HB4182 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB4182

Introduced , by Rep. JoAnn D. Osmond

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

65 ILCS 5/6-4-7.5 new

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that individual members of the board of trustees of certain villages may not hire a separate attorney using public funds unless the village attorney is disqualified from or recuses himself or herself from representing the member in his or her official capacity. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by adding Section 6-4-7.5 as follows:

(65 ILCS 5/6-4-7.5 new)

Sec. 6-4-7.5. Village trustees; attorney. One or more individual members of the board of trustees of any village incorporated under this Division may not hire a separate attorney using public funds unless the village attorney is disqualified from or recuses himself or herself from representing the member in his or her official capacity.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.