96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB2008

 

Introduced 2/20/2009, by Sen. Kirk W. Dillard

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/2-3002.5

    Amends the Counties Code. Provides that beginning with the general election in 2012, counties having a population between 800,000 and 3,000,000 shall have no more than 12 members on their county board. Provides that the members of the county board shall be elected from single-member districts. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
5 2-3002.5 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/2-3002.5)
7     Sec. 2-3002.5. Beginning with members elected at the
8 general election in 2002, counties having a population between
9 800,000 and 3,000,000 according to 2000 decennial census shall
10 have no more than 18 members on their county board. If the
11 chairman of the county board is elected at-large by the voters
12 of the county as provided in Section 2-3007, the chairman shall
13 not be counted as a member of the county board for the purpose
14 of the limitations on the size of the county board provided in
15 this Section. Neither a member nor the chairman of that county
16 board shall serve simultaneously as commissioner or president
17 of the board of commissioners of the forest preserve district.
18 No person shall seek election to both the county board and the
19 forest preserve commission at the same election.
20     Beginning with members elected at the general election in
21 2012, counties having a population between 800,000 and
22 3,000,000 according to 2010 decennial census shall have no more
23 than 12 members on their county board. Each member of the

 

 

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1 county board shall be elected from single-member districts. If
2 the chairman of the county board is elected at-large by the
3 voters of the county as provided in Section 2-3007, the
4 chairman shall not be counted as a member of the county board
5 for the purpose of the limitations on the size of the county
6 board provided in this Section. Neither a member nor the
7 chairman of that county board shall serve simultaneously as
8 commissioner or president of the board of commissioners of the
9 forest preserve district. No person shall seek election to both
10 the county board and the forest preserve commission at the same
11 election.
12 (Source: P.A. 91-933, eff. 12-30-00.)
 
13     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
14 becoming law.