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 1        AN ACT concerning transportation.

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

 4        Section  5.  The Regional Transportation Authority Act is
 5    amended by changing Section 3.01 as follows:

 6        (70 ILCS 3615/3.01) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 703.01)
 7        Sec. 3.01.  Board of Directors. Upon  expiration  of  the
 8    term  of  the members of the Transition Board as provided for
 9    in Section 3.09, the corporate authorities and governing body
10    of the Authority shall be a Board consisting of 13  Directors
11    appointed as follows:
12        (a)  Three  Four  Directors appointed by the Mayor of the
13    City of Chicago, with the advice  and  consent  of  the  City
14    Council  of  the City of Chicago, and a fourth fifth director
15    who shall be the Chairman of the Chicago  Transit  Authority.
16    Each such Director shall reside in the City of Chicago except
17    the  Chairman  of  the  Chicago  Transit  Authority who shall
18    reside  within  the  metropolitan  area  as  defined  in  the
19    Metropolitan Transit Authority Act.
20        (b)  Four Directors appointed by the members of the  Cook
21    County Board elected from that part of Cook County outside of
22    Chicago, or, in the event such Board of Commissioners becomes
23    elected  from single member districts, by those Commissioners
24    elected from districts, a majority of the electors  of  which
25    reside  outside  Chicago.   In  either case, such appointment
26    shall be with the concurrence  of  four  such  Commissioners.
27    Each  such  Director shall reside in that part of Cook County
28    outside Chicago.
29        (c)  Three Two Directors appointed by the Chairmen of the
30    county boards of Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will Counties, with
31    the concurrence of not less than a majority of  the  Chairmen
 
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 1    from  such counties, from nominees by the Chairmen. Each such
 2    Chairman may nominate  not  more  than  2  persons  for  each
 3    position.  Each such Director shall reside in a county in the
 4    metropolitan region other than Cook or DuPage Counties.
 5        (d)  One Director shall be appointed by the  Chairman  of
 6    the Board of DuPage County with the advice and consent of the
 7    County  Board  of  DuPage  County  and shall reside in DuPage
 8    County.
 9        (e)  Before January 1, 1987, for the term  expiring  July
10    1,  1989,  the  Chairman  shall be appointed by the Governor.
11    Thereafter the Chairman shall be appointed by  the  other  12
12    Directors  with  the  concurrence  of  three-fourths  of such
13    Directors. The chairman shall not be appointed from among the
14    other Directors. The chairman shall  be  a  resident  of  the
15    metropolitan region.
16        (f)  Except as otherwise provided by this Act no Director
17    shall,  while serving as such, be an officer, a member of the
18    Board  of  Directors  or  Trustees  or  an  employee  of  any
19    transportation agency, or be an  employee  of  the  State  of
20    Illinois  or any department or agency thereof, or of any unit
21    of local government or  receive  any  compensation  from  any
22    elected  or  appointed office under the Constitution and laws
23    of Illinois; except that a Director may  be  a  member  of  a
24    school board.
25        (g)  Each  appointment  made under this Section and under
26    Section 3.03 shall be certified by the  appointing  authority
27    to the Board, which shall maintain the certifications as part
28    of  the  official records of the Authority; provided that the
29    initial appointments shall be certified to the  Secretary  of
30    State,  who  shall  transmit  the certifications to the Board
31    following its organization.  All  appointments  made  by  the
32    Governor  shall  be  made  with the advice and consent of the
33    Senate.
34        (h)  The Board of Directors shall be so appointed  as  to
 
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 1    represent  the  City  of  Chicago,  that  part of Cook County
 2    outside  the  City  of  Chicago,  and  that   part   of   the
 3    metropolitan  region  outside  Cook County on the one man one
 4    vote basis. After each Federal decennial census  the  General
 5    Assembly  shall review the composition of the Board and, if a
 6    change is needed  to  comply  with  this  requirement,  shall
 7    provide  for  the  necessary  revision by July 1 of the third
 8    year after such census. Provided, however, that the  Chairman
 9    of  the  Chicago Transit Authority shall be a Director of the
10    Authority and shall be considered as representing the City of
11    Chicago for purposes of this paragraph.
12        Insofar as may  be  practicable,  the  changes  in  Board
13    membership  necessary  to achieve this purpose, including the
14    purpose of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General  Assembly,
15    shall  take  effect  as  appropriate members terms expire, no
16    member's term being reduced by reason of such revision of the
17    composition of the Board.
18    (Source: P.A. 83-1417.)

19        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
20    becoming law.