in the same
11 manner as the original appointment. Each commissioner shall
12 receive the same compensation, as determined by the
13 appointing authority, which shall not be more than $2,000 per
14 year, except that no commissioner who is a member of the
15 governing board or officer or employee of the municipality or
16 county from which the appointment is made may receive any
17 compensation for serving as commissioner. Each commissioner
18 shall be reimbursed for his or her reasonable and necessary
19 expenses in performing his or her official duties. Each
20 commissioner shall furnish a bond for the faithful
21 performance of his official duties. This bond shall not be
22 less than $5,000 and its costs shall be paid by the
23 commission.
24 Each commissioner may be removed for any cause for which
25 any other municipal officer may be removed. No commissioner,
26 or employee of the commission, and no mayor, or president, or
27 other member of the corporate authorities, or any employee of
28 any of the municipalities, shall be interested directly or
29 indirectly in any contract or job of work or materials, or
30 the profits thereof, or services to be performed for or by
31 the commission.
32 A violation of any of the foregoing provisions of this
33 section is a Class C misdemeanor. A conviction is cause for
34 the removal of a person from his office or employment.
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1 (Source: P.A. 90-517, eff. 8-22-97.)
2 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3 becoming law.