Public Act 096-0458
 		





HB2295 Enrolled
LRB096 08662 RLJ 18786 b






    AN ACT concerning government.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:


 
    Section 5. The Park District Code is amended  by changing 
Section 2-11 as follows:
 



    (70 ILCS 1205/2-11)  (from Ch. 105, par. 2-11)



    Sec. 2-11. 
No person shall be eligible to serve as park 
commissioner
unless that person is a qualified elector of the 
park district and has
resided therein at least one year prior 
to election or appointment.

    A person is not eligible to serve as park commissioner if 
that person is in arrears in the payment of a tax or other 
indebtedness due to the park district or has been convicted in 
any court located in the United States of any infamous crime, 
bribery, perjury, or other felony. 
    Nominations of candidates for the office of park 
commissioners
in any General Park District at all succeeding 
elections shall be made by
petition signed in the aggregate for 
each candidate by qualified voters
of such district, equal in 
number to not less than 2% of the number who
voted at the last 
preceding election for commissioners in such district,
but in 
no case by less than 25 of such voters. The petition shall be 
filed
with the secretary of the district.

    In all General Park Districts the secretary of the district 
shall, in
the manner and at the time prescribed by the general 
election law certify
to the proper election authorities the 
name or names of the candidate
or candidates so nominated.  The 
ballot shall have no political party name,
platform or 
principle thereon designated, nor shall any party circle be

printed upon the ballot. Where voting machines or electronic 
voting systems
are used, the provisions of this Section may be 
modified as required or
authorized by the general election law.

(Source: P.A. 86-347.)

 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.






Effective Date:  8/14/2009