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1 AN ACT concerning the Bi-State Development Agency.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Bi-State Development Agency Act is
5 amended by changing Sections 2 and 3 as follows:
6 (45 ILCS 105/2) (from Ch. 127, par. 63s-2)
7 Sec. 2. Of the Commissioners first appointed one shall
8 be appointed to serve for a term of one year, one for two
9 years, one for three years, one for four years and one for
10 five years from the third Monday in January following his
11 appointment. Beginning with the appointment to be filled in
12 January of 2004, and the expiration of each term of each
13 commissioner thereafter, and each succeeding commissioner
14 thereafter, the Chairman of the County Board of the County of
15 Madison or the County of St. Clair, as the case may be,
16 shall, by and with the advice and consent of the respective
17 County Board At the expiration of the term of each
18 commissioner and of each succeeding commissioner, the
19 governor shall, by and with the advice and consent of the
20 Senate, appoint a successor who shall hold office for a term
21 of five years. Each commissioner shall hold office until his
22 successor has been appointed and qualified. The commissioners
23 shall elect a chairman of the Illinois delegation annually
24 from among themselves One Commissioner shall be designated as
25 chairman of the Illinois delegation.
26 (b) The Chairman of the County Board of the County of
27 Madison shall make the appointment for the term of the
28 commissioner expiring in January 2004 and in each
29 even-numbered year thereafter. The Chairman of the County
30 Board of the County of St. Clair shall make the appointment
31 for the term of the commissioner expiring in January 2005 and
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1 in each odd-numbered year thereafter.
2 (Source: Laws 1949, p. 448.)
3 (45 ILCS 105/3) (from Ch. 127, par. 63s-3)
4 Sec. 3. Vacancies occurring in the office of any
5 commissioner shall be filled by appointment by the Chairman
6 of the County Board that made the original appointment of
7 that commissioner, with the advice and consent of the
8 respective county board Governor, by and with the advice and
9 consent of the Senate, for the unexpired term. Any vacancies
10 occurring during the transition for the implementation of
11 this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly that were
12 appointed by the Governor, and not by the respective County
13 Board Chairmen, shall be filled by the appointment by the
14 County Board Chairman of Madison County if occurring in the
15 years 2004, 2006, or 2008 or by the County Board Chairman of
16 St. Clair County if occurring in the years 2005 or 2007, each
17 with the advice and consent of the respective county board.
18 In any case of vacancy, while the Senate is not in session,
19 the Governor shall make a temporary appointment until the
20 next meeting of the Senate, when he shall nominate some
21 person to fill such office.
22 (Source: Laws 1949, p. 448.)