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Public Act 92-0359
HB3145 Enrolled LRB9203112JMmb
AN ACT concerning presidential electors.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
Section 21-4 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/21-4) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-4)
Sec. 21-4. Presidential electors; meeting; allowance. The
electors, elected under this Article as aforesaid, shall meet
at the office of the Secretary of State in a room to be
designated by the Secretary him in the Capitol at Springfield
in this State, at the time appointed by the laws of the
United States at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of
that such day, and give their votes for President and for
Vice-President of the United States, in the manner herein
provided in this Article, and perform such duties as are or
may be required by law. Each elector shall receive an
allowance for food and lodging equal to the amount per day
permitted to be deducted for such expenses under the Internal
Revenue Code, plus a mileage allowance at the rate in effect
under regulations promulgated pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5707(b)(2)
for the number of highway miles necessarily and conveniently
traveled, for every 20 miles necessary travel in going to the
seat of government to give his or her vote and returning to
his or her residence and otherwise performing the official
duties of an elector, to be computed by the most usual route,
the sum of $3, to be paid on the warrant of the State
Comptroller, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, and any person appointed by the electors
assembled to fill a vacancy shall also receive the allowances
compensation provided for electors appointed.
(Source: P.A. 78-592.)
Passed in the General Assembly May 23, 2001.
Approved August 15, 2001.
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