Bill Text: IL HB2499 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Chaptered


Bill Title: Amends the Park District Code. Provides that whenever any member of the governing board of any park district is convicted in any court located in the United States of any infamous crime, bribery, perjury, or other felony (rather than is convicted of any infamous crime), that office may be declared vacant. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-08-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 101-0257 [HB2499 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2499-Chaptered.html



Public Act 101-0257
HB2499 EnrolledLRB101 04904 AWJ 49913 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 Park District Code is amended by changing
Section 2-25 as follows:
(70 ILCS 1205/2-25) (from Ch. 105, par. 2-25)
Sec. 2-25. Vacancies. Whenever any member of the governing
board of any park district (i) dies, (ii) resigns, (iii)
becomes under legal disability, (iv) ceases to be a legal voter
in the district, (v) is convicted in any court located in the
United States of any infamous crime, bribery, perjury, or other
felony (vi) refuses or neglects to take his or her oath of
office, (vii) neglects to perform the duties of his or her
office or attend meetings of the board for the length of time
as the board fixes by ordinance, or (viii) for any other reason
specified by law, that office may be declared vacant. Vacancies
shall be filled by appointment by a majority of the remaining
members of the board. Any person so appointed shall hold his or
her office until the next regular election for this office, at
which a member shall be elected to fill the vacancy for the
unexpired term, subject to the following conditions:
(1) If the vacancy occurs with less than 28 months
remaining in the term, the person appointed to fill the
vacancy shall hold his or her office until the expiration
of the term for which he or she has been appointed, and no
election to fill the vacancy shall be held.
(2) If the vacancy occurs with more than 28 months left
in the term, but less than 123 days before the next
regularly scheduled election for this office, the person
appointed to fill the vacancy shall hold his or her office
until the second regularly scheduled election for the
office following the appointment, at which a member shall
be elected to fill the vacancy for the unexpired term.
(Source: P.A. 97-131, eff. 7-14-11.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
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