Full Text of SB0421 100th General Assembly
SB0421 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2017 and 2018 SB0421 Introduced 1/24/2017, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: | | 65 ILCS 5/1-1-2 | from Ch. 24, par. 1-1-2 |
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Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section
concerning definitions.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 1-1-2 as follows:
| 6 | | (65 ILCS 5/1-1-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 1-1-2)
| 7 | | Sec. 1-1-2. Definitions. In this Code:
| 8 | | (1) "Municipal" or "municipality" means a city, village, or | 9 | | incorporated
town in the
the State of Illinois, but, unless the | 10 | | context otherwise provides,
"municipal" or "municipality" does | 11 | | not include a township, town when used
as the equivalent of a | 12 | | township, incorporated town that has
superseded
a civil | 13 | | township, county, school district, park district, sanitary | 14 | | district,
or any other similar governmental district. If | 15 | | "municipal" or "municipality"
is given a different definition | 16 | | in any particular Division or Section of
this Act, that | 17 | | definition shall control in that
division or Section only. | 18 | | (2) "Corporate authorities" means (a) the mayor and | 19 | | aldermen or similar body
when the reference is to cities, (b) | 20 | | the president and trustees
or similar body
when the reference | 21 | | is to villages or incorporated towns, and (c) the council
when | 22 | | the reference is to municipalities under the commission form of | 23 | | municipal
government.
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| 1 | | (3) "Electors" means persons qualified to vote for elective | 2 | | officers at
municipal elections.
| 3 | | (4) "Person" means any individual, partnership, | 4 | | corporation, joint stock
association, or the State of Illinois | 5 | | or any subdivision of the State; and includes
any trustee, | 6 | | receiver, assignee, or personal representative of any of
those | 7 | | entities.
| 8 | | (5) Except as otherwise provided by ordinance, "fiscal | 9 | | year" in all municipalities
with fewer than 500,000 | 10 | | inhabitants, and "municipal year" in
all municipalities,
means | 11 | | the period elapsing (a) between general municipal elections in | 12 | | succeeding
calendar years, or (b) if general municipal | 13 | | elections are held biennially,
then between a general municipal | 14 | | election and the same day of the same month
of the following | 15 | | calendar year, and between that day and the next succeeding
| 16 | | general municipal election, or (c) if general municipal | 17 | | elections are held
quadrennially, then between a general | 18 | | municipal election and the same day
of the same month of the | 19 | | following calendar year, and between that day and
the same day | 20 | | of the same month of the next following calendar year, and
| 21 | | between the last mentioned day and the same day of the same | 22 | | month of the
next following calendar year, and between the last | 23 | | mentioned day and the
next succeeding general municipal | 24 | | election. The fiscal year of each municipality
with 500,000 or | 25 | | more inhabitants shall commence on January 1.
| 26 | | (6) Where reference is made to a county within which a |
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| 1 | | municipality,
district, area, or territory is situated, the | 2 | | reference is to the county
within which is situated the major | 3 | | part of the area of that
municipality, district, area, or | 4 | | territory, in case the municipality,
district, area, or | 5 | | territory is situated in 2 or more counties.
| 6 | | (7) Where reference is made for any purpose to any other | 7 | | Act, either specifically
or generally, the reference shall be | 8 | | to that Act and to all amendments to
that Act
now in force or | 9 | | that may be hereafter enacted.
| 10 | | (8) Wherever the words "city council", "aldermen", | 11 | | "commissioners", or
"mayor" occur, the provisions containing | 12 | | these words shall apply to the
board of trustees, trustees, and | 13 | | president, respectively, of villages and
incorporated towns | 14 | | and councilmen in cities, so far as those provisions
are | 15 | | applicable to them.
| 16 | | (9) The terms "special charter" and "special Act" are | 17 | | synonymous.
| 18 | | (10) "General municipal election" means the biennial | 19 | | regularly scheduled
election for the election of officers of | 20 | | cities, villages, and incorporated
towns, as prescribed by the | 21 | | general election law; in the case of municipalities
that elect | 22 | | officers annually, "general municipal election"
means each | 23 | | regularly
scheduled election for the election of officers of | 24 | | cities, villages, and
incorporated
towns.
| 25 | | (Source: P.A. 87-1119.)
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