Bill Text: IL SB0888 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Housing Authorities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning removal of a commissioner.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB0888 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB0888-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 SB0888 Introduced 2/8/2011, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
310 ILCS 10/4 from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 4
Amends the Housing Authorities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning removal of a commissioner.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning housing.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Housing Authorities Act is amended by
changing Section 4 as follows:
(310 ILCS 10/4) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 4)
Sec. 4. Whenever it shall appear to the the presiding
officer having appointment authority that a commissioner of a
Housing Authority is incompetent or guilty of neglect of duty
or malfeasance, the presiding officer shall require such
commissioner to appear before the presiding officer or his
designee to show cause why he should not be removed from
office. At least fifteen days' written notice of such a hearing
shall be given to the commissioner whose conduct is in question
and to all other members of the Authority. At the hearing the
commissioner may be represented by counsel and may appear
personally and present such pertinent evidence as he wishes or
as the presiding officer or his designee may request.
If after a hearing the presiding officer determines that a
commissioner has been incompetent or has been guilty of neglect
of duty or malfeasance, he shall remove such commissioner from
the Authority within seven days, and there shall thereupon be
deemed to be a vacancy of such office.

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(Source: P.A. 82-780.)