HB2989 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB2989

Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

10 ILCS 5/6-1

from Ch. 46, par. 6-1

Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning registration of electors in certain municipalities.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning elections.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section 6-1 as follows:

(10 ILCS 5/6-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-1)

Sec. 6-1. The The provisions of this Article 6 (and of Articles 14 and 18 hereof) so far as they are the same as those of the provisions of "An Act regulating the holding of elections and declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns in this state", approved June 19, 1885, as amended, (hereinafter sometimes referred to in this Article as the Act of 1885) shall be construed as a continuation of such prior provisions and not as a new enactment; and it is declared to be the legislative intent that any city, village or incorporated town which has heretofore adopted and become entitled to the provisions of said Act of 1885, shall automatically become subject to the provisions of this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 of this Act (as well as certain sections in other articles which are made specifically applicable to such city, village or incorporated town), which three articles together shall be known as the City Election Law.

(Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)