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92_SB0327
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1 AN ACT concerning the North Shore Sanitary District.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The North Shore Sanitary District Act is
5 amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
6 (70 ILCS 2305/3) (from Ch. 42, par. 279)
7 Sec. 3. The corporate authority of the North Shore
8 Sanitary District shall consist of 5 trustees.
9 Within 20 days after the adoption of the Act, as provided
10 in Section 1, the county governing body shall proceed to
11 divide the sanitary district into 5 wards for the purpose of
12 electing trustees. One trustee shall be elected for each ward
13 on the date of the next regular county election. In each
14 sanitary district organized pursuant to the provisions of
15 this Act prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act
16 of 1975, one trustee shall be elected for each ward on the
17 date of the regular county election in the year 1976.
18 However, the population in no one ward shall be less than 1/6
19 of the population of the whole district and the territory in
20 each of the wards shall be composed of contiguous territory
21 in as compact form as practicable. A portion of each ward
22 shall abut the west shore of Lake Michigan and the boundaries
23 of the respective wards shall coincide with precinct
24 boundaries and the boundaries of existing municipalities as
25 nearly as practicable. In the year 1981, and every 10 years
26 thereafter, the sanitary district board of trustees shall
27 reapportion the district, so that the respective wards shall
28 conform as nearly as practicable with the above requirements
29 as to population, shape and territory.
30 The trustees shall hold office respectively for 4 years
31 from the first Monday of May after their election and until
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1 their successors are appointed and qualified, except that the
2 term of office of 2 of the trustees first elected shall be
3 for 2 years. Which of the trustees first elected shall serve
4 a term of 2 years shall be determined by lot at their first
5 meeting. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, all
6 trustees elected in 1994 or thereafter shall assume office on
7 the first Monday in December following the general election
8 instead of the first Monday in May of the following year.
9 In the year 1982, and every 10 years thereafter,
10 following each decennial Federal census, all 5 trustees shall
11 be elected. Immediately following each decennial
12 redistricting, the sanitary district board of trustees shall
13 divide the wards into 2 groups, one of which shall consist of
14 3 wards and the other shall consist of 2 wards. Trustees
15 from one group shall serve terms of 4 years, 4 years and 2
16 years; and trustees from the other group shall serve terms of
17 2 years, 4 years and 4 years.
18 Each of the trustees shall enter into bond, in a sum
19 determined by the circuit court, with security to be approved
20 by the circuit court.
21 When a vacancy exists in the office of trustees of any
22 sanitary district organized under the provisions of this Act,
23 the board of trustees must, within 3 days after declaring the
24 vacancy, notify the chairperson of the county central
25 committee of the political party to which the trustee whose
26 office is vacant belongs that a vacancy exists. Within 14
27 days after receiving the notice, the chairperson of the
28 county central committee shall call a meeting of the precinct
29 committeemen whose precincts are wholly or partially in the
30 ward in which the vacancy exists for the purpose of choosing
31 a list of 3 nominees to fill the vacancy. In choosing the
32 nominees, each precinct committeeman shall have one vote for
33 each ballot voted in his or her precinct by the primary
34 electors of the party at the primary at which the precinct
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1 committeeman was elected. The precinct committeemen shall
2 provide the president of the board of trustees of the
3 district with their list of nominees. The vacancy shall,
4 within 60 days after receiving the precinct committeemen's
5 list, be filled by appointment of one of the precinct
6 committeemen's nominees by the president of the sanitary
7 district board of trustees, with the advice and consent of
8 the sanitary district board of trustees. The person
9 appointed shall serve for the remainder of the term or, if
10 more than 28 months remain in the term, until the next
11 regular election at which trustees of the sanitary district
12 are elected. The appointment, and shall be made a matter of
13 record in the office of the county clerk in the county in
14 which the district is located.
15 A majority of the board of trustees shall constitute a
16 quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day. No
17 trustee or employee of the district shall be directly or
18 indirectly interested in any contract, work or business of
19 the district, or the sale of any article, the expense, price
20 or consideration of which is paid by the district; nor in the
21 purchase of any real estate or other property belonging to
22 the district, or which shall be sold for taxes or
23 assessments, or by virtue of legal process at the suit of the
24 district. The trustees have the power to provide and adopt a
25 corporate seal for the district.
26 (Source: P.A. 87-937.)
27 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
28 becoming law.