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92_HB5450
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1 AN ACT in relation to elections.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
5 Section 6-1 as follows:
6 (10 ILCS 5/6-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-1)
7 Sec. 6-1. Continuation of prior law; City Election Law.
8 The provisions of this Article 6 (and of Articles 14 and 18
9 hereof) so far as they are the same as those of the
10 provisions of "An Act regulating the holding of elections and
11 declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and
12 incorporated towns in this state", approved June 19, 1885, as
13 amended, (hereinafter sometimes referred to in this Article
14 as the Act of 1885) shall be construed as a continuation of
15 those such prior provisions and not as a new enactment; and
16 it is declared to be the legislative intent that any city,
17 village or incorporated town which has heretofore adopted and
18 become entitled to the provisions of said Act of 1885, shall
19 automatically become subject to the provisions of this
20 Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 of this Act (as well as
21 certain sections in other Articles that which are made
22 specifically applicable to the such city, village or
23 incorporated town), which 3 three Articles together shall be
24 known as the City Election Law.
25 (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)