Bill Text: IL HB5613 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that when a person who (i) has not timely filed valid nomination papers and (ii) intends to become a write-in candidate for nomination for any uncontested office files a written statement or notice of that intent, if the write-in candidate becomes the third (now, fifth) candidate filed, a primary ballot must be prepared and a primary must be held for the office.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB5613 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB5613-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 3.1-20-45 as follows:
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| 6 | (65 ILCS 5/3.1-20-45)
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| 7 | Sec. 3.1-20-45. Nonpartisan primary elections; uncontested | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | office. A city
incorporated under this Code that elects | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | municipal officers at nonpartisan
primary and
general | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | elections shall conduct the elections as provided in the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Election Code,
except that
no office for which nomination is | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | uncontested shall be included on the primary
ballot and
no | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | primary shall be held for that office. For the purposes of this | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | Section, an
office is
uncontested when not more than 4
persons | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | to be nominated for each
office
have timely filed valid | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | nominating papers seeking nomination for the election
to that
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| 17 | office.
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| 18 | Notwithstanding the preceding paragraph, when a person (i) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | who has not timely
filed valid nomination papers and (ii) who | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | intends to become a write-in
candidate for
nomination for any | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | office for which nomination is uncontested files a written
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| 22 | statement
or notice of that intent with the proper election | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | official with whom the
nomination papers
for that office are | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | filed, if the write-in candidate becomes the third fifth | ||||||
| 2 | candidate filed, a primary ballot must be prepared and a | ||||||
| 3 | primary must
be held for
the office. The statement or notice | ||||||
| 4 | must be filed on or before the 61st day
before the consolidated | ||||||
| 5 | primary election.
The statement
must
contain (i) the name and | ||||||
| 6 | address of the person intending to become a write-in
candidate,
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| 7 | (ii) a statement that the person intends to become a write-in | ||||||
| 8 | candidate, and
(iii) the office
the person is seeking as a | ||||||
| 9 | write-in candidate. An election authority has no
duty to
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| 10 | conduct a primary election or prepare a primary ballot unless a | ||||||
| 11 | statement
meeting the
requirements of this paragraph is filed | ||||||
| 12 | in a timely manner. | ||||||
| 13 | If there is a primary election, then candidates shall be | ||||||
| 14 | placed on the ballot for the next succeeding general municipal | ||||||
| 15 | election in the following manner: | ||||||
| 16 | (1) If one officer is to be elected, then the 2 | ||||||
| 17 | candidates who receive the highest number of votes shall be | ||||||
| 18 | placed on the ballot for the next succeeding general | ||||||
| 19 | municipal election. | ||||||
| 20 | (2) If 2 aldermen are to be elected at large, then the | ||||||
| 21 | 4 candidates who receive the highest number of votes shall | ||||||
| 22 | be placed on the ballot for the next succeeding general | ||||||
| 23 | municipal election. | ||||||
| 24 | (3) If 3 aldermen are to be elected at large, then the | ||||||
| 25 | 6 candidates who receive the highest number of votes shall | ||||||
| 26 | be placed on the ballot for the next succeeding general | ||||||
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| 1 | municipal election. | ||||||
| 2 | The name of a write-in candidate may not be placed on the | ||||||
| 3 | ballot for the next succeeding general municipal election | ||||||
| 4 | unless he or she receives a number of votes in the primary | ||||||
| 5 | election that equals or exceeds the number of signatures | ||||||
| 6 | required on a petition for nomination for that office or that | ||||||
| 7 | exceeds the number of votes received by at least one of the | ||||||
| 8 | candidates whose names were printed on the primary ballot for | ||||||
| 9 | nomination for or election to the same office.
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| 10 | (Source: P.A. 97-81, eff. 7-5-11.)
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