Full Text of HB2538 100th General Assembly
HB2538eng 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Regional Planning Act is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 25 as follows: | 6 | | (70 ILCS 1707/25)
| 7 | | Sec. 25. Operations. | 8 | | (a) Each appointing authority shall give notice of its | 9 | | Board appointments to each other appointing authority, to the | 10 | | Board, and to the Secretary of State. Within 30 days after his | 11 | | or her appointment and before entering upon the duties of the | 12 | | office, each Board member shall take and subscribe to the | 13 | | constitutional oath of office and file it with the Secretary of | 14 | | State. Board members shall hold office for a term of 4 years or | 15 | | until successors are appointed and qualified. The terms of the | 16 | | initial Board members shall expire as follows: | 17 | | (1) The terms of the member from DuPage County and the | 18 | | member representing both Kane and Kendall Counties shall | 19 | | expire on July 1, 2007. | 20 | | (2) The terms of those members from Lake, McHenry, and | 21 | | Will Counties shall expire on July 1, 2009. | 22 | | (3) As designated at the time of appointment, the terms | 23 | | of 2 members from the City of Chicago shall expire on July |
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| 1 | | 1, 2007 and the terms of 3 members from the City of Chicago | 2 | | shall expire on July 1, 2009. | 3 | | (4) The term of the member appointed by the President | 4 | | of the Cook County Board of Commissioners shall expire on | 5 | | July 1, 2007. | 6 | | (5) The terms of those members appointed, with the | 7 | | consent of the President of the Cook County Board of | 8 | | Commissioners, by the mayors representing those | 9 | | communities in Cook County that are outside of the City of | 10 | | Chicago and north of Devon Avenue shall expire on July 1, | 11 | | 2007. | 12 | | (6) The terms of those members appointed, with the | 13 | | consent of the President of the Cook County Board of | 14 | | Commissioners, by the mayors representing those | 15 | | communities in Cook County that are outside of the City of | 16 | | Chicago, south of Interstate 55, and west of Interstate 57, | 17 | | excluding the communities of Summit, Dixmoor, Posen, | 18 | | Robbins, Midlothian, Oak Forest, and Tinley Park, shall | 19 | | expire on July 1, 2007. | 20 | | (7) The terms of those members appointed, with the | 21 | | consent of the President of the Cook County Board of | 22 | | Commissioners, by the mayor representing those communities | 23 | | in Cook County that are outside of the City of Chicago, | 24 | | south of Devon Avenue, and north of Interstate 55, and, in | 25 | | addition, the Village of Summit, shall expire on July 1, | 26 | | 2009. |
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| 1 | | (8) The terms of those members appointed, with the | 2 | | consent of the President of the Cook County Board of | 3 | | Commissioners, by the mayors representing those | 4 | | communities in Cook County that are outside of the City of | 5 | | Chicago and east of Interstate 57, and, in addition, the | 6 | | communities of Dixmoor, Posen, Robbins, Midlothian, Oak | 7 | | Forest, and Tinley Park, shall expire on July 1, 2009. | 8 | | (b) If a vacancy occurs, the appropriate appointing | 9 | | authority shall fill the vacancy by an appointment for the | 10 | | unexpired term. Board members shall receive no compensation, | 11 | | but shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred in the | 12 | | performance of their duties. | 13 | | (c) The Board shall be so appointed as to represent the | 14 | | City of Chicago, that part of Cook County outside the City of | 15 | | Chicago, and that part of the metropolitan region outside of | 16 | | Cook County on a one man one vote basis. Within 6 months after | 17 | | the release of each certified federal decennial census, the | 18 | | Board shall review its composition and, if a change is | 19 | | necessary in order to comply with the representation | 20 | | requirements of this subsection (c), shall recommend the | 21 | | necessary revision for approval by the General Assembly. | 22 | | (d) Regular meetings of the Board shall be held at least | 23 | | once in each calendar quarter. The time and place of Board | 24 | | meetings shall be fixed by resolution of the Board. Special | 25 | | meetings of the Board may be called by the chairman or a | 26 | | majority of the Board members. A written notice of the time and |
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| 1 | | place of any special meeting shall be provided to all Board | 2 | | members at least 3 days prior to the date fixed for the | 3 | | meeting, except that if the time and place of a special meeting | 4 | | is fixed at a regular meeting at which all Board members are | 5 | | present, no such written notice is required.
A majority of the | 6 | | Board members in office constitutes a quorum for the purpose of | 7 | | convening a meeting of the Board.
| 8 | | (e) The meetings of the Board shall be held in compliance | 9 | | with the Open Meetings Act. The Board shall maintain records in | 10 | | accordance with the provisions of the State Records Act. | 11 | | (f) At its initial meeting and its first regular meeting | 12 | | after July 1 of each year thereafter, the Board
from its | 13 | | membership shall appoint a chairman and may appoint
vice | 14 | | chairmen and shall provide the term and duties of those | 15 | | officers pursuant to its bylaws.
Before entering upon duties of | 16 | | office, the chairman shall execute a bond with corporate | 17 | | sureties to be approved by the Board and shall file it with the | 18 | | principal office of the Board. The bond shall be payable to the | 19 | | Board in whatever penal sum may be directed and shall be | 20 | | conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of | 21 | | office and the payment of all money received by the chairman | 22 | | according to law and the orders of the Board.
The Board may | 23 | | appoint, from time to time, an executive committee and standing | 24 | | and ad hoc committees to assist in carrying out its | 25 | | responsibilities.
| 26 | | (g) Open meetings of the Board shall be broadcast to the |
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| 1 | | public and maintained in real-time on the Board's website using | 2 | | a high-speed Internet connection. Recordings of each meeting | 3 | | broadcast shall be posted to the Board's website within a | 4 | | reasonable time after the meeting and shall be maintained as | 5 | | public records to the extent practicable, as determined by the | 6 | | Board. Compliance with the provisions of this amendatory Act of | 7 | | the 100th General Assembly does not relieve the Board of its | 8 | | obligations under the Open Meetings Act. | 9 | | (Source: P.A. 94-510, eff. 8-9-05; 95-677, eff. 10-11-07.)
| 10 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 11 | | becoming law.
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