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91_HB2051
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1 AN ACT to amend the Election Code by changing Section
2 7-1.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
6 Section 7-1 as follows:
7 (10 ILCS 5/7-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-1)
8 Sec. 7-1. Application of Article.
9 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, the
10 nomination of all candidates for all elective State,
11 congressional, judicial, and county officers, State's
12 Attorneys (whether elected from a single county or from more
13 than one county), city, village, and incorporated town and
14 municipal officers, trustees of sanitary districts, township
15 officers in townships of over 5,000 population coextensive
16 with or included wholly within cities or villages not under
17 the commission form of government, precinct, township, ward,
18 and State central committeemen, and delegates and alternate
19 delegates to national nominating conventions by all political
20 parties, as defined in Section 7-2 of this Article 7, shall
21 be made in the manner provided in this Article 7 and not
22 otherwise. The nomination of candidates for electors of
23 President and Vice President of the United States shall be
24 made only in the manner provided for in Section 7-9 of this
25 Article.
26 (b) This Article 7 shall not apply to (i) the nomination
27 of candidates for school elections and township elections,
28 except in those townships specifically mentioned in
29 subsection (a) of this Section and except in those cases in
30 which a township central committee determines under Section
31 6A-2 of the Township Law of 1874 or Section 45-55 of the
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1 Township Code that its candidates for township offices shall
2 be nominated by primary in accordance with this Article, (ii)
3 the nomination of park commissioners in park districts
4 organized under the Park District Code, (iii) the nomination
5 of officers of cities and villages organized under special
6 charters, or (iv) the nomination of municipal officers for
7 cities, villages, and incorporated towns with a population of
8 5,000 or less, except where a city, village, or incorporated
9 town with a population of 5,000 or less has by ordinance
10 determined that political parties shall nominate candidates
11 for municipal office in the city, village, or incorporated
12 town by primary in accordance with this Article. In that
13 event, the municipal clerk shall certify the ordinance to the
14 proper election officials no later than November 15 in the
15 year preceding the consolidated primary election.
16 (c) The words "township officers" or "township offices"
17 shall be construed, when used in this Article, to include
18 supervisors.
19 (d) As provided in Sections 3.1-25-20 through 3.1-25-60
20 of the Illinois Municipal Code, a village may adopt a system
21 of nonpartisan primary and general elections for the election
22 of village officers.
23 (Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-5, eff. 1-1-96.)