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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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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 Park District Code is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 2-12a as follows:
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| 6 | | (70 ILCS 1205/2-12a) (from Ch. 105, par. 2-12a)
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| 7 | | Sec. 2-12a.
Any district may provide, either by resolution |
| 8 | | of the board
or by referendum, that the term of commissioners |
| 9 | | shall be 4 years rather
than 6 years. Any such referendum shall |
| 10 | | be initiated and held in the same
manner as is provided by the |
| 11 | | general election law for public questions
authorized by Article |
| 12 | | VII of the Illinois Constitution.
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| 13 | | If a majority of the votes cast on the proposition is in |
| 14 | | favor of a 4-year
term for commissioners, or if the Board |
| 15 | | adopts a resolution stating that
it is acting pursuant to this |
| 16 | | Section to change the term of office from
6 years to 4 years, |
| 17 | | commissioners thereafter elected, commencing with the
first |
| 18 | | regular park district election at least 60 days after the date |
| 19 | | on
which the proposition for 4-year terms was approved at |
| 20 | | referendum or by
resolution, shall be elected for a term of 4 |
| 21 | | years. In order to provide
for the transition from 6-year terms |
| 22 | | to 4-year terms: , |
| 23 | | (1) If if 2 commissioners on a 5-member board
are to be |
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| 1 | | elected at the first such election and if the term of only |
| 2 | | one
commissioner is scheduled to expire in the year of the |
| 3 | | next election at
which commissioners are elected, of the 2 |
| 4 | | commissioners elected, one shall
serve a 2-year
term and |
| 5 | | one a 4-year term, to be determined by lot between the 2 |
| 6 | | persons
elected within 30 days after the election. |
| 7 | | (2) On a 7-member board under Section 2-10a, if the |
| 8 | | terms of only 2 commissioners are scheduled to expire in |
| 9 | | the year of the second election at which commissioners are |
| 10 | | elected after the first regular park district election at |
| 11 | | least 60 days after the date on which the proposition for |
| 12 | | 4-year terms was approved at referendum or by resolution, |
| 13 | | then: |
| 14 | | (A) if 3 commissioners are elected at the first |
| 15 | | regular election, 2 of the commissioners elected shall |
| 16 | | serve a 2-year term and one shall serve a 4-year term |
| 17 | | to be determined by lot between persons elected within |
| 18 | | 30 days after the first election; or |
| 19 | | (B) if 2 commissioners are elected at the first |
| 20 | | regular election, those 2 commissioners elected shall |
| 21 | | serve a 2-year term.
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| 22 | | In any district where the board has created 4-year terms |
| 23 | | pursuant to
this Section, whether by referendum or by |
| 24 | | resolution, the length of terms
may later be increased to 6 |
| 25 | | years, but only by a referendum initiated and
held in the same |
| 26 | | manner as prescribed in this Section for creating 4-year
terms. |