HB0874 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB0874

Introduced 2/10/2009, by Rep. JoAnn D. Osmond

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

60 ILCS 1/15-70 new

Amends the Township Code. Provides that the city council of any coterminous city located in a county with a population of less than 1,000,000 may authorize the township supervisor to preside over portions of city council meetings when the city council is exercising powers that would ordinarily be exercised by the township board. Provides that, if the township supervisor is authorized to preside over city council meetings, then the township supervisor has one vote and the mayor has no vote. Effective immediately.

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 Township Code is amended by adding Section 15-70 as follows:

(60 ILCS 1/15-70 new)

Sec. 15-70. City council meetings; township business. The city council of any coterminous city located in a county with a population of less than 1,000,000 may, by the affirmative vote of three-fourths of its members, authorize the township supervisor to preside over portions of city council meetings when the city council is exercising powers that would ordinarily be exercised by the township board in a township not organized under this Article. If the city council authorizes the township supervisor to preside, then the supervisor has one vote and the mayor has no vote.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.