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92_SB2029
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1 AN ACT in relation to courts.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Appellate Court Act is amended by
5 changing Section 1 as follows:
6 (705 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 37, par. 25)
7 (Text of Section WITHOUT the changes made by P.A. 89-719,
8 which has been held unconstitutional)
9 Sec. 1. (a) A branch of the appellate court is
10 established in each of the 5 judicial districts as those such
11 districts are determined by law.
12 (b) In the first judicial district, 18 appellate court
13 judges shall be elected.
14 (c) In the second judicial district, 6 appellate court
15 judges shall be elected. In the third judicial district, 6
16 appellate court judges shall be elected. In the fourth
17 judicial district, 6 appellate court judges shall be elected.
18 The 2 additional fourth district appellate court judgeships
19 authorized by this amendatory Act of 1993 shall be initially
20 filled by election at the general election in 1994. In the
21 fifth judicial district, 6 appellate court judges shall be
22 elected.
23 (d) The Supreme Court may assign additional judges to
24 service in the appellate court from time to time as the
25 business of the appellate court requires. There shall be a
26 number of divisions of not less than 3 judges each, as the
27 Supreme Court shall prescribe. Assignments to divisions
28 shall be made by the Supreme Court and a judge may be
29 assigned to a division in a district other than the district
30 in which such judge resides. The organization of the
31 appellate court and its divisions shall be prescribed by rule
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1 of the Supreme Court. The actual and necessary expenses of
2 judges of the appellate court incurred in performing their
3 duties shall be paid by the state. The majority of a
4 division shall constitute a quorum and the concurrence of a
5 majority of the division shall be necessary to a decision of
6 the appellate court.
7 (Source: P.A. 88-72.)