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Public Act 096-1283


 

Public Act 1283 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY



 


 
Public Act 096-1283
 
HB6380 EnrolledLRB096 21001 RLJ 36845 b

    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Joliet Regional Port District Act is amended
by changing Sections 14, 15, 16, and 18 as follows:
 
    (70 ILCS 1825/14)  (from Ch. 19, par. 264)
    Sec. 14. Board; compensation. The governing and
administrative body of the Port District shall be a Board
consisting of 10 9 members, to be known as the Joliet Regional
Port District Board. All members of the Board shall be
residents of Will County. The members of the Board shall serve
without compensation but shall be reimbursed for actual
expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties.
However, any member of the Board who is appointed to the office
of secretary or treasurer may receive compensation for his or
her services as such officer. No member of the Board or
employee of the District shall have any private financial
interest, profit or benefit in any contract, work or business
of the District nor in the sale or lease of any property to or
from the District.
(Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)
 
    (70 ILCS 1825/15)  (from Ch. 19, par. 265)
    Sec. 15. Appointment of Board. Within 60 days after this
Act becomes effective the Governor, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate shall appoint 3 members of the Board who
reside within the District outside the corporate boundaries of
the City city of Joliet for initial terms expiring June 1st of
the years 1959, 1961, and 1963, respectively, and the Mayor,
with the advice and consent of the City Council of the City of
Joliet, shall appoint 3 members of the Board who reside within
the City of Joliet for initial terms expiring June 1st of the
years 1958, 1960, and 1962, respectively. Of the 3 members each
appointed by the Governor and the Mayor not more than 2 shall
be affiliated with the same political party at the time of
appointment. Beginning with the first appointment made by the
Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
Assembly, the Governor must appoint members who reside within
the District outside the corporate boundaries of the City of
Joliet and the Village of Romeoville. Within 60 days after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General
Assembly, the County Executive of Will County, with the advice
and consent of the County Board, shall appoint 3 members of the
Board for terms expiring June 1st of 2008, 2010, and 2012,
respectively. Within 60 days after the effective date of this
amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, the President of
the Village of Romeoville, with the advice and consent of the
corporate authorities of the Village of Romeoville, shall
appoint one member of the Board who resides within the Village
of Romeoville for an initial term expiring June 1st of 2016.
    At the expiration of the term of any member, his or her
successor shall be appointed by the Governor, Mayor, President
of the Village of Romeoville, or County Executive of Will
County in like manner and with like regard to political party
affiliation and place of residence of the appointee, as
appointments for the initial terms.
    All successors shall hold office for the term of 6 years
from the first day of June of the year in which the term of
office commences, except in the case of an appointment to fill
a vacancy. In case of vacancy in the office of any member
appointed by the Governor during the recess of the Senate, the
Governor shall make a temporary appointment until the next
meeting of the Senate when he or she shall nominate some person
to fill such office; and any person so nominated, who is
confirmed by the Senate, shall hold his or her office during
the remainder of the term and until his or her successor shall
be appointed and qualified. If the Senate is not in session at
the time this Act takes effect, the Governor shall make
temporary appointments as in case of vacancies. The Governor,
the Mayor, the President of the Village of Romeoville, and the
County Executive shall certify their respective appointments
to the Secretary of State. Within 30 days after certification
of his or her appointment, and before entering upon the duties
of his or her office, each member of the Board shall take and
subscribe the constitutional oath of office and file it in the
office of the Secretary of State.
(Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)
 
    (70 ILCS 1825/16)  (from Ch. 19, par. 266)
    Sec. 16. Removal and vacancies. Members of the Board shall
hold office until their respective successors have been
appointed and qualified. Any member may resign from his or her
office to take effect when his or her successor has been
appointed and has qualified. The Governor, the Mayor, the
President of the Village of Romeoville, and the County
Executive of Will County, respectively, may remove any member
of the Board they have appointed in case of incompetency,
neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office. They shall give such
member a copy of the charges against him or her and an
opportunity to be publicly heard in person or by counsel in his
or her own defense upon not less than ten days' notice. In case
of failure to qualify within the time required, or of
abandonment of his or her office, or in case of death,
conviction of a felony or removal from office, the office of
such member shall become vacant. Each vacancy shall be filled
for the unexpired term by appointment in like manner as in case
of expiration of the term of a member of the Board.
(Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)
 
    (70 ILCS 1825/18)  (from Ch. 19, par. 268)
    Sec. 18. Board meetings; quorum; veto. Regular meetings of
the Board shall be held at least once in each calendar month,
the time and place of such meetings to be fixed by the Board.
Six Five members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business. All action of the Board shall be by
ordinances or resolution and the affirmative vote of at least 6
5 members shall be necessary for the adoption of any ordinance
or resolution. All such ordinances and resolutions before
taking effect shall be approved by the chairman of the Board,
and if he or she approves thereof he or she shall sign the
same, and such as he or she does not approve he or she shall
return to the Board with his or her objections thereto in
writing at the next regular meeting of the Board occurring
after the passage thereof. But in the case the chairman fails
to return any ordinance or resolution with his or her
objections thereto by the time aforesaid, he or she shall be
deemed to have approved the same and it shall take effect
accordingly. Upon the return of any ordinance or resolution by
the chairman with his or her objections, the vote by which the
same was passed shall be reconsidered by the Board, and if upon
such reconsideration said ordinance or resolution is passed by
the affirmative vote of at least 7 6 members, it shall go into
effect notwithstanding the veto of the chairman. All
ordinances, resolutions and all proceedings of the District and
all documents and records in its possession shall be public
records, and open to public inspection, except such documents
and records as are kept or prepared by the Board for use in
negotiations, legal actions or proceedings to which the
District is a party.
(Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 7/26/2010