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| 1 | AN ACT concerning elections.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | 6A-3 as follows:
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| 6 | (10 ILCS 5/6A-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 6A-3)
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| 7 | Sec. 6A-3. Commissioners; filling vacancies. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | (a) If the county board adopts an ordinance providing for | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | the
establishment of a county board of election commissioners, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | or if a
majority of the votes cast on a proposition submitted | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | in accordance with
Section 6A-2(a) are in favor of a county | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | board of election commissioners, a
county board of election | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | commissioners shall be appointed in the same
manner as is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | provided in Article 6 for boards of election commissioners
in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | cities, villages and incorporated towns, except that the county | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | board of
election commissioners shall be appointed by the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | chairman of the county board
rather than the circuit court. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | However, before any
appointments are made, the appointing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | authority shall ascertain whether
the county clerk desires to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | be a member of the county board of election
commissioners. If | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | the county clerk so
desires, he shall be one of the
members of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | the county board of election commissioners, and the
appointing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | authority shall appoint only 2 other members. Commissioners | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | appointed pursuant to this Article shall serve in an unpaid | ||||||
| 2 | capacity.
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| 3 | (b) For any county board of election commissioners | ||||||
| 4 | established under subsection (b) of Section 6A-1, within 30 | ||||||
| 5 | days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
| 6 | 98th General Assembly, the chief judge of the circuit court of | ||||||
| 7 | the county shall appoint 5 commissioners. At least 4 of those | ||||||
| 8 | commissioners shall be selected from the 2 major established | ||||||
| 9 | political parties of the State, with at least 2 from each of | ||||||
| 10 | those parties. Such appointment shall be entered of record in | ||||||
| 11 | the office of the County Clerk and the State Board of | ||||||
| 12 | Elections. Those first appointed shall hold their offices for | ||||||
| 13 | the period of one, 2, and 3 years respectively, and the judge | ||||||
| 14 | appointing them shall designate the term for which each | ||||||
| 15 | commissioner shall hold his or her office, whether for one, 2 | ||||||
| 16 | or 3 years except that no more than one commissioner from each | ||||||
| 17 | major established political party may be designated the same | ||||||
| 18 | term. After the initial term, each commissioner or his or her | ||||||
| 19 | successor shall be appointed to a 3 year term. No elected | ||||||
| 20 | official or former elected official who has been out of elected | ||||||
| 21 | office for less than 2 years may be appointed to the board. | ||||||
| 22 | Vacancies shall be filled by the chief judge of the circuit | ||||||
| 23 | court within 30 days of the vacancy in a manner that maintains | ||||||
| 24 | the foregoing political party representation. | ||||||
| 25 | (c) For any county board of election commissioners | ||||||
| 26 | established under subsection (c) of Section 6A-1, within 30 | ||||||
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| 1 | days after the conclusion of the election at which the | ||||||
| 2 | proposition to establish a county board of election | ||||||
| 3 | commissioners is approved by the voters, the municipal board | ||||||
| 4 | shall apply to the circuit court of the county for the chief | ||||||
| 5 | judge of the circuit court to appoint 2 additional | ||||||
| 6 | commissioners, one of whom shall be from each major established | ||||||
| 7 | political party and neither of whom shall reside within the | ||||||
| 8 | limits of the municipal board, so that 3 commissioners shall | ||||||
| 9 | reside within the limits of the municipal board and 2 shall | ||||||
| 10 | reside within the county but not within the municipality, as it | ||||||
| 11 | may exist from time to time. Not more than 3 of the | ||||||
| 12 | commissioners shall be members of the same major established | ||||||
| 13 | political party. Vacancies shall be filled by the chief judge | ||||||
| 14 | of the circuit court upon application of the remaining | ||||||
| 15 | commissioners in a manner that maintains the foregoing | ||||||
| 16 | geographical and political party representation. | ||||||
| 17 | (Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 7-29-13.)
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| 18 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 19 | becoming law.
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