Public Act 098-1118
 
SB3314 EnrolledLRB098 18360 JLK 53497 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 Municipal Clerk Training Act is amended by
changing Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 as follows:
 
    (65 ILCS 50/1)  (from Ch. 144, par. 61.51)
    Sec. 1. The Municipal Clerk Training Institute Committee
shall establish a Municipal Clerk Training Institute and
designate the number of times each year the program provided
for in this Act shall be offered by the Institute. The location
or locations within the State at which the program shall be
offered each year shall be fixed by the Municipal Clerk
Training Institute Committee, provided that any location so
fixed shall be on the campus of one or more of the colleges or
universities represented on the Committee.
(Source: P.A. 85-274.)
 
    (65 ILCS 50/2)  (from Ch. 144, par. 61.52)
    Sec. 2. There is created the Municipal Clerk Training
Institute Committee composed of 5 municipal clerks or deputy
clerks, appointed by the Governor as provided herein, and one 9
ex-officio member members, designated by the governing board of
any public college or university in this State at the request
of the Executive Board of the Municipal Clerks of Illinois as
provided herein, as a representative representatives of public
colleges and universities in this State. Each member appointed
by the Governor after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of 1987 shall be a certified municipal clerk recommended by the
Executive Board of the Municipal Clerks of Illinois and serving
as a municipal clerk at the time he or she is so recommended
and appointed. The 2 additional municipal clerks appointed
pursuant to the provisions of this amendatory Act of 1987 both
shall be appointed to serve until the third Monday in January,
1992, or until their successors are appointed and qualified. Of
the 3 municipal clerks serving as members of the Committee on
the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1987, they shall
determine by agreement or by lot one who shall continue to so
serve until the third Monday in January, 1989, a second who
shall continue to so serve until the third Monday in January,
1990, and a third who shall continue to so serve until the
third Monday in January, 1991; provided, that each shall serve
until his or her successor is appointed and qualified. Each
successor of any member appointed to the Committee as a
municipal clerk or deputy clerk shall be appointed to serve for
a 4 year term expiring on the third Monday in January, or until
his or her successor is appointed and qualified. Any vacancy
occurring in the office of a Committee member appointed by the
Governor, whether by death, resignation or otherwise, shall be
filled by appointment by the Governor from a recommendation or
recommendations made by the Executive Board of the Municipal
Clerks of Illinois, in the same manner as original
appointments. A member appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve
for the remainder of the unexpired term or until his or her
successor is appointed and qualified. In the event the Governor
refuses to appoint a municipal clerk or deputy clerk
recommended by the Executive Board of the Municipal Clerks of
Illinois to either a full term or, in cases of a vacancy, to
the remainder of an unexpired term on the Committee, such
Executive Board shall promptly recommend one or more additional
qualified persons to the Governor for such appointment. The
term of the ex-officio member may be designated by the
governing board of any public college or university in this
State at the request of the Executive Board of the Municipal
Clerks of Illinois. The terms of the 3 committee members
designated by the Board of Trustees of the University of
Illinois and serving on the effective date of this amendatory
Act of 1987 shall terminate on that effective date, and the 4
ex-officio members designated pursuant to the provisions of
this amendatory Act of 1987 shall be designated as follows: one
representative of the University of Illinois designated by the
Board of Trustees of that University; one representative of
Southern Illinois University designated by the Board of
Trustees of that University; one representative designated by
the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities of
the several universities and colleges under its governance; and
one representative designated by the Board of Regents of the
several Regency Universities under its jurisdiction. The terms
of the 2 ex-officio members designated as representatives of
the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities and
the Board of Regents shall terminate on the effective date of
this amendatory Act of 1995. The 2 ex-officio members whose
terms are terminated by this amendatory Act of 1995 shall be
replaced by 7 additional ex-officio members, one representing
the Board of Trustees of Chicago State University, one
representing the Board of Trustees of Eastern Illinois
University, one representing the Board of Trustees of Governors
State University, one representing the Board of Trustees of
Illinois State University, one representing the Board of
Trustees of Northeastern Illinois University, one representing
the Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University, and one
representing the Board of Trustees of Western Illinois
University. The 9 ex-officio member members representing the
public colleges and universities shall serve in an advisory
capacity to the members appointed by the Governor, and each
such ex-officio member shall serve at the pleasure of the
governing board designating them to membership on the
Committee. Members of the Committee shall serve without
compensation.
(Source: P.A. 89-4, eff. 1-1-96.)
 
    (65 ILCS 50/3)  (from Ch. 144, par. 61.53)
    Sec. 3. The Committee shall develop the curriculum for the
Municipal Clerk Training Institute and include such subjects
and courses as will provide methods for maintaining the
services of municipal clerks or deputy clerks at a level
consistent with the needs of the municipality and the public.
The subjects selected shall include, but are not limited to, a
study of the Illinois Municipal Code, parliamentary procedure,
office management and the preparation of agendas, minutes and
records.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 1910.)
 
    (65 ILCS 50/4)  (from Ch. 144, par. 61.54)
    Sec. 4. Each year, the The Institute shall offer (i) a
course of at least 5 one-day sessions one week's duration which
may be attended by municipal clerks or deputy clerks who have
been newly appointed or elected to office, and (ii) an advanced
a refresher course each year of at least 2 one-day sessions 2
days' duration which may be attended by all other municipal
clerks or deputy clerks. Attendance at courses offered by the
Institute shall be restricted to municipal clerks and their
deputies.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 1910.)

Effective Date: 1/1/2015