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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, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 1-1-2 as follows:
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| 6 | (65 ILCS 5/1-1-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 1-1-2)
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| 7 | Sec. 1-1-2. Definitions. In this Code:
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| 8 | (1) "Municipal" or "municipality" means a city, village, or | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | incorporated
town in the
the State of Illinois, but, unless the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | context otherwise provides,
"municipal" or "municipality" does | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | not include a township, town when used
as the equivalent of a | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | township, incorporated town that has
superseded
a civil | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | township, county, school district, park district, sanitary | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | district,
or any other similar governmental district. If | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | "municipal" or "municipality"
is given a different definition | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | in any particular Division or Section of
this Act, that | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | definition shall control in that
division or Section only. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | (2) "Corporate authorities" means (a) the mayor and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | aldermen or similar body
when the reference is to cities, (b) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | the president and trustees
or similar body
when the reference | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | is to villages or incorporated towns, and (c) the council
when | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | the reference is to municipalities under the commission form of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | municipal
government.
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| 1 | (3) "Electors" means persons qualified to vote for elective | ||||||
| 2 | officers at
municipal elections.
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| 3 | (4) "Person" means any individual, partnership, | ||||||
| 4 | corporation, joint stock
association, or the State of Illinois | ||||||
| 5 | or any subdivision of the State; and includes
any trustee, | ||||||
| 6 | receiver, assignee, or personal representative of any of
those | ||||||
| 7 | entities.
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| 8 | (5) Except as otherwise provided by ordinance, "fiscal | ||||||
| 9 | year" in all municipalities
with fewer than 500,000 | ||||||
| 10 | inhabitants, and "municipal year" in
all municipalities,
means | ||||||
| 11 | the period elapsing (a) between general municipal elections in | ||||||
| 12 | succeeding
calendar years, or (b) if general municipal | ||||||
| 13 | elections are held biennially,
then between a general municipal | ||||||
| 14 | election and the same day of the same month
of the following | ||||||
| 15 | calendar year, and between that day and the next succeeding
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| 16 | general municipal election, or (c) if general municipal | ||||||
| 17 | elections are held
quadrennially, then between a general | ||||||
| 18 | municipal election and the same day
of the same month of the | ||||||
| 19 | following calendar year, and between that day and
the same day | ||||||
| 20 | of the same month of the next following calendar year, and
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| 21 | between the last mentioned day and the same day of the same | ||||||
| 22 | month of the
next following calendar year, and between the last | ||||||
| 23 | mentioned day and the
next succeeding general municipal | ||||||
| 24 | election. The fiscal year of each municipality
with 500,000 or | ||||||
| 25 | more inhabitants shall commence on January 1.
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| 26 | (6) Where reference is made to a county within which a | ||||||
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| 1 | municipality,
district, area, or territory is situated, the | ||||||
| 2 | reference is to the county
within which is situated the major | ||||||
| 3 | part of the area of that
municipality, district, area, or | ||||||
| 4 | territory, in case the municipality,
district, area, or | ||||||
| 5 | territory is situated in 2 or more counties.
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| 6 | (7) Where reference is made for any purpose to any other | ||||||
| 7 | Act, either specifically
or generally, the reference shall be | ||||||
| 8 | to that Act and to all amendments to
that Act
now in force or | ||||||
| 9 | that may be hereafter enacted.
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| 10 | (8) Wherever the words "city council", "aldermen", | ||||||
| 11 | "commissioners", or
"mayor" occur, the provisions containing | ||||||
| 12 | these words shall apply to the
board of trustees, trustees, and | ||||||
| 13 | president, respectively, of villages and
incorporated towns | ||||||
| 14 | and councilmen in cities, so far as those provisions
are | ||||||
| 15 | applicable to them.
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| 16 | (9) The terms "special charter" and "special Act" are | ||||||
| 17 | synonymous.
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| 18 | (10) "General municipal election" means the biennial | ||||||
| 19 | regularly scheduled
election for the election of officers of | ||||||
| 20 | cities, villages, and incorporated
towns, as prescribed by the | ||||||
| 21 | general election law; in the case of municipalities
that elect | ||||||
| 22 | officers annually, "general municipal election"
means each | ||||||
| 23 | regularly
scheduled election for the election of officers of | ||||||
| 24 | cities, villages, and
incorporated
towns.
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| 25 | (Source: P.A. 87-1119.)
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