(10 ILCS 5/6-45) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-45)
Sec. 6-45.
A docket of all applications to said board of election
commissioners, whether such application shall be made for the purpose of
being registered or restored, or for the purpose of erasing a name on the
register or for completing registration shall be made out in the order of
the wards and precincts as the case may be. Such docket shall show the
disposition of each case and be available to the public. In cities,
villages or incorporated towns having a population of less than 500,000 the
commissioners shall sit to hear such applications between the hours of 10
o'clock a. m., and 9 o'clock p. m. on the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
immediately preceding such election, and in cities, villages and
incorporated towns having a population of over 500,000 and having a board
of election commissioners, (except as otherwise provided for such
municipalities in Section 6-60 of this Article), and in all cities,
villages and incorporated towns within the jurisdiction of such board, such
commissioners shall sit to hear such applications between the hours of 10
o'clock a. m. and 9 o'clock p. m., on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the
second week prior to the week in which such election is to be held. At the
request of either party to such applications, the board shall issue
subpoenas to witnesses to appear at such hearings, and witnesses may be
sworn and examined upon the hearing of said application. Each person
appearing in response to an application to have a name erased shall deliver
to the board a written affidavit, which shall be, in substance, in the
words and figures following:
"I do solemnly swear that I am a citizen of the United States; that I
have resided in the State of Illinois since the .... day of .... and in the
county of .... said State, since the .... day of .... and in the ....
precinct of the .... ward, in the city of .... said county and State, since
the .... day of .... and that I am .... years of age; that I am the
identical person registered in said precinct under the name I subscribe
hereto."
This answer shall be signed and sworn to or affirmed before any person
authorized to administer oaths or affirmations. The decision on each
application shall be announced at once after hearing, and a minute made
thereof, and when an application to be registered or to be restored to such
register or to complete registration shall be allowed the said board of
election commissioners shall cause a minute to be made upon the original
and duplicate registration records. And where an application to erase a
name shall be allowed, the board of election commissioners shall cause the
name to be erased forthwith, and the registration record card withdrawn.
In cities, villages and incorporated towns of 500,000 or more
inhabitants, having a board of election commissioners, and in cities,
villages and incorporated towns within the jurisdiction of such board of
election commissioners, applications under this section and hearings or
citations under Sections 6-56, 6-59 and 6-60 hereof, may be heard by
individual commissioners or by persons specially designated by the
commissioners for this purpose, and a decision by such individual
commissioner or person so designated, shall become the decision of the
board of election commissioners upon approval of such board.
(Source: Laws 1947, p. 899.)
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