96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB2561

 

Introduced 1/13/2010, by Sen. Dan Cronin

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/2-3002.5

    Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning county board elections.


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A BILL FOR

 

SB2561 LRB096 16651 RLJ 31932 b

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 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 (Source: P.A. 91-933, eff. 12-30-00.)