HB3475eng 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB3475 Engrossed LRB094 03477 MKM 33480 b

AN ACT concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Municipal Clerk Training Act is amended by changing Section 2 as follows:

(65 ILCS 50/2) (from Ch. 144, par. 61.52)

Sec. 2. Municipal Clerk Training Institute Committee. There is created the Municipal Clerk Training Institute Committee composed of 5 municipal clerks, appointed by the Governor as provided herein, and 8 9 ex-officio members, designated as provided herein, as representatives of public colleges and universities in this State. Each member appointed by the Governor after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1987 shall be a certified municipal clerk recommended by the Executive Board of the Municipal Clerks of Illinois and serving as a municipal clerk at the time he or she is so recommended and appointed. The 2 additional municipal clerks appointed pursuant to the provisions of this amendatory Act of 1987 both shall be appointed to serve until the third Monday in January, 1992, or until their successors are appointed and qualified. Of the 3 municipal clerks serving as members of the Committee on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1987, they shall determine by agreement or by lot one who shall continue to so serve until the third Monday in January, 1989, a second who shall continue to so serve until the third Monday in January, 1990, and a third who shall continue to so serve until the third Monday in January, 1991; provided, that each shall serve until his or her successor is appointed and qualified. Each successor of any member appointed to the Committee as a municipal clerk shall be appointed to serve for a 4 year term expiring on the third Monday in January, or until his or her successor is appointed and qualified. Any vacancy occurring in the office of a Committee member appointed by the Governor, whether by death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by appointment by the Governor from a recommendation or recommendations made by the Executive Board of the Municipal Clerks of Illinois, in the same manner as original appointments. A member appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve for the remainder of the unexpired term or until his or her successor is appointed and qualified. In the event the Governor refuses to appoint a municipal clerk recommended by the Executive Board of the Municipal Clerks of Illinois to either a full term or, in cases of a vacancy, to the remainder of an unexpired term on the Committee, such Executive Board shall promptly recommend one or more additional qualified persons to the Governor for such appointment. The terms of the 3 committee members designated by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois and serving on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1987 shall terminate on that effective date, and the 4 ex-officio members designated pursuant to the provisions of this amendatory Act of 1987 shall be designated as follows: one representative of the University of Illinois designated by the Board of Trustees of that University; one representative of Southern Illinois University designated by the Board of Trustees of that University; one representative designated by the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities of the several universities and colleges under its governance; and one representative designated by the Board of Regents of the several Regency Universities under its jurisdiction. The terms of the 2 ex-officio members designated as representatives of the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities and the Board of Regents shall terminate on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1995. The 2 ex-officio members whose terms are terminated by this amendatory Act of 1995 shall be replaced by 7 additional ex-officio members, one representing the Board of Trustees of Chicago State University, one representing the Board of Trustees of Eastern Illinois University, one representing the Board of Trustees of Governors State University, one representing the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University, one representing the Board of Trustees of Northeastern Illinois University, one representing the Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University, and one representing the Board of Trustees of Western Illinois University. Upon the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the term of the ex-officio member representing the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University is terminated. The 8 9 ex-officio members representing the public colleges and universities shall serve in an advisory capacity to the members appointed by the Governor, and each such ex-officio member shall serve at the pleasure of the governing board designating them to membership on the Committee. Members of the Committee shall serve without compensation.

(Source: P.A. 89-4, eff. 1-1-96.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.