093_HB2337

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning schools.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.   The  School  Code  is  amended  by  changing
 5    Section 10-10 as follows:

 6        (105 ILCS 5/10-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-10)
 7        Sec.  10-10.  Board  of  education;  Term; Vacancy.   All
 8    school districts having a population of not fewer than  1,000
 9    and  not more than 500,000 inhabitants, as ascertained by any
10    special or general census, and not governed by special  Acts,
11    shall  be  governed  by  a board of education consisting of 7
12    members,  serving  without  compensation  except  as   herein
13    provided.  Each member shall be elected for a term of 4 years
14    except  as  otherwise provided in subsection (a-5) of Section
15    11B-7 of this Code for the initial members of  the  board  of
16    education  of  a  combined  school  district  to  which  that
17    subsection applies. If 5 members are elected in 1983 pursuant
18    to  the  extension of terms provided by law for transition to
19    the consolidated election schedule under the general election
20    law, 2 of those members shall be elected to serve terms of  2
21    years and 3 shall be elected to serve terms of 4 years; their
22    successors shall serve for a 4 year term.  When the voters of
23    a  district  have  voted  to  elect  members  of the board of
24    education for 6 year terms, as provided in Section  9-5,  the
25    terms  of office of members of the board of education of that
26    district expire when their successors assume office  but  not
27    later  than  7  days  after  such election. If at the regular
28    school election held in the first odd-numbered year after the
29    determination to elect members for 6 year terms 2 members are
30    elected, they shall serve for a  6  year  term;  and  of  the
31    members  elected  at the next regular school election 3 shall
 
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 1    serve for a term of 6 years and 2 shall serve  a  term  of  2
 2    years.  Thereafter members elected in such districts shall be
 3    elected  to a 6 year term.  If at the regular school election
 4    held in the first odd-numbered year after  the  determination
 5    to elect members for 6 year terms 3 members are elected, they
 6    shall  serve for a 6 year term; and of the members elected at
 7    the next regular school election 2 shall serve for a term  of
 8    2  years and 2 shall serve for a term of 6 years.  Thereafter
 9    members elected in such districts shall be  elected  to  a  6
10    year  term.   If  at  the regular school election held in the
11    first odd-numbered year  after  the  determination  to  elect
12    members for 6 year terms 4 members are elected, 3 shall serve
13    for  a  term  of  6 years and one shall serve for a term of 2
14    years; and of the members elected at the next regular  school
15    election 2 shall serve for terms of 6 years and 2 shall serve
16    for  terms  of  2  years.  Thereafter members elected in such
17    districts shall be elected to a  6  year  term.   If  at  the
18    regular  school  election held in the first odd-numbered year
19    after the determination to elect members for a 6 year term  5
20    members  are elected, 3 shall serve for a term of 6 years and
21    2 shall serve for a term of  2  years;  and  of  the  members
22    elected at the next regular school election 2 shall serve for
23    terms  of  6  years  and  2 shall serve for terms of 2 years.
24    Thereafter members elected in such districts shall be elected
25    to a 6 year term.  An election for board members shall not be
26    held in school districts which by  consolidation,  annexation
27    or otherwise shall cease to exist as a school district within
28    6  months  after the election date, and the term of all board
29    members which would otherwise terminate  shall  be  continued
30    until  such district shall cease to exist. Each member shall,
31    on the date of his election,  be  a  citizen  of  the  United
32    States  of  the  age  of  18 years or over, a resident of the
33    State and the territory of the district for at least one year
34    immediately preceding his election,  a  registered  voter  as
 
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 1    provided  in  the  general  election  law, and shall not be a
 2    school trustee or a school  treasurer.   When  the  board  of
 3    education  is  the  successor  of  the  school directors, all
 4    rights of property, and all rights regarding causes of action
 5    existing or vested in such directors, shall  vest  in  it  as
 6    fully  as they were vested in the school directors.  Terms of
 7    members are subject to Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
 8        Nomination papers filed under this Section are not  valid
 9    unless  the  candidate named therein files with the secretary
10    of the board of education or with a person designated by  the
11    board  to  receive  nominating  petitions  a receipt from the
12    county clerk showing that the candidate has filed a statement
13    of  economic  interests   as   required   by   the   Illinois
14    Governmental  Ethics  Act.    Such  receipt shall be so filed
15    either previously during  the  calendar  year  in  which  his
16    nomination  papers  were  filed  or within the period for the
17    filing of nomination papers in accordance  with  the  general
18    election law.
19        Whenever  a  vacancy  occurs, the remaining members shall
20    notify the regional superintendent of that vacancy  within  5
21    days  after  its  occurrence  and  shall  proceed to fill the
22    vacancy until the next  regular  school  election,  at  which
23    election  a successor shall be elected to serve the remainder
24    of the unexpired term.  However, if the vacancy  occurs  with
25    less  than  868 days remaining in the term, or if the vacancy
26    occurs less than 88 days before the next regularly  scheduled
27    election  for  this office then the person so appointed shall
28    serve the remainder of the unexpired term, and no election to
29    fill the vacancy shall be held. Should they fail so  to  act,
30    within  45  days  after  the  vacancy  occurs,  the  regional
31    superintendent of schools under whose supervision and control
32    the  district  is  operating, as defined in Section 3-14.2 of
33    this Act, shall within 30 days after  the  remaining  members
34    have failed to fill the vacancy, fill the vacancy as provided
 
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 1    for  herein.  Upon  the  regional superintendent's failure to
 2    fill the vacancy, the vacancy shall be  filled  at  the  next
 3    regularly  scheduled  election.  Whether elected or appointed
 4    by the remaining  members  or  regional  superintendent,  the
 5    successor  shall be an inhabitant of the particular area from
 6    which his or her predecessor was elected if  the  residential
 7    requirements  contained  in  Section 11A-8, 11B-7, or 12-2 of
 8    this Act apply.
 9    (Source: P.A. 89-129, eff.  7-14-95;  89-579,  eff.  7-30-96;
10    90-358,  eff.  1-1-98;  90-459,  eff.  8-17-97;  90-655, eff.
11    7-30-98.)