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| AN ACT concerning local government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Public Water District Act is amended by |
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| changing Section 4 as follows:
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| (70 ILCS 3705/4) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 191)
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| Sec. 4. A board of trustees consisting of 7 members for the
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| government, control and management of the affairs of the |
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| business of
each such water district organized under this Act |
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| shall be created in
the following manner:
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| (1) If the district lies wholly within a single township |
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| but does
not also lie wholly within a municipality, the board |
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| of trustees
of that
township shall appoint the trustees for the |
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| district but no voting member
of the township board is eligible |
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| for such appointment;
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| (2) If the district is wholly contained within a |
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| municipality, the
governing body of the municipality shall |
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| appoint the trustees for the
district;
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| (3) If the district is wholly contained within a single |
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| county, the
trustees for the district shall be appointed by the |
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| presiding officer of
the county board with the advice and |
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| consent of the county board;
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| (4) If the district is located in more than one county, the |
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| number
of trustees who are residents of a county shall be in |
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| proportion, as
nearly as practicable, to the number of |
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| residents of the district who
reside in that county in relation |
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| to the total population of the
district. Trustees shall be |
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| appointed by the county board of their
respective counties, or |
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| in the case of a home rule county as defined by
Article VII, |
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| Section 6 of the Constitution of 1970, by the chief
executive |
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| officer of that county with the advice and consent of the
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| county board.
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| Upon the expiration of the term of a trustee who is in |
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| office on the
effective date of this Amendatory Act of 1975, |
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| the successor shall be a
resident of whichever county is |
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| entitled to such representation in order
to bring about the |
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| proportional representation required herein, and he
shall be |
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| appointed by the appointing authority of that county.
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| Thereafter, each trustee shall be succeeded by a resident |
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| of the same
county who shall be appointed by the same |
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| appointing authority; however,
the provisions of the preceding |
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| paragraph shall apply to the appointment
of the successor to |
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| each trustee who is in office at the time of the
publication of |
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| each decennial Federal census of population.
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| Within 60 days after the adoption of this Act as provided |
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| in Section
2 hereof, the appropriate appointing authority shall |
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| appoint 7 trustees
who shall hold that office respectively one |
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| for one, one for 2, one for
3, 2 for 4 and 2 for 5 years from |
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| the first Monday of May next after
their appointment as |
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| designated by the appointing authority at the time
of |
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| appointment and until their successors are appointed and have
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| qualified. Thereafter on or after the first Monday in May of |
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| each year
the appointing authority shall appoint successors |
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| whose term shall be
for 5 years commencing the first Monday in |
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| May of the year they are
respectively appointed. If the circuit |
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| court finds that the size,
number of members, and scale of |
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| operations of the water district
justifies a Board of Trustees |
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| of less than 7 members he shall rule that
such board shall have |
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| 3 or 5 members. Initial appointments to a 3
member board shall |
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| be as follows: one for one, one for 2, and one for 3
years. |
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| Initial appointments to a 5 member board shall be as follows:
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| one for one, one for 2, one for 3, one for 4 and one for 5 |
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| years. In
each such case the term of office and method of |
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| appointing successors
shall be as provided in this Section for |
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| 7 member boards. The
appointing authority shall require each of |
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| such trustees to enter a bond
with security to be approved by |
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| the appointing authority in such sum as
such appointing |
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| authority may determine. A majority of the Board of
Trustees |
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| shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn
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| from day to day. No trustee or employee of such district shall |
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| be
directly or indirectly interested in any contract, work or |
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| business of
the district or the sale of any article, the |
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| expense, price or
consideration of which is paid by such |
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| district, nor in the purchase of
any real estate or property |
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| for or belonging to the district.
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| Whenever a vacancy in such board of trustees shall occur |
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| either from
death, resignation, refusal to qualify or for any |
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| other reason the
appointing authority shall have power to fill |
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| such vacancy by
appointment. Such persons so appointed or |
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| qualified for office in the
manner hereinbefore stated shall |
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| thereupon assume the duties of the
office for the unexpired |
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| term for which such person was appointed.
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| Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the The |
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| trustees appointed under this Act shall be paid
a sum of not to |
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| exceed $600 per annum for their respective duties as
trustees. |
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| Trustees , except that trustees of a district with an annual |
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| operating budget
of $1,000,000 or more may be paid a sum not to |
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| exceed $1,000 per annum.
However, trustees appointed under this |
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| Act for any public
water district which acquires by purchase or |
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| condemnation, or
constructs, and maintains and operates |
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| sewerage properties in
combination with its waterworks
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| properties, under the provisions of Section 23a of this Act,
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| shall be paid a sum of not to exceed $2,000 per annum for their
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| respective duties as trustees. Trustees of the Commonfields of |
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| Cahokia Public Water District may be paid $4,800 per year for |
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| their duties as trustees. Compensation in all cases either case
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| shall be determined by resolution of the
respective boards of |
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| trustees, to be adopted annually at their
first meeting in May.
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| Any public water district organized under this Act with a |
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| board of
trustees consisting of 7 members may have the size of |
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| its board reduced
as provided in Section 4.1.
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