Bill Text: IL SB0923 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Public Officer Simultaneous Tenure Act. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to simultaneously hold the office of county board member and township supervisor or township trustee (currently, it is lawful to be a county board member and a township supervisor and, in counties of less than 100,000 population, a county board member and township trustee). Provides that it is unlawful (currently, lawful) for any person to simultaneously hold the office of a county board member and a township assessor or town clerk. Validates lawful actions of individuals who were previously allowed to simultaneously hold specified offices before the effective date of this amendatory Act.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB0923 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SB0923-Introduced.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 Public Officer Simultaneous Tenure Act is | |||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | amended by changing Sections 1, 2, and 3 as follows:
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6 | (50 ILCS 110/1) (from Ch. 102, par. 4.10)
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7 | Sec. 1. Legislative findings; purpose ) . The General | |||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Assembly finds and
declares that questions raised regarding the | |||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | legality of simultaneously
holding the office of county board | |||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | member and township supervisor are warranted
unwarranted, and | |||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | in counties of less than 100,000 population such questions
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12 | regarding the legality of simultaneously holding the office of | |||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | county board
member and township trustee are unwarranted ;
that | |||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | the General Assembly viewed the office of township supervisor, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | and
in counties of less than 100,000 population the office of | |||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | township trustee,
and the office of county board member as | |||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | incompatible compatible ; and that to settle
the question
of | |||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | legality and avoid confusion among such counties and townships | |||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | as may
be affected by such questions it is unlawful lawful to | |||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | hold the office of county
board member simultaneously with the | |||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | office of township supervisor or , and
in counties of less than | |||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | 100,000 population with the office of township
trustee , in | |||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | accordance with this Act.
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1 | (Source: P.A. 82-554.)
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2 | (50 ILCS 110/2) (from Ch. 102, par. 4.11)
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3 | Sec. 2. Simultaneous tenure declared to be unlawful lawful . | ||||||
4 | It is unlawful lawful
for any person to hold the office of | ||||||
5 | county board
member and township supervisor or , and in counties | ||||||
6 | of less than 100,000 population
the office of county board | ||||||
7 | member and township trustee , simultaneously.
It is also | ||||||
8 | unlawful lawful for any person to hold the office of county
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9 | board member and the office of township assessor
or town clerk , | ||||||
10 | simultaneously , in counties of less than 300,000 population .
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11 | (Source: P.A. 90-748, eff. 8-14-98.)
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12 | (50 ILCS 110/3) (from Ch. 102, par. 4.12)
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13 | Sec. 3.
All actions of persons that this Act applied to | ||||||
14 | before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th | ||||||
15 | General Assembly such person , as township supervisor, in | ||||||
16 | counties
of less than 100,000 population as township trustee, | ||||||
17 | or county board member
after December 1, 1974, which were are | ||||||
18 | otherwise in
accordance with law, are hereby validated for | ||||||
19 | actions that occurred on or before the effective date of this | ||||||
20 | amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly. However, any | ||||||
21 | actions in in violation of the provisions of this Act after the | ||||||
22 | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General | ||||||
23 | Assembly are unlawful .
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24 | (Source: P.A. 82-554.)
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