HB4169 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4169

Introduced 1/22/2004, by Mike Boland

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

65 ILCS 5/3.1-40-60

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that an advisory referendum may be placed on the ballot by majority vote of a municipality's corporate authorities, rather than its city council members.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning advisory referenda.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by changing Section 3.1-40-60 as follows:

(65 ILCS 5/3.1-40-60)

Sec. 3.1-40-60. Advisory referenda. By a vote of the majority of the corporate authorities members of the city council, the corporate authorities the council may authorize an advisory question of public policy to be placed on the ballot at the next regularly scheduled election in the municipality. The corporate authorities city council shall certify the question to the proper election authority, which must submit the question at an election in accordance with the Election Code.

(Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)