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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB0173 Introduced 1/17/2025, by Sen. Michael W. Halpin SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 10 ILCS 5/6-17 | from Ch. 46, par. 6-17 |
| Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board or board of county commissioners of a county with a population of less than 100,000 may, by ordinance or resolution, dissolve a municipal board of election commissioners within that county and transfer its functions to the county clerk. |
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| | SB0173 | | LRB104 06588 SPS 16624 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning elections.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 6-17 as follows:
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| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/6-17) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-17) |
| 7 | | Sec. 6-17. Dissolution. |
| 8 | | (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), whenever |
| 9 | | Whenever 1,000 of the legal voters in a city of 250,000 |
| 10 | | population or less where this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 |
| 11 | | of this Act or the Act of which they are a continuation have |
| 12 | | been adopted shall petition the circuit court in the county in |
| 13 | | which such city is located to submit to a vote of the electors |
| 14 | | of such city the proposition as to whether such city and the |
| 15 | | electors thereof shall reject the Articles, the court shall |
| 16 | | enter an order of record approving such petition and thereupon |
| 17 | | the court shall submit such proposition to the legal voters of |
| 18 | | such city at the next succeeding general, state, county or |
| 19 | | municipal election to be held in such county in not less than |
| 20 | | 30 days after the entry of such order. If 1,000 shall exceed |
| 21 | | one-eighth of the legal voters of any such city then such |
| 22 | | petition need not be signed or made by more than one-eighth of |
| 23 | | the legal voters of such city. Notice of election shall be |