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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 742
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 742 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
5 Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
6 (70 ILCS 2605/3) (from Ch. 42, par. 322)
7 Sec. 3. Election of trustees. The corporate authority
8 of the Sanitary District of Chicago shall consist of nine
9 trustees. Such trustees shall be elected for staggered terms
10 at the election provided by the general election law. Three
11 trustees shall be elected at each such election to succeed
12 the 3 trustees whose terms expire in such year.
13 Such trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday
14 after the first Monday in the month following the month of
15 their election and shall hold their offices for six years and
16 until their successors shall be elected and qualified. In all
17 elections for trustees each elector may vote for as many
18 candidates as there are trustees to be elected, but no
19 elector may give to such candidates more than one vote, it
20 being the intent and purpose of this Act to prohibit
21 cumulative voting in the selection of members of the board of
22 the sanitary district.
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1 The election of trustees shall be in accordance with the
2 provisions of the general election law.
3 By reason of the importance and character of the services
4 performed by the sanitary district, there is a great need and
5 it is in the public interest that such services be performed
6 in as near a non-partisan character as possible.
7 When a vacancy exists in the office of trustees of any
8 sanitary district organized under the provisions hereof, the
9 vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Governor until
10 the next regular election at which trustees of the Sanitary
11 District of Chicago are elected, and thereafter until a
12 successor shall be elected and qualified.
13 Such sanitary district shall from the time of the first
14 election held by it under this Act be construed in all courts
15 to be a body corporate and politic, and by the name and style
16 of the sanitary district of...., and by such name and style
17 may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, acquire
18 and hold real estate and personal property necessary for
19 corporate purposes, and adopt a common seal and alter the
20 same at pleasure.
21 The board of trustees shall have the power to change the
22 name of the Sanitary District of Chicago by ordinance and
23 public notice without impairing the legal status of acts
24 theretofore performed by said district. Thereafter any and
25 all references to the Sanitary District of Chicago in this
26 Act or otherwise shall mean and include the name under which
27 such sanitary district is then operating. No rights, duties
28 or privilege of such a sanitary district, or those of any
29 person, existing before the change of name shall be affected
30 by a change, in the name of a sanitary district. All
31 proceedings pending in any court in favor of or against such
32 sanitary district may continue to final consummation under
33 the name in which they were commenced.
34 (Source: P.A. 83-345.)".