Public Act 096-1283
 
HB6380 EnrolledLRB096 21001 RLJ 36845 b



    AN ACT concerning local government.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: 



 
    Section 5. The Joliet Regional Port District Act is amended  
by changing Sections 14, 15, 16, and 18 as follows:
 
    (70 ILCS 1825/14)  (from Ch. 19, par. 264)
    Sec. 14. Board; compensation. The governing and 
administrative body of the Port District shall
be a Board 
consisting of 10 9 members, to be known as the Joliet Regional 
Port
District Board. All members of the Board shall be 
residents of Will County.
The members of the Board shall serve 
without compensation but shall be
reimbursed for actual 
expenses incurred by them in the performance of their
duties. 
However, any member of the Board who is appointed to the office 
of
secretary or treasurer may receive compensation for his or 
her services as such
officer. No member of the Board or 
employee of the District shall have any
private financial 
interest, profit or benefit in any contract, work or
business 
of the District nor in the sale or lease of any property to or

from the District.
(Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)
 
    (70 ILCS 1825/15)  (from Ch. 19, par. 265)
    Sec. 15. Appointment of Board. Within 60 days after this 
Act becomes effective the Governor, by
and with the advice and 
consent of the Senate shall appoint 3 members of
the Board who 
reside within the District outside the corporate boundaries
of 
the City city of Joliet for initial terms expiring June 1st of 
the years
1959, 1961, and 1963, respectively, and the Mayor, 
with the advice and
consent of the City Council of the City of 
Joliet, shall appoint 3 members
of the Board who reside within 
the City of Joliet for initial terms
expiring June 1st of the 
years 1958, 1960, and 1962, respectively. Of the 3
members each 
appointed by the Governor and the Mayor not more than 2 shall

be affiliated with the same political party at the time of 
appointment. Beginning with the first appointment made by the 
Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, after the 
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General 
Assembly, the Governor must appoint members who reside within 
the District outside the corporate boundaries of the City of 
Joliet and the Village of Romeoville. Within 60 days after the 
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General 
Assembly, the County Executive of Will County, with the advice 
and consent of the County Board, shall appoint 3 members of the 
Board for terms expiring June 1st of 2008, 2010, and 2012, 
respectively. Within 60 days after the effective date of this 
amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, the President of 
the Village of Romeoville, with the advice and consent of the 
corporate authorities of the Village of Romeoville, shall 
appoint one member of the Board who resides within the Village 
of Romeoville for an initial term expiring June 1st of 2016. 
    At the expiration of the term of any member, his or her 
successor shall be
appointed by the Governor, Mayor, President 
of the Village of Romeoville, or County Executive of Will 
County in like
manner and with like regard to political party 
affiliation and place of
residence of the appointee, as 
appointments for the initial terms.
    All successors shall hold office for the term of 6 years 
from the first
day of June of the year in which the term of 
office commences, except in
the case of an appointment to fill 
a vacancy. In case of vacancy in the
office of any member 
appointed by the Governor during the recess of the
Senate, the 
Governor shall make a temporary appointment until the next

meeting of the Senate when he or she shall nominate some person 
to fill such
office; and any person so nominated, who is 
confirmed by the Senate, shall
hold his or her office during 
the remainder of the term and until his or her successor
shall 
be appointed and qualified. If the Senate is not in session at 
the
time this Act takes effect, the Governor shall make 
temporary appointments
as in case of vacancies. The Governor, 
the Mayor, the President of the Village of Romeoville, and the 
County Executive shall certify their respective appointments 
to the
Secretary of State. Within 30 days after certification 
of his or her appointment,
and before entering upon the duties 
of his or her office, each member of the Board
shall take and 
subscribe the constitutional oath of office and file it in
the 
office of the Secretary of State.
(Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)
 
    (70 ILCS 1825/16)  (from Ch. 19, par. 266)
    Sec. 16. Removal and vacancies. Members of the Board shall 
hold office until their respective
successors have been 
appointed and qualified. Any member may resign from
his or her 
office to take effect when his or her successor has been 
appointed and has
qualified. The Governor, the Mayor, the 
President of the Village of Romeoville, and the County 
Executive of Will County, respectively, may remove any member 
of the Board they
have appointed in case of incompetency, 
neglect of duty, or malfeasance in
office. They shall give such 
member a copy of the charges against him or her and
an 
opportunity to be publicly heard in person or by counsel in his 
or her own
defense upon not less than ten days' notice. In case 
of failure to qualify
within the time required, or of 
abandonment of his or her office, or in case of
death, 
conviction of a felony or removal from office, the office of 
such
member shall become vacant. Each vacancy shall be filled 
for the unexpired
term by appointment in like manner as in case 
of expiration of the term of
a member of the Board.
(Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)
 
    (70 ILCS 1825/18)  (from Ch. 19, par. 268)
    Sec. 18. Board meetings; quorum; veto. Regular meetings of 
the Board shall be held at least once in each
calendar month, 
the time and place of such meetings to be fixed by the
Board. 
Six Five members of the Board shall constitute a quorum for the

transaction of business. All action of the Board shall be by 
ordinances or
resolution and the affirmative vote of at least 6 
5 members shall be
necessary for the adoption of any ordinance 
or resolution. All such
ordinances and resolutions before 
taking effect shall be approved by the
chairman of the Board, 
and if he or she approves thereof he or she shall sign the 
same,
and such as he or she does not approve he or she shall 
return to the Board with his
or her objections thereto in 
writing at the next regular meeting of the Board
occurring 
after the passage thereof. But in the case the chairman fails 
to
return any ordinance or resolution with his or her 
objections thereto by the time
aforesaid, he or she shall be 
deemed to have approved the same and it shall take
effect 
accordingly. Upon the return of any ordinance or resolution by 
the
chairman with his or her objections, the vote by which the 
same was passed shall
be reconsidered by the Board, and if upon 
such reconsideration said
ordinance or resolution is passed by 
the affirmative vote of at least 7 6

members, it shall go into 
effect notwithstanding the veto of the chairman.
All 
ordinances, resolutions and all proceedings of the District and 
all
documents and records in its possession shall be public 
records, and open
to public inspection, except such documents 
and records as are kept or
prepared by the Board for use in 
negotiations, legal actions or proceedings
to which the 
District is a party.
(Source: P.A. 94-1003, eff. 7-3-06.)
 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.