HB3140 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB3140

Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

55 ILCS 5/3-9004

from Ch. 34, par. 3-9004

Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the legal effect of a State's attorney's failure to give the bond or take the oath required by statute.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section 3-9004 as follows:

(55 ILCS 5/3-9004) (from Ch. 34, par. 3-9004)

Sec. 3-9004. Failure to give bond or take oath. If any person elected to the the office of State's attorney shall fail to give bond, or take the oath required of him, within twenty days after he is declared elected, the office shall be deemed vacant, and if, being required to give additional bond, as provided in Section 3-9003 hereof, he fails to do so within twenty days after notice of such requirements, his office may, in the discretion of the governor, be declared vacant and filled as provided by law.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)