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| AN ACT concerning elections.
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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 Election Code is amended by changing Section |
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| 9-15 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/9-15) (from Ch. 46, par. 9-15) |
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| Sec. 9-15. It shall be the duty of the Board- |
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| (1) to develop prescribed forms for notice to political |
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| committees of
their obligations under this Article and for |
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| identification of persons
examining statements or reports |
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| filed under this Article, and to supply
such forms, and the |
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| forms for filing statements of organization and required |
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| reports , reports of
campaign contributions, and annual reports |
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| of campaign contributions and
expenditures to the appropriate |
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| persons and election authorities; |
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| (2) to prepare, publish, and furnish to the appropriate |
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| persons and
election authorities a manual of instructions |
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| setting forth recommended
uniform methods of bookkeeping and |
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| reporting under this Article; |
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| (3) to prescribe suitable rules and regulations to carry |
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| out the
provisions of this Article. Such rules and regulations |
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| shall be published
and made available to the public at |
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| reasonable cost. The Board may
determine which of its |
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| prescribed rules and regulations shall be binding on
the county |
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| clerks in carrying out their duties under this Article; |
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| (4) to send by first class mail, after the general primary |
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| election in
even numbered years, to the chairman of each |
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| regularly constituted
State central committee, county central |
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| committee and, in counties with a
population of more than |
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| 3,000,000, to the committeemen of each township and
ward |
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| organization of each political party notice of their |
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| obligations under
this Article, along with a form for filing |
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| the statement of organization; . |
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| (5) to promptly make all reports and statements filed under |
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| this Article available for public inspection and copying no |
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| later than 2 business days after their receipt and to permit |
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| copying of any such report or statement at the expense of the |
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| person requesting the copy; |
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| (6) to develop a filing, coding, and cross-indexing system |
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| consistent with the purposes of this Article; |
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| (7) to compile and maintain a list of all statements or |
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| parts of statements pertaining to each candidate; |
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| (8) to prepare and publish such reports as the Board may |
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| deem appropriate; and |
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| (9) to annually notify each political committee that has |
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| filed a statement of organization with the Board of the filing |
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| dates for each quarterly report, provided that such |
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| notification shall be made by first-class mail unless the |
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| political committee opts to receive notification |