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91_HB3132eng HB3132 Engrossed LRB9111250MWgc 1 AN ACT concerning county officers. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by adding 5 Section 2-4006.5 as follows: 6 (55 ILCS 5/2-4006.5 new) 7 Sec. 2-4006.5. Commissioners in certain counties. 8 (a) If a county elects 3 commissioners at large under 9 Section 2-4006, registered voters of such county may, by a 10 vote of a majority of those voting on such proposition, 11 determine to increase the size of the board of county 12 commissioners to 5 members who shall be elected from single 13 member districts. In order for such question to be placed 14 upon the ballot, such petition must contain the signatures of 15 not fewer than 10% of the registered voters of such county. 16 The number of commissioners may not be increased and 17 commissioners may not be elected from single member districts 18 until the question of electing 5 commissioners from single 19 member districts has been submitted to the electors of the 20 county at a regular election and approved by a majority of 21 the electors voting on the question. The commissioners must 22 certify the question to the proper election authority, which 23 must submit the question at an election in accordance with 24 the Election Code. 25 The question must be in substantially the following form: 26 Shall the board of county commissioners of (name of 27 county) consist of 5 commissioners elected from single 28 member districts? 29 The votes must be recorded as "Yes" or "No". 30 If a majority of the electors voting on the question vote 31 in the affirmative, a 5-member board of county commissioners HB3132 Engrossed -2- LRB9111250MWgc 1 shall be established to be elected from single member 2 districts. 3 (b) If the voters of the county decide to elect 5 4 commissioners from single member districts, the General 5 Assembly shall, by law, on or before August 31 of the year 6 following the 2000 federal decennial census divide the county 7 into 5 compact and contiguous county commission districts 8 that are substantially equal in population. On or before May 9 31 of the year following each federal decennial census 10 thereafter, the board of county commissioners shall 11 reapportion the county commission districts to be compact, 12 contiguous, and substantially equal in population. 13 (c) The commissioners elected at large at or before the 14 general election in 2000 shall continue to serve until the 15 expiration of their terms. Of those commissioners, the 16 commissioner whose term expires in 2002 shall be assigned to 17 district 1; the commissioner whose term expires in 2004 shall 18 be assigned to district 2; and the commissioner whose term 19 expires in 2006 shall be assigned to district 3. 20 (d) At the general election in 2002, one commissioner 21 from each of districts 1, 4, and 5 shall be elected. At the 22 general election in 2004, one commissioner from each of 23 districts 1, 2, and 5 shall be elected. At the general 24 election in 2006, one commissioner from each of districts 2, 25 3, and 4 shall be elected. At the general election in 2008, 26 one commissioner from each of districts 1, 3, and 5 shall be 27 elected. At the general election in 2010, one commissioner 28 from each of districts 2 and 4 shall be elected. At the 29 general election in 2012, commissioners from each district 30 shall be elected. Thereafter, commissioners shall be elected 31 at each general election to fill expired terms. 32 In the year following the decennial census of 2010 and 33 every 10 years thereafter, the commissioners, publicly by 34 lot, shall divide the districts into 2 groups. One group of HB3132 Engrossed -3- LRB9111250MWgc 1 3 commissioners shall serve terms of 4 years, 4 years, and 2 2 years and one group of 2 commissioners shall serve terms of 2 3 years, 4 years, and 4 years. 4 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 5 becoming law.