Public Act 099-0924
 
HB6418 EnrolledLRB099 20949 AWJ 45864 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 Counties Code is amended  by changing Section 
2-3007 as follows:
 



    (55 ILCS 5/2-3007)  (from Ch. 34, par. 2-3007)



    Sec. 2-3007. Chairman of county board; election and term. 
Any
county board when providing for the reapportionment of its 
county under
this Division may provide that the chairman of the 
county board shall be
elected by the voters of the county 
rather than by the members of the
board. In that event, 
provision shall be made for the election throughout
the county 
of the chairman of the county board, but in counties over

3,000,000 population no person may be elected to serve as such 
chairman who
has not been elected as a county board member to 
serve during the same
period as the term of office as chairman 
of the county board to which he
seeks election.  In counties 
over 300,000 450,000 population and under 3,000,000

population, the chairman shall be elected as chairman without 
having been
first elected to the county board. Such chairman 
shall not vote on any
question except to break a tie vote. In 
all other counties the chairman may
either be elected as a 
county board member or elected as the chairman
without having 
been first elected to the board.  Except in counties where
the 
chairman of the county board is elected by the voters of the 
county and
is not required to be a county board member, whether 
the chairman of the
county board is elected by the voters of 
the county or by the members of
the board, he shall be elected 
to a  2 year term. In counties where the
chairman of the county 
board is elected by the voters of the county and is
not 
required to be a county board member, the chairman shall be 
elected to
a 4 year term.  In all cases: (i) , the term of the 
chairman
of the county board shall commence on the first Monday 
of the month
following the month in which members of the county 
board are elected, and (ii) no person may simultaneously serve 
as a member of a county board and the chairman of the same 
board if the office of chairman is elected by the voters of the 
county rather than by the members of the board. 

(Source: P.A. 93-847, eff. 7-30-04; 94-273, eff. 1-1-06.)

 

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


Effective Date:  1/20/2017