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92_HB5647

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning elections.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The  Election  Code  is  amended by changing
 5    Section 4-6 as follows:

 6        (10 ILCS 5/4-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-6)
 7        Sec. 4-6. For the purpose  of  registering  voters  under
 8    this  Article in addition to the method provided for precinct
 9    registration under Section 4-7,  the  office  of  the  county
10    clerk  shall  be open every day, except Saturday, Sunday, and
11    legal holidays, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. On Saturdays  the
12    hours  of registration shall be from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon,
13    and such additional hours as the county clerk may  designate.
14    If,  however,  the  county board otherwise duly regulates and
15    fixes the hours of opening and closing of all county  offices
16    at  the  county  seat  of  any  county, such regulation shall
17    control and supersede the hours herein specified. There shall
18    be no registration at the office of the county  clerk  or  at
19    the  office of municipal and township or road district clerks
20    serving as deputy registrars during the 28 days preceding any
21    regular or special election at which the  cards  provided  in
22    this  Article  are  used, or until the 2nd day following such
23    regular or special election; provided, that if by  reason  of
24    the proximity of any such elections to one another the effect
25    of  this provision would be to close registrations for all or
26    any part of the 10 days immediately  prior  to  such  28  day
27    period,  the county clerk shall accept, solely for use in the
28    subsequent and not in any intervening election, registrations
29    and transfers of registration within the period from the 28th
30    to the 38th days, both inclusive, prior  to  such  subsequent
31    election; provided, further that at the office of such clerks
 
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 1    registration shall be permitted on the 28th day preceding the
 2    election  in November of even-numbered years in any county in
 3    which such day  is  not  designated  as  a  day  of  precinct
 4    registration.   In  any election called for the submission of
 5    the revision or alteration  of,  or  the  amendments  to  the
 6    Constitution,  submitted  by a Constitutional Convention, the
 7    final day for registration at  the  office  of  the  election
 8    authority  charged  with  the  printing of the ballot of this
 9    election shall be the 15th day prior to the date of election.
10        Any qualified person residing within the  county  or  any
11    portion  thereof  subject  to  this  Article  may register or
12    re-register with the county clerk.
13        Each county clerk shall appoint one or more  registration
14    or  re-registration  teams  for  the purpose of accepting the
15    registration or re-registration of any  voter  who  files  an
16    affidavit  that  he  is  physically  unable  to appear at any
17    appointed place of registration or re-registration. Each team
18    shall consist of one member of each  political  party  having
19    the highest and second highest number of registered voters in
20    the  county. The county clerk shall designate a team to visit
21    each disabled person and shall  accept  the  registration  or
22    re-registration  of each such person as if he had applied for
23    registration or re-registration at the office of  the  county
24    clerk.
25        As   used   in  this  Article,  "deputy  registrars"  and
26    "registration officers" mean any person authorized to  accept
27    registrations of electors under this Article.
28    (Source: P.A. 83-1059.)

29        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
30    becoming law.

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