Rep. Patricia R. Bellock

Filed: 3/1/2012

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 4903

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 4903 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Pension Code is amended by
5changing Section 3-103 and by adding Section 3-109.4 as
6follows:
 
7    (40 ILCS 5/3-103)  (from Ch. 108 1/2, par. 3-103)
8    Sec. 3-103. Municipality.
9    (a) "Municipality": (1) Any city, village or incorporated
10town of 5,000 or more but less than 500,000 inhabitants, as
11determined from the United States Government statistics or a
12census taken at any time by the city, village or incorporated
13town and (2) any city, village or incorporated town of less
14than 5,000 inhabitants which, by referendum held under Section
153-145 adopts this Article.
16    (b) A municipality includes multiple municipalities that

 

 

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1have chosen to consolidate their police departments pursuant to
2an intergovernmental agreement, as provided for in Section
37-4-7 of the Illinois Municipal Code, provided the combined
4municipalities individually meet the criteria of subsection
5(a) of this Section.
6(Source: P.A. 83-1440.)
 
7    (40 ILCS 5/3-109.4 new)
8    Sec. 3-109.4. Consolidation of police pension funds.
9Municipalities may combine Article 3 pension funds, if (1) the
10police departments of the involved municipalities have been
11consolidated pursuant to Section 7-4-7 of the Illinois
12Municipal Code, (2) the Article 3 pension funds of the involved
13municipalities were established prior to the consolidation,
14and (3) an intergovernmental agreement has been approved and
15executed to complete the consolidation of the pension funds.
16The newly created consolidated police pension fund will operate
17as a single fund created under Section 3-101. The
18municipalities choosing to consolidate their police pension
19funds under an intergovernmental agreement and this Section
20shall act as a single municipality under this Article, as
21defined in subsection (b) of Section 3-103, for the purpose of
22funding and administering the newly consolidated police
23pension fund under this Article.
24    The assets of the pre-consolidated police pension funds
25shall be transferred to the board of trustees of the police

 

 

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1pension fund of the consolidated municipalities as defined in
2subsection (b) of Section 3-103. The consolidated police
3pension fund shall assume all accrued liabilities of the
4preexisting individual police pension funds, and all accrued
5rights, including creditable service, benefits and future
6expectancies of the members, retired employees and
7beneficiaries of the preexisting individual police pension
8funds shall remain unimpaired, and may be enforced against the
9consolidated pension fund. To the extent possible, the pension
10fund board of trustees, as defined in Section 3-128, shall
11consist of one appointed member from each of the consolidated
12municipalities, with the intergovernmental agreement to set
13forth how the mayors or village presidents of the
14municipalities are to appoint the members.
15    The intergovernmental agreement shall include the
16determination of which municipality's treasurer is to be the
17treasurer of the consolidated municipality under this Article
18and under Section 3-132. The intergovernmental agreement shall
19also include the manner in which the municipalities shall meet
20the requirements set forth in Sections 3-125 and 3-127 for the
21consolidated police pension fund.
22    Upon a consolidation of police pension funds under this
23Section and the creation of a board of trustees for the
24consolidated police pension fund, the boards of trustees of the
25individual police pension funds of the consolidated
26municipalities shall cease to exist.
 

 

 

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1    Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
2changing Sections 7-4-7, 7-4-8, 10-2.1-1 as follows:
 
3    (65 ILCS 5/7-4-7)  (from Ch. 24, par. 7-4-7)
4    Sec. 7-4-7. The territory which is embraced within the
5corporate limits of adjoining municipalities within any county
6in this State shall be a police district. A consolidated joint
7law enforcement department is created when 2 or more
8municipalities enter into an intergovernmental agreement to
9consolidate each municipality's existing law enforcement
10agency into a single, consolidated joint law enforcement
11department for both administrative and operational purposes. A
12consolidated joint law enforcement department shall be
13considered to be one department, notwithstanding the fact that
14it covers more than one municipality.
15(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
 
16    (65 ILCS 5/7-4-8)  (from Ch. 24, par. 7-4-8)
17    Sec. 7-4-8. The police of any municipality or consolidated
18joint law enforcement department in such a police district have
19full authority and power as peace officers and may go into any
20part of the district to exercise that authority and power. For
21these purposes the mayor and village president of any
22municipality in the district, and the chiefs of police therein,
23and the chief of any consolidated joint law enforcement

 

 

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1department therein, shall use the police forces under their
2control anywhere in the district.
3(Source: P.A. 90-593, eff. 6-19-98; 91-319, eff. 7-29-99.)
 
4    (65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 10-2.1-1)
5    Sec. 10-2.1-1. Appointment-Terms of office.
6    (a) In every municipality with a population of at least
75,000 and not more than 250,000 which is not subject to
8Division 1 of this Article, and in every municipality with a
9population of less than 5,000 which adopts this Division 2.1 as
10provided in Section 10-2.1-27, including in either event any
11municipality incorporated and existing under a special
12charter, the mayor of the city, with the consent of the city
13council or the president of the village or incorporated town,
14with the consent of the board of trustees, shall appoint a
15board of fire and police commissioners. This board shall
16consist of 3 members, whose terms of office shall be 3 years
17and until their respective successors are appointed and have
18qualified, except as provided in Section 10-2.1-2 or subsection
19(b) of this Section. No such appointment, however, shall be
20made by any mayor or president within 30 days before the
21expiration of his term of office.
22    (b) As used in this Section, "board of fire and police
23commissioners" includes a consolidated board of fire and police
24commissioners, which shall be formed at the time that 2 or more
25municipalities enter into an intergovernmental agreement to

 

 

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1consolidate each municipality's existing law enforcement
2agency into a single, consolidated joint law enforcement
3department for both administrative and operational purposes.
4The use of the terms "board", "commission", "member", and,
5"commissioner", as used in this Section, shall be applicable to
6a consolidated board of fire and police commissioners and its
7individual member municipalities. The board shall consist of
8one member from each municipality, to be appointed in
9accordance with subsection (a) above, and one member to be
10appointed in accordance with the intergovernmental agreement
11that creates the consolidated joint law enforcement
12department. The individual appointed as a board member in
13accordance with the intergovernmental agreement shall be an
14elector of one of the municipalities bound by the
15intergovernmental agreement. The members of the board shall
16serve for a term of 3 years and until their respective
17successors are appointed and have qualified. The
18qualifications set forth in Section 10-2.1-3 of this Code are
19applicable to board members, with the additional requirement
20that the members shall not be related by blood or marriage, up
21to the degree of first cousin, to any elected official of the
22municipalities that are party to the intergovernmental
23agreement. The terms and conditions set forth within this
24Section, governing the appointment, promotion, and discipline
25of full-time municipal police officers shall be applicable to
26full-time police officers appointed to and employed by a

 

 

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1consolidated joint law enforcement department.
2    (c) The municipalities party to an intergovernmental
3agreement that creates a consolidated joint law enforcement
4department shall, within the terms of the intergovernmental
5agreement, provide for a budget to fund the day-to-day
6operations of the board, to include the provision of office and
7meeting space, record storage, testing for original
8appointments and promotional appointments, secretarial and
9administrative assistance, legal fees, hearing expenses, and
10training of the board's members. Notice and publication
11requirements, as set forth within this Section and the Open
12Meetings Act, shall be met by the posting of the required
13notices at the principal office of the board and by publication
14within a newspaper of general circulation within the municipal
15boundaries of the municipalities that are party to the
16intergovernmental agreement.
17    (d) In the event that one or more of the municipalities
18party to an intergovernmental agreement that creates a
19consolidated joint law enforcement department maintains a
20full-time municipal fire department, then a separate board of
21fire and police commissioners, as provided for under subsection
22(a), shall be appointed for each of the municipal fire
23departments, by the municipalities that have a full-time fire
24department. In that case, any existing board of fire and police
25commissioners shall continue to serve for the municipal fire
26department. Otherwise, any existing board of fire and police

 

 

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1commissioners shall cease to exist upon the establishment of
2the board.
3    (e) Any police eligibility lists for original appointment
4or promotion in existence at the time any municipalities
5execute an intergovernmental agreement to create a
6consolidated joint law enforcement department, shall be deemed
7null and void, and the board shall proceed to create new
8original appointment and promotional lists for the
9consolidated joint law enforcement department in accordance
10with this Section.
11(Source: P.A. 76-1445.)
 
12    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
13becoming law.".