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| Public Act 102-0924
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| HB4173 Enrolled | LRB102 20956 CMG 29852 b |
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AN ACT concerning education.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Sections |
5-2, 5-3, and 5-4 as follows:
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(105 ILCS 5/5-2) (from Ch. 122, par. 5-2)
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Sec. 5-2. Governing board.
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(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), the |
The school business of all school townships having school |
trustees shall
be transacted by three trustees, to be elected |
by the qualified voters of
the township, as hereinafter |
provided in this Article 5. |
(b) This subsection (b) applies only to the trustees of |
schools of Township 38 North, Range 12 East. The school |
business of the township shall be transacted by 4 trustees |
elected by the qualified voters of the township, as provided |
in this Article 5, and 3 trustees appointed by the school |
districts within the township, as provided in this subsection |
(b). An elected trustee and an appointed trustee may represent |
the same school district. Any trustee, whether elected or |
appointed, may serve as an officer of the trustees of schools. |
The 3 trustees to be appointed shall each be appointed for |
a term of one year as follows: |
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(1) The school boards of Argo Community High School |
District 217, Summit School District 104, Willow Springs |
School District 108, and Indian Springs School District |
109 shall collectively appoint one school board member as |
a trustee through a nomination process and by a majority |
vote or by consensus among the school boards. A trustee |
appointed under this paragraph (1) may be reappointed for |
a second term as provided under this paragraph (1). After |
the appointed term or reappointed term of the trustee |
expires, the school boards shall appoint a successor |
trustee pursuant to this paragraph (1). |
(2) The school boards of Western Springs School |
District 101, La Grange School District 102, Lyons School |
District 103, La Grange School District 105 South, |
LaGrange Highlands School District 106, and Pleasantdale |
School District 107 shall collectively appoint one school |
board member as a trustee through a nomination process and |
by a majority vote or by consensus among the school |
boards. A trustee appointed under this paragraph (2) may |
be reappointed for a second term as provided under this |
paragraph (2). After the appointed term or reappointed |
term of the trustee expires, the school boards shall |
appoint a successor trustee pursuant to this paragraph |
(2). |
(3) Each year, among the school board presidents of |
the school districts within the township, one school board |
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president shall be selected through a nomination process |
and by a majority vote to appoint a trustee. If no |
president of a school board is nominated, another officer |
of one of the school boards may be nominated. For the |
even-numbered year term, a trustee appointed under this |
paragraph (3) must be from a feeder elementary school |
district for Argo Community High School District 217, and, |
for the odd-numbered year term, a trustee appointed under |
this paragraph (3) must be from a feeder elementary school |
district for Lyons Township High School District 204. |
(c) The trustees shall be a body politic
and corporate, by |
the name of "trustees of schools of township No. ....,
range |
No. ....," according to the number, or in case of school |
townships
created from two or more congressional townships, |
such name shall be
"trustees of .... township .... county, |
Illinois." Such corporation shall
have perpetual existence, |
with power to sue and be sued, and to plead and
be impleaded, |
in all courts and places where judicial proceedings are had.
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(Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
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(105 ILCS 5/5-3) (from Ch. 122, par. 5-3)
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Sec. 5-3. Eligibility of trustees.
No person shall be |
eligible to the office of trustee of schools who is
not a |
resident of the township and at least 18 years of age. If there |
are
3 or more school districts in a township which are subject |
to the
jurisdiction of the trustees of schools of that |
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township, no 2 trustees shall reside,
when elected, in the |
same school district; except that in townships in
which at |
least 90% of the electors reside in one school district which |
is
subject to the jurisdiction of the trustees of schools of |
that township, this
restriction shall not apply. No person |
shall be eligible to the office of
trustee of schools and |
school director or school board member at the same
time.
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This Section does not apply to trustees appointed under |
subsection (b) of Section 5-2. |
(Source: P.A. 86-1441.)
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(105 ILCS 5/5-4) (from Ch. 122, par. 5-4)
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Sec. 5-4. Election of trustees. The election of trustees |
of schools shall be held in odd-numbered years
at the election |
specified in the general election law. In townships in which
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no election for school
trustees has been held, or in townships |
in which from any cause there are
no trustees of schools and |
the law requires that there be school trustees,
the election |
of trustees of schools shall be held at the same
time.
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No person shall be nominated for the office of trustee of |
schools, in townships
containing 20,000 inhabitants or over, |
except by petition signed by at least
5% or 500 of the |
twenty-five voters of the school township in which the person |
he is seeking nomination
and election who last cast votes in |
the most recent election, whichever is less, filed with the |
township
treasurer, or, in case of a first election, with the |
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county clerk.
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A candidate for election as a school trustee, who has |
petitioned for nomination
to fill a full term and to fill a |
vacant term to be voted upon at the same
election, must |
withdraw his or her petition for nomination from either the
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full term or the vacant term by written declaration, which |
shall be signed
and acknowledged by an officer authorized to |
take such acknowledgments and
which is filed with the township |
treasurer in the township in which he or
she is a candidate |
within the time provided by the general election law.
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(Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
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