Bill Text: IL SB1443 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that statutory provisions concerning residency requirements for highway commissioners also apply to clerks. Provides that a board of trustees may contract with a neighboring township to provide highway commissioner or clerk services if the township has a population of less than 1,000 (rather than less than 500). Provides that a board of trustees in a county not under township organization that is organized as a commission form of government may (i) appoint a non-resident or a resident who has not resided in the district for one year to be a highway commissioner, or (ii) contact with a neighboring township to provide highway commissioner or clerk services if no qualified candidate who has resided in the road district for at least one year is willing to serve as highway commissioner or clerk.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2023-04-12 - Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jason Plummer [SB1443 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1443-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1443 Introduced 2/7/2023, by Sen. Adriane Johnson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
605 ILCS 5/6-115 from Ch. 121, par. 6-115
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that statutory provisions concerning residency requirements for highway commissioners also apply to clerks. Deletes language providing that a board of trustees may contract with a neighboring township to provide highway commissioner or clerk services if the township has a population of less than 500.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by
changing Section 6-115 as follows:
(605 ILCS 5/6-115) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-115)
Sec. 6-115. (a) Except as provided in Section 10-20 of the
Township Code or subsection (b), no person shall be eligible
to the office of highway commissioner or clerk unless he shall
be a legal voter and has been one year a resident of the
district. In road districts that elect a clerk, the same
limitation shall apply to the district clerk.
(b) A board of trustees may (i) appoint a non-resident or a
resident that has not resided in the district for one year to
be a highway commissioner, or (ii) contract with a neighboring
township to provide highway commissioner or clerk services if:
(1) the district is within a township with no
incorporated town;
(2) (blank) the township has a population of less than
500; and
(3) no qualified candidate who has resided in the
township for at least one year is willing to serve as
highway commissioner or clerk.

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(Source: P.A. 101-197, eff. 1-1-20; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.)