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91_HB2059

 
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Election Code  by  changing  Sections
 2    3.1-25-20 and 4-3-5.

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

 5        Section 5.  The Illinois Municipal  Code  is  amended  by
 6    changing Sections 3.1-25-20 and 4-3-5 as follows:

 7        (65 ILCS 5/3.1-25-20) (from Ch. 24, par. 3.1-25-20)
 8        Sec. 3.1-25-20.  Primary election. A village incorporated
 9    under  this  Code  shall  nominate  and  elect candidates for
10    president and trustees in  nonpartisan  primary  and  general
11    elections as provided in Sections 3.1-25-20 through 3.1-25-55
12    until  the  electors  of  the  village  vote  to  require the
13    partisan  election  of  the  president  and  trustees  at   a
14    referendum  in the manner provided in Section 3.1-25-65 after
15    January 1, 1992. The provisions of Sections 3.1-25-20 through
16    3.1-25-55 shall apply to all villages incorporated under this
17    Code that have operated  under  those  Sections  without  the
18    adoption  of  those  provisions by the referendum provided in
19    Section 3.1-25-60 as well as those villages that have adopted
20    those  provisions  by  the  referendum  provided  in  Section
21    3.1-25-60 until  the  electors  of  those  villages  vote  to
22    require  the  partisan election of the president and trustees
23    in the manner provided in Section  3.1-25-65.  Villages  that
24    have  nominated  and  elected  candidates  for  president and
25    trustees in partisan elections prior to January 1, 1992,  may
26    continue  to  hold  partisan  elections  without conducting a
27    referendum in the manner provided in Section  3.1-25-65.  All
28    candidates  for  nomination  to  be  voted for at all general
29    municipal elections at which  a  president  or  trustees,  or
30    both, are to be elected under this Article shall be nominated
31    from  the village at large by a primary election, except that
 
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 1    no primary shall be held where the names of not more  than  2
 2    persons  are  entitled to be printed on the primary ballot as
 3    candidates for the nomination for each office to be filled at
 4    an election at which no other offices are to  be  filled  and
 5    those  persons,  having  filed the statement of candidacy and
 6    petition required by the general election law, shall  be  the
 7    candidates for office at the general municipal election.
 8        Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law, no primary
 9    shall be held in any village when the  nomination  for  every
10    office  to  be  voted  upon by the electors of the village is
11    uncontested.  If the nomination of candidates is  uncontested
12    as  to  one  or more, but not all, of the offices to be voted
13    upon by the electors of the village, then a primary  must  be
14    held  in  the village, provided that the primary ballot shall
15    not include those  offices  in  the  village  for  which  the
16    nomination  is uncontested.  For the purposes of the Section,
17    an office is uncontested when not more  than  the  number  of
18    persons to be nominated to the office have timely filed valid
19    nominating  papers  seeking  nomination  for election to that
20    office.
21        Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph,  when  a  person
22    (i) who has not timely filed valid nomination papers and (ii)
23    who intends to become a write-in candidate for nomination for
24    any  office  for  which  nomination  is  uncontested  files a
25    written statement or notice of that intent  with  the  proper
26    election  official  with  whom the nomination papers for that
27    office are filed, a primary ballot must  be  prepared  and  a
28    primary must be held for the office.  The statement or notice
29    must  be  filed  on  or  before  that date established in the
30    Election Code  for  certifying  candidates  for  the  primary
31    ballot.   The statement must contain (i) the name and address
32    of the person intending to become a write-in candidate,  (ii)
33    a  statement  that  the  person  intends to become a write-in
34    candidate, and (iii) the office the person is  seeking  as  a
 
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 1    write-in  candidate.   An  election  authority has no duty to
 2    conduct a primary election or prepare a primary ballot unless
 3    a statement meeting the requirements  of  this  paragraph  is
 4    filed in a timely manner.
 5        Only  the  names of those persons nominated in the manner
 6    prescribed in Sections 3.1-25-20 through 3.1-25-65  shall  be
 7    placed  on  the ballot at the general municipal election. The
 8    village clerk shall certify the offices to be filled and  the
 9    candidates for those offices to the proper election authority
10    as provided in the general election law.  A primary for those
11    offices,  if  required,  shall be held in accordance with the
12    general election law.
13    (Source: P.A. 87-1119.)

14        (65 ILCS 5/4-3-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 4-3-5)
15        Sec. 4-3-5. All candidates for nomination to be voted for
16    at all general municipal elections at which  a  mayor  and  4
17    commissioners  are  to be elected under this article shall be
18    nominated  from  the  municipality  at  large  by  a  primary
19    election, except that no primary  shall  be  held  where  the
20    names  of  not more than 2 persons are entitled to be printed
21    on the primary ballot as a candidate for the  nomination  for
22    each  office  to  be  filled at an election at which no other
23    offices are to be voted on and such persons, having filed the
24    statement of candidacy and petition required by  the  general
25    election  law  shall  be  the  candidates  for  office at the
26    general municipal election.
27        Notwithstanding any other provision of  law,  no  primary
28    shall  be  held  in  any municipality when the nomination for
29    every office  to  be  voted  upon  by  the  electors  of  the
30    municipality is uncontested.  If the nomination of candidates
31    is uncontested as to one or more, but not all, of the offices
32    to  be voted upon by the electors of the municipality, then a
33    primary must be held in the municipality, provided  that  the
 
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 1    primary  ballot  shall  not  include  those  offices  in  the
 2    municipality  for  which  the nomination is uncontested.  For
 3    the purposes of this Section, an office is  uncontested  when
 4    not  more  than  the number of persons to be nominated to the
 5    office have timely  filed  valid  nominating  papers  seeking
 6    nomination for election to that office.
 7        Notwithstanding  the  preceding  paragraph, when a person
 8    (i) who has not timely filed valid nomination papers and (ii)
 9    who intends to become a write-in candidate for nomination for
10    any office  for  which  nomination  is  uncontested  files  a
11    written  statement  or  notice of that intent with the proper
12    election official with whom the nomination  papers  for  that
13    office  are  filed,  a  primary ballot must be prepared and a
14    primary must be held for the office.  The statement or notice
15    must be filed on or  before  that  date  established  in  the
16    Election  Code  for  certifying  candidates  for  the primary
17    ballot.  The statement must contain (i) the name and  address
18    of  the person intending to become a write-in candidate, (ii)
19    a statement that the person  intends  to  become  a  write-in
20    candidate,  and  (iii)  the office the person is seeking as a
21    write-in candidate.  An election authority  has  no  duty  to
22    conduct a primary election or prepare a primary ballot unless
23    a  statement  meeting  the  requirements of this paragraph is
24    filed in a timely manner.
25        Only the names of those persons nominated in  the  manner
26    prescribed in this article shall be placed upon the ballot at
27    the  general  municipal  election.  The municipal clerk shall
28    certify the offices to be filled and the candidates  therefor
29    to  the  proper election authority as provided in the general
30    election law.
31        A primary for such offices, if required, shall be held in
32    accordance with the provisions of the general election law.
33    (Source: P.A. 81-1490.)
 
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 1        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 2    becoming law.

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