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92_SB0359
LRB9207501TApc
1 AN ACT concerning municipalities.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5 changing Section 3.1-10-6 as follows:
6 (65 ILCS 5/3.1-10-6)
7 Sec. 3.1-10-6. Qualifications; appointive office.
8 (a) No person shall be eligible for any appointive
9 municipal office unless that person is a qualified elector of
10 the municipality or otherwise provided by law.
11 (b) The residency requirements do not apply, however, to
12 municipal engineers, health officers, attorneys, or other
13 officers who require technical training or knowledge, to
14 appointed village treasurers, to appointed village clerks, or
15 to appointed city or village collectors (unless the city or
16 village has designated by ordinance that the city or village
17 clerk shall also hold the office of collector).
18 (c) Except for incorporated towns that have superseded a
19 civil township, municipalities having a population of not
20 more than 500,000 may adopt ordinances that allow firemen and
21 policemen to reside outside of the corporate limits of the
22 municipality by which they are employed both at the time of
23 appointment and while serving as a fireman or policeman.
24 (Source: P.A. 87-1119; 87-1197; 88-45.)
25 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
26 becoming law.