93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6722

 

Introduced 02/09/04, by Marlow H. Colvin

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
70 ILCS 3615/3.01   from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 703.01

    Amends the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Board of Directors.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Regional Transportation Authority Act is
5 amended by changing Section 3.01 as follows:
 
6     (70 ILCS 3615/3.01)  (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 703.01)
7     Sec. 3.01. Board of Directors. Upon expiration expiration
8 of the term of the members of the Transition Board as provided
9 for in Section 3.09, the corporate authorities and governing
10 body of the Authority shall be a Board consisting of 13
11 Directors appointed as follows:
12     (a) Four Directors appointed by the Mayor of the City of
13 Chicago, with the advice and consent of the City Council of the
14 City of Chicago, and a fifth director who shall be the Chairman
15 of the Chicago Transit Authority. Each such Director shall
16 reside in the City of Chicago except the Chairman of the
17 Chicago Transit Authority who shall reside within the
18 metropolitan area as defined in the Metropolitan Transit
19 Authority Act.
20     (b) Four Directors appointed by the members of the Cook
21 County Board elected from that part of Cook County outside of
22 Chicago, or, in the event such Board of Commissioners becomes
23 elected from single member districts, by those Commissioners
24 elected from districts, a majority of the electors of which
25 reside outside Chicago. In either case, such appointment shall
26 be with the concurrence of four such Commissioners. Each such
27 Director shall reside in that part of Cook County outside
28 Chicago.
29     (c) Two Directors appointed by the Chairmen of the county
30 boards of Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will Counties, with the
31 concurrence of not less than a majority of the Chairmen from
32 such counties, from nominees by the Chairmen. Each such

 

 

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1 Chairman may nominate not more than 2 persons for each
2 position. Each such Director shall reside in a county in the
3 metropolitan region other than Cook or DuPage Counties.
4     (d) One Director shall be appointed by the Chairman of the
5 Board of DuPage County with the advice and consent of the
6 County Board of DuPage County and shall reside in DuPage
7 County.
8     (e) Before January 1, 1987, for the term expiring July 1,
9 1989, the Chairman shall be appointed by the Governor.
10 Thereafter the Chairman shall be appointed by the other 12
11 Directors with the concurrence of three-fourths of such
12 Directors. The chairman shall not be appointed from among the
13 other Directors. The chairman shall be a resident of the
14 metropolitan region.
15     (f) Except as otherwise provided by this Act no Director
16 shall, while serving as such, be an officer, a member of the
17 Board of Directors or Trustees or an employee of any
18 transportation agency, or be an employee of the State of
19 Illinois or any department or agency thereof, or of any unit of
20 local government or receive any compensation from any elected
21 or appointed office under the Constitution and laws of
22 Illinois; except that a Director may be a member of a school
23 board.
24     (g) Each appointment made under this Section and under
25 Section 3.03 shall be certified by the appointing authority to
26 the Board, which shall maintain the certifications as part of
27 the official records of the Authority; provided that the
28 initial appointments shall be certified to the Secretary of
29 State, who shall transmit the certifications to the Board
30 following its organization. All appointments made by the
31 Governor shall be made with the advice and consent of the
32 Senate.
33     (h) The Board of Directors shall be so appointed as to
34 represent the City of Chicago, that part of Cook County outside
35 the City of Chicago, and that part of the metropolitan region
36 outside Cook County on the one man one vote basis. After each

 

 

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1 Federal decennial census the General Assembly shall review the
2 composition of the Board and, if a change is needed to comply
3 with this requirement, shall provide for the necessary revision
4 by July 1 of the third year after such census. Provided,
5 however, that the Chairman of the Chicago Transit Authority
6 shall be a Director of the Authority and shall be considered as
7 representing the City of Chicago for purposes of this
8 paragraph.
9     Insofar as may be practicable, the changes in Board
10 membership necessary to achieve this purpose shall take effect
11 as appropriate members terms expire, no member's term being
12 reduced by reason of such revision of the composition of the
13 Board.
14 (Source: P.A. 83-1417.)