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90_HB2827
10 ILCS 5/1-6
Amends the Election Code. Provides that when computing
the period in which an act must be performed and the first or
last day is a Saturday, Sunday, or State holiday, the period
extends through the next business day after that Saturday,
Sunday, or State holiday. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Election Code by changing Section
2 1-6.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
6 Section 1-6 as follows:
7 (10 ILCS 5/1-6)
8 Sec. 1-6. Computing dates of various acts Filing and
9 registration dates; Saturday, Sunday, and holidays.
10 (a) If the first or last day fixed by law to do any act
11 required or allowed by this Code for the filing of petitions
12 or certificates of nomination or petitions of objection to
13 nominating papers, or the last day fixed by law for the close
14 of registration or the last day fixed by law for the filing
15 of certificates of withdrawal of candidacy or of reports by
16 political committees required under Article 9, falls on a
17 State holiday or a Saturday or a Sunday, the filing or
18 registration period shall extend through the first business
19 day next following the day otherwise fixed as the first or
20 last day for filing or the close of registration,
21 irrespective of whether any election authority or local
22 election official conducts business on the State holiday,
23 Saturday, or Sunday.
24 (b) For the purposes of this Section, "State holiday"
25 means New Year's Day, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday,
26 Lincoln's Birthday, President's Day, Casimir Pulaski's
27 Birthday, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor
28 Day, Columbus Day, Veterans' Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas
29 Day, and any other day from time to time declared by the
30 President of the United States or the Governor of Illinois to
31 be a day during which the agencies of the State of Illinois
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1 that are ordinarily open to do business with the public shall
2 be closed for business.
3 (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code,
4 nominating papers, petitions of objection to nominating
5 papers, certificates of withdrawal of candidacy, and reports
6 of political committees actually received by election
7 authorities and local election officials on a State holiday,
8 a Saturday, or a Sunday shall not be deemed invalid or
9 defective for that reason alone.
10 (Source: P.A. 89-653, eff. 8-14-96.)
11 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12 becoming law.