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105 ILCS 5/5-2

(105 ILCS 5/5-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 5-2)

Sec. 5-2. Governing board.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), the school business of all school townships having school trustees shall
be transacted by three trustees, to be elected by the qualified voters of
the township, as provided in this Article 5.

(b) This subsection (b) applies only to the trustees of schools of Township 38 North, Range 12 East. The school business of the township shall be transacted by 4 trustees elected by the qualified voters of the township, as provided in this Article 5, and 3 trustees appointed by the school districts within the township, as provided in this subsection (b). An elected trustee and an appointed trustee may represent the same school district. Any trustee, whether elected or appointed, may serve as an officer of the trustees of schools.

The 3 trustees to be appointed shall each be appointed for a term of one year as follows:
(1) The school boards of Argo Community High School

District 217, Summit School District 104, Willow Springs School District 108, and Indian Springs School District 109 shall collectively appoint one school board member as a trustee through a nomination process and by a majority vote or by consensus among the school boards. A trustee appointed under this paragraph (1) may be reappointed for a second term as provided under this paragraph (1). After the appointed term or reappointed term of the trustee expires, the school boards shall appoint a successor trustee pursuant to this paragraph (1).

(2) The school boards of Western Springs School

District 101, La Grange School District 102, Lyons School District 103, La Grange School District 105 South, LaGrange Highlands School District 106, and Pleasantdale School District 107 shall collectively appoint one school board member as a trustee through a nomination process and by a majority vote or by consensus among the school boards. A trustee appointed under this paragraph (2) may be reappointed for a second term as provided under this paragraph (2). After the appointed term or reappointed term of the trustee expires, the school boards shall appoint a successor trustee pursuant to this paragraph (2).

(3) Each year, among the school board presidents of

the school districts within the township, one school board president shall be selected through a nomination process and by a  majority vote to appoint a trustee. If no president of a school board is nominated, another officer of one of the school boards may be nominated. For the even-numbered year term, a trustee appointed under this paragraph (3) must be from a feeder elementary school district for Argo Community High School District 217, and, for the odd-numbered year term, a trustee appointed under this paragraph (3) must be from a feeder elementary school district for Lyons Township High School District 204.

(c) The trustees shall be a body politic
and corporate, by the name of "trustees of schools of township No. ....,
range No. ....," according to the number, or in case of school townships
created from two or more congressional townships, such name shall be
"trustees of .... township .... county, Illinois." Such corporation shall
have perpetual existence, with power to sue and be sued, and to plead and
be impleaded, in all courts and places where judicial proceedings are had.

(Source: P.A. 102-924, eff. 5-27-22.)