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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
52-3007 as follows:
 
6    (55 ILCS 5/2-3007)  (from Ch. 34, par. 2-3007)
7    Sec. 2-3007. Chairman of county board; election and term.
8Any county board when providing for the reapportionment of its
9county under this Division may provide that the chairman of the
10county board shall be elected by the voters of the county
11rather than by the members of the board. In that event,
12provision shall be made for the election throughout the county
13of the chairman of the county board, but in counties over
143,000,000 population no person may be elected to serve as such
15chairman who has not been elected as a county board member to
16serve during the same period as the term of office as chairman
17of the county board to which he seeks election. In counties
18over 300,000 450,000 population and under 3,000,000
19population, the chairman shall be elected as chairman without
20having been first elected to the county board. Such chairman
21shall not vote on any question except to break a tie vote. In
22all other counties the chairman may either be elected as a
23county board member or elected as the chairman without having

 

 

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1been first elected to the board. Except in counties where the
2chairman of the county board is elected by the voters of the
3county and is not required to be a county board member, whether
4the chairman of the county board is elected by the voters of
5the county or by the members of the board, he shall be elected
6to a 2 year term. In counties where the chairman of the county
7board is elected by the voters of the county and is not
8required to be a county board member, the chairman shall be
9elected to a 4 year term. In all cases: (i) , the term of the
10chairman of the county board shall commence on the first Monday
11of the month following the month in which members of the county
12board are elected, and (ii) no person may simultaneously serve
13as a member of a county board and the chairman of the same
14board if the office of chairman is elected by the voters of the
15county rather than by the members of the board.
16(Source: P.A. 93-847, eff. 7-30-04; 94-273, eff. 1-1-06.)
 
17    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18becoming law.