(35 ILCS 200/6-45)
Sec. 6-45.
Abolition of elected board of review.
If any county contains
within its limits 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, as determined by the last
Federal decennial or special census, that county shall at once come under the
provisions of this Code relating to counties of that population, and at the
next ensuing regular election of county officers, a
county assessor shall be elected, and all provisions of this Code relating to
counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants shall then immediately apply to
that county.
In counties having an elected board of review as provided by law for counties
with 150,000 or more but less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, the county board may
by resolution have submitted to the legal voters of the county at any regular
election, the question of abolishing the elected board of review. The county
board shall certify the question to the proper election officials, who shall
submit the question to the voters. Such referendum shall be held and returns
made all in the manner now provided by the general election law and the
question shall be in substantially the following form:
--------------------------------------------------------------Shall the elected board of YESreview be abolished and be ----------------------------replaced by an appointed board? NO--------------------------------------------------------------
If a majority of the voters voting on the question vote in favor of
the proposition, the elected board of review shall be abolished to take effect
on June 1 following the election. On that date, all records, books and papers
pertaining to the elected board shall be transferred and delivered by the board
to its successor in office. Thereafter all the powers and duties conferred upon
appointed boards of review in counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants,
shall be exercised and performed in such counties so voting, by appointed
boards of review as provided by law for counties with less than 3,000,000
inhabitants.
(Source: P.A. 88-455; 89-126, eff. 7-11-95.)
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