(5 ILCS 260/10) (from Ch. 103, par. 10)
Sec. 10.
When a surety upon the official bond of any state officer or
agent, county, town, city, village, incorporated town or other public
officer, or the heir, executor or administrator of such surety, desires to
be released from such bond, he may give notice in writing to the officer
upon whose bond he is surety that he desires to be so released, and that
such officer give a new bond with sufficient sureties within ten days after
receiving such notice, and may within five days after the service of such
notice deliver a copy of the same, with an affidavit showing the time and
manner of service, to the court, officer, or board authorized to approve
the bonds of such officers. And if such officer shall not within ten days
after receiving such notice, or within such further time, not exceeding
twenty days, as the court, officer or board shall allow, give a new bond
with sufficient security, approved as required by law, his office shall
become vacant, and the vacancy shall be filled as provided by law.
(Source: R.S. 1874, p. 728.)
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