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91_HB0743
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1 AN ACT to amend the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
2 District Act by changing Section 3.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
6 Act is amended by changing 3 as follows:
7 (70 ILCS 2605/3) (from Ch. 42, par. 322)
8 Sec. 3. Election of trustees.
9 (a) The corporate authority of the Sanitary District of
10 Chicago shall consist of 9 nine trustees. The General
11 Assembly, by law, shall divide the district into 9
12 subdistricts in 2001. The subdistricts shall be as nearly
13 equal in population and as compact and contiguous as
14 possible. In the year following each federal decennial census
15 year, the General Assembly, by law, shall redistrict the 9
16 subdistricts. Any territory that is added to the district
17 shall become a part of that subdistrict with which it shares
18 the greatest common boundary until the next redistricting by
19 the General Assembly.
20 (b) The Such trustees shall be elected for staggered
21 terms at the election provided by the general election law.
22 The 3 trustees elected in 2000 shall be elected at large and
23 shall serve 2-year terms. A trustee elected from a
24 subdistrict must be a resident of that subdistrict. Trustees
25 shall be elected from subdistricts 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 in
26 2002 to serve 4-year terms. The trustees elected from
27 subdistricts 1, 2, and 3 in 2004 shall serve 4-year terms.
28 The trustees elected in 2006 from subdistricts 4, 5, and 6
29 shall serve 2-year terms, and the trustees elected in 2006
30 from subdistricts 7, 8, and 9 shall serve 4-year terms. The
31 trustees elected in 2008 from subdistricts 1, 2, and 3 shall
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1 serve 4-year terms and the trustees elected in 2008 from
2 subdistricts 4, 5, and 6 shall serve 4-year terms. The
3 trustees elected in 2010 from subdistricts 7, 8, and 9 shall
4 serve 2-year terms.
5 After the decennial redistricting in 2011 and after each
6 decennial redistricting thereafter, trustees from
7 subdistricts 1, 2, and 3 shall be elected to terms of 2
8 years, 4 years, and 4 years; trustees from subdistricts 4, 5,
9 and 6 shall be elected to terms of 4 years, 2 years, and 4
10 years; and trustees from subdistricts 7, 8, and 9 shall be
11 elected to terms of 4 years, 4 years, and 2 years. Three
12 trustees shall be elected at each such election to succeed
13 the 3 trustees whose terms expire in such year.
14 (c) Such Trustees shall take office on the first Tuesday
15 after the first Monday in the month following the month of
16 their election and shall hold their offices for terms as
17 provided in subsection (b) six years and until their
18 successors shall be elected and qualified In all elections
19 for trustees each elector may vote for as many candidates as
20 there are trustees to be elected, but no elector may give to
21 such candidates more than one vote, it being the intent and
22 purpose of this Act to prohibit cumulative voting in the
23 selection of members of the board of the sanitary district.
24 (d) The election of trustees shall be in accordance with
25 the provisions of the general election law.
26 (e) By reason of the importance and character of the
27 services performed by the sanitary district, there is a great
28 need and it is in the public interest that those such
29 services be performed in as near a non-partisan character as
30 possible.
31 (f) When a vacancy exists in the office of trustee
32 trustees of any sanitary district organized under this Act
33 the provisions hereof, the vacancy shall be filled by
34 appointment by the Governor until the next regular election
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1 at which trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago are
2 elected, and thereafter until a successor shall be elected
3 and qualified.
4 (g) The Such sanitary district shall from the time of
5 the first election held by it under this Act be construed in
6 all courts to be a body corporate and politic, and by the
7 name and style of the sanitary district of...., and by such
8 name and style may sue and be sued, contract and be
9 contracted with, acquire and hold real estate and personal
10 property necessary for corporate purposes, and adopt a common
11 seal and alter the same at pleasure.
12 (h) The board of trustees shall have the power to change
13 the name of the Sanitary District of Chicago by ordinance and
14 public notice without impairing the legal status of acts
15 theretofore performed by said district. Thereafter any and
16 all references to the Sanitary District of Chicago in this
17 Act or otherwise shall mean and include the name under which
18 such sanitary district is then operating. No rights, duties
19 or privilege of such a sanitary district, or those of any
20 person, existing before the change of name shall be affected
21 by a change, in the name of a sanitary district. All
22 proceedings pending in any court in favor of or against such
23 sanitary district may continue to final consummation under
24 the name in which they were commenced.
25 (Source: P.A. 83-345.)
26 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
27 becoming law.