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92_HB1426
LRB9204023WHtm
1 AN ACT concerning the courts.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Judicial Vacancies Act is amended by
5 changing Section 1.1 as follows:
6 (705 ILCS 40/1.1) (from Ch. 37, par. 72.41-1)
7 Sec. 1.1. Definitions. As used in this Act, the term
8 "resident circuit judge" or "resident judge" refers to a
9 circuit judge who, immediately prior to July 1, 1971, was an
10 associate judge and who became a circuit judge on July 1,
11 1971 by reason of paragraph (a) of Section 4 of the
12 Transition Schedule of the Constitution of 1970 or a circuit
13 judge who was appointed after June 30, 1971 by the Supreme
14 Court to fill the vacancy existing prior to July 1, 1971 in
15 the office of a former associate judge and whose office was,
16 prior to July 1, 1971, filled by election from a single
17 county or, in the case of Cook County, from one of the 2
18 units of the county, and not from the circuit at large.
19 (Source: P.A. 88-45.)