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| | 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024 SB1364 Introduced 2/6/2023, by Sen. Michael W. Halpin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 10 ILCS 5/6-17 | from Ch. 46, par. 6-17 |
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board or board of county commissioners of a county with a population of less than 100,000 may, by ordinance or resolution, dissolve a municipal board of election commissioners within that county and transfer its functions to the county clerk.
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| | SB1364 | | LRB103 28638 BMS 55019 b |
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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 |
5 | | Section 6-17 as follows:
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6 | | (10 ILCS 5/6-17) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-17)
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7 | | Sec. 6-17. Dissolution. |
8 | | (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whenever |
9 | | Whenever 1,000 of the legal voters in a city of 250,000
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10 | | population or less where this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 |
11 | | of this
Act or the Act of which they are a continuation have |
12 | | been adopted shall
petition the circuit court in the county in |
13 | | which such city is located to
submit to a vote of the electors |
14 | | of such city the proposition as to whether
such city and the |
15 | | electors thereof shall reject the Articles,
the court shall |
16 | | enter an order of record approving such petition and
thereupon |
17 | | the court
shall submit such proposition to the legal voters of |
18 | | such city at the next
succeeding general, state, county or |
19 | | municipal election to be held in such
county in not less than |
20 | | 30 days after the entry of such order. If 1,000
shall exceed |
21 | | one-eighth of the legal voters of any such city then such |
22 | | petition
need not be signed or made by more than one-eighth of
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23 | | the legal voters of such city. Notice of election shall be |