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91_HB0742eng HB0742 Engrossed LRB9103332MWgc 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. The corporate authority 9 of the Sanitary District of Chicago shall consist of nine 10 trustees. Such trustees shall be elected for staggered terms 11 at the election provided by the general election law. Three 12 trustees shall be elected at each such election to succeed 13 the 3 trustees whose terms expire in such year. 14 Such trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday 15 after the first Monday in the month following the month of 16 their election and shall hold their offices for six years and 17 until their successors shall be elected and qualified. In all 18 elections for trustees each elector may vote for as many 19 candidates as there are trustees to be elected, but no 20 elector may give to such candidates more than one vote, it 21 being the intent and purpose of this Act to prohibit 22 cumulative voting in the selection of members of the board of 23 the sanitary district. 24 The election of trustees shall be in accordance with the 25 provisions of the general election law. 26 By reason of the importance and character of the services 27 performed by the sanitary district, there is a great need and 28 it is in the public interest that such services be performed 29 in as near a non-partisan character as possible. 30 When a vacancy exists in the office of trustees of any 31 sanitary district organized under the provisions hereof, the HB0742 Engrossed -2- LRB9103332MWgc 1 vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Governor until 2 the next regular election at which trustees of the Sanitary 3 District of Chicago are elected, and thereafter until a 4 successor shall be elected and qualified. 5 Such sanitary district shall from the time of the first 6 election held by it under this Act be construed in all courts 7 to be a body corporate and politic, and by the name and style 8 of the sanitary district of...., and by such name and style 9 may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, acquire 10 and hold real estate and personal property necessary for 11 corporate purposes, and adopt a common seal and alter the 12 same at pleasure. 13 The board of trustees shall have the power to change the 14 name of the Sanitary District of Chicago by ordinance and 15 public notice without impairing the legal status of acts 16 theretofore performed by said district. Thereafter any and 17 all references to the Sanitary District of Chicago in this 18 Act or otherwise shall mean and include the name under which 19 such sanitary district is then operating. No rights, duties 20 or privilege of such a sanitary district, or those of any 21 person, existing before the change of name shall be affected 22 by a change, in the name of a sanitary district. All 23 proceedings pending in any court in favor of or against such 24 sanitary district may continue to final consummation under 25 the name in which they were commenced. 26 (Source: P.A. 83-345.)