SB2491 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB2491

Introduced 2/9/2016, by Sen. Melinda Bush

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

55 ILCS 5/2-3002.5

Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning county board elections.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section 2-3002.5 as follows:

(55 ILCS 5/2-3002.5)

Sec. 2-3002.5. Beginning with members elected at the the general election in 2002, counties having a population between 800,000 and 3,000,000 according to 2000 decennial census shall have no more than 18 members on their county board. If the chairman of the county board is elected at-large by the voters of the county as provided in Section 2-3007, the chairman shall not be counted as a member of the county board for the purpose of the limitations on the size of the county board provided in this Section. Neither a member nor the chairman of that county board shall serve simultaneously as commissioner or president of the board of commissioners of the forest preserve district. No person shall seek election to both the county board and the forest preserve commission at the same election.

(Source: P.A. 91-933, eff. 12-30-00.)