093_HB2207

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning elections.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Election  Code  is  amended  by  changing
 5    Section 28-6 as follows:

 6        (10 ILCS 5/28-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 28-6)
 7        Sec.  28-6.   (a)  On a written petition signed by 10% of
 8    the registered voters of any municipality,  township,  county
 9    or  school  district  it  shall  be  the  duty  of the proper
10    election officers to submit any question of public policy  so
11    petitioned for, to the electors of such political subdivision
12    at  any  regular  election  named in the petition at which an
13    election is scheduled to be held  throughout  such  political
14    subdivision  under  Article 2A. Such petitions shall be filed
15    with the local election official of the political subdivision
16    or election authority, as the  case  may  be.  Where  such  a
17    question  is  to be submitted to the voters of a municipality
18    which has adopted Article 6, or a township or school district
19    located entirely within the jurisdiction of a municipal board
20    of election commissioners, such petitions shall be filed with
21    the board of election commissioners having jurisdiction  over
22    the political subdivision.
23        (b)  In   a   municipality   with   more  than  1,000,000
24    inhabitants, when a question  of  public  policy  exclusively
25    concerning  a  contiguous  territory included entirely within
26    but not coextensive with the  municipality  is  initiated  by
27    resolution  or  ordinance of the corporate authorities of the
28    municipality, or  by  a  petition  which  may  be  signed  by
29    registered  voters who reside in any part of any precinct all
30    or part of which includes all or part of  the  territory  and
31    who  equal  in  number  10% of the total number of registered
 
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 1    voters of the precinct or precincts the registered voters  of
 2    which are eligible to sign the petition, it shall be the duty
 3    of  the   election  authority  having  jurisdiction over such
 4    municipality  to  submit  such  question  to   the   electors
 5    throughout each precinct all or part of which includes all or
 6    part  of  the  territory at the regular election specified in
 7    the resolution, ordinance or petition initiating  the  public
 8    question.   A petition initiating a public question described
 9    in this subsection shall be filed with the election authority
10    having jurisdiction over  the  municipality.   A  resolution,
11    ordinance  or petition initiating a public question described
12    in this subsection shall specify the election  at  which  the
13    question is to be submitted.
14        (c)  Local  questions of public policy authorized by this
15    Section and statewide questions of public  policy  authorized
16    by  Section  28-9  shall be advisory public questions, and no
17    legal effects shall result from the adoption or rejection  of
18    such propositions.
19        (d)  This  Section  does  not  apply  to a petition filed
20    pursuant to Article IX of the Liquor Control Act of 1934.
21    (Source: P.A. 84-1467.)