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Public Act 0061 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Public Act 095-0061

SB0253 Enrolled LRB095 04722 HLH 24781 b

    AN ACT concerning local government.

    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:

    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Section 3.1-10-5 as follows:

    (65 ILCS 5/3.1-10-5)  (from Ch. 24, par. 3.1-10-5)
    Sec. 3.1-10-5. Qualifications; elective office.
    (a) A person is not eligible for an elective municipal
office unless that person is a qualified elector of the
municipality and has resided in the municipality at least one
year next preceding the election.
    (b) A person is not eligible for an elective municipal
office if that person is in arrears in the payment of a tax or
other indebtedness due to the municipality or has been
convicted in any court located in the United States of any
infamous crime, bribery, perjury, or other felony.
    (c) A person is not eligible for the office of alderman of
a ward unless that person has resided in the ward that the
person seeks to represent, and a person is not eligible for the
office of trustee of a district unless that person has resided
in the municipality, at least one year next preceding the
election or appointment, except as provided in subsection (c)
of Section 3.1-20-25, subsection (b) of Section 3.1-25-75,
Section 5-2-2, or Section 5-2-11.
    (d) If a person (i) is a resident of a municipality
immediately prior to the active duty military service of that
person or that person's spouse, (ii) resides anywhere outside
of the municipality during that active duty military service,
and (iii) immediately upon completion of that active duty
military service is again a resident of the municipality, then
the time during which the person resides outside the
municipality during the active duty military service is deemed
to be time during which the person is a resident of the
municipality for purposes of determining the residency
requirement under subsection (a).
(Source: P.A. 93-847, eff. 7-30-04.)

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 8/13/2007

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