95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB2916

 

Introduced 2/26/2007, by Rep. Tom Cross

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/2-1001   from Ch. 34, par. 2-1001

    Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning board meetings.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
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 changing Section
5 2-1001 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/2-1001)  (from Ch. 34, par. 2-1001)
7     Sec. 2-1001. Regular meetings. Regular and and special
8 meetings of the county board may be held in any public building
9 located within the county that such county board is elected to
10 serve. Prior notice of the building selected for the meeting
11 shall be provided by the board chairman to each member of the
12 county board in the manner provided pursuant to the rules of
13 the county board. Regular meetings of the board shall be held
14 in June and September, and at such other times as may be
15 determined by the board.
16     At each regular and special meeting which is open to the
17 public, members of the public and employees of the county shall
18 be afforded time, subject to reasonable constraints, to comment
19 to or ask questions of the board.
20 (Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1028.)