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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act is
5amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6    (50 ILCS 105/1)  (from Ch. 102, par. 1)
7    Sec. 1. County board. No member of a county board, during
8the term of office for which he or she is elected, may be
9appointed to, accept, or hold any office other than (i)
10chairman of the county board or member of the regional planning
11commission by appointment or election of the board of which he
12or she is a member, (ii) alderman of a city or member of the
13board of trustees of a village or incorporated town if the
14city, village, or incorporated town has fewer than 1,000
15inhabitants and is located in a county having fewer than 50,000
16inhabitants, or (iii) trustee of a forest preserve district
17created under Section 18.5 of the Conservation District Act,
18unless he or she first resigns from the office of county board
19member prior to taking the oath of office to another office or
20unless the holding of another office is authorized by law. Any
21such prohibited appointment or election is void. This Section
22shall not preclude a member of the county board from being
23selected or from serving as a member of a County Extension

 

 

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1Board as provided in Section 7 of the County Cooperative
2Extension Law, as a member of an Emergency Telephone System
3Board as provided in Section 15.4 of the Emergency Telephone
4System Act, or as appointed members of the board of review as
5provided in Section 6-30 of the Property Tax Code. Nothing in
6this Act shall be construed to prohibit an elected county
7official from holding elected office in another unit of local
8government so long as there is no contractual relationship
9between the county and the other unit of local government. This
10amendatory Act of 1995 is declarative of existing law and is
11not a new enactment.
12(Source: P.A. 94-617, eff. 8-18-05.)
 
13    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
14becoming law.