Bill Text: IL HB4696 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Requires that a fire protection district must post on its website all ordinances imposing any penalty or making any appropriation. Provides that, if a district does not maintain a website, then the district must publish the ordinances in a newspaper of general circulation within the district. Effective immediately.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-04 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4696 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB4696-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB4696 Introduced , by Rep. Jack D. Franks SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 705/7 from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 27
Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Requires that a fire protection district must post on its website all ordinances imposing any penalty or making any appropriation. Provides that, if a district does not maintain a website, then the district must publish the ordinances in a newspaper of general circulation within the district. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Fire Protection District Act is amended by
changing Section 7 as follows:
(70 ILCS 705/7) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 27)
Sec. 7. Posting and publication of ordinances. All
ordinances imposing any penalty or making any appropriations
shall, within one month after they are passed, be (i) posted on
the district's website or (ii) if the district does not
maintain a website, published at least once in a newspaper
published in said district, or if no such newspaper of general
circulation is published therein, then either by one
publication in any newspaper of general circulation within said
territory or by posting copies of the same in 10 ten public
places in the district. No ; and no such ordinance shall take
effect until 10 ten days after it is so published or posted,
and all other ordinances and resolutions shall take effect from
and after their passage unless otherwise provided therein.
(Source: Laws 1955, p. 1206.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.