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Rep. Michael W. Tryon
Filed: 5/27/2016
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 6418
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 6418 by replacing |
3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | | "Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing |
5 | | Section 2-3007 as follows:
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6 | | (55 ILCS 5/2-3007) (from Ch. 34, par. 2-3007)
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7 | | Sec. 2-3007. Chairman of county board; election and term. |
8 | | Any
county board when providing for the reapportionment of its |
9 | | county under
this Division may provide that the chairman of the |
10 | | county board shall be
elected by the voters of the county |
11 | | rather than by the members of the
board. In that event, |
12 | | provision shall be made for the election throughout
the county |
13 | | of the chairman of the county board, but in counties over
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14 | | 3,000,000 population no person may be elected to serve as such |
15 | | chairman who
has not been elected as a county board member to |
16 | | serve during the same
period as the term of office as chairman |
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1 | | of the county board to which he
seeks election. In counties |
2 | | over 300,000 450,000 population and under 3,000,000
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3 | | population, the chairman shall be elected as chairman without |
4 | | having been
first elected to the county board. Such chairman |
5 | | shall not vote on any
question except to break a tie vote. In |
6 | | all other counties the chairman may
either be elected as a |
7 | | county board member or elected as the chairman
without having |
8 | | been first elected to the board. Except in counties where
the |
9 | | chairman of the county board is elected by the voters of the |
10 | | county and
is not required to be a county board member, whether |
11 | | the chairman of the
county board is elected by the voters of |
12 | | the county or by the members of
the board, he shall be elected |
13 | | to a 2 year term. In counties where the
chairman of the county |
14 | | board is elected by the voters of the county and is
not |
15 | | required to be a county board member, the chairman shall be |
16 | | elected to
a 4 year term. In all cases : (i) , the term of the |
17 | | chairman
of the county board shall commence on the first Monday |
18 | | of the month
following the month in which members of the county |
19 | | board are elected , and (ii) no person may simultaneously serve |
20 | | as a member of a county board and the chairman of the same |
21 | | board if the office of chairman is elected by the voters of the |
22 | | county rather than by the members of the board .
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23 | | (Source: P.A. 93-847, eff. 7-30-04; 94-273, eff. 1-1-06.)
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24 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
25 | | becoming law.".
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