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| AN ACT concerning local government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Joliet Regional Port District Act is amended |
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| by changing Sections 14, 15, 16, and 18 as follows: |
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| (70 ILCS 1825/14) (from Ch. 19, par. 264) |
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| Sec. 14. Board; compensation. The governing and |
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| administrative body of the Port District shall
be a Board |
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| consisting of 10 9 members, to be known as the Joliet Regional |
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| Port
District Board. All members of the Board shall be |
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| residents of Will County.
The members of the Board shall serve |
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| without compensation but shall be
reimbursed for actual |
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| expenses incurred by them in the performance of their
duties. |
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| However, any member of the Board who is appointed to the office |
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| of
secretary or treasurer may receive compensation for his or |
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| her services as such
officer. No member of the Board or |
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| employee of the District shall have any
private financial |
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| interest, profit or benefit in any contract, work or
business |
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| of the District nor in the sale or lease of any property to or
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| from the District. |
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| (Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.) |
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| (70 ILCS 1825/15) (from Ch. 19, par. 265) |
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| Sec. 15. Appointment of Board. Within 60 days after this |
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| Act becomes effective the Governor, by
and with the advice and |
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| consent of the Senate shall appoint 3 members of
the Board who |
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| reside within the District outside the corporate boundaries
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| the City city of Joliet for initial terms expiring June 1st of |
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| the years
1959, 1961, and 1963, respectively, and the Mayor, |
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| with the advice and
consent of the City Council of the City of |
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| Joliet, shall appoint 3 members
of the Board who reside within |
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| the City of Joliet for initial terms
expiring June 1st of the |
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| years 1958, 1960, and 1962, respectively. Of the 3
members each |
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| appointed by the Governor and the Mayor not more than 2 shall
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| be affiliated with the same political party at the time of |
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| appointment. Beginning with the first appointment made by the |
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| Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, after the |
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| effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General |
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| Assembly, the Governor must appoint members who reside within |
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| the District outside the corporate boundaries of the City of |
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| Joliet and the Village of Romeoville. Within 60 days after the |
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| effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General |
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| Assembly, the County Executive of Will County, with the advice |
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| and consent of the County Board, shall appoint 3 members of the |
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| Board for terms expiring June 1st of 2008, 2010, and 2012, |
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| respectively. Within 60 days after the effective date of this |
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| amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, the President of |
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| the Village of Romeoville, with the advice and consent of the |
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| corporate authorities of the Village of Romeoville, shall |
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| appoint one member of the Board who resides within the Village |
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| of Romeoville for an initial term expiring June 1st of 2016. |
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| At the expiration of the term of any member, his or her |
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| successor shall be
appointed by the Governor, Mayor , President |
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| of the Village of Romeoville , or County Executive of Will |
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| County in like
manner and with like regard to political party |
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| affiliation and place of
residence of the appointee, as |
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| appointments for the initial terms. |
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| All successors shall hold office for the term of 6 years |
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| from the first
day of June of the year in which the term of |
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| office commences, except in
the case of an appointment to fill |
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| a vacancy. In case of vacancy in the
office of any member |
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| appointed by the Governor during the recess of the
Senate, the |
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| Governor shall make a temporary appointment until the next
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| meeting of the Senate when he or she shall nominate some person |
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| to fill such
office; and any person so nominated, who is |
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| confirmed by the Senate, shall
hold his or her office during |
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| the remainder of the term and until his or her successor
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| be appointed and qualified. If the Senate is not in session at |
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| the
time this Act takes effect, the Governor shall make |
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| temporary appointments
as in case of vacancies. The Governor, |
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| the Mayor , the President of the Village of Romeoville , and the |
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| County Executive shall certify their respective appointments |
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| to the
Secretary of State. Within 30 days after certification |
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| of his or her appointment,
and before entering upon the duties |
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| of his or her office, each member of the Board
shall take and |
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| subscribe the constitutional oath of office and file it in
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| office of the Secretary of State. |
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| (Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.) |
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| (70 ILCS 1825/16) (from Ch. 19, par. 266) |
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| Sec. 16. Removal and vacancies. Members of the Board shall |
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| hold office until their respective
successors have been |
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| appointed and qualified. Any member may resign from
his or her |
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| office to take effect when his or her successor has been |
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| appointed and has
qualified. The Governor, the Mayor , the |
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| President of the Village of Romeoville, and the County |
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| Executive of Will County, respectively, may remove any member |
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| of the Board they
have appointed in case of incompetency, |
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| neglect of duty, or malfeasance in
office. They shall give such |
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| member a copy of the charges against him or her and
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| opportunity to be publicly heard in person or by counsel in his |
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| or her own
defense upon not less than ten days' notice. In case |
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| of failure to qualify
within the time required, or of |
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| abandonment of his or her office, or in case of
death, |
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| conviction of a felony or removal from office, the office of |
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| such
member shall become vacant. Each vacancy shall be filled |
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| for the unexpired
term by appointment in like manner as in case |
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| of expiration of the term of
a member of the Board. |
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| (Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.) |
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| (70 ILCS 1825/18) (from Ch. 19, par. 268) |
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| Sec. 18. Board meetings; quorum; veto. Regular meetings of |
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| the Board shall be held at least once in each
calendar month, |
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| the time and place of such meetings to be fixed by the
Board. |
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| Six Five members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the
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| transaction of business. All action of the Board shall be by |
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| ordinances or
resolution and the affirmative vote of at least 6 |
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| 5 members shall be
necessary for the adoption of any ordinance |
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| or resolution. All such
ordinances and resolutions before |
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| taking effect shall be approved by the
chairman of the Board, |
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| and if he or she approves thereof he or she shall sign the |
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| same,
and such as he or she does not approve he or she shall |
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| return to the Board with his
or her objections thereto in |
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| writing at the next regular meeting of the Board
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| after the passage thereof. But in the case the chairman fails |
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return any ordinance or resolution with his or her |
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| objections thereto by the time
aforesaid, he or she shall be |
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| deemed to have approved the same and it shall take
effect |
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| accordingly. Upon the return of any ordinance or resolution by |
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| the
chairman with his or her objections, the vote by which the |
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| same was passed shall
be reconsidered by the Board, and if upon |
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| such reconsideration said
ordinance or resolution is passed by |
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| the affirmative vote of at least 7 6
members, it shall go into |
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| effect notwithstanding the veto of the chairman.
All |
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| ordinances, resolutions and all proceedings of the District and |
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| all
documents and records in its possession shall be public |
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| records, and open
to public inspection, except such documents |