Bill Text: IL HB4819 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board or board of county commissioners of a county with a population of less than 100,000 may, by ordinance or resolution, dissolve a municipal board of election commissioners within that county and transfer its functions to the county clerk.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4819 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB4819-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning elections.
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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 Election Code is amended by changing Section | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | 6-17 as follows:
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6 | (10 ILCS 5/6-17) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-17)
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7 | Sec. 6-17. Dissolution. | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whenever Whenever | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | 1,000 of the legal voters in a city of 250,000
population or | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | less where this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 of this
Act or | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | the Act of which they are a continuation have been adopted | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | shall
petition the circuit court in the county in which such | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | city is located to
submit to a vote of the electors of such | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | city the proposition as to whether
such city and the electors | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | thereof shall reject the Articles,
the court shall enter an | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | order of record approving such petition and
thereupon the court
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17 | shall submit such proposition to the legal voters of such city | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | at the next
succeeding general, state, county or municipal | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | election to be held in such
county in not less than 30 days | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | after the entry of such order. If 1,000
shall exceed one-eighth | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | of the legal voters of any such city then such petition
need | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | not be signed or made by more than one-eighth of
the legal | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | voters of such city. Notice of election shall be given by the
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1 | court at least 20 days prior to such election by
publication in | ||||||
2 | one or more newspapers of general circulation published
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3 | such city.
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4 | (b) The county board or board of county commissioners of a | ||||||
5 | county with a population of less than 100,000 may, by ordinance | ||||||
6 | or resolution, dissolve a municipal board of election | ||||||
7 | commissioners within that county and transfer its functions to | ||||||
8 | the county clerk. | ||||||
9 | (Source: P.A. 83-1362.)
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