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Public Act 91-0846
HB3132 Enrolled LRB9111250MWgc
AN ACT concerning county officers.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by adding
Section 2-4006.5 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/2-4006.5 new)
Sec. 2-4006.5. Commissioners in certain counties.
(a) If a county elects 3 commissioners at large under
Section 2-4006, registered voters of such county may, by a
vote of a majority of those voting on such proposition,
determine to change the method of electing the board of
county commissioners by electing either 3 or 5 members from
single member districts. In order for such question to be
placed upon the ballot, such petition must contain the
signatures of not fewer than 10% of the registered voters of
such county.
Commissioners may not be elected from single member
districts until the question of electing either 3 or 5
commissioners from single member districts has been submitted
to the electors of the county at a regular election and
approved by a majority of the electors voting on the
question. The commissioners must certify the question to the
proper election authority, which must submit the question at
an election in accordance with the Election Code.
The question must be in substantially the following form:
Shall the board of county commissioners of (name of
county) consist of (insert either 3 or 5) commissioners
elected from single member districts?
The votes must be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
If a majority of the electors voting on the question vote
in the affirmative, a 3-member or 5-member board of county
commissioners, as the case may be, shall be established to be
elected from single member districts.
(b) If the voters of the county decide to elect either 3
or 5 commissioners from single member districts, the board of
county commissioners shall on or before August 31 of the year
following the 2000 federal decennial census divide the county
into either 3 or 5 compact and contiguous county commission
districts that are substantially equal in population. On or
before May 31 of the year following each federal decennial
census thereafter, the board of county commissioners shall
reapportion the county commission districts to be compact,
contiguous, and substantially equal in population.
(c) The commissioners elected at large at or before the
general election in 2000 shall continue to serve until the
expiration of their terms. Of those commissioners, the
commissioner whose term expires in 2002 shall be assigned to
district 1; the commissioner whose term expires in 2004 shall
be assigned to district 2; and the commissioner whose term
expires in 2006 shall be assigned to district 3.
(d) If the voters of the county decide to elect 5
commissioners from single member districts, at the general
election in 2002, one commissioner from each of districts 1,
4, and 5 shall be elected. At the general election in 2004,
one commissioner from each of districts 1, 2, and 5 shall be
elected. At the general election in 2006, one commissioner
from each of districts 2, 3, and 4 shall be elected. At the
general election in 2008, one commissioner from each of
districts 1, 3, and 5 shall be elected. At the general
election in 2010, one commissioner from each of districts 2
and 4 shall be elected. At the general election in 2012,
commissioners from each district shall be elected.
Thereafter, commissioners shall be elected at each general
election to fill expired terms.
In the year following the decennial census of 2010 and
every 10 years thereafter, the commissioners, publicly by
lot, shall divide the districts into 2 groups. One group
shall serve terms of 4 years, 4 years, and 2 years and one
group shall serve terms of 2 years, 4 years, and 4 years.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
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