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90_SB0473enr
705 ILCS 35/2j new
Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Authorize the addition of
one circuit judge to be elected at large in the seventeenth
judicial circuit. Provides that the additional circuit
judgeship shall be filled by appointment until the general
election in November of 1998. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Circuit Courts Act by adding Section
2 2j.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Circuit Courts Act is amended by adding
6 Section 2j as follows:
7 (705 ILCS 35/2j new)
8 Sec. 2j. Additional judges.
9 (a) In addition to the number of circuit judges
10 otherwise authorized by this Act, there shall be one
11 additional circuit judge elected at large in the seventeenth
12 judicial circuit.
13 (b) In addition to the number of circuit judges
14 otherwise authorized by this Act, there shall be one
15 additional circuit judge elected at large in the eighteenth
16 judicial circuit.
17 (c) In addition to the number of circuit judges
18 otherwise authorized by this Act, there shall be one
19 additional circuit judge elected in the nineteenth judicial
20 circuit who is a resident of and elected from Lake County.
21 (d) In addition to the number of circuit judges
22 otherwise authorized by this Act, there shall be one
23 additional circuit judge elected in the fifth judicial
24 circuit who is a resident of and elected from Vermilion
25 County.
26 (e) In addition to the number of circuit judges and
27 resident judges otherwise authorized by law, and
28 notwithstanding any other provision of law, there shall be
29 one additional resident judge elected from the unit within
30 Chicago of the Circuit of Cook County to serve in the
31 juvenile division.
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1 (f) In addition to the number of circuit judges and
2 resident judges otherwise authorized by law, and
3 notwithstanding any other provision of law, there shall be
4 one additional resident judge who is a resident of and
5 elected from the third judicial subcircuit in Cook County.
6 (g) The additional circuit judgeships, subcircuit
7 judgeships, and resident judgeship provided by this Section
8 shall be filled by appointment until those judgeships are
9 filled by election at the general election in November of
10 1998.
11 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12 becoming law.