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55 ILCS 5/2-5013

(55 ILCS 5/2-5013) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-5013)

Sec. 2-5013.

Discontinuance of county executive form of government.

Any county which has adopted the county executive form of government may
discontinue that form of government only as provided in this Section. The
board upon receipt of a petition, not less than 78 days before a general
election, calling for discontinuance of the county executive form of
government and signed by a number of registered voters of the county equal
to or greater than 5% of the number who voted in the last regular election
held in the county at which county officers were elected shall provide by
resolution for submission of the proposition for discontinuance to the
electors of the county at the next general election. The board shall
certify the resolution and the proposition to the proper election officials
who shall submit the proposition at the next general election in accordance
with the general election law.  The proposition shall be in substantially
the following form:

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    Shall the County of ..........
discontinue the county executive             YES
form of government and (if a home    -------------------------
rule county) become a nonhome rule           NO
county?
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If a majority of the voters voting on the proposition vote in favor of
discontinuance of the county executive form of government, the office of
county executive shall be abolished as of the first Monday in December
following the holding of the election and the board elected in the county
shall meet, organize and resume the conduct of the affairs of the county
wholly as the county board. A referendum under this Section may be held in
any county only once within any 47-month period.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)