Bill Text: IL SB1415 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Requires the Governor to have the advice and consent of the Senate for appointments to fill a trustee vacancy in the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. Provides that if, during a recess of the Senate, there is a vacancy in an office of trustee, the Governor shall make a temporary appointment until the next meeting of the Senate when the Governor shall make a nomination to fill the vacant office. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-10 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB1415 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB1415-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 Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
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6 | (70 ILCS 2605/3) (from Ch. 42, par. 322)
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7 | Sec. 3.
The corporate authority of the Sanitary District | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | of Chicago shall
consist of nine trustees. Such trustees shall | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | be elected for staggered
terms at the election provided by the | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | general election law. Three trustees
shall be elected at each | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | such election to succeed the 3 trustees whose terms
expire in | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | such year.
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13 | Such trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday after | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | the first Monday
in the month following the month of their | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | election and shall hold their
offices for six years and until | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | their successors shall be elected and qualified.
In all | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | elections for trustees each elector may vote for as many | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | candidates
as there are trustees to be elected, but no elector | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | may give to such candidates
more than one vote, it being the | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | intent and purpose of this Act to prohibit
cumulative voting | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | in the selection of members of the board of the sanitary | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | district.
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23 | The election of trustees shall be in accordance with the |
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1 | provisions of
the general election law.
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2 | By reason of the importance and character of the services | ||||||
3 | performed by
the sanitary district, there is a great need and | ||||||
4 | it is in the public interest
that such services be performed in | ||||||
5 | as near a non-partisan character as possible.
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6 | When a vacancy exists in the office of trustees of any | ||||||
7 | sanitary district
organized under the provisions hereof, the | ||||||
8 | vacancy shall be filled by appointment
by the Governor , by and | ||||||
9 | with the advice and consent of the Senate, until the next | ||||||
10 | regular election at which trustees of the
Sanitary District of | ||||||
11 | Chicago are elected, and thereafter until a successor
shall be | ||||||
12 | elected and qualified. If, during a recess of the Senate, | ||||||
13 | there is a vacancy in an office of trustee, the Governor shall | ||||||
14 | make a temporary appointment until the next meeting of the | ||||||
15 | Senate when the Governor shall make a nomination to fill the | ||||||
16 | vacant office.
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17 | Such sanitary district shall from the time of the first | ||||||
18 | election held by
it under this Act be construed in all courts | ||||||
19 | to be
a body corporate and politic, and by the name and style | ||||||
20 | of the sanitary
district of...., and by such name and style may | ||||||
21 | sue and be sued, contract
and be contracted with, acquire and | ||||||
22 | hold real estate and personal property
necessary for corporate | ||||||
23 | purposes,
and adopt a common seal and alter the same at | ||||||
24 | pleasure.
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25 | The board of trustees shall have the power to change the | ||||||
26 | name of the Sanitary
District of Chicago by ordinance and |
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1 | public notice without impairing the
legal status of acts | ||||||
2 | theretofore performed by said district. Thereafter
any and all | ||||||
3 | references to the Sanitary District of Chicago in this Act or
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4 | otherwise shall mean and include the name under which such | ||||||
5 | sanitary district
is then operating. No rights, duties or | ||||||
6 | privilege of such a sanitary district,
or those of any person, | ||||||
7 | existing before the change of name shall be affected
by a | ||||||
8 | change, in the name of a sanitary district. All proceedings | ||||||
9 | pending
in any court in favor of or against such sanitary | ||||||
10 | district may continue
to final consummation under the name in | ||||||
11 | which they were commenced.
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12 | (Source: P.A. 83-345.)
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13 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
14 | becoming law.
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