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Public Act 90-0358

HB0652 Enrolled                                LRB9003210MWpc

    AN ACT in relation to elections.

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

    Section  5.   The  Election  Code  is amended by changing
Sections 1-3, 2A-1.1, 2A-1.2,  2A-36,  2A-43,  2A-48,  2A-49,
2A-50,  2A-51,  2A-52,  2A-54, 4-11, 10-6, 11-7, 12-1, 16-4.1
and 24-1.2 as follows:

    (10 ILCS 5/1-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 1-3)
    Sec. 1-3.  As  used  in  this  Act,  unless  the  context
otherwise requires:
    1.  "Election"  includes  the submission of all questions
of public policy, propositions, and all measures submitted to
popular  vote,  and  includes  primary  elections   when   so
indicated by the context.
    2.  "Regular   election"   means   the  general,  general
primary, nonpartisan, consolidated and  consolidated  primary
elections   regularly  scheduled  in  Article  2A.  The  even
numbered year municipal primary established in Article 2A  is
a  regular election only with respect to those municipalities
in which a primary is required to be held on such date.
    3.  "Special election" means an  election  not  regularly
recurring  at  fixed intervals, irrespective of whether it is
held at the same time and place  and  by  the  same  election
officers as a regular election.
    4.  "General  election"  means  the  biennial election at
which members of the General Assembly are  elected.  "General
primary   election",  "nonpartisan  election",  "consolidated
election"  and  "consolidated  primary  election"  mean   the
respective  elections  or  the  election dates designated and
established in Article 2A of this Code.
    5.  "Municipal election" means an  election  or  primary,
either   regular   or   special,  in  cities,  villages,  and
incorporated towns; and "municipality" means any  such  city,
village or incorporated town.
    6.  "Political  or  governmental  subdivision"  means any
unit  of  local  government,  or  school  district  in  which
elections are or may  be  held.  "Political  or  governmental
subdivision"  also  includes, for election purposes, Regional
Boards of School Trustees,  and  Township  Boards  of  School
Trustees.
    7.  The  word  "township" and the word "town" shall apply
interchangeably to  the  type  of  governmental  organization
established in accordance with the provisions of the Township
Code.  The term "incorporated town" shall mean a municipality
referred to as an incorporated town in the Illinois Municipal
Code, as now or hereafter amended.
    8.  "Election authority" means a county clerk or a  Board
of Election Commissioners.
    9.  "Election  Jurisdiction"  means (a) an entire county,
in the case of a county in which no city  board  of  election
commissioners  is  located or which is under the jurisdiction
of  a  county  board  of  election  commissioners;  (b)   the
territorial   jurisdiction   of  a  city  board  of  election
commissioners; and (c) the territory in a county  outside  of
the  jurisdiction  of a city board of election commissioners.
In each instance election jurisdiction  shall  be  determined
according to which election authority maintains the permanent
registration records of qualified electors.
    10.  "Local   election   official"  means  the  clerk  or
secretary of a unit of local government or  school  district,
as  the  case  may  be,  the treasurer of a township board of
school trustees, and the regional superintendent  of  schools
with  respect  to  the  various  school officer elections and
school referenda for which  the  regional  superintendent  is
assigned  election  duties  by  The  School  Code,  as now or
hereafter amended.
    11.  "Judges of election", "primary judges"  and  similar
terms,  as applied to cases where there are 2 sets of judges,
when used in connection with duties at an election during the
hours the polls are open, refer to  the  team  of  judges  of
election  on  duty  during  such  hours;  and, when used with
reference to duties after the closing of the polls, refer  to
the  team  of tally judges designated to count the vote after
the closing of the polls and the holdover  judges  designated
pursuant  to  Section  13-6.2 or 14-5.2. In such case, where,
after the closing of the polls, any act  is  required  to  be
performed  by  each  of  the  judges of election, it shall be
performed by each of the tally judges  and  by  each  of  the
holdover judges.
    12.  "Petition" of candidacy as used in Sections 7-10 and
7-10.1 shall consist of a statement of candidacy, candidate's
statement  containing  oath, and sheets containing signatures
of qualified primary electors bound together.
    13.  "Election district" and "precinct", when  used  with
reference  to  a  30-day  residence  requirement,  means  the
smallest  constituent  territory  in which electors vote as a
unit at the same polling place in any  election  governed  by
this Act.
    14.  "District"  means any area which votes as a unit for
the election of any officer, other than the State or  a  unit
of  local government or school district, and includes, but is
not  limited  to,  legislative,  congressional  and  judicial
districts,  judicial  circuits,   county   board   districts,
municipal   and   sanitary   district   wards,  school  board
districts, and precincts.
    15.  "Question of public  policy"  or  "public  question"
means  any  question, proposition or measure submitted to the
voters at an election dealing with subject matter other  than
the  nomination  or election of candidates and shall include,
but is not limited  to,  any  bond  or  tax  referendum,  and
questions relating to the Constitution.
    16.  "Ordinance  providing  the  form  of government of a
municipality  or  county  pursuant  to  Article  VII  of  the
Constitution" includes ordinances, resolutions and  petitions
adopted   by   referendum  which  provide  for  the  form  of
government, the officers or the manner of selection or  terms
of  office  of  officers  of  such  municipality  or  county,
pursuant  to  the provisions of Sections 4, 6 or 7 of Article
VII of the Constitution.
    17.  "List" as used in Sections 4-11, 4-22,  5-14,  5-29,
6-60, and 6-66 shall include a computer tape or computer disc
or  other  electronic  data processing information containing
voter information.
    18.  "Accessible" means  accessible  to  handicapped  and
elderly   individuals   for   the   purpose   of   voting  or
registration, as determined by rule of  the  State  Board  of
Elections.
    19.  "Elderly" means 65 years of age or older.
    20.  "Handicapped"  means having a temporary or permanent
physical disability.
    21.  "Leading political  party"  means  one  of  the  two
political  parties  whose candidates for governor at the most
recent three  gubernatorial  elections  received  either  the
highest  or  second  highest  average  number  of votes.  The
political party whose candidates for  governor  received  the
highest  average  number of votes shall be known as the first
leading  political  party  and  the  political  party   whose
candidates  for  governor received the second highest average
number  of  votes  shall  be  known  as  the  second  leading
political party.
    22.  "Business day" means any day in which the office  of
an  election  authority, local election official or the State
Board of Elections is open to the public for a minimum  of  7
hours.
    23.  "Homeless  individual"  means  any  person who has a
nontraditional residence, including but  not  limited  to,  a
shelter,  day  shelter,  park  bench, street corner, or space
under a bridge.
(Source: P.A. 87-1241; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)

    (10 ILCS 5/2A-1.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-1.1)
    Sec. 2A-1.1.  All Elections - Consolidated Schedule.  (a)
In even-numbered years, the general election shall be held on
the  first Tuesday after the first Monday of November; and an
election to be known as the general primary election shall be
held on the third Tuesday in March;
    (b)  In odd-numbered years, an election to  be  known  as
the  consolidated election shall be held on the first Tuesday
in April except as provided in Section 2A-1.1a of  this  Act;
and  an  election  to  be  known  as the consolidated primary
election shall be held on the last Tuesday in February.;
    (c)  In odd-numbered years, an election to  be  known  as
the  nonpartisan  election shall be held on the first Tuesday
after the first Monday in November.
(Source: P.A. 82-1014.)

    (10 ILCS 5/2A-1.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-1.2)
    Sec.  2A-1.2.  Consolidated  Schedule  of   Elections   -
Offices Designated.
    (a)  At   the   general   election   in  the  appropriate
even-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled or
shall be on the ballot as otherwise required by this Code:
         (1)  Elector of President and Vice President of  the
    United States;
         (2)  United   States   Senator   and  United  States
    Representative;
         (3)  State Executive Branch elected officers;
         (4)  State Senator and State Representative;
         (5)  County  elected  officers,  including   State's
    Attorney,  County Board member, County Commissioners, and
    elected President of the County  Board  or  County  Chief
    Executive;
         (6)  Circuit Court Clerk;
         (7)  Regional  Superintendent  of Schools, except in
    counties or educational service  regions  in  which  that
    office has been abolished;
         (8)  Judges  of  the  Supreme, Appellate and Circuit
    Courts, on the question of retention, to  fill  vacancies
    and newly created judicial offices;
         (9)  (Blank);
         (10)  Trustee  of the Metropolitan Sanitary District
    of  Chicago,  and  elected  Trustee  of  other   Sanitary
    Districts;
         (11)  Special   District   elected   officers,   not
    otherwise  designated  in this Section, where the statute
    creating or authorizing  the  creation  of  the  district
    requires  an  annual  election  and  permits  or requires
    election of candidates of political parties.
    (b)  At the general primary election:
         (1)  in  each  even-numbered  year   candidates   of
    political parties shall be nominated for those offices to
    be  filled  at  the general election in that year, except
    where  pursuant  to  law  nomination  of  candidates   of
    political parties is made by caucus.
         (2)  in  the  appropriate  even-numbered  years  the
    political  party  offices  of State central committeeman,
    township committeeman, ward  committeeman,  and  precinct
    committeeman  shall be filled and delegates and alternate
    delegates to the National nominating conventions shall be
    elected as may be required pursuant to this Code.  In the
    even-numbered years in which a Presidential  election  is
    to  be  held,  candidates  in the Presidential preference
    primary shall also be on the ballot.
         (3)  in   each   even-numbered   year,   where   the
    municipality has provided for annual elections  to  elect
    municipal  officers pursuant to Section 6(f) or Section 7
    of Article VII  of  the  Constitution,  pursuant  to  the
    Illinois  Municipal  Code  or  pursuant  to the municipal
    charter, the offices of such municipal officers shall  be
    filled  at  an  election  held on the date of the general
    primary election, provided that  the  municipal  election
    shall  be  a  nonpartisan  election where required by the
    Illinois  Municipal   Code.    For   partisan   municipal
    elections  in  even-numbered years, a primary to nominate
    candidates for municipal office  to  be  elected  at  the
    general  primary  election shall be held on the Tuesday 6
    weeks preceding that election.
         (4)  in each school district which has  adopted  the
    provisions  of  Article 33 of the School Code, successors
    to the members of the  board  of  education  whose  terms
    expire  in  the year in which the general primary is held
    shall be elected.
    (c)  At the  consolidated  election  in  the  appropriate
odd-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled:
         (1)  Municipal    officers,    provided    that   in
    municipalities in which candidates for alderman or  other
    municipal   office   are  not  permitted  by  law  to  be
    candidates of  political  parties,  the  runoff  election
    where  required by law, or the nonpartisan election where
    required by law,  shall  be  held  on  the  date  of  the
    consolidated  election; and provided further, in the case
    of  municipal  officers  provided  for  by  an  ordinance
    providing the form  of  government  of  the  municipality
    pursuant to Section 7 of Article VII of the Constitution,
    such  offices  shall  be  filled by election or by runoff
    election as may be provided by such ordinance;
         (2)  Village   and   incorporated    town    library
    directors;
         (3)  City boards of stadium commissioners;
         (4)  Commissioners of park districts;
         (5)  Trustees of public library districts;
         (6)  Special    District   elected   officers,   not
    otherwise designated in this section, where  the  statute
    creating  or  authorizing  the  creation  of the district
    permits or requires election of candidates  of  political
    parties;
         (7)  Township   officers,  including  township  park
    commissioners, township library directors, and boards  of
    managers   of  community  buildings,  and  Multi-Township
    Assessors;
         (8)  Highway commissioners and road district clerks;
         (9)  Members of school boards  in  school  districts
    which adopt Article 33 of the School Code;
         (10)  The  directors  and  chairman  of  the Chain O
    Lakes - Fox River Waterway Management Agency;
         (11)  Forest preserve district commissioners elected
    under  Section  3.5  of  the  Downstate  Forest  Preserve
    District Act;.
         (12)  Elected  members  of  school  boards,   school
    trustees,   directors  of  boards  of  school  directors,
    trustees of county boards of school trustees  (except  in
    counties   or   educational   service  regions  having  a
    population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants) and  members
    of  boards  of school inspectors, except school boards in
    school districts that adopt  Article  33  of  the  School
    Code;
         (13)  Members of Community College district boards;
         (14)  Trustees of Fire Protection Districts;
         (15)  Commissioners  of the Springfield Metropolitan
    Exposition and Auditorium Authority;
         (16)  Elected Trustees  of  Tuberculosis  Sanitarium
    Districts;
         (17)  Elected  Officers  of  special  districts  not
    otherwise  designated  in  this Section for which the law
    governing those districts does not permit  candidates  of
    political parties.
    (d)  At   the   consolidated  primary  election  in  each
odd-numbered year, candidates of political parties  shall  be
nominated  for those offices to be filled at the consolidated
election  in  that  year,  except  where  pursuant   to   law
nomination  of  candidates  of  political  parties is made by
caucus, and except those offices listed  in  paragraphs  (12)
through (17) of subsection (c).
    At  the  consolidated primary election in the appropriate
odd-numbered years, the mayor, clerk, treasurer, and aldermen
shall be elected in municipalities in  which  candidates  for
mayor, clerk, treasurer, or alderman are not permitted by law
to  be  candidates  of  political  parties, subject to runoff
elections to be held at the consolidated election as  may  be
required by law, and municipal officers shall be nominated in
a nonpartisan election in municipalities in which pursuant to
law  candidates  for  such  office  are  not  permitted to be
candidates of political parties.
    At the consolidated primary election in  the  appropriate
odd-numbered  years, municipal officers shall be nominated or
elected, or elected subject to a runoff, as may  be  provided
by  an  ordinance  providing  a  form  of  government  of the
municipality pursuant to Section 7  of  Article  VII  of  the
Constitution.
    (e)  (Blank).    At  the  nonpartisan  election  in  each
odd-numbered year the following offices shall  be  filled  in
nonpartisan elections:
         (1)  Elected   members   of  school  boards,  school
    trustees,  directors  of  boards  of  school   directors,
    trustees  of  county boards of school trustees (except in
    counties  or  educational  service   regions   having   a
    population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants), and members
    of  boards  of school inspectors, except school boards in
    school districts which adopt Article  33  of  the  School
    Code;
         (2)  Member of Community College district boards;
         (3)  Trustee of Fire Protection Districts;
         (4)  Commissioner    of   Springfield   Metropolitan
    Exposition and Auditorium Authority;
         (5)  Elected  Trustees  of  Tuberculosis  Sanitarium
    Districts;
         (6)  Elected  Officers  of  special  districts   not
    otherwise  designated  in  this Section for which the law
    governing such districts does not  permit  candidates  of
    political parties.
    (f)  At  any  election  established  in  Section  2A-1.1,
public  questions may be submitted to voters pursuant to this
Code  and  any  special  election   otherwise   required   or
authorized by law or by court order may be conducted pursuant
to this Code.
    Notwithstanding   the   regular  dates  for  election  of
officers established in this Article, whenever  a  referendum
is  held  for  the  establishment  of a political subdivision
whose officers are to be elected, the initial officers  shall
be  elected  at the election at which such referendum is held
if otherwise so provided by law.  In such cases, the election
of the initial officers shall be subject to the referendum.
    Notwithstanding  the  regular  dates  for   election   of
officials  established in this Article, any community college
district which becomes effective by operation of law pursuant
to Section 6-6.1 of the Public Community College Act, as  now
or  hereafter amended, shall elect the initial district board
members at the next regularly  scheduled  election  following
the effective date of the new district.
    (g)  At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, if in
any  precinct  there  are  no  offices  or  public  questions
required to be on the ballot under this Code then no election
shall be held in the precinct on that date.
    (h)  Except  at  the  nonpartisan election in 1981, There
may  be  conducted  a  referendum  in  accordance  with   the
provisions of Division 6-4 of the Counties Code.
(Source: P.A. 88-89; 88-443; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-5, eff.
1-1-96; 89-95, eff. 1-1-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96.)

    (10 ILCS 5/2A-36) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-36)
    Sec. 2A-36.  Fire Protection District - Trustee - Time of
Election.  A  trustee  of  a  Fire  Protection District which
elects its trustees shall be  elected  at  each  consolidated
nonpartisan  election  in  odd-numbered years to succeed each
incumbent trustee whose term  expires  before  the  following
consolidated nonpartisan election.
(Source: P.A. 80-936.)

    (10 ILCS 5/2A-43) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-43)
    Sec.  2A-43.   Springfield  Metropolitan  Exposition  and
Auditorium  Authority  -  Commissioner  - Time of Election. A
commissioner of the Springfield Metropolitan  Exposition  and
Auditorium  Authority  shall  be  elected at the consolidated
nonpartisan election of each  odd-numbered  year  to  succeed
each  incumbent  commissioner  whose  term expires before the
following consolidated nonpartisan election.
(Source: P.A. 80-936.)

    (10 ILCS 5/2A-48) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-48)
    Sec. 2A-48.  Board of School Directors - Member - Time of
Election. A member of a Board of School Directors or a member
of an elected Board of Education, as the case may  be,  shall
be  elected  at  each  consolidated  nonpartisan  election to
succeed each incumbent member  whose  term  ends  before  the
following consolidated nonpartisan election.
(Source: P.A. 80-936.)

    (10 ILCS 5/2A-49) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-49)
    Sec.  2A-49.   Board of School Inspectors - Member - Time
of Election. A member of a Board of School  Inspectors  shall
be  elected  at  the  consolidated nonpartisan election which
immediately precedes  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  any
incumbent  school inspector, to succeed each incumbent school
inspector whose term ends before the  following  consolidated
nonpartisan election.
(Source: P.A. 80-936.)

    (10 ILCS 5/2A-50) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-50)
    Sec.  2A-50.  Regional Board of School Trustees - Trustee
- Time of Election. Except  in  educational  service  regions
having  a  population  of  2,000,000  or  more inhabitants, a
trustee of a Regional  Board  of  School  Trustees  shall  be
elected  at  the consolidated nonpartisan election to succeed
each incumbent trustee whose term ends before  the  following
consolidated nonpartisan election.
(Source: P.A. 87-969.)

    (10 ILCS 5/2A-51) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-51)
    Sec.  2A-51.   Schools  -  Trustee  -  Time  of Election.
Except in a township in which all  school  districts  located
therein have withdrawn from the jurisdiction and authority of
the  trustees  of  schools under the provisions of subsection
(b) of Section 5-1 of the School Code and except in townships
in which the office of trustee of schools has been  abolished
as  provided  in  subsection (c) of Section 5-1 of the School
Code, a trustee of schools shall be elected in  townships  at
the   consolidated  nonpartisan  election  which  immediately
precedes the expiration of the term of any incumbent trustee,
to succeed each incumbent trustee whose term ends before  the
following consolidated nonpartisan election.
(Source: P.A. 86-1441; 87-473.)

    (10 ILCS 5/2A-52) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-52)
    Sec.  2A-52.   Community College District - Member - Time
of Election. A member of the Board  of  a  Community  College
District  shall  be  elected at each consolidated nonpartisan
election to succeed each  elected  incumbent  member  of  the
Board  whose  term  expires before the following consolidated
nonpartisan election.
(Source: P.A. 80-936.)

    (10 ILCS 5/2A-54) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-54)
    Sec. 2A-54. In those cases in which the  election  to  an
office  is  changed  by  the consolidation of elections to an
earlier or later month in the same year  or  to  a  different
year,  the  term of any incumbent serving on December 1, 1980
is extended to the first Monday in the first month  following
the  election  of  his  successor and until the successor has
qualified, and the term of  the  successor  in  office  shall
commence on that first Monday.
    The  term  of office of a person elected at a nonpartisan
election whose term begins before the effective date of  this
amendatory  Act  of 1997 shall expire on the date that his or
her term would have expired had this amendatory Act  of  1997
not  been enacted.  The term of office of a person elected at
a consolidated election held on or after the  effective  date
of this amendatory Act of 1997 to succeed to a term of office
of  a  person  elected  at a nonpartisan election shall begin
upon the termination of the predecessor's term of office. The
term of office of a person elected to succeed to  a  term  of
office  of  a  person elected at a nonpartisan election shall
end after the next consolidated election at which a successor
is elected and at the regularly scheduled time for the ending
of terms of office as provided in the Act or Acts creating or
governing that unit of local government or school district.
    However, this general provision  for  the  transition  of
terms  of  office  in  relation  to the adoption of a uniform
schedule of  elections  shall  be  subject  to  the  specific
provisions  for  the  transition  of  terms  of office in the
several Acts creating or governing the  creation  of  various
units of local government and school districts, as amended.
(Source: P.A. 81-1433.)

    (10 ILCS 5/4-11) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-11)
    Sec.  4-11.   At  least  2  weeks  prior  to  the general
November  election  in  each  even  numbered  year  and   the
consolidated  nonpartisan  election in each odd-numbered year
the county clerk shall cause a  list  to  be  made  for  each
precinct  of all names upon the registration record cards not
marked or erased, in alphabetical order,  with  the  address,
provided,  that  such list may be arranged geographically, by
street and number, in numerical order, with  respect  to  all
precincts  in  which  all, or substantially all residences of
voters therein shall  be  located  upon  and  numbered  along
streets,  avenues, courts, or other highways which are either
named or numbered, upon direction either of the county  board
or of the circuit court.  On the list, the county clerk shall
indicate,  by italics, asterisk, or other means, the names of
all persons who have  registered  since  the  last  regularly
scheduled  election in the consolidated schedule of elections
established in Section 2A-1.1 of this Act. The  county  clerk
shall  cause  such  precinct  lists to be printed or typed in
sufficient numbers to meet all reasonable demands,  and  upon
application  a  copy of the same shall be given to any person
applying therefor.  By such time, the county clerk shall give
the precinct lists  to  the  chairman  of  a  county  central
committee of an established political party, as such party is
defined  in  Section  10-2  of this Act, or to the chairman's
duly  authorized  representative.   Within  30  days  of  the
effective date of this Amendatory Act  of  1983,  the  county
clerk  shall  give  the  precinct lists compiled prior to the
general November election of 1982 to the chairman  of  county
central committee of an established political party or to the
chairman's duly authorized representative.
    Prior  to  the  opening of the polls for other elections,
the county clerk shall transmit or deliver to the  judges  of
election of each polling place a corrected list of registered
voters  in the precinct, or the names of persons added to and
erased or withdrawn from the  list  for  such  precinct.   At
other  times  such  list,  currently corrected, shall be kept
available for public inspection in the office of  the  county
clerk.
    Within  60  days  after  each general election the county
clerk shall indicate by italics, asterisk, or other means, on
the  list  of  registered  voters  in  each  precinct,   each
registrant  who  voted  at  that  general election, and shall
provide a copy of such list to the  chairman  of  the  county
central  committee  of each established political party or to
the chairman's duly authorized representative.
    Within  60  days  after  the  effective  date   of   this
amendatory  Act  of  1983, the county clerk shall indicate by
italics, asterisk, or other means, on the list of  registered
voters  in  each  precinct,  each registrant who voted at the
general election of 1982, and shall provide a  copy  of  such
coded list to the chairman of the county central committee of
each  established  political  party or to the chairman's duly
authorized representative.
    The county clerk may charge a fee to reimburse the actual
cost of duplicating  each  copy  of  a  list  provided  under
either of the 2 preceding paragraphs.
(Source: P.A. 83-1263.)

    (10 ILCS 5/10-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 10-6)
    Sec.   10-6.    Except   as  provided  in  Section  10-3,
certificates of nomination  and  nomination  papers  for  the
nomination of candidates for offices to be filled by electors
of  the  entire  State, or any district not entirely within a
county, or for congressional, state legislative  or  judicial
offices,  shall  be  presented to the principal office of the
State Board of Elections not more than 99 nor  less  than  92
days previous to the day of election for which the candidates
are  nominated.   The  State Board of Elections shall endorse
the certificates of nomination or nomination papers,  as  the
case  may  be,  and  the  date and hour of presentment to it.
Except as otherwise  provided  in  this  section,  all  other
certificates  for the nomination of candidates shall be filed
with the county clerk of the  respective  counties  not  more
than  99  but  at  least  92 days previous to the day of such
election.  Certificates of nomination and  nomination  papers
for the nomination of candidates for the offices of political
subdivisions to be filled at regular elections other than the
general  election  shall  be  filed  with  the local election
official of such subdivision:
    (1)  (Blank); not more than 78 or less than 71 days prior
to the nonpartisan election; or
    (2)  not more than 78 nor less than 71 days prior to  the
consolidated election; or
    (3)  not  more than 78 nor less than 71 days prior to the
general primary in the case of municipal offices to be filled
at the general primary election; or
    (4)  not more than 78 nor less than 71  days  before  the
consolidated  primary  in the case of municipal offices to be
elected on a nonpartisan basis  pursuant  to  law  (including
without   limitation,  those  municipal  offices  subject  to
Articles 4 and 5 of the Municipal Code); or
    (5)  not more than 78 nor less than 71  days  before  the
municipal primary in even numbered years for such nonpartisan
municipal offices where annual elections are provided; or
    (6)  in   the   case  of  petitions  for  the  office  of
multi-township assessor, such petitions shall be  filed  with
the election authority not more than 78 nor less than 71 days
before the consolidated election.
    However,  where  a political subdivision's boundaries are
co-extensive with or are entirely within the jurisdiction  of
a municipal board of election commissioners, the certificates
of  nomination  and nomination papers for candidates for such
political subdivision offices shall be filed in the office of
such Board.
(Source: P.A. 84-861.)

    (10 ILCS 5/11-7) (from Ch. 46, par. 11-7)
    Sec. 11-7.   For  the  purpose  of  the  conduct  of  any
consolidated   election,   consolidated   primary   election,
nonpartisan  election,  special municipal primary election or
emergency referendum, an election authority may cluster up to
four contiguous precincts as provided in this Section,  which
shall constitute a clustered voting zone.  The common polling
place  for  the clustered voting zone shall be located within
the territory comprising the clustered precincts.  Unless the
election  authority  specifies  a  larger  number,  only  one
election judge shall be appointed for each of  the  precincts
in each clustered voting zone.
    The  judges  so  appointed may not all be affiliated with
the same political party.
    The conduct of an election in  a  clustered  voting  zone
shall  be  under the general supervision of all the judges of
election designated to serve in the  clustered  voting  zone.
The  designated  judges  may  perform  the duties of election
judges for the entire clustered  voting  zone.  However,  the
requirements   of   Section   17-14   shall  apply  to  voter
assistance, the requirements of Section 24-10 shall apply  to
voter  instruction,  the  requirement of Section 24A-10 shall
apply to examination of absentee ballots, and any disputes as
to entitlement to vote, challenges, counting  of  ballots  or
other  matters pertaining directly to voting shall be decided
by those designated judges  appointed  for  the  precinct  in
which  the  affected voter resides or the disputed vote is to
be counted.
    This  Section  does  not  apply  to  any   elections   in
municipalities with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants.
(Source: P.A. 83-685.)

    (10 ILCS 5/12-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 12-1)
    Sec.  12-1.   At least 60 days prior to each general and,
consolidated  and    nonpartisan   election,   the   election
authority  shall  provide  public notice, calculated to reach
elderly  and  handicapped  voters,  of  the  availability  of
registration  and  voting  aids  under  the  Federal   Voting
Accessibility  for  the  Elderly  and Handicapped Act, of the
availability  of  assistance  in  marking  the  ballot,   and
procedures for voting by absentee ballot.
    At  least  30  days  before  any general election, and at
least 20 days before any special congressional election,  the
county  clerk  shall publish a notice of the election in 2 or
more newspapers  published  in  the  county,  city,  village,
incorporated town or town, as the case may be, or if there is
no such newspaper, then in any 2 or more newspapers published
in the county and having a general circulation throughout the
community. The notice may be substantially as follows:
    Notice  is hereby given that on (give date), at (give the
place of holding the election and the name of the precinct or
district) in the county of (name county), an election will be
held for (give  the  title  of  the  several  offices  to  be
filled),  which  election  will  be  open  at  6:00 a. m. and
continued open until 7:00 p. m. of that day.
    Dated at .... this .... day of ...., 19...
(Source: P.A. 84-808.)

    (10 ILCS 5/16-4.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 16-4.1)
    Sec. 16-4.1.  Ballots; Form; Nonpartisan and Consolidated
Elections.  This Section shall apply only to the  nonpartisan
election,   the   consolidated   primary  election,  and  the
consolidated election, except as otherwise expressly provided
herein.
    The ballot for the nomination or election of officers  of
each  political  subdivision  shall  be considered a separate
ballot, and candidates for  such  offices  shall  be  grouped
together.   Where  paper  ballots  are  used,  the  names  of
candidates  for  nomination  or  election  to  more  than one
political subdivision may be contained on  a  common  ballot,
provided  that  such  ballot  clearly indicates and separates
each political subdivision from which such officers are to be
nominated or elected.  In the case of partisan  elections  of
officers,  a  separate  party circle shall be included at the
head  of  the  portion  of  the  ballot  for  each  political
subdivision for which candidates of  political  parties  have
been  nominated.   When  an  electronic voting system is used
which utilizes a ballot label booklet, the party circles  for
straight  party  voting  shall  be on the same ballot page on
which are listed the candidates for the political subdivision
election for which that party circle applies.
    At the consolidated nonpartisan election, the ballot  for
school   district   offices  shall  precede  the  ballot  for
community college district offices, and thereafter the ballot
order of the political subdivision  officers  to  be  elected
shall  be  as  determined  by the election authority.  In the
case of school districts other  than  community  consolidated
school  districts,  the  ballot  for non-high school district
offices shall precede the ballot  for  high  school  district
offices.
    At  the  consolidated  primary  and  at  the consolidated
election, the ballot for nomination or election of  municipal
officers  shall precede the ballot for township officers.  At
the consolidated election, following the ballot for municipal
and township offices shall be the ballots for  park  district
and  library  district  offices, following which shall be the
ballots for other political subdivision offices in the  order
determined by the election authority.
    The  election  authority,  in  determining  the  order of
ballot placement for offices of political subdivisions  whose
ballot placement is not specified in this Section, shall give
due  regard  to the clarity of the ballot presentation to the
voters, cost and administrative ease, and the requirement  to
provide separate ballot formats within precincts in which the
electors  are  not  entitled  to vote for the same offices or
propositions.  At the  request  of  a  political  subdivision
which  extends  into more than one election jurisdiction, the
election authority shall endeavor to coordinate placement and
color of the ballot  for  such  subdivision  with  the  other
election  authorities  responsible  for preparing ballots for
such  subdivision  election.   The  election  authority   may
conduct  a lottery to determine the order of ballot placement
of political subdivision ballots  where  such  order  is  not
specified  in  this  Section.   Such lottery may be conducted
jointly by two or more election authorities.
(Source: P.A. 81-1433.)
    (10 ILCS 5/24-1.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 24-1.2)
    Sec. 24-1.2.  Paper ballots may be used for  the  conduct
of  the  non-partisan  election and the consolidated election
elections  in  odd-numbered  years,  the  special   municipal
primary  in even-numbered years, and emergency referenda held
at any time, except in regular elections in  which  the  only
offices  or  propositions  on  the  ballot  are for political
subdivisions for which offices have heretofore been voted  on
using voting machines or electronic voting systems and except
as  otherwise  provided  by  regulation of the State Board of
Elections adopted pursuant to this Section.
    The  State  Board  of  Elections  may  adopt  regulations
requiring the use of voting  machines  or  electronic  voting
devices, as are available in the jurisdiction of the election
authority,  in  such  elections.   Such  regulations shall be
applicable uniformly statewide, and shall require the use  of
such  voting  equipment  only  in those elections and only in
those precincts  where  (1)  the  ballots  to  be  voted  are
complex,  due  to  large  numbers  of offices, candidates, or
public questions required to be on the ballot, (2) the number
of political subdivisions whose officers or public  questions
are  to be included on the ballot is substantial, and (3) the
use of such voting equipment is  efficient,  cost  effective,
and  does  not  result in unjustified election expenses to be
reimbursed by the political subdivisions that will share such
expenses pursuant to  Sections  17-30  through  17-33.   Such
regulations  may  provide reasonable classifications based on
the above factors.
(Source: P.A. 80-1469.)

    Section 6.  The Springfield Metropolitan  Exposition  and
Auditorium Authority Act is amended by changing Section 17 as
follows:

    (70 ILCS 345/17) (from Ch. 85, par. 1267)
    Sec.  17.   As  soon  as  practicably  possible after the
appointment of the initial members and, thereafter, within 15
days of each election of members, the  Board  shall  organize
for   the   transaction   of  business,  select  a  chairman,
vice-chairman, and a temporary secretary from its own number,
and adopt by-laws and regulations to govern its  proceedings.
The  initial  chairman and his successors shall be elected by
the Board from time to time for the term of his office  as  a
member  of  the  Board.     Terms  of  members are subject to
Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
(Source: P.A. 79-529.)

    Section 10.  The Fire Protection District Act is  amended
by changing Sections 4.02 and 4a as follows:

    (70 ILCS 705/4.02) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 24.02)
    Sec.  4.02.   In  a  district  governed  by an elected or
appointed 5-member board, upon presentation  of  a  petition,
signed  by  not  less than 5% of the electors of the district
governed by the  board,  requesting  that  a  proposition  to
increase  the  board  of  trustees  to  a  7-member  board be
submitted to the electors of the district, the  secretary  of
the  board  of  trustees shall certify the proposition to the
appropriate  election  authorities  who  shall   submit   the
proposition  at  a  regular  election  in accordance with the
general election law.  The general election law  shall  apply
to  and  govern  such  election.  The proposition shall be in
substantially the following form:
-------------------------------------------------------------
    Shall the number of trustees           YES
  of ..... Fire Protection District  ------------------------
  be increased from 5 to 7?                NO
-------------------------------------------------------------
    If a majority of the votes cast on such  proposition  are
in  the  affirmative,  the  board of trustees of the district
shall thereafter be increased to a 7-member board and  the  2
additional trustees shall be appointed as provided by Section
4.01  in  a  district  governed  by  an  appointed  board  of
trustees.
    In a district governed by an elected 5-member board, if a
majority  of  the  votes  cast on such proposition are in the
affirmative, three trustees shall  be  elected  at  the  next
consolidated  nonpartisan  election and shall serve one for 2
years, one for 4 years and one for 6 years, the length of the
term of each to be determined  by  lot  at  the  first  board
meeting  following  the election.  Thereafter, one trustee or
two trustees, as necessary to maintain a  7-member  board  of
trustees,  shall  be  elected at the election provided by the
general election law for a term of 6 years.
    Trustees  in  office  on  the  effective  date  of   this
amendatory  Act of 1987 shall continue to hold office for the
remainder of their terms.  The term of each  elected  trustee
shall commence on the first Monday in the month following his
election  and  each  shall hold office until his term expires
and until a successor is elected and qualified.
(Source: P.A. 85-535.)

    (70 ILCS 705/4a) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 24.1)
    Sec. 4a.  Any fire protection  district  organized  under
this  Act  may  determine,  in  either manner provided in the
following items (1) and (2)  of  this  Section,  to  have  an
elected, rather than an appointed, board of trustees.
         (1)  If  the  district  lies  wholly within a single
    township  but  does  not  also  lie   wholly   within   a
    municipality,   the   township   board  of  trustees  may
    determine, by ordinance, to  have  an  elected  board  of
    trustees.
         (2)  Upon presentation to the board of trustees of a
    petition,  signed by not less than 10% of the electors of
    the district,  requesting  that  a  proposition  for  the
    election  of trustees be submitted to the electors of the
    district, the secretary of the board  of  trustees  shall
    certify  the  proposition  to  the  appropriate  election
    authorities who shall submit the proposition at a regular
    election  in  accordance  with  the general election law.
    The general election law shall apply to and  govern  such
    election.   The proposition shall be in substantially the
    following form:
-------------------------------------------------------------
         Shall the trustees of......       YES
         Fire Protection District be     --------------------
         elected, rather than appointed?   NO
-------------------------------------------------------------
         If a majority of the votes cast on such  proposition
    are  in  the  affirmative,  the  trustees of the district
    shall thereafter be elected as provided by this Section.
    At the next regular election for trustees as provided  by
the  general  election  law,  a district that has approved by
ordinance or referendum to have its trustees  elected  rather
than appointed shall elect 3, 5, or 7 trustees, as previously
determined   by  the  organization  of  the  district  or  as
increased under Section 4.01 or 4.02.   The  initial  elected
trustees  shall  be elected for 2, 4, and 6 year terms.  In a
district with 3 trustees, one trustee shall be elected for  a
term  of  2  years,  one for a term of 4 years, and one for a
term of 6 years.  In a district with 5 trustees,  2 shall  be
elected for terms of 2 years, 2 for terms of 4 years, and one
for  a  term  of  6  years.  In a district with 7 trustees, 3
shall be elected for terms of 2  years,  2  for  terms  of  4
years,  and  2  for  terms  of  6  years. Except as otherwise
provided in Section 2A-54 of the Election Code, the  term  of
each  elected  trustee  shall commence on the first Monday of
the month following the month of his election and  until  his
successor  is elected and qualified.  The length of the terms
of the trustees first elected shall be determined by  lot  at
their first meeting.  Except as otherwise provided in Section
2A-54 of the Election Code, thereafter, each trustee shall be
elected  to  serve  for  a  term of 6 years commencing on the
first Monday of the month following the month of his election
and until his successor is elected and qualified.
    No party designation  shall  appear  on  the  ballot  for
election  of trustees. The provisions of the general election
law shall apply to and govern the nomination and election  of
trustees.
    The  provisions  of  Section  4  relating to eligibility,
powers and disabilities of trustees shall  apply  equally  to
elected trustees.
    Whenever  a  fire protection district determines to elect
trustees as provided in this Section, the trustees  appointed
pursuant  to Section 4 shall continue to constitute the board
of trustees until the first Monday of the month following the
month of the first election of trustees.    If  the  term  of
office  of  any  appointed  trustees expires before the first
election of trustees,  the  authority  which  appointed  that
trustee under Section 4 of this Act shall appoint a successor
to serve until a successor is elected and has qualified.  The
terms of all appointed trustees in such district shall expire
on  the  first Monday of the month following the month of the
first  election  of  trustees  under  this  Section  or  when
successors have been elected and  have  qualified,  whichever
occurs later.
(Source: P.A. 88-440.)

    Section  11.  The  School  Code  is  amended  by changing
Sections 6-17, 10-5, and 10-10 as follows:
    (105 ILCS 5/6-17) (from Ch. 122, par. 6-17)
    Sec. 6-17. Election of  president  -  Terms  of  members.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 2A-54 of the Election
Code, on the first Monday in May January, following the first
election,  or if such day is a holiday then the next day, the
regional  superintendent  of  schools  who   shall   be   the
ex-officio  secretary  of  the  board shall convene the newly
elected regional board of school trustees for the purpose  of
organization.   Except  as  provided  in Section 2A-54 of the
Election Code, at this meeting the members shall     elect  a
president   from  among  their  number  who  shall  serve  as
president for a term of 2 years and shall  determine  by  lot
the  length  of the term of each member so that 2 shall serve
for a term of 2 years, 2 for 4 years and 3 for 6  years  from
the  first  Monday  of  the month following the date of their
election. Except as provided in Section 2A-54 of the Election
Code, thereafter members shall be elected to serve for a term
of 6 years from the first Monday of the month  following  the
date  of their election or until their successors are elected
and qualified.
    All succeeding meetings for the purpose  of  organization
shall  be  held  on the first Monday in May January following
the election; however,  in  case  the  first  Monday  in  May
January  is  a holiday the organization meeting shall be held
on the next day.
    If educational service  regions  are  consolidated  under
Section 3A-3 or 3A-4 of this Act, however, the expiring terms
of members of each regional board of school trustees in those
regions  being  consolidated  shall  be    extended  so as to
terminate on the first Monday of  August  of  the  year  that
consolidation  takes  effect,  as  defined in Section 3A-5 of
this Act, and, on such day, the  Regional  Superintendent  of
the consolidated region shall convene all the members of each
regional board of school trustees in the consolidated region,
and  shall  by lot select from among such trustees an interim
regional board of school trustees for the consolidated region
in accord  with  the  specifications  as  to  membership  and
residency  in  Section  6-2.   The  interim board so selected
shall  serve  until  their  successors  are  elected  at  the
succeeding regular election of regional school  trustees  and
have  qualified.  A  single regional board of school trustees
shall be elected at such succeeding regular election to  take
office  on  the  first  Monday  of  the  month following such
election.  The board  elected  for  the  consolidated  region
shall be convened on such first Monday of the month following
such   election  for  organizational  purposes,  to  elect  a
president and determine terms  for  its  members  by  lot  as
provided  in  this Section. The respective regional boards of
school trustees of educational service  regions  involved  in
consolidations  under  Section  3A-3  or  3A-4 shall cease to
exist at the time the  board  elected  for  the  consolidated
region is so organized.
(Source: P.A. 80-231; 80-1469; 80-1494.)

    (105 ILCS 5/10-5) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-5)
    Sec.  10-5.  Organization  of board - Report to treasurer
and regional superintendent of schools. Within 7  days  after
the  regular  election of directors, the directors shall meet
and organize by appointing one of their number president  and
another  as  clerk.  The  clerk  shall  at once report to the
treasurer and regional superintendent of schools the names of
the president and clerk so appointed. Terms  of  members  are
subject to Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
(Source: P.A. 81-1490.)

    (105 ILCS 5/10-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-10)
    Sec.  10-10.  Board  of education - Term - Vacancy.   All
school districts having a population of not fewer than  1,000
and  not more than 500,000 inhabitants, as ascertained by any
special or general census, and not governed by special  Acts,
shall  be  governed  by  a board of education consisting of 7
members,  serving  without  compensation  except  as   herein
provided.   Each  member  shall  be  elected  for a term of 4
years.  If 5 members are elected  in  1983  pursuant  to  the
extension  of  terms  provided  by  law for transition to the
consolidated election schedule  under  the  general  election
law,  2 of those members shall be elected to serve terms of 2
years and 3 shall be elected to serve terms of 4 years; their
successors shall serve for a 4 year term.  When the voters of
a district have voted  to  elect  members  of  the  board  of
education  for  6 year terms, as provided in Section 9-5, the
terms of office of members of the board of education of  that
district  expire  when their successors assume office but not
later than 7 days after such  election.  If  at  the  regular
school election held in the first odd-numbered year after the
determination to elect members for 6 year terms 2 members are
elected,  they  shall  serve  for  a  6 year term; and of the
members elected at the next regular school election  3  shall
serve  for  a  term  of 6 years and 2 shall serve a term of 2
years.  Thereafter members elected in such districts shall be
elected to a 6 year term.  If at the regular school  election
held  in  the first odd-numbered year after the determination
to elect members for 6 year terms 3 members are elected, they
shall serve for a 6 year term; and of the members elected  at
the  next regular school election 2 shall serve for a term of
2 years and 2 shall serve for a term of 6 years.   Thereafter
members  elected  in  such  districts shall be elected to a 6
year term.  If at the regular school  election  held  in  the
first  odd-numbered  year  after  the  determination to elect
members for 6 year terms 4 members are elected, 3 shall serve
for a term of 6 years and one shall serve for  a  term  of  2
years;  and of the members elected at the next regular school
election 2 shall serve for terms of 6 years and 2 shall serve
for terms of 2 years.  Thereafter  members  elected  in  such
districts  shall  be  elected  to  a  6 year term.  If at the
regular school election held in the first  odd-numbered  year
after  the determination to elect members for a 6 year term 5
members are elected, 3 shall serve for a term of 6 years  and
2  shall  serve  for  a  term  of 2 years; and of the members
elected at the next regular school election 2 shall serve for
terms of 6 years and 2 shall serve  for  terms  of  2  years.
Thereafter members elected in such districts shall be elected
to a 6 year term.  An Election for board members shall not be
held  in  school districts which by consolidation, annexation
or otherwise shall cease to exist as a school district within
six months after the election date, and the term of all board
members which would otherwise terminate  shall  be  continued
until  such district shall cease to exist. Each member shall,
on the date of his election,  be  a  citizen  of  the  United
States  of  the  age  of  18 years or over, a resident of the
state and the territory of the district for at least one year
immediately preceding his election,  a  registered  voter  as
provided  in  the  general  election  law, and shall not be a
school trustee or a school  treasurer.   When  the  board  of
education  is  the  successor  of  the  school directors, all
rights of property, and all rights regarding causes of action
existing or vested in such directors, shall  vest  in  it  as
fully  as they were vested in the school directors.  Terms of
members are subject to Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
    Nomination papers filed under this Section are not  valid
unless  the  candidate named therein files with the secretary
of the board of education or with a person designated by  the
board  to  receive  nominating  petitions  a receipt from the
county clerk showing that the candidate has filed a statement
of  economic  interests   as   required   by   the   Illinois
Governmental  Ethics  Act.    Such  receipt shall be so filed
either previously during  the  calendar  year  in  which  his
nomination  papers  were  filed  or within the period for the
filing of nomination papers in accordance  with  the  general
election law.
    Whenever  a  vacancy  occurs, the remaining members shall
notify the regional superintendent of that vacancy  within  5
days  after  its  occurrence  and  shall  proceed to fill the
vacancy until the next  regular  school  election,  at  which
election  a successor shall be elected to serve the remainder
of the unexpired term.  However, if the vacancy  occurs  with
less  than  868 days remaining in the term, or if the vacancy
occurs less than 88 days before the next regularly  scheduled
election  for  this office then the person so appointed shall
serve the remainder of the unexpired term, and no election to
fill the vacancy shall be held. Should they fail so  to  act,
within  45  days  after  the  vacancy  occurs,  the  regional
superintendent of schools under whose supervision and control
the  district  is  operating, as defined in Section 3-14.2 of
this Act, shall within 30 days after  the  remaining  members
have failed to fill the vacancy, fill the vacancy as provided
for  herein.  Upon  the  regional superintendent's failure to
fill the vacancy, the vacancy shall be  filled  at  the  next
regularly  scheduled  election.  Whether elected or appointed
by the remaining  members  or  regional  superintendent,  the
successor  shall be an inhabitant of the particular area from
which his or her predecessor was elected if  the  residential
requirements  contained  in  Section 11A-8, 11B-7, or 12-2 of
this Act apply.
(Source: P.A. 89-129, eff. 7-14-95; 89-579, eff. 7-30-96.)

    Section 15.  The Public Community College Act is  amended
by changing Sections 2-12.1, 3-7, and 3-8 as follows:

    (110 ILCS 805/2-12.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 102-12.1)
    Sec.   2-12.1.  Experimental   district;   abolition   of
experimental  district  and  establishment  of  new community
college district.
    (a)  The State  Board  shall  establish  an  experimental
community  college  district,  referred to in this Act as the
"experimental district", to be comprised of  territory  which
includes  the  City  of  East  St. Louis, Illinois. The State
Board shall determine the area and fix the boundaries of  the
territory of the experimental district. Within 30 days of the
establishment  of  the experimental district, the State Board
shall file with the county clerk of the county, or  counties,
concerned  a  map  showing  the territory of the experimental
district.
    Within the experimental district, the State  Board  shall
establish,  maintain  and  operate,  until  the  experimental
district is abolished and a new community college district is
established  under  subsection (c), an experimental community
college to be known as the State Community  College  of  East
St. Louis.
    (b)  (Blank).
    (c)  The  experimental  district  shall  be abolished and
replaced by a new community college district as follows:
         (1)  The establishment of the new community  college
    district  shall become effective for all purposes on July
    1,  1996,   notwithstanding   any   minimum   population,
    equalized   assessed   valuation  or  other  requirements
    provided by Section 3-1 or any other  provision  of  this
    Act   for   the  establishment  of  a  community  college
    district.
         (2)  The experimental district established  pursuant
    to subsection (a) shall be abolished on July 1, 1996 when
    the  establishment  of the new community college district
    becomes effective for all purposes.
         (3)  The territory  of  the  new  community  college
    district  shall be comprised of the territory of, and its
    boundaries shall be coterminous with  the  boundaries  of
    the experimental district which it will replace, as those
    boundaries existed on November 7, 1995.
         (4)  Notwithstanding the fact that the establishment
    of  the  new  community  college district does not become
    effective for  all  purposes  until  July  1,  1996,  the
    election  for the members of the initial board of the new
    community college district,  to  consist  of  7  members,
    shall  be held at the nonpartisan election in November of
    1995 in the manner provided by the general election  law,
    nominating  petitions  for  members  of the initial board
    shall be filed with the regional  superintendent  in  the
    manner  provided  by Section 3-7.10 with respect to newly
    organized districts, and the persons entitled to nominate
    and to vote at the election for the members of the  board
    of  the  new  community  college  district  shall  be the
    electors in the territory referred to in paragraph (3) of
    this subsection.  In addition, for purposes of the  levy,
    extension,   and  collection  of  taxes  as  provided  in
    paragraph (5.5) of this subsection and for the   purposes
    of  establishing  the territory and boundaries of the new
    community college district within  and  for  which  those
    taxes  are  to  be  levied,  the  new  community  college
    district  shall  be deemed established and effective when
    the 7 members of the initial board of the  new  community
    college  district are elected and take office as provided
    in this subsection (c).
         (5)  Each member elected to the initial board of the
    new community college district must, on the date  of  his
    election,  be  a citizen of the United States, of the age
    of 18 years or over, and a resident of the State and  the
    territory referred to in paragraph (3) of this subsection
    for  at  least one year preceding his election.  Election
    to  the  initial  board  of  the  new  community  college
    district of a person who on July 1, 1996 is a member of a
    common school board constitutes his resignation from, and
    creates a vacancy on that common school  board  effective
    July 1, 1996.
         (5.5)  The  members  first  elected  to the board of
    trustees  shall  take  office  on  the  first  Monday  of
    December, 1995, for the  sole  and  limited   purpose  of
    levying,  at  the  rates  specified  in  the  proposition
    submitted to the electors under subsection (b), taxes for
    the  educational  purposes  and  for  the  operations and
    maintenance of facilities purposes of the  new  community
    college  district.  The taxes shall be levied in calendar
    year 1995 for extension and collection in  calendar  year
    1996,  notwithstanding  the  fact  that the new community
    college  district  does  not  become  effective  for  the
    purposes of administration of the community college until
    July 1, 1996.  The regional superintendent shall  convene
    the  meeting  under  this paragraph and the members shall
    organize for the purpose of that meeting by electing, pro
    tempore, a chairperson and a secretary.  At that  meeting
    the  board  is  authorized  to levy taxes for educational
    purposes and for operations and maintenance of facilities
    purposes as authorized in this paragraph without adopting
    any budget for the new  community  college  district  and
    shall certify the levy to the appropriate county clerk or
    county  clerks in accordance with law.  The county clerks
    shall  extend  the  levy  notwithstanding  any  law  that
    otherwise requires adoption of a budget before  extension
    of  the  levy.  The funds produced by the levy made under
    this  paragraph  to  the  extent  received  by  a  county
    collector  before  July  1,  1996  shall  immediately  be
    invested in lawful investments and  held  by  the  county
    collector  for  payment and transfer to the new community
    college district, along  with  all  accrued  interest  or
    other  earnings accrued on the investment, as provided by
    law on July 1, 1996.  All funds produced by the levy  and
    received  by  a county collector on or after July 1, 1996
    shall  be  transferred  to  the  new  community   college
    district  as  provided  by  law  at such time as they are
    received by the county collector.
         (5.75)  Notwithstanding any other provision of  this
    Section  or  the  fact  that  establishment  of  the  new
    community college district as provided in this subsection
    does  not  take  effect  until  July 1, 1996, the members
    first elected  to  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  new
    community   college  district  are  authorized  to  meet,
    beginning on June 1, 1996 and thereafter for purposes of:
    (i) arranging for  and  approving  educational  programs,
    ancillary services, staffing, and associated expenditures
    that  relate to the offering by the new community college
    district of educational programs beginning  on  or  after
    July  1,  1996  and  before  the fall term of the 1996-97
    academic  year,  and  (ii)  otherwise  facilitating   the
    orderly  transition  of  operations from the experimental
    district known as State Community  College  of  East  St.
    Louis  to  the new community college district established
    under this subsection. The persons elected to serve,  pro
    tempore,  as  chairperson  and secretary of the board for
    purposes of paragraph (5.5) shall continue  to  serve  in
    that capacity for purposes of this paragraph (5.75).
         (6)  Except  as  otherwise  provided  in  paragraphs
    (5.5)  and  (5.75),  each of the members first elected to
    the board of the new  community  college  district  shall
    take  office  on July 1, 1996, and the Illinois Community
    College Board, publicly by lot and not later than July 1,
    1996, shall determine the length of term to be served  by
    each  member  of  the  initial  board as follows: 2 shall
    serve  until  their  successors  are   elected   at   the
    nonpartisan  election in 1997 and have qualified, 2 shall
    serve  until  their  successors  are   elected   at   the
    consolidated   nonpartisan  election  in  1999  and  have
    qualified, and 3 shall serve until their  successors  are
    elected  at the consolidated nonpartisan election in 2001
    and have qualified.  Their successors shall serve 6  year
    terms.  Terms  of members are subject to Section 2A-54 of
    the Election Code.
         (7)  The regional superintendent shall  convene  the
    initial  board  of  the new community college district on
    July 1, 1996, and the non-voting student member initially
    selected to that board  as  provided  in  Section  3-7.24
    shall serve a term beginning on the date of selection and
    expiring  on  the  next  succeeding April 15.  Upon being
    convened on July 1, 1996,  the  board  shall  proceed  to
    organize  in  accordance  with  Section  3-8,  and  shall
    thereafter  continue to exercise the powers and duties of
    a board in the manner provided by law for all  boards  of
    community   college   districts  except  where  obviously
    inapplicable  or  otherwise   provided   by   this   Act.
    Vacancies  shall  be  filled,  and  members  shall  serve
    without   compensation   subject   to  reimbursement  for
    reasonable expenses incurred  in  connection  with  their
    service as members, as provided in Section 3-7.  The duly
    elected  and organized board of the new community college
    district shall levy taxes at a rate not  to  exceed  .175
    percent  for  educational  purposes  and at a rate not to
    exceed .05 percent  for  operations  and  maintenance  of
    facilities  purposes;  provided that the board may act to
    increase such rates at a regular election  in  accordance
    with Section 3-14 and the general election law.
    (d)  Upon  abolition  of  the  experimental  district and
establishment  of  the  new  community  college  district  as
provided in this Section,  all  tangible  personal  property,
including  inventory, equipment, supplies, and library books,
materials, and collections,  belonging  to  the  experimental
district and State Community College of East St. Louis at the
time  of  their  abolition under this Section shall be deemed
transferred, by operation of law, to the board of trustees of
the new community college district.  In  addition,  all  real
property,  and  the  improvements  situated  thereon, held by
State Community College of East St. Louis or on its behalf by
its  board  of  trustees  shall,  upon   abolition   of   the
experimental   district  and  college  as  provided  in  this
Section, be conveyed by the Illinois Community College Board,
in the manner prescribed by law, to the board of trustees  of
the  new  community  college  district established under this
Section for so long as that real property  is  used  for  the
conduct  and  operation of a public community college and the
related purposes of a public community  college  district  of
this  State.   Neither the new community college district nor
its board of trustees shall have any  responsibility  to  any
vendor  or  other  person  making  a  claim  relating  to the
property, inventory, or equipment so transferred.
(Source: P.A. 89-141, eff. 7-14-95; 89-473, eff. 6-18-96.)

    (110 ILCS 805/3-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-7)
    Sec. 3-7.  The election of the members of  the  board  of
trustees  shall  be nonpartisan and shall be held at the time
and in the manner provided in the general election law.
    Unless otherwise provided in this Act, members  shall  be
elected  to  serve 6 year terms.  The term of members elected
in 1985 and thereafter shall be from the date the  member  is
officially determined to be elected to the board by a canvass
conducted pursuant to the Election Code, to the date that the
winner  of  the  seat is officially determined by the canvass
conducted pursuant to the Election Code  the  next  time  the
seat on the board is to be filled by election.
    A board of trustees of a community college district which
is  contiguous  or  has  been  contiguous  to an experimental
community college  district  as  authorized  and  defined  by
Article IV of this Act may, on its own motion, or shall, upon
the  petition  of  the  lesser of 1/10 or 2,000 of the voters
registered in the district, order submitted to the voters  of
the district at the next general election the proposition for
the election of board members by trustee district rather than
at  large,  and such proposition shall thereupon be certified
by  the  secretary  of  the  board  to  the  proper  election
authority in accordance with the  general  election  law  for
submission.
    If  the  proposition  is  approved by a majority of those
voting on the proposition, the State Board of  Elections,  in
1991,  shall reapportion the trustee districts to reflect the
results of the last decennial census, and  shall  divide  the
community  college district into 7 trustee districts, each of
which shall be compact, contiguous and substantially equal in
population to each other district.  In 2001, and in the  year
following  each  decennial  census  thereafter,  the board of
trustees of community college District #522 shall reapportion
the trustee districts to reflect the results of  the  census,
and  shall  divide  the  community  college  district  into 7
trustee  districts,  each  of   which   shall   be   compact,
contiguous,  and  substantially  equal  in population to each
other  district.   The  division  of  the  community  college
district  into  trustee  districts  shall  be  completed  and
formally approved by a majority of the members  appointed  to
the  State  Board  of  Elections  with respect to the initial
division of the community college  district  into  7  trustee
districts  in  1991,  and by a majority of the members of the
board of trustees of community  college  District  #522  with
respect   to   the   year  following  each  decennial  census
thereafter, not less  than  60  days  before  the  last  date
established by the general election law for the submission of
nominating   petitions   for  the  next  regularly  scheduled
election for community college trustees.  At the same meeting
of the board of trustees, the board shall, publicly  by  lot,
divide  the  trustee  districts as equally as possible into 2
groups. Trustees or their successors from one group shall  be
elected  for  successive  terms  of  4 years and 6 years; and
members or their successors from the second  group  shall  be
elected  for  successive  terms  of 6 years and 4 years.  One
member shall be elected from each such trustee district.
    Each member must on the date of his election be a citizen
of the United States, of the age of 18 years or over,  and  a
resident  of the State and the territory which on the date of
the election is included in the  community  college  district
for  at least one year immediately preceding his election. In
the event a person who is a member of a common  school  board
is elected or appointed to a board of trustees of a community
college district, that person shall be permitted to serve the
remainder  of  his  or  her term of office as a member of the
common school board. Upon the expiration of the common school
board term, that person shall not be eligible for election or
appointment to a common  school  board  during  the  term  of
office with the community college district board of trustees.
    Whenever  a  vacancy  occurs, the remaining members shall
fill the vacancy, and the person  so  appointed  shall  serve
until a successor is elected at the next regular election for
board  members  and  is certified in accordance with Sections
22-17 and 22-18 of  the  Election  Code.   If  the  remaining
members  fail  so  to  act  within  60 days after the vacancy
occurs, the chairman of  the  State  Board  shall  fill  that
vacancy,  and  the  person  so  appointed shall serve until a
successor is elected at the next regular election  for  board
members  and  is  certified in accordance with Sections 22-17
and 22-18 of the Election Code.  The person appointed to fill
the vacancy shall have the same residential qualifications as
his predecessor in office was required  to  have.  In  either
instance,  if  the  vacancy  occurs  with  less than 4 months
remaining before the next scheduled consolidated  nonpartisan
election, and the term of office of the board member vacating
the  position  is  not  scheduled to expire at that election,
then the term of the person so appointed shall extend through
that  election  and   until   the   succeeding   consolidated
nonpartisan  election.   If  the  term of office of the board
member vacating the position is scheduled to  expire  at  the
upcoming  consolidated  nonpartisan  election,  the appointed
member shall serve only until  a  successor  is  elected  and
qualified at that election.
    Members of the board shall serve without compensation but
shall be reimbursed for their reasonable expenses incurred in
connection  with  their service as members. Compensation, for
purposes of this Section, means any salary or other  benefits
not  expressly  authorized by this Act to be provided or paid
to, for or on behalf of members of the board.  The  board  of
each  community college district may adopt a policy providing
for the issuance of bank credit cards, for use by  any  board
member who requests the same in writing and agrees to use the
card  only for the reasonable expenses which he or she incurs
in connection with his or her  service  as  a  board  member.
Expenses  charged to such credit cards shall be accounted for
separately and shall be  submitted  to  the  chief  financial
officer of the district for review prior to being reported to
the board at its next regular meeting.
    Except  in  an  election  of  the initial board for a new
community college district created pursuant to Section 6-6.1,
the ballot for the election of members of  the  board  for  a
community  college district shall indicate the length of term
for each office to be filled.  In the election of a board for
any community college district, the ballot shall not  contain
any political party designation.
(Source: P.A. 87-707; 87-776; 87-895; 88-686, eff. 1-24-95.)

    (110 ILCS 805/3-8) (from Ch. 122, par. 103-8)
    Sec.  3-8.  Following  each election and canvass, the new
board shall hold its organizational meeting on or before  the
14th  day  after the election. If the election is the initial
election  ordered  by  the   regional   superintendent,   the
organizational  meeting  shall  be  convened  by the regional
superintendent, who shall preside over the meeting until  the
election  for  chairman, vice chairman and secretary of board
is completed.  At  all  other  organizational  meetings,  the
chairman  of  the  board,  or,  in  his  or  her absence, the
president of the community college or acting chief  executive
officer  of  the  college  shall  convene  the new board, and
conduct  the  election  for  chairman,  vice   chairman   and
secretary.    The   board   shall   then   proceed  with  its
organization under the  newly  elected  board  officers,  and
shall  fix  a  time  and  place for its regular meetings.  It
shall than enter upon the discharge of its duties.  The terms
of board office shall be 2 years, except that  the  board  by
resolution  may establish a policy for the terms of office to
be one year, and provide for the election of officers for the
remaining one year period. Terms of members  are  subject  to
Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
    Special  meetings  of  the  board  may  be  called by the
chairman or by any 3 members of the board  by  giving  notice
thereof in writing stating the time, place and purpose of the
meeting.  Such  notice  may be served by mail 48 hours before
the meeting or  by  personal  service  24  hours  before  the
meeting.
    At  each regular and special meeting which is open to the
public, members of the public and employees of the  community
college   district   shall   be  afforded  time,  subject  to
reasonable constraints, to comment to or ask questions of the
board.
(Source: P.A. 86-758; 86-1032; 87-707; 87-915.)

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