HB0725 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB0725

Introduced , by Rep. Thaddeus Jones

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

70 ILCS 1205/2-12	from Ch. 105, par. 2-12
70 ILCS 1205/2-12a	from Ch. 105, par. 2-12a

Amends the Park District Code. Provides that a commissioner of a park district board shall not be elected to more than 2 terms. Further provides that the 2-term limit does not apply to a term where a commissioner is elected to a 6-year term but only serves a 2-year term as prescribed by statute.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Park District Code is amended by changing Sections 2-12 and 2-12a as follows:

(70 ILCS 1205/2-12) (from Ch. 105, par. 2-12)

Sec. 2-12. Except as may be otherwise determined pursuant to Section 2-12a the commissioners shall be elected for 6 year terms in all districts now or hereafter organized with the exceptions provided in Sections 2-10 and 2-10a as to those first elected.

In all General Park Districts commissioners shall be elected biennially to take the place of those whose terms expire. Such elections shall take place at the election provided by the general election law.

Commissioners shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified. A commissioner shall not be elected to more than 2 terms under this Section or Section 2-12a.

(Source: P.A. 81-1490.)

(70 ILCS 1205/2-12a) (from Ch. 105, par. 2-12a)

Sec. 2-12a. Any district may provide, either by resolution of the board or by referendum, that the term of commissioners shall be 4 years rather than 6 years. Any such referendum shall be initiated and held in the same manner as is provided by the general election law for public questions authorized by Article VII of the Illinois Constitution.

If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition is in favor of a 4-year term for commissioners, or if the Board adopts a resolution stating that it is acting pursuant to this Section to change the term of office from 6 years to 4 years, commissioners thereafter elected, commencing with the first regular park district election at least 60 days after the date on which the proposition for 4-year terms was approved at referendum or by resolution, shall be elected for a term of 4 years. In order to provide for the transition from 6-year terms to 4-year terms, if 2 commissioners are to be elected at the first such election and if the term of only one commissioner is scheduled to expire in the year of the next election at which commissioners are elected, of the 2 commissioners elected, one shall serve a 2-year term and one a 4-year term, to be determined by lot between the 2 persons elected within 30 days after the election.

In any district where the board has created 4-year terms pursuant to this Section, whether by referendum or by resolution, the length of terms may later be increased to 6 years, but only by a referendum initiated and held in the same manner as prescribed in this Section for creating 4-year terms. No proposition to increase the terms of commissioners shall affect any commissioner holding office at the time of the referendum or to be elected within 60 days of the referendum.

A commissioner shall not be elected to more than 2 terms under this Section or Section 2-12, except that a 2-year term of a commissioner as prescribed in this Section shall not count as one of the 2 elected terms.

(Source: P.A. 84-301.)