Bill Text: IL SB3418 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that a board of trustees in a county under township organization or a county organized as a commission form of government with a road district may elect or appoint a highway commissioner or clerk (rather than may appoint a highway commissioner) or contract with a neighboring township or road district (rather than contract with a neighboring township) to provide highway commissioner or clerk services. In provisions concerning a county organized as a commission form of government, removes residency requirements for a candidate to provide highway commissioner or clerk services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-08-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0992 [SB3418 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB3418-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that a board of trustees in a county under township organization or a county organized as a commission form of government with a road district may elect or appoint a highway commissioner or clerk (rather than may appoint a highway commissioner) or contract with a neighboring township or road district (rather than contract with a neighboring township) to provide highway commissioner or clerk services. In provisions concerning a county organized as a commission form of government, removes residency requirements for a candidate to provide highway commissioner or clerk services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-08-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0992 [SB3418 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB3418-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing Section 6-115 as follows:
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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 subsections (b) and (c), no person shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | eligible to the office of highway commissioner or clerk unless | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | he shall be a legal voter and has been one year a resident of | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | the district. In road districts that elect a clerk, the same | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | limitation shall apply to the district clerk. | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | (b) A board of trustees in a county organized under | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | Division 2-1 of the Counties Code may (i) elect or appoint a | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | non-resident or a resident that has not resided in the | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | district for one year to be a highway commissioner or clerk , or | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | (ii) contract with a neighboring township or road district to | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | provide highway commissioner or clerk services if: | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | (1) the district is within a township with no | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | incorporated town; | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | (2) the township has a population of less than 1,000; | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | and | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | (3) no qualified candidate who has resided in the |
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