(70 ILCS 3715/5.2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 227.2)
Sec. 5.2.
Any water authority, that has determined to have an elected rather
than an appointed board of trustees pursuant to Section 5.1, may, in the
manner provided in this Section, revert to an appointed board of
trustees.
Upon presentation to the board of trustees of a petition, signed by
not less than 10% of the electors of the authority, requesting that a
proposition for the appointment of trustees be submitted to the electors
of the authority, the board of trustees shall certify that proposition
to the proper election officials, who shall, at an election conducted
in accordance with the general election law,
submit such proposition to the electors of the district.
The proposition shall be in substantially
the following
form:
-------------------------------------------------------------- Shall the trustees of........ YESWater Authority be appointed, ---------------------------rather than elected? NO--------------------------------------------------------------
If a majority of the votes cast on such proposition are in the
affirmative, the trustees of the authority shall thereafter be appointed
as provided in Section 3.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
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