Public Act 0773 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Public Act 098-0773
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| HB3199 Enrolled | LRB098 10096 OMW 40255 b |
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AN ACT concerning local government.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section |
11-4.1 as follows:
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(10 ILCS 5/11-4.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1)
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Sec. 11-4.1. |
(a) In appointing polling places under this Article, the
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county board or board of election commissioners shall, insofar |
as they are
convenient and available, use schools and other |
public buildings as polling
places.
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(b) Upon request of the county board or board of election |
commissioners,
the proper agency of government (including |
school districts and units of
local government) shall make a |
public building under its control available
for use as a |
polling place on an election day and for a reasonably
necessary |
time before and after election day, without charge.
If the |
county board or board of election commissioners chooses a |
school
to be a polling place, then the school district must |
make the school
available for use as a polling place.
However, |
for the day of the election, a school district is encouraged to |
(i) close the school or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that |
day with students not in attendance may choose to (i)
keep the |
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school open or (ii) hold a teachers institute on that day.
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(c) A government agency which makes a public building under |
its
control available for use as a polling place shall (i) |
ensure the portion of
the building to be used as the polling |
place is accessible to handicapped
and elderly voters and (ii) |
allow the election authority to administer the election as |
authorized under this Code.
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(d) If a qualified elector's precinct polling place is a |
school and the elector will be unable to enter that polling |
place without violating Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of |
2012 because the elector is a child sex offender as defined in |
Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012, that elector may |
vote by absentee ballot in accordance with Article 19 of this |
Code or may vote early in accordance with Article 19A of this |
Code. |
(Source: P.A. 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
becoming law. |
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