Rep. Luis Arroyo

Filed: 3/21/2019

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2624

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2624 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
5Act is amended by changing Section 3 and by adding Section 3.3
6as follows:
 
7    (70 ILCS 2605/3)  (from Ch. 42, par. 322)
8    Sec. 3. The corporate authority of the Sanitary District of
9Chicago shall consist of nine trustees. Such trustees shall be
10elected for staggered terms at the election provided by the
11general election law. Except as provided by Section 3.3, three
12Three trustees shall be elected at each such election to
13succeed the 3 trustees whose terms expire in such year.
14    Such trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday after
15the first Monday in the month following the month of their
16election and shall hold their offices for six years and until

 

 

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1their successors shall be elected and qualified. Except for
2elections of the commissioners of the Metropolitan Water
3Reclamation District of Greater Chicago on and after the 2022
4general election, in In all elections for trustees each elector
5may vote for as many candidates as there are trustees to be
6elected, but no elector may give to such candidates more than
7one vote, it being the intent and purpose of this Act to
8prohibit cumulative voting in the selection of members of the
9board of the sanitary district.
10    The election of trustees shall be in accordance with the
11provisions of the general election law.
12    By reason of the importance and character of the services
13performed by the sanitary district, there is a great need and
14it is in the public interest that such services be performed in
15as near a non-partisan character as possible.
16    When a vacancy exists in the office of trustees of any
17sanitary district organized under the provisions hereof, the
18vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Governor until
19the next regular election at which trustees of the Sanitary
20District of Chicago are elected, and thereafter until a
21successor shall be elected and qualified.
22    Such sanitary district shall from the time of the first
23election held by it under this Act be construed in all courts
24to be a body corporate and politic, and by the name and style
25of the sanitary district of...., and by such name and style may
26sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, acquire and

 

 

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1hold real estate and personal property necessary for corporate
2purposes, and adopt a common seal and alter the same at
3pleasure.
4    The board of trustees shall have the power to change the
5name of the Sanitary District of Chicago by ordinance and
6public notice without impairing the legal status of acts
7theretofore performed by said district. Thereafter any and all
8references to the Sanitary District of Chicago in this Act or
9otherwise shall mean and include the name under which such
10sanitary district is then operating. No rights, duties or
11privilege of such a sanitary district, or those of any person,
12existing before the change of name shall be affected by a
13change, in the name of a sanitary district. All proceedings
14pending in any court in favor of or against such sanitary
15district may continue to final consummation under the name in
16which they were commenced.
17(Source: P.A. 83-345.)
 
18    (70 ILCS 2605/3.3 new)
19    Sec. 3.3. Districting required; election.
20    (a) The General Assembly shall: on or before July 1, 2021,
21divide the Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago into 9
22commissioner districts and assign the commissioner districts
23to reflect the results of the most recent federal decennial
24census; and thereafter, in the year following each decennial
25census, redistrict the commissioner districts to reflect the

 

 

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1results of the most recent census. Each commissioner district
2shall be compact, contiguous, and substantially equal in
3population to each other district. At the meeting of the board
4of commissioners next following the districting by the General
5Assembly, the board of commissioners shall, publicly by lot,
6divide the commissioner districts into 3 groups. In the 2022
7general election, the commissioners from the first group shall
8be elected for a term of 2 years, the commissioners from the
9second group shall be elected for a term of 4 years, and the
10commissioners from the third group shall be elected for a term
11of 6 years. Thereafter, all the terms shall be 6 years and
12elected pursuant to Section 3 of this Act. One commissioner
13shall be elected from each commissioner district and the
14commissioner shall be a resident of the commissioner district
15from which he or she is elected.
16    (b) If the corporate limits of the District expand between
17redistrictings, the board of commissioners shall determine
18which commissioner district or districts the expanded
19territory will join until the next redistricting.
20    (c) The terms of all commissioners serving at the time of
21the 2022 general election shall continue until the first
22Tuesday after the first Monday in the month following the 2022
23general election or until the 9 new commissioners are elected
24and qualified under subsection (a), whichever is later.".