104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB1591 Introduced , by Rep. Anne Stava-Murray SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 70 ILCS 1205/2-11 from Ch. 105, par. 2-11 Amends the Park District Code. Provides that no candidate for the office of park commissioner in any General Park District shall be required to file more than 300 petition signatures from qualified voters of the district. LRB104 08308 RTM 18359 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB1591 Introduced , by Rep. Anne Stava-Murray SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 70 ILCS 1205/2-11 from Ch. 105, par. 2-11 70 ILCS 1205/2-11 from Ch. 105, par. 2-11 Amends the Park District Code. Provides that no candidate for the office of park commissioner in any General Park District shall be required to file more than 300 petition signatures from qualified voters of the district. LRB104 08308 RTM 18359 b LRB104 08308 RTM 18359 b A BILL FOR
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB1591 Introduced , by Rep. Anne Stava-Murray SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 1205/2-11 from Ch. 105, par. 2-11 70 ILCS 1205/2-11 from Ch. 105, par. 2-11
70 ILCS 1205/2-11 from Ch. 105, par. 2-11
Amends the Park District Code. Provides that no candidate for the office of park commissioner in any General Park District shall be required to file more than 300 petition signatures from qualified voters of the district.
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1 AN ACT concerning local government.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Park District Code is amended by changing
5 Section 2-11 as follows:
6 (70 ILCS 1205/2-11) (from Ch. 105, par. 2-11)
7 Sec. 2-11. No person shall be eligible to serve as park
8 commissioner unless that person is a qualified elector of the
9 park district and has resided therein at least one year prior
10 to election or appointment.
11 A person is not eligible to serve as park commissioner if
12 that person is in arrears in the payment of a tax or other
13 indebtedness due to the park district or has been convicted in
14 any court located in the United States of any infamous crime,
15 bribery, perjury, or other felony.
16 Nominations of candidates for the office of park
17 commissioners in any General Park District at all succeeding
18 elections shall be made by petition signed in the aggregate
19 for each candidate by qualified voters of such district, equal
20 in number to not less than 2% of the number who voted at the
21 last preceding election for commissioners in such district,
22 but in no case by less than 25 of such voters. Notwithstanding
23 any other provisions of this Section, no candidate shall be
104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026 HB1591 Introduced , by Rep. Anne Stava-Murray SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 1205/2-11 from Ch. 105, par. 2-11 70 ILCS 1205/2-11 from Ch. 105, par. 2-11
70 ILCS 1205/2-11 from Ch. 105, par. 2-11
Amends the Park District Code. Provides that no candidate for the office of park commissioner in any General Park District shall be required to file more than 300 petition signatures from qualified voters of the district.
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70 ILCS 1205/2-11 from Ch. 105, par. 2-11
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