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91_HB0743

 
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Metropolitan  Water  Reclamation
 2    District Act by changing Section 3.

 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section   5.  The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
 6    Act is amended by changing 3 as follows:

 7        (70 ILCS 2605/3) (from Ch. 42, par. 322)
 8        Sec. 3. Election of trustees.
 9        (a)  The corporate authority of the Sanitary District  of
10    Chicago  shall  consist  of  9  nine  trustees.  The  General
11    Assembly,   by   law,   shall  divide  the  district  into  9
12    subdistricts in 2001.  The subdistricts shall  be  as  nearly
13    equal   in  population  and  as  compact  and  contiguous  as
14    possible. In the year following each federal decennial census
15    year, the General Assembly, by law, shall  redistrict  the  9
16    subdistricts.  Any  territory  that  is added to the district
17    shall become a part of that subdistrict with which it  shares
18    the  greatest common boundary until the next redistricting by
19    the General Assembly.
20        (b)  The Such trustees shall  be  elected  for  staggered
21    terms  at  the election provided by the general election law.
22    The 3 trustees elected in 2000 shall be elected at large  and
23    shall   serve   2-year  terms.   A  trustee  elected  from  a
24    subdistrict must be a resident of that subdistrict.  Trustees
25    shall be elected from subdistricts 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,  and  9  in
26    2002  to  serve  4-year  terms.   The  trustees  elected from
27    subdistricts 1, 2, and 3 in 2004 shall  serve  4-year  terms.
28    The  trustees  elected  in 2006 from subdistricts 4, 5, and 6
29    shall serve 2-year terms, and the trustees  elected  in  2006
30    from  subdistricts 7, 8, and 9 shall serve 4-year terms.  The
31    trustees elected in 2008 from subdistricts 1, 2, and 3  shall
 
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 1    serve  4-year  terms  and  the  trustees elected in 2008 from
 2    subdistricts 4, 5, and  6  shall  serve  4-year  terms.   The
 3    trustees  elected in 2010 from subdistricts 7, 8, and 9 shall
 4    serve 2-year terms.
 5        After the decennial redistricting in 2011 and after  each
 6    decennial    redistricting    thereafter,    trustees    from
 7    subdistricts  1,  2,  and  3  shall  be elected to terms of 2
 8    years, 4 years, and 4 years; trustees from subdistricts 4, 5,
 9    and 6 shall be elected to terms of 4 years, 2  years,  and  4
10    years;  and  trustees  from subdistricts 7, 8, and 9 shall be
11    elected to terms of 4 years, 4  years,  and  2  years.  Three
12    trustees  shall  be  elected at each such election to succeed
13    the 3 trustees whose terms expire in such year.
14        (c)  Such Trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday
15    after the first Monday in the month following  the  month  of
16    their  election  and  shall  hold  their offices for terms as
17    provided  in  subsection  (b)  six  years  and  until   their
18    successors  shall  be  elected and qualified In all elections
19    for trustees each elector may vote for as many candidates  as
20    there  are trustees to be elected, but no elector may give to
21    such candidates more than one vote, it being the  intent  and
22    purpose  of  this  Act  to  prohibit cumulative voting in the
23    selection of members of the board of the sanitary district.
24        (d)  The election of trustees shall be in accordance with
25    the provisions of the general election law.
26        (e)  By reason of the importance  and  character  of  the
27    services performed by the sanitary district, there is a great
28    need  and  it  is  in  the  public  interest  that those such
29    services be performed in as near a non-partisan character  as
30    possible.
31        (f)  When  a  vacancy  exists  in  the  office of trustee
32    trustees of any sanitary district organized  under  this  Act
33    the  provisions  hereof,  the  vacancy  shall  be  filled  by
34    appointment  by  the Governor until the next regular election
 
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 1    at which trustees of the Sanitary  District  of  Chicago  are
 2    elected,  and  thereafter  until a successor shall be elected
 3    and qualified.
 4        (g)  The Such sanitary district shall from  the  time  of
 5    the  first election held by it under this Act be construed in
 6    all courts to be a body corporate and  politic,  and  by  the
 7    name  and  style of the sanitary district of...., and by such
 8    name  and  style  may  sue  and  be  sued,  contract  and  be
 9    contracted with, acquire and hold real  estate  and  personal
10    property necessary for corporate purposes, and adopt a common
11    seal and alter the same at pleasure.
12        (h)  The board of trustees shall have the power to change
13    the name of the Sanitary District of Chicago by ordinance and
14    public  notice  without  impairing  the  legal status of acts
15    theretofore performed by said district.  Thereafter  any  and
16    all  references  to  the Sanitary District of Chicago in this
17    Act or otherwise shall mean and include the name under  which
18    such  sanitary district is then operating.  No rights, duties
19    or privilege of such a sanitary district,  or  those  of  any
20    person,  existing before the change of name shall be affected
21    by a change,  in  the  name  of  a  sanitary  district.   All
22    proceedings  pending in any court in favor of or against such
23    sanitary district may continue to  final  consummation  under
24    the name in which they were commenced.
25    (Source: P.A. 83-345.)

26        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
27    becoming law.

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