(620 ILCS 50/69) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 173)
Sec. 69.
Upon the Department notifying such county boards that the
petition is sufficient and that the joining of the two counties is in
the public interest, each county board shall proceed with the election
of Commissioners to serve as members of a Joint County Airports
Commission. In determining the sufficiency of the petition, the
Department shall take into consideration the relationship between the
location of the principal cities and trading points in such counties and
the nature of their present and future airport requirements; the nature
of the terrain adjoining such cities and trading points to such needs;
the effect of the joining of such counties to the then current national
airport plan, the then current federal airways system, the then current
State airport plan and the then current State airways system; and such
other factors as under the circumstances, it regards as having an
important bearing on whether such counties should be joined for airport
purposes. The number of such commissioners to total nine, five of whom
shall be elected by the county having the larger population, and four by
the county having the lesser population. The nomination, election and
qualifications of such airport commissioner, shall be as in the case of
the creation of a county airport commission. Such joint commission shall
be composed of two members of each county board, one "Aviation" member
from each county, one "non-aviation" member from each county, and one
"non-aviation" member to represent the county entitled to the fifth
member, which shall come in alternate years from the smaller county.
The commission shall be organized as is provided in the case of a
county airport commission, with the chairman of the county board of the
county that elected the four members of the joint commission serving as
temporary presiding officer. Three of such commissioners shall serve one
year, three shall serve two years and three shall serve three years. In
fixing the term of office of each of the commissioners,
the commissioners
shall arrange that the terms shall expire in such order as the
requirements of this section demand. Nothing herein shall prevent an
agreement between the county boards whereby the number of commissioners
elected by each county may be fixed differently, provided that the
number of commissioners of each class elected by each county board is
not less than one.
Such joint commission shall have all the powers and duties as are in
this act given to the county airports commission and shall exercise such
powers and perform such duties as if the two counties were a single
unit.
(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)
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