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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, | ||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
5 | 28-6 as follows:
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6 | (10 ILCS 5/28-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 28-6)
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7 | Sec. 28-6. Petitions; filing.
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8 | (a) On a written petition signed by a number of voters | ||||||
9 | equal to at least
8% of the votes cast for candidates for | ||||||
10 | Governor in the preceding gubernatorial
election by the | ||||||
11 | registered
voters of the municipality, township, county or | ||||||
12 | school district it
shall be
the duty of the proper election | ||||||
13 | officers to submit any question of
public policy so petitioned | ||||||
14 | for, to the electors of such political subdivision
at any | ||||||
15 | regular election named in the
petition at which an election is | ||||||
16 | scheduled to be held throughout such political
subdivision | ||||||
17 | under Article 2A. Such petitions shall be filed with the local
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18 | election official of the political subdivision
or election | ||||||
19 | authority, as the case may be.
Where such a question is to be | ||||||
20 | submitted to the voters of a municipality
which has adopted | ||||||
21 | Article 6, or a township or school district located
entirely | ||||||
22 | within the jurisdiction of a municipal board of election
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23 | commissioners, such petitions shall be filed with the board of |
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1 | election
commissioners having jurisdiction over the political | ||||||
2 | subdivision.
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3 | (b) In a municipality with more than 1,000,000
inhabitants , | ||||||
4 | when a question of public policy exclusively concerning
a | ||||||
5 | contiguous territory included entirely within but not | ||||||
6 | coextensive with the
municipality is initiated by resolution or | ||||||
7 | ordinance of the corporate
authorities of the municipality, or | ||||||
8 | by a petition which may be signed by
registered voters who | ||||||
9 | reside in any part of any precinct all or part of
which | ||||||
10 | includes all or part of the territory and who equal in number
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11 | at least 8% of the total votes cast for candidates for Governor | ||||||
12 | in the
preceding gubernatorial election by the total number of | ||||||
13 | registered voters of
the precinct or precincts the registered | ||||||
14 | voters of which are eligible to sign
the petition, it shall
be | ||||||
15 | the duty of the election authority having jurisdiction over | ||||||
16 | such
municipality to submit such question to the electors | ||||||
17 | throughout each
precinct all or part of which includes all or | ||||||
18 | part of the
territory at the regular election specified in the | ||||||
19 | resolution, ordinance
or petition initiating the public | ||||||
20 | question. A petition initiating a public
question described in | ||||||
21 | this
subsection shall be filed with the election authority | ||||||
22 | having jurisdiction
over the municipality. A resolution, | ||||||
23 | ordinance or petition initiating a public
question described in | ||||||
24 | this subsection shall specify the election at which
the | ||||||
25 | question is to be submitted.
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26 | (c) Local questions of public policy authorized by this
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1 | Section and statewide questions of public policy authorized by | ||||||
2 | Section 28-9
shall be advisory public questions, and no legal | ||||||
3 | effects shall result
from the adoption or rejection of such | ||||||
4 | propositions.
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5 | (d) This Section does not apply to a petition filed | ||||||
6 | pursuant to
Article IX of the Liquor Control Act of 1934.
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7 | (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
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