(70 ILCS 1205/2-17.5)

Sec. 2-17.5. Fox Valley Park District.

(a) The Fox Valley Pleasure Driveway and Park District is reorganized by operation of law as the Fox Valley Park District under this Code on July 16, 2014 (the effective date of Public Act 98-772).

(b) Each Fox Valley Park District commissioner shall be a legal voter and reside within the park district and, as to the subdistrict commissioners, each shall reside within the subdistrict from which he or she is elected. The proper election authority shall conduct the elections for commissioners at the time and in the manner provided by the general election law.

(c) Beginning with the consolidated election in 2017, 7 commissioners shall be elected for 4-year terms, consisting of 6 commissioners from 3 2-member subdistricts and 1 commissioner elected at large. The terms of office of the initial commissioners elected under Public Act 98-772 will run as follows, to be determined by lot: 4 members shall serve a 4-year term and may be re-elected for subsequent 4-year terms, and 3 members shall serve a 2-year term and may be re-elected for subsequent 4-year terms thereafter.

The initial three subdistricts of the Fox Valley Park District shall be as follows:

(1) Those portions of Kane County and Kendall County west of the Fox River.

(2) Those portions of Kane County and Kendall County east of the Fox River and south and west of a line following Indian Trail Road from the center line of the Fox River easterly to the intersection with Farnsworth Avenue, then southerly along Farnsworth Avenue to the intersection with the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, then easterly to the county line.

(3) Those portions of the district in DuPage County and Will County and that portion of Kane County generally north and east of a line following Indian Trail Road from the center line of the Fox River easterly to the intersection with Farnsworth Avenue, then southerly along Farnsworth Avenue to the intersection with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, then easterly to the county line.

In the year following the next decennial census and each decennial census thereafter, the board of commissioners shall reapportion the subdistricts to reflect the results of the census. A nominating petition for a candidate for commissioner of a subdistrict or for a candidate for the at-large commissioner shall contain signatures of registered voters residing anywhere within the Fox Valley Park District, but at least 50 such registered voters or 2% of the total number of ballots cast Park District-wide in the last preceding election for commissioners in the Fox Valley Park District, whichever is less.

The term of office for the commissioners elected under this Section shall commence on the first Monday of the month following the month of election. The terms of all appointed trustees serving on July 16, 2014 (the effective date of Public Act 98-772) shall end when their successors have been elected and qualified.

(d) The Fox Valley Park District board of commissioners shall elect officers of the board at the first meeting of the board following the next consolidated election for park district commissioners.

(e) As of July 16, 2014 (the effective date of Public Act 98-772), each Fox Valley Pleasure Driveway and Park District trustee in office shall, as a member of the board of the Fox Valley Park District, perform the duties and exercise the powers conferred upon park board commissioners under this Code, until his or her successor is elected and has qualified.

(f) Any tax authorized by referendum or other means under this Code and levied by the Fox Valley Pleasure Driveway and Park District before July 16, 2014 (the effective date of Public Act 98-772) shall not be affected or abrogated because of the name change, and the Fox Valley Park District may continue to levy and collect that tax.

(Source: P.A. 101-672, eff. 1-1-22.)