Bill Text: IL HB2499 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Engrossed
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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-Engrossed.html
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-Engrossed.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Park District Code is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 2-25 as follows:
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| 6 | (70 ILCS 1205/2-25) (from Ch. 105, par. 2-25)
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| 7 | Sec. 2-25. Vacancies. Whenever any member of the governing | ||||||
| 8 | board of any park
district (i) dies, (ii) resigns, (iii) | ||||||
| 9 | becomes under legal disability, (iv)
ceases to be a legal voter | ||||||
| 10 | in the district, (v) is convicted in any court located in the | ||||||
| 11 | United States of any
infamous crime, bribery, perjury, or other | ||||||
| 12 | felony (vi) refuses or neglects to take his or her oath of | ||||||
| 13 | office,
(vii) neglects to perform the duties of his or her | ||||||
| 14 | office or attend
meetings of the board for the length of time | ||||||
| 15 | as the board fixes by
ordinance, or (viii) for any other reason | ||||||
| 16 | specified by law, that office may
be declared vacant. Vacancies | ||||||
| 17 | shall be filled by appointment by a majority
of the remaining | ||||||
| 18 | members of the board. Any person so appointed shall hold
his or | ||||||
| 19 | her office until the next regular election for this office, at | ||||||
| 20 | which
a member shall be elected to fill the vacancy for the | ||||||
| 21 | unexpired term,
subject to the following conditions:
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| 22 | (1) If the vacancy occurs with less than 28 months | ||||||
| 23 | remaining in the
term, the person appointed to fill the | ||||||
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| 1 | vacancy shall hold his or her office
until the expiration | ||||||
| 2 | of the term for which he or she has been appointed,
and no | ||||||
| 3 | election to fill the vacancy shall be held.
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| 4 | (2) If the vacancy occurs with more than 28 months left | ||||||
| 5 | in the term,
but less than 123 days before the next | ||||||
| 6 | regularly scheduled election for this
office, the person | ||||||
| 7 | appointed to fill the vacancy shall hold his or her
office | ||||||
| 8 | until the second regularly scheduled election for the | ||||||
| 9 | office
following the appointment, at which a member shall | ||||||
| 10 | be elected to fill the
vacancy for the unexpired term.
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| 11 | (Source: P.A. 97-131, eff. 7-14-11.)
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| 12 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 13 | becoming law.
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