Bill Text: IL HB2989 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning registration of electors in certain municipalities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2989 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB2989-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB2989 Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/6-1 from Ch. 46, par. 6-1
Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning registration of electors in certain municipalities.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning elections.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section
6-1 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/6-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-1)
Sec. 6-1. The The provisions of this Article 6 (and of
Articles 14 and 18 hereof) so far as they are the same as those
of the provisions of "An Act regulating the holding of
elections and declaring the result thereof in cities, villages
and incorporated towns in this state", approved June 19, 1885,
as amended, (hereinafter sometimes referred to in this Article
as the Act of 1885) shall be construed as a continuation of
such prior provisions and not as a new enactment; and it is
declared to be the legislative intent that any city, village or
incorporated town which has heretofore adopted and become
entitled to the provisions of said Act of 1885, shall
automatically become subject to the provisions of this Article
6 and Articles 14 and 18 of this Act (as well as certain
sections in other articles which are made specifically
applicable to such city, village or incorporated town), which
three articles together shall be known as the City Election
Law.

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(Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)