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91_HB3132enr HB3132 Enrolled LRB9111250MWgc 1 AN ACT concerning county officers. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by adding 5 Section 2-4006.5 as follows: 6 (55 ILCS 5/2-4006.5 new) 7 Sec. 2-4006.5. Commissioners in certain counties. 8 (a) If a county elects 3 commissioners at large under 9 Section 2-4006, registered voters of such county may, by a 10 vote of a majority of those voting on such proposition, 11 determine to change the method of electing the board of 12 county commissioners by electing either 3 or 5 members from 13 single member districts. In order for such question to be 14 placed upon the ballot, such petition must contain the 15 signatures of not fewer than 10% of the registered voters of 16 such county. 17 Commissioners may not be elected from single member 18 districts until the question of electing either 3 or 5 19 commissioners from single member districts has been submitted 20 to the electors of the county at a regular election and 21 approved by a majority of the electors voting on the 22 question. The commissioners must certify the question to the 23 proper election authority, which must submit the question at 24 an election in accordance with the Election Code. 25 The question must be in substantially the following form: 26 Shall the board of county commissioners of (name of 27 county) consist of (insert either 3 or 5) commissioners 28 elected from single member districts? 29 The votes must be recorded as "Yes" or "No". 30 If a majority of the electors voting on the question vote 31 in the affirmative, a 3-member or 5-member board of county HB3132 Enrolled -2- LRB9111250MWgc 1 commissioners, as the case may be, shall be established to be 2 elected from single member districts. 3 (b) If the voters of the county decide to elect either 3 4 or 5 commissioners from single member districts, the board of 5 county commissioners shall on or before August 31 of the year 6 following the 2000 federal decennial census divide the county 7 into either 3 or 5 compact and contiguous county commission 8 districts that are substantially equal in population. On or 9 before May 31 of the year following each federal decennial 10 census thereafter, the board of county commissioners shall 11 reapportion the county commission districts to be compact, 12 contiguous, and substantially equal in population. 13 (c) The commissioners elected at large at or before the 14 general election in 2000 shall continue to serve until the 15 expiration of their terms. Of those commissioners, the 16 commissioner whose term expires in 2002 shall be assigned to 17 district 1; the commissioner whose term expires in 2004 shall 18 be assigned to district 2; and the commissioner whose term 19 expires in 2006 shall be assigned to district 3. 20 (d) If the voters of the county decide to elect 5 21 commissioners from single member districts, at the general 22 election in 2002, one commissioner from each of districts 1, 23 4, and 5 shall be elected. At the general election in 2004, 24 one commissioner from each of districts 1, 2, and 5 shall be 25 elected. At the general election in 2006, one commissioner 26 from each of districts 2, 3, and 4 shall be elected. At the 27 general election in 2008, one commissioner from each of 28 districts 1, 3, and 5 shall be elected. At the general 29 election in 2010, one commissioner from each of districts 2 30 and 4 shall be elected. At the general election in 2012, 31 commissioners from each district shall be elected. 32 Thereafter, commissioners shall be elected at each general 33 election to fill expired terms. 34 In the year following the decennial census of 2010 and HB3132 Enrolled -3- LRB9111250MWgc 1 every 10 years thereafter, the commissioners, publicly by 2 lot, shall divide the districts into 2 groups. One group 3 shall serve terms of 4 years, 4 years, and 2 years and one 4 group shall serve terms of 2 years, 4 years, and 4 years. 5 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 6 becoming law.