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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
5Sections 2A-41 and 7-12 as follows:
 
6    (10 ILCS 5/2A-41)  (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-41)
7    Sec. 2A-41. Sanitary District - Trustee - Time of Election.
8A trustee of a Sanitary District which elects its trustees,
9other than the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater
10Chicago or the Fox River Water Reclamation District, shall be
11elected at the general election in each even-numbered year
12which immediately precedes the expiration of the term of any
13incumbent trustee, to succeed each incumbent trustee whose term
14ends before the following general election.
15(Source: P.A. 80-936.)
 
16    (10 ILCS 5/7-12)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-12)
17    Sec. 7-12. All petitions for nomination shall be filed by
18mail or in person as follows:
19        (1) Where the nomination is to be made for a State,
20    congressional, or judicial office, or for any office a
21    nomination for which is made for a territorial division or
22    district which comprises more than one county or is partly

 

 

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1    in one county and partly in another county or counties,
2    then, except as otherwise provided in this Section, such
3    petition for nomination shall be filed in the principal
4    office of the State Board of Elections not more than 113
5    and not less than 106 days prior to the date of the
6    primary, but, in the case of petitions for nomination to
7    fill a vacancy by special election in the office of
8    representative in Congress from this State, such petition
9    for nomination shall be filed in the principal office of
10    the State Board of Elections not more than 57 days and not
11    less than 50 days prior to the date of the primary.
12        Where a vacancy occurs in the office of Supreme,
13    Appellate or Circuit Court Judge within the 3-week period
14    preceding the 106th day before a general primary election,
15    petitions for nomination for the office in which the
16    vacancy has occurred shall be filed in the principal office
17    of the State Board of Elections not more than 92 nor less
18    than 85 days prior to the date of the general primary
19    election.
20        Where the nomination is to be made for delegates or
21    alternate delegates to a national nominating convention,
22    then such petition for nomination shall be filed in the
23    principal office of the State Board of Elections not more
24    than 113 and not less than 106 days prior to the date of
25    the primary; provided, however, that if the rules or
26    policies of a national political party conflict with such

 

 

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1    requirements for filing petitions for nomination for
2    delegates or alternate delegates to a national nominating
3    convention, the chairman of the State central committee of
4    such national political party shall notify the Board in
5    writing, citing by reference the rules or policies of the
6    national political party in conflict, and in such case the
7    Board shall direct such petitions to be filed in accordance
8    with the delegate selection plan adopted by the state
9    central committee of such national political party.
10        (2) Where the nomination is to be made for a county
11    office or trustee of a sanitary district or the Fox River
12    Water Reclamation District then such petition shall be
13    filed in the office of the county clerk not more than 113
14    nor less than 106 days prior to the date of the primary.
15        (3) Where the nomination is to be made for a municipal
16    or township office, such petitions for nomination shall be
17    filed in the office of the local election official, not
18    more than 99 nor less than 92 days prior to the date of the
19    primary; provided, where a municipality's or township's
20    boundaries are coextensive with or are entirely within the
21    jurisdiction of a municipal board of election
22    commissioners, the petitions shall be filed in the office
23    of such board; and provided, that petitions for the office
24    of multi-township assessor shall be filed with the election
25    authority.
26        (4) The petitions of candidates for State central

 

 

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1    committeeman shall be filed in the principal office of the
2    State Board of Elections not more than 113 nor less than
3    106 days prior to the date of the primary.
4        (5) Petitions of candidates for precinct, township or
5    ward committeemen shall be filed in the office of the
6    county clerk not more than 113 nor less than 106 days prior
7    to the date of the primary.
8        (6) The State Board of Elections and the various
9    election authorities and local election officials with
10    whom such petitions for nominations are filed shall specify
11    the place where filings shall be made and upon receipt
12    shall endorse thereon the day and hour on which each
13    petition was filed. All petitions filed by persons waiting
14    in line as of 8:00 a.m. on the first day for filing, or as
15    of the normal opening hour of the office involved on such
16    day, shall be deemed filed as of 8:00 a.m. or the normal
17    opening hour, as the case may be. Petitions filed by mail
18    and received after midnight of the first day for filing and
19    in the first mail delivery or pickup of that day shall be
20    deemed as filed as of 8:00 a.m. of that day or as of the
21    normal opening hour of such day, as the case may be. All
22    petitions received thereafter shall be deemed as filed in
23    the order of actual receipt. Where 2 or more petitions are
24    received simultaneously, the State Board of Elections or
25    the various election authorities or local election
26    officials with whom such petitions are filed shall break

 

 

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1    ties and determine the order of filing, by means of a
2    lottery or other fair and impartial method of random
3    selection approved by the State Board of Elections. Such
4    lottery shall be conducted within 9 days following the last
5    day for petition filing and shall be open to the public.
6    Seven days written notice of the time and place of
7    conducting such random selection shall be given by the
8    State Board of Elections to the chairman of the State
9    central committee of each established political party, and
10    by each election authority or local election official, to
11    the County Chairman of each established political party,
12    and to each organization of citizens within the election
13    jurisdiction which was entitled, under this Article, at the
14    next preceding election, to have pollwatchers present on
15    the day of election. The State Board of Elections, election
16    authority or local election official shall post in a
17    conspicuous, open and public place, at the entrance of the
18    office, notice of the time and place of such lottery. The
19    State Board of Elections shall adopt rules and regulations
20    governing the procedures for the conduct of such lottery.
21    All candidates shall be certified in the order in which
22    their petitions have been filed. Where candidates have
23    filed simultaneously, they shall be certified in the order
24    determined by lot and prior to candidates who filed for the
25    same office at a later time.
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1    election authority or local election official with whom
2    such a petition for nomination is filed shall notify the
3    person for whom a petition for nomination has been filed of
4    the obligation to file statements of organization, reports
5    of campaign contributions, and annual reports of campaign
6    contributions and expenditures under Article 9 of this Act.
7    Such notice shall be given in the manner prescribed by
8    paragraph (7) of Section 9-16 of this Code.
9        (8) Nomination papers filed under this Section are not
10    valid if the candidate named therein fails to file a
11    statement of economic interests as required by the Illinois
12    Governmental Ethics Act in relation to his candidacy with
13    the appropriate officer by the end of the period for the
14    filing of nomination papers unless he has filed a statement
15    of economic interests in relation to the same governmental
16    unit with that officer within a year preceding the date on
17    which such nomination papers were filed. If the nomination
18    papers of any candidate and the statement of economic
19    interest of that candidate are not required to be filed
20    with the same officer, the candidate must file with the
21    officer with whom the nomination papers are filed a receipt
22    from the officer with whom the statement of economic
23    interests is filed showing the date on which such statement
24    was filed. Such receipt shall be so filed not later than
25    the last day on which nomination papers may be filed.
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1    for committeeman or for delegate or alternate delegate to a
2    national nominating convention has been filed may cause his
3    name to be withdrawn by request in writing, signed by him
4    and duly acknowledged before an officer qualified to take
5    acknowledgments of deeds, and filed in the principal or
6    permanent branch office of the State Board of Elections or
7    with the appropriate election authority or local election
8    official, not later than the date of certification of
9    candidates for the consolidated primary or general primary
10    ballot. No names so withdrawn shall be certified or printed
11    on the primary ballot. If petitions for nomination have
12    been filed for the same person with respect to more than
13    one political party, his name shall not be certified nor
14    printed on the primary ballot of any party. If petitions
15    for nomination have been filed for the same person for 2 or
16    more offices which are incompatible so that the same person
17    could not serve in more than one of such offices if
18    elected, that person must withdraw as a candidate for all
19    but one of such offices within the 5 business days
20    following the last day for petition filing. A candidate in
21    a judicial election may file petitions for nomination for
22    only one vacancy in a subcircuit and only one vacancy in a
23    circuit in any one filing period, and if petitions for
24    nomination have been filed for the same person for 2 or
25    more vacancies in the same circuit or subcircuit in the
26    same filing period, his or her name shall be certified only

 

 

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1    for the first vacancy for which the petitions for
2    nomination were filed. If he fails to withdraw as a
3    candidate for all but one of such offices within such time
4    his name shall not be certified, nor printed on the primary
5    ballot, for any office. For the purpose of the foregoing
6    provisions, an office in a political party is not
7    incompatible with any other office.
8        (10)(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other
9    statute, no primary shall be held for an established
10    political party in any township, municipality, or ward
11    thereof, where the nomination of such party for every
12    office to be voted upon by the electors of such township,
13    municipality, or ward thereof, is uncontested. Whenever a
14    political party's nomination of candidates is uncontested
15    as to one or more, but not all, of the offices to be voted
16    upon by the electors of a township, municipality, or ward
17    thereof, then a primary shall be held for that party in
18    such township, municipality, or ward thereof; provided
19    that the primary ballot shall not include those offices
20    within such township, municipality, or ward thereof, for
21    which the nomination is uncontested. For purposes of this
22    Article, the nomination of an established political party
23    of a candidate for election to an office shall be deemed to
24    be uncontested where not more than the number of persons to
25    be nominated have timely filed valid nomination papers
26    seeking the nomination of such party for election to such

 

 

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1    office.
2        (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other
3    statute, no primary election shall be held for an
4    established political party for any special primary
5    election called for the purpose of filling a vacancy in the
6    office of representative in the United States Congress
7    where the nomination of such political party for said
8    office is uncontested. For the purposes of this Article,
9    the nomination of an established political party of a
10    candidate for election to said office shall be deemed to be
11    uncontested where not more than the number of persons to be
12    nominated have timely filed valid nomination papers
13    seeking the nomination of such established party for
14    election to said office. This subsection (b) shall not
15    apply if such primary election is conducted on a regularly
16    scheduled election day.
17        (c) Notwithstanding the provisions in subparagraph (a)
18    and (b) of this paragraph (10), whenever a person who has
19    not timely filed valid nomination papers and who intends to
20    become a write-in candidate for a political party's
21    nomination for any office for which the nomination is
22    uncontested files a written statement or notice of that
23    intent with the State Board of Elections or the local
24    election official with whom nomination papers for such
25    office are filed, a primary ballot shall be prepared and a
26    primary shall be held for that office. Such statement or

 

 

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1    notice shall be filed on or before the date established in
2    this Article for certifying candidates for the primary
3    ballot. Such statement or notice shall contain (i) the name
4    and address of the person intending to become a write-in
5    candidate, (ii) a statement that the person is a qualified
6    primary elector of the political party from whom the
7    nomination is sought, (iii) a statement that the person
8    intends to become a write-in candidate for the party's
9    nomination, and (iv) the office the person is seeking as a
10    write-in candidate. An election authority shall have no
11    duty to conduct a primary and prepare a primary ballot for
12    any office for which the nomination is uncontested unless a
13    statement or notice meeting the requirements of this
14    Section is filed in a timely manner.
15        (11) If multiple sets of nomination papers are filed
16    for a candidate to the same office, the State Board of
17    Elections, appropriate election authority or local
18    election official where the petitions are filed shall
19    within 2 business days notify the candidate of his or her
20    multiple petition filings and that the candidate has 3
21    business days after receipt of the notice to notify the
22    State Board of Elections, appropriate election authority
23    or local election official that he or she may cancel prior
24    sets of petitions. If the candidate notifies the State
25    Board of Elections, appropriate election authority or
26    local election official, the last set of petitions filed

 

 

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1    shall be the only petitions to be considered valid by the
2    State Board of Elections, election authority or local
3    election official. If the candidate fails to notify the
4    State Board of Elections, election authority or local
5    election official then only the first set of petitions
6    filed shall be valid and all subsequent petitions shall be
7    void.
8        (12) All nominating petitions shall be available for
9    public inspection and shall be preserved for a period of
10    not less than 6 months.
11(Source: P.A. 96-1008, eff. 7-6-10; 97-81, eff. 7-5-11.)
 
12    Section 10. The Sanitary District Act of 1917 is amended by
13changing Section 3 as follows:
 
14    (70 ILCS 2405/3)  (from Ch. 42, par. 301)
15    Sec. 3. Board of trustees; creation; term. A board of
16trustees shall be created, consisting of 5 members in any
17sanitary district which includes one or more municipalities
18with a population of over 90,000 but less than 500,000
19according to the most recent Federal census, and consisting of
203 members in any other district. However, the board of trustees
21for the Fox River Water Reclamation District, the Sanitary
22District of Decatur, and the Northern Moraine Wastewater
23Reclamation District shall each consist of 5 members. Each
24board of trustees shall be created for the government, control

 

 

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1and management of the affairs and business of each sanitary
2district organized under this Act shall be created in the
3following manner:
4        (1) If the district is located wholly within a single
5    county, the presiding officer of the county board, with the
6    advice and consent of the county board, shall appoint the
7    trustees for the district;
8        (2) If the district is located in more than one county,
9    the members of the General Assembly whose legislative
10    districts encompass any portion of the district shall
11    appoint the trustees for the district.
12    In any sanitary district which shall have a 3 member board
13of trustees, within 60 days after the adoption of such act, the
14appropriate appointing authority shall appoint three trustees
15not more than 2 of whom shall be from one incorporated city,
16town or village in districts in which are included 2 or more
17incorporated cities, towns or villages, or parts of 2 or more
18incorporated cities, towns or villages, who shall hold their
19office respectively for 1, 2 and 3 years, from the first Monday
20of May next after their appointment and until their successors
21are appointed and have qualified, and thereafter on or before
22the second Monday in April of each year the appropriate
23appointing authority shall appoint one trustee whose term shall
24be for 3 years commencing the first Monday in May of the year
25in which he is appointed. The length of the term of the first
26trustees shall be determined by lot at their first meeting.

 

 

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1    In the case of any sanitary district created after January
21, 1978 in which a 5 member board of trustees is required, the
3appropriate appointing authority shall appoint 5 trustees, one
4of whom shall hold office for one year, two of whom shall hold
5office for 2 years, and 2 of whom shall hold office for 3 years
6from the first Monday of May next after their respective
7appointments and until their successors are appointed and have
8qualified. Thereafter, on or before the second Monday in April
9of each year the appropriate appointing authority shall appoint
10one trustee or 2 trustees, as shall be necessary to maintain a
115 member board of trustees, whose terms shall be for 3 years
12commencing the first Monday in May of the year in which they
13are respectively appointed. The length of the terms of the
14first trustees shall be determined by lot at their first
15meeting.
16    In any sanitary district created prior to January 1, 1978
17in which a 5 member board of trustees is required as of January
181, 1978, the two trustees already serving terms which do not
19expire on May 1, 1978 shall continue to hold office for the
20remainders of their respective terms, and 3 trustees shall be
21appointed by the appropriate appointing authority by April 10,
221978 and shall hold office for terms beginning May 1, 1978. Of
23the three new trustees, one shall hold office for 2 years and 2
24shall hold office for 3 years from May 1, 1978 and until their
25successors are appointed and have qualified. Thereafter, on or
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1appointing authority shall appoint one trustee or 2 trustees,
2as shall be necessary to maintain a 5 member board of trustees,
3whose terms shall be for 3 years commencing the first Monday in
4May of the year in which they are respectively appointed. The
5lengths of the terms of the trustees who are to hold office
6beginning May 1, 1978 shall be determined by lot at their first
7meeting after May 1, 1978.
8    No more than 3 members of a 5 member board of trustees may
9be of the same political party; except that in any sanitary
10district which otherwise meets the requirements of this Section
11and which lies within 4 counties of the State of Illinois or,
12prior to April 30, 2008, in the Fox River Water Reclamation
13District; the appointments of the 5 members of the board of
14trustees shall be made without regard to political party.
15Beginning with the appointments made on April 30, 2008, all
16appointments to the board of trustees of the Fox River Water
17Reclamation District shall be made so that no more than 3 of
18the 5 members are from the same political party.
19    Beginning with the 2015 municipal election, the board of
20trustees of the Fox River Water Reclamation District shall be
21elected. The election of trustees shall be in accordance with
22the provisions of Section 2A-1.1 of the Election Code. Any
23current board members whose terms do not expire in 2015 shall
24serve out the remainder of their term. The board of trustees
25shall consist of 5 elected members. The trustees shall be
26elected for staggered terms at the election as provided by the

 

 

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1general election law. Two trustees shall be elected at the 2015
2election, and 3 trustees shall be elected at the following
3election. Elected trustees shall take office on the first
4Tuesday after the first Monday in the month following the month
5of their election and shall hold their offices for 4 years and
6until their successors shall be elected and qualified. In all
7elections for trustees, each elector may vote for as many
8candidates as there are trustees to be elected, but no elector
9may give to the candidates more than one vote. When a vacancy
10exists on the board of trustees of the Fox River Water
11Reclamation District, the vacancy shall be filled by
12appointment by the president of the board of trustees, with the
13advice and consent of the members of the board of trustees,
14until the next regular election at which trustees of the
15district are elected, and shall be made a matter of record in
16the office of the county clerk in the county where the district
17is located. For a vacancy filled by appointment, the portion of
18the unexpired term remaining after the next regular election at
19which trustees of the district are elected shall be filled by
20election, as provided for in this paragraph.
21    Within 60 days after the release of Federal census
22statistics showing that a sanitary district having a 3 member
23board of trustees contains one or more municipalities with a
24population over 90,000 but less than 500,000, or, for the
25Northern Moraine Wastewater Reclamation District, within 60
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195th General Assembly, the appropriate appointing authority
2shall appoint 2 additional trustees to the board of trustees,
3one to hold office for 2 years and one to hold office for 3
4years from the first Monday of May next after their appointment
5and until their successors are appointed and have qualified.
6The lengths of the terms of these two additional members shall
7be determined by lot at the first meeting of the board of
8trustees held after the additional members take office. The
9three trustees already holding office in the sanitary district
10shall continue to hold office for the remainders of their
11respective terms. Thereafter, on or before the second Monday in
12April of each year the appropriate appointing authority shall
13appoint one trustee or 2 trustees, as shall be necessary to
14maintain a 5 member board of trustees, whose terms shall be for
153 years commencing the first Monday in May of the year in which
16they are respectively appointed.
17    If any sanitary district having a 5 member board of
18trustees shall cease to contain one or more municipalities with
19a population over 90,000 but less than 500,000 according to the
20most recent Federal census, then, for so long as that sanitary
21district does not contain one or more such municipalities, on
22or before the second Monday in April of each year the
23appropriate appointing authority shall appoint one trustee
24whose term shall be for 3 years commencing the first Monday in
25May of the year in which he is appointed. In districts which
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1parts of 2 or more incorporated cities, towns, or villages, all
2of the trustees shall not be from one incorporated city, town
3or village.
4    If a vacancy occurs on any board of trustees, the
5appropriate appointing authority shall within 60 days appoint a
6trustee who shall hold office for the remainder of the vacated
7term.
8    The appointing authority shall require each of the trustees
9to enter into bond, with security to be approved by the
10appointing authority, in such sum as the appointing authority
11may determine.
12    A majority of the board of trustees shall constitute a
13quorum but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day. No
14trustee or employee of such district shall be directly or
15indirectly interested in any contract, work or business of the
16district, or the sale of any article, the expense, price or
17consideration of which is paid by such district; nor in the
18purchase of any real estate or property belonging to the
19district, or which shall be sold for taxes or assessments, or
20by virtue of legal process at the suit of the district.
21Provided, that nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting
22the appointment or selection of any person as trustee or
23employee whose only interest in the district is as owner of
24real estate in the district or of contributing to the payment
25of taxes levied by the district. The trustees shall have the
26power to provide and adopt a corporate seal for the district.

 

 

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1    Notwithstanding any other provision in this Section, in any
2sanitary district created prior to the effective date of this
3amendatory Act of 1985, in which a five member board of
4trustees has been appointed and which currently includes one or
5more municipalities with a population of over 90,000 but less
6than 500,000, the board of trustees shall consist of five
7members.
8(Source: P.A. 95-608, eff. 9-11-07; 96-1065, eff. 7-16-10.)
 
9    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
101, 2013.