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91_HB2054
LRB9103705MWgc
1 AN ACT to amend the Election Code by changing Section
2 6-1.
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 6-1 as follows:
7 (10 ILCS 5/6-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-1)
8 Sec. 6-1. Continuation of prior law; City Election Law.
9 The provisions of this Article 6 (and of Articles 14 and 18
10 hereof) so far as they are the same as those of the
11 provisions of "An Act regulating the holding of elections and
12 declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and
13 incorporated towns in this state", approved June 19, 1885, as
14 amended, (hereinafter sometimes referred to in this Article
15 as the Act of 1885) shall be construed as a continuation of
16 those such prior provisions and not as a new enactment; and
17 it is declared to be the legislative intent that any city,
18 village or incorporated town which has heretofore adopted and
19 become entitled to the provisions of said Act of 1885, shall
20 automatically become subject to the provisions of this
21 Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 of this Act (as well as
22 certain sections in other Articles that which are made
23 specifically applicable to the such city, village or
24 incorporated town), which 3 three Articles together shall be
25 known as the City Election Law.
26 (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)