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90_HB2857

      70 ILCS 2605/3            from Ch. 42, par. 322
          Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation  District  Act.
      Requires  the  election of trustees from subdistricts created
      by law and implemented at  the  general  elections  in  2000,
      2002,  and 2004 as current terms expire.  Staggers terms of 4
      years and 2 years, rather than 6 years.  Requires the General
      Assembly to redistrict after each  federal  decennial  census
      after  2002.  Provides  that,  until redistricting, territory
      added to the district shall become part  of  the  subdistrict
      with which it shares the greatest common boundary.
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Metropolitan  Water  Reclamation
 2    District Act by changing Section 3.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5. The Metropolitan Water  Reclamation  District
 6    Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
 7        (70 ILCS 2605/3) (from Ch. 42, par. 322)
 8        Sec. 3. Election of trustees.
 9        (a)  The  corporate authority of the Sanitary District of
10    Chicago  shall  consist  of  9  nine  trustees.  The  General
11    Assembly,  by  law,  shall  divide  the   district   into   9
12    subdistricts at least 30 days before the first day set by the
13    Election  Code  for the filing of candidate petitions for the
14    election of trustees in 2000.  The subdistricts shall  be  as
15    nearly  equal  in population and as compact and contiguous as
16    possible. In the year following each federal decennial census
17    year  after  2002,  the  General  Assembly,  by  law,   shall
18    redistrict the 9 subdistricts. Any territory that is added to
19    the  district  shall  become  a part of that subdistrict with
20    which it shares the greatest common boundary until  the  next
21    redistricting by the General Assembly.
22        (b)  At  the  general  election in 2000, one trustee from
23    each of subdistricts 1, 4, and 7 shall be  elected.   At  the
24    general   election   in   2002,  one  trustee  from  each  of
25    subdistricts 2, 5,  and  8  shall  be  elected,  as  well  as
26    trustees  from  other  subdistricts whose terms have expired.
27    At the general election in 2004, one  trustee  from  each  of
28    subdistricts  3,  6,  and  9  shall  be  elected,  as well as
29    trustees from other subdistricts whose  terms  have  expired.
30    Thereafter,   trustees  shall  be  elected  at  each  general
31    election to fill expired terms or vacancies  as  provided  in
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 1    this Section.
 2        Trustees  from  subdistricts 1, 4, and 7 shall be elected
 3    for terms of 2 years, 4 years, 4 years, and 2 years until the
 4    election in 2012, at and after which they  shall  be  elected
 5    for  terms  of  4 years, 4 years, and 2 years.  Trustees from
 6    subdistricts 2, 5, and 8 shall be  elected  for  terms  of  4
 7    years,  2  years, and 4 years.  Trustees from subdistricts 3,
 8    6, and 9 shall be elected for 4-year terms until the election
 9    in 2012, at and after which they shall be elected  for  terms
10    of 2 years, 4 years, and 4 years.
11        Such trustees shall be elected for staggered terms at the
12    election provided by the general election law. Three trustees
13    shall  be  elected  at  each  such  election to succeed the 3
14    trustees whose terms expire in such year.
15        (c)  Such Trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday
16    after the first Monday in the month following  the  month  of
17    their  election  and  shall hold their offices as provided in
18    subsection (b) for six years and until their successors shall
19    be elected and qualified. In all elections for trustees  each
20    elector may vote for as many candidates as there are trustees
21    to  be  elected,  but  no elector may give to such candidates
22    more than one vote, it being the intent and purpose  of  this
23    Act to prohibit cumulative voting in the selection of members
24    of the board of the sanitary district.
25        (d)  The election of trustees shall be in accordance with
26    the provisions of the general election law.
27        (e)  By  reason  of  the  importance and character of the
28    services performed by the sanitary district, there is a great
29    need and it  is  in  the  public  interest  that  those  such
30    services  be performed in as near a non-partisan character as
31    possible.
32        (f)  If a vacancy occurs  in  the  office  of  a  trustee
33    elected   before  the  implementation  of  subdistricts,  the
34    Governor shall  fill  the  vacancy  by  appointment  for  the
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 1    remainder  of  the  unexpired  term  and  until  his  or  her
 2    successor is elected and qualified.  When a vacancy exists in
 3    the  office  of a trustee elected from a subdistrict trustees
 4    of  any  sanitary  district  organized  under  this  Act  the
 5    provisions hereof, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment
 6    by the Governor until the  next  regular  election  at  which
 7    trustees  from  that  subdistrict of the Sanitary District of
 8    Chicago are elected, and thereafter until a  successor  shall
 9    be  elected  for  the  remainder  of  the  unexpired term and
10    qualified.
11        (g)  The Such sanitary district shall from  the  time  of
12    the  first election held by it under this Act be construed in
13    all courts to be a body corporate and  politic,  and  by  the
14    name  and  style of the sanitary district of...., and by that
15    such name and style may sue and  be  sued,  contract  and  be
16    contracted  with,  acquire  and hold real estate and personal
17    property necessary for corporate purposes, and adopt a common
18    seal and alter the seal same at pleasure.
19        (h)  The board of trustees shall have the power to change
20    the name of the Sanitary District of Chicago by ordinance and
21    public notice without impairing  the  legal  status  of  acts
22    previously  theretofore  performed  by  that  said  district.
23    Thereafter any and all references to the Sanitary District of
24    Chicago  in  this Act or otherwise shall mean and include the
25    name  under  which  the  such  sanitary  district   is   then
26    operating.   No  rights,  duties  or privilege of that such a
27    sanitary district, or those of any  person,  existing  before
28    the change of name shall be affected by a change, in the name
29    of a sanitary district.  All proceedings pending in any court
30    in  favor  of  or  against  the  such  sanitary  district may
31    continue to final consummation under the name in  which  they
32    were commenced.
33    (Source: P.A. 83-345.)

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