Sen. Carole Pankau

Filed: 3/8/2005

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 489

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 489 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing
5 Section 2-3007 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/2-3007)  (from Ch. 34, par. 2-3007)
7     Sec. 2-3007. Chairman of county board; election and term.
8 Any county board when providing for the reapportionment of its
9 county under this Division may provide that the chairman of the
10 county board shall be elected by the voters of the county
11 rather than by the members of the board. In that event,
12 provision shall be made for the election throughout the county
13 of the chairman of the county board, but in counties over
14 3,000,000 population no person may be elected to serve as such
15 chairman who has not been elected as a county board member to
16 serve during the same period as the term of office as chairman
17 of the county board to which he seeks election. In counties
18 over 450,000 population and under 3,000,000 population, the
19 chairman shall be elected as chairman without having been first
20 elected to the county board. Such chairman shall not vote on
21 any question except to break a tie vote. In all other counties
22 the chairman may either be elected as a county board member or
23 elected as the chairman without having been first elected to
24 the board. Except in counties where the chairman of the county

 

 

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1 board is elected by the voters of the county and is not
2 required to be a county board member, whether the chairman of
3 the county board is elected by the voters of the county or by
4 the members of the board, he shall be elected to a 2 year term.
5 In counties where the chairman of the county board is elected
6 by the voters of the county and is not required to be a county
7 board member, the chairman shall be elected to a 4 year term.
8 In all cases, the term of the chairman of the county board
9 shall commence on the first third Monday of the month following
10 the month in which members of the county board are elected.
11 (Source: P.A. 93-847, eff. 7-30-04.)
 
12     Section 10. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by
13 changing Section 6-116 as follows:
 
14     (605 ILCS 5/6-116)  (from Ch. 121, par. 6-116)
15     Sec. 6-116. Except as otherwise provided in this Section
16 with respect to highway commissioners of township and
17 consolidated township road districts, at the election provided
18 by the general election law in 1985 and every 4 years
19 thereafter in all counties, other than counties in which a
20 county unit road district has been established and other than
21 in Cook County, the highway commissioner of each road district
22 and the district clerk of each road district having an elected
23 clerk, shall be elected to hold office for a term of 4 years,
24 and until his successor is elected and qualified. The highway
25 commissioner of each road district and the district clerk of
26 each road district elected in 1979 shall hold office for an
27 additional 2 years and until his successor is elected and has
28 qualified.
29     In each township and consolidated township road district
30 outside Cook County, highway commissioners shall be elected at
31 the election provided for such commissioners by the general
32 election law in 1981 and every 4 years thereafter to hold

 

 

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1 office for a term of 4 years and until his successor is elected
2 and qualified. The highway commissioner of each road district
3 in Cook County shall be elected at the election provided for
4 said commissioner by the general election law in 1981 and every
5 4 years thereafter for a term of 4 years, and until his
6 successor is elected and qualified.
7     Each highway commissioner shall enter upon the duties of
8 his office on the third first Monday in May after his election.
9     In road districts comprised of a single township, the
10 highway commissioner shall be elected at the election provided
11 for said commissioner by the general election law. All
12 elections as are provided in this Section shall be conducted in
13 accordance with the general election law.
14 (Source: P.A. 83-108.)".