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92_HB5647
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1 AN ACT concerning elections.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
5 Section 4-6 as follows:
6 (10 ILCS 5/4-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-6)
7 Sec. 4-6. For the purpose of registering voters under
8 this Article in addition to the method provided for precinct
9 registration under Section 4-7, the office of the county
10 clerk shall be open every day, except Saturday, Sunday, and
11 legal holidays, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. On Saturdays the
12 hours of registration shall be from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon,
13 and such additional hours as the county clerk may designate.
14 If, however, the county board otherwise duly regulates and
15 fixes the hours of opening and closing of all county offices
16 at the county seat of any county, such regulation shall
17 control and supersede the hours herein specified. There shall
18 be no registration at the office of the county clerk or at
19 the office of municipal and township or road district clerks
20 serving as deputy registrars during the 28 days preceding any
21 regular or special election at which the cards provided in
22 this Article are used, or until the 2nd day following such
23 regular or special election; provided, that if by reason of
24 the proximity of any such elections to one another the effect
25 of this provision would be to close registrations for all or
26 any part of the 10 days immediately prior to such 28 day
27 period, the county clerk shall accept, solely for use in the
28 subsequent and not in any intervening election, registrations
29 and transfers of registration within the period from the 28th
30 to the 38th days, both inclusive, prior to such subsequent
31 election; provided, further that at the office of such clerks
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1 registration shall be permitted on the 28th day preceding the
2 election in November of even-numbered years in any county in
3 which such day is not designated as a day of precinct
4 registration. In any election called for the submission of
5 the revision or alteration of, or the amendments to the
6 Constitution, submitted by a Constitutional Convention, the
7 final day for registration at the office of the election
8 authority charged with the printing of the ballot of this
9 election shall be the 15th day prior to the date of election.
10 Any qualified person residing within the county or any
11 portion thereof subject to this Article may register or
12 re-register with the county clerk.
13 Each county clerk shall appoint one or more registration
14 or re-registration teams for the purpose of accepting the
15 registration or re-registration of any voter who files an
16 affidavit that he is physically unable to appear at any
17 appointed place of registration or re-registration. Each team
18 shall consist of one member of each political party having
19 the highest and second highest number of registered voters in
20 the county. The county clerk shall designate a team to visit
21 each disabled person and shall accept the registration or
22 re-registration of each such person as if he had applied for
23 registration or re-registration at the office of the county
24 clerk.
25 As used in this Article, "deputy registrars" and
26 "registration officers" mean any person authorized to accept
27 registrations of electors under this Article.
28 (Source: P.A. 83-1059.)
29 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
30 becoming law.