101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB2499
 
Introduced , by Rep. Natalie A. Manley
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 



70 ILCS 1205/2-25  from Ch. 105, par. 2-25

     Amends the Park District Code. Provides that whenever any member of the governing board of any park district is convicted in any court located in the United States of any infamous crime, bribery, perjury, or other felony (rather than is convicted of any infamous crime), that office may be declared vacant. Effective immediately.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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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 Park District Code is amended  by changing 
5Section 2-25 as follows:
 



6    (70 ILCS 1205/2-25)  (from Ch. 105, par. 2-25)



7    Sec. 2-25. Vacancies. Whenever any member of the governing 
8board of any park
district (i) dies, (ii) resigns, (iii) 
9becomes under legal disability, (iv)
ceases to be a legal voter 
10in the district, (v) is convicted in any court located in the 
11United States of any
infamous crime, bribery, perjury, or other 
12felony (vi) refuses or neglects to take his or her oath of 
13office,
(vii) neglects to perform the duties of his or her 
14office or attend
meetings of the board for the length of time 
15as the board fixes by
ordinance, or (viii) for any other reason 
16specified by law, that office may
be declared vacant. Vacancies 
17shall be filled by appointment by a majority
of the remaining 
18members of the board. Any person so appointed shall hold
his or 
19her office until the next regular election for this office, at 
20which
a member shall be elected to fill the vacancy for the 
21unexpired term,
subject to the following conditions:


22        (1) If the vacancy occurs with less than 28 months 
23    remaining in the
term, the person appointed to fill the 
 
 
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1    vacancy shall hold his or her office
until the expiration 
2    of the term for which he or she has been appointed,
and no 
3    election to fill the vacancy shall be held.


4        (2) If the vacancy occurs with more than 28 months left 
5    in the term,
but less than 123 days before the next 
6    regularly scheduled election for this
office, the person 
7    appointed to fill the vacancy shall hold his or her
office 
8    until the second regularly scheduled election for the 
9    office
following the appointment, at which a member shall 
10    be elected to fill the
vacancy for the unexpired term.

11(Source: P.A. 97-131, eff. 7-14-11.)

 
 
12    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
13becoming law.