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91_HB2287
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1 AN ACT to amend the Public Building Commission Act by
2 changing Section 5.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Public Building Commission Act is amended
6 by changing Section 5 as follows:
7 (50 ILCS 20/5) (from Ch. 85, par. 1035)
8 Sec. 5. Within 60 days after the filing in the office of
9 the recorder of the resolution or resolutions organizing the
10 Public Building Commission, the presiding officer of the
11 municipality, county seat or county board adopting the
12 original resolution and the presiding officers of the
13 municipal corporations, if any, joining in the organization
14 of the Public Building Commission shall appoint Commissioners
15 in the manner hereinafter provided. All appointments shall
16 be made with the advice and consent of the governing body
17 whose presiding officer makes the appointment.
18 Within 10 days after the appointment of the commissioners
19 by the respective presiding officers, with the advice and
20 consent of the respective governing bodies, as aforesaid,
21 each of such presiding officers shall transmit to the
22 presiding officer of the municipality, county seat or county
23 board which adopted the original resolution, a certificate of
24 such appointment. The presiding officer of the municipality,
25 county seat or county board shall cause all such certificates
26 of appointment, including a certificate of the appointments
27 made by the presiding officer of the municipality, county
28 seat or county board which adopted the original resolution,
29 to be bound under one cover and filed in the office of the
30 recorder in and for the county. Upon such filing the persons
31 so appointed shall constitute the Board of Commissioners of
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1 the Public Building Commission and upon taking the oath of
2 office as hereinafter provided shall be deemed to have
3 qualified and be empowered to exercise the powers and
4 authority prescribed in this Act.
5 The Board of Commissioners shall in all cases consist of
6 not less than 5 members and in such instances as there may be
7 more than 5 members as herein provided, the Board of
8 Commissioners shall consist of an odd number.
9 If the county seat or municipality alone organizes the
10 Public Building Commission, the presiding officer of the
11 county seat or municipality shall appoint not less than 5
12 Commissioners.
13 If the county board alone organized the Public Building
14 Commission, the presiding officer of the county board shall
15 appoint not less than 5 Commissioners. The Commissioners
16 appointed to that Public Building Commission must be
17 residents of the county in which the Commission is organized.
18
19 If any one municipal corporation shall join with the
20 municipality, county seat or county board in the organization
21 of the Public Building Commission then and in such event the
22 presiding officer of the municipality, county seat or county
23 board adopting the original resolution shall appoint 3
24 Commissioners and the presiding officer of the municipal
25 corporation joining in the organization of the Public
26 Building Commission shall appoint 2 Commissioners.
27 If 2 or more municipal corporations, in addition to the
28 municipality, county seat or county board adopting the
29 original resolution, shall join with the municipality, county
30 seat or county board in the organization of the Public
31 Building Commission then and in such event the presiding
32 officers of the municipal corporations joining in the
33 organization shall each appoint 1 Commissioner and the
34 presiding officer of the municipality, county seat or county
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1 board adopting the original resolution shall appoint such
2 number of commissioners as shall exceed by 1 the aggregate
3 number appointed by the presiding officers of the municipal
4 corporations joining in the organization of the Commission.
5 The initial terms of such Commissioners shall be for 5,
6 4, 3, 2 and 1 year, respectively, and in such cases as there
7 may be more than 5 Commissioners the initial terms of
8 Commissioners in excess of 5 Commissioners shall be on a
9 descending scale of 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 years, as there are
10 Commissioners in excess of 5. The length of the terms of the
11 first Commissioners shall be determined by lot at their first
12 meeting. The initial terms of office of Commissioners who
13 are to hold office for terms of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years,
14 respectively, shall continue until that September 30th which
15 next follows the expiration of the periods of 1, 2, 3, 4 and
16 5 years, respectively, from the date of the filing of the
17 certificates of appointment in the office of the recorder, as
18 aforesaid, and until their successors are appointed and
19 qualify by taking their oath of office.
20 At the expiration of the term of each of the
21 Commissioners, and of each succeeding Commissioner, or in the
22 event of a vacancy, resignation, removal or refusal to act,
23 the presiding officer of the municipal corporation, who made
24 that Commissioner's appointment in the first instance, shall
25 appoint a Commissioner, in the manner hereinabove provided,
26 to hold office, in the case of a vacancy occurring for
27 whatever reason, for the unexpired term, or in the case of
28 expiration, for a term of 5 years, and until his successor is
29 appointed and has qualified. Each such appointment shall
30 become effective upon the filing by the presiding officer
31 making the appointment of a certificate of the appointment in
32 the office of the recorder for that county. Any Commissioner
33 may be appointed to succeed himself.
34 (Source: P.A. 87-1046.)