Bill Text: IL SB1443 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that statutory provisions concerning residency requirements for highway commissioners also apply to clerks. Provides that a board of trustees may contract with a neighboring township to provide highway commissioner or clerk services if the township has a population of less than 1,000 (rather than less than 500). Provides that a board of trustees in a county not under township organization that is organized as a commission form of government may (i) appoint a non-resident or a resident who has not resided in the district for one year to be a highway commissioner, or (ii) contact with a neighboring township to provide highway commissioner or clerk services if no qualified candidate who has resided in the road district for at least one year is willing to serve as highway commissioner or clerk.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2023-04-12 - Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Jason Plummer [SB1443 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB1443-Introduced.html
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||
1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
| |||||||||||||||||||
2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
| |||||||||||||||||||
4 | Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 6-115 as follows:
| |||||||||||||||||||
6 | (605 ILCS 5/6-115) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-115)
| |||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sec. 6-115.
(a) Except as provided in Section 10-20 of the | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | Township Code or subsection (b), no
person shall be eligible | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | to the office of highway
commissioner or clerk unless he shall | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | be a legal voter and has been one year a
resident of the | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | district. In road districts that elect a clerk, the same
| |||||||||||||||||||
12 | limitation shall apply to the district clerk.
| |||||||||||||||||||
13 | (b) A board of trustees may (i) appoint a non-resident or a | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | resident that has not resided in the district for one year to | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | be a highway commissioner, or (ii) contract with a neighboring | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | township to provide highway commissioner or clerk services if: | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | (1) the district is within a township with no | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | incorporated town; | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | (2) (blank) the township has a population of less than | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | 500 ; and | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | (3) no qualified candidate who has resided in the | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | township for at least one year is willing to serve as | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | highway commissioner or clerk . |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | (Source: P.A. 101-197, eff. 1-1-20; 102-558, eff. 8-20-21.)
|