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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act is
5amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6    (50 ILCS 105/1)  (from Ch. 102, par. 1)
7    Sec. 1. County board. No member of a county board, during
8the term of office for which he or she is elected, may be
9appointed to, accept, or hold any office other than (i)
10chairman of the county board or member of the regional planning
11commission by appointment or election of the board of which he
12or she is a member, (ii) alderman of a city or member of the
13board of trustees of a village or incorporated town if the
14city, village, or incorporated town has fewer than 1,000
15inhabitants and is located in a county having fewer than 50,000
16inhabitants, or (iii) trustee of a forest preserve district
17created under Section 18.5 of the Conservation District Act,
18unless he or she first resigns from the office of county board
19member or unless the holding of another office is authorized by
20law. Any such prohibited appointment or election is void. This
21Section shall not preclude a member of the county board from
22being appointed or selected to serve as (i) a member of a
23County Extension Board as provided in Section 7 of the County

 

 

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1Cooperative Extension Law, (ii) a member of an Emergency
2Telephone System Board as provided in Section 15.4 of the
3Emergency Telephone System Act, (iii) a member of the board of
4review as provided in Section 6-30 of the Property Tax Code, or
5(iv) a public administrator or public guardian as provided in
6Section 13-1 of the Probate Act of 1975, or (v) a park district
7commissioner in a county of less than 300,000. Nothing in this
8Act shall be construed to prohibit an elected county official
9from holding elected office in another unit of local government
10so long as there is no contractual relationship between the
11county and the other unit of local government. This amendatory
12Act of 1995 is declarative of existing law and is not a new
13enactment.
14(Source: P.A. 100-290, eff. 8-24-17.)
 
15    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16becoming law.