Full Text of SB0204 94th General Assembly
SB0204ham002 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Rep. William Davis
Filed: 11/2/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 204
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 204, AS AMENDED, by | 3 |
| replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | 4 |
| following:
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| "Section 5. The Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act is | 6 |
| amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
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| (50 ILCS 105/1) (from Ch. 102, par. 1)
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| Sec. 1. County board. No member of a county board, during | 9 |
| the term of
office for which
he or she is elected, may be | 10 |
| appointed to, accept, or hold any office other
than (i) | 11 |
| chairman of the county board or member of the regional planning
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| commission by appointment or election of the board of which he | 13 |
| or she is a
member, (ii) alderman of a city or member of the | 14 |
| board of trustees of a
village or incorporated town if the | 15 |
| city, village, or incorporated town has
fewer than 1,000 | 16 |
| inhabitants and is located in a county having fewer than
50,000 | 17 |
| inhabitants, or (iii) trustee of a forest preserve district | 18 |
| created under Section 18.5 of the Conservation District Act, or | 19 |
| (iv) community college board member, unless he or she first | 20 |
| resigns from the office
of county board
member or unless the | 21 |
| holding of another office is authorized by law.
Any such | 22 |
| prohibited appointment or election is void. This Section shall | 23 |
| not
preclude a member of the county board from being selected | 24 |
| or from serving as a member of a County
Extension
Board as |
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| provided in Section 7 of the County Cooperative Extension Law,
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| as a member of an Emergency Telephone System Board as provided | 3 |
| in Section
15.4 of the Emergency Telephone System Act, or as | 4 |
| appointed members of the
board of review as provided in Section | 5 |
| 6-30 of the Property Tax Code.
Nothing in this Act shall be | 6 |
| construed to prohibit an elected county official
from holding | 7 |
| elected office in another unit of local government so long as
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| there is no contractual relationship between the county and the | 9 |
| other unit of
local government. This amendatory Act of 1995 is | 10 |
| declarative of existing law
and is not a new enactment.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-617, eff. 8-18-05.)
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| Section 10. The Public Officer Simultaneous Tenure Act is | 13 |
| amended by changing Sections 1 and 2 as follows:
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| (50 ILCS 110/1) (from Ch. 102, par. 4.10)
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| Sec. 1. Legislative findings; purpose ) . The General | 16 |
| Assembly finds and
declares that questions raised regarding the | 17 |
| legality of simultaneously
holding the office of county board | 18 |
| member and township supervisor are
unwarranted, and in counties | 19 |
| of less than 100,000 population such questions
regarding the | 20 |
| legality of simultaneously holding the office of county board
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| member and township trustee are unwarranted;
that the General | 22 |
| Assembly viewed the office of township supervisor, and
in | 23 |
| counties of less than 100,000 population the office of township | 24 |
| trustee,
and the office of county board member as compatible; | 25 |
| and that to settle
the question
of legality and avoid confusion | 26 |
| among such counties and townships as may
be affected by such | 27 |
| questions it is lawful to hold the office of county
board | 28 |
| member simultaneously with the office of township supervisor, | 29 |
| and
in counties of less than 100,000 population with the office | 30 |
| of township
trustee, in accordance with this Act. | 31 |
| The General Assembly finds and
declares that questions | 32 |
| raised regarding the legality of simultaneously
holding the |
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| office of county board member and the office of community | 2 |
| college board member are
unwarranted;
that the General Assembly | 3 |
| views the office of community college board member
and the | 4 |
| office of county board member as compatible; and that to settle
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| questions
of legality and avoid confusion among the counties | 6 |
| and community college districts as may
be affected by those | 7 |
| questions, it is lawful to simultaneously hold the office of | 8 |
| county
board member and the office of community college board | 9 |
| member, in accordance with this Act.
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| (Source: P.A. 82-554.)
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| (50 ILCS 110/2) (from Ch. 102, par. 4.11)
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| Sec. 2. Simultaneous tenure declared to be lawful. It is | 13 |
| lawful
for any person to hold the office of county board
member | 14 |
| and township supervisor, and in counties of less than 100,000 | 15 |
| population
the office of county board member and township | 16 |
| trustee, simultaneously.
It is lawful for any person to hold | 17 |
| the office of county
board member and the office of township | 18 |
| assessor
or town clerk, simultaneously, in counties of less | 19 |
| than 300,000 population. | 20 |
| It is lawful
for any person to simultaneously hold the | 21 |
| office of county board
member and the office of community | 22 |
| college board member.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-748, eff. 8-14-98.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, | 25 |
| 2006.".
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