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1		AN ACT concerning education.
2		Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3		represented in the General Assembly:
4		Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
5		Sections 2A-1.2, 2A-48, 2A-49, and 2A-54 as follows:
6		(10 ILCS 5/2A-1.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-1.2)
7		Sec. 2A-1.2. Consolidated Schedule of Elections - Offices
8		Designated.
9		(a) At the general election in the appropriate
10		even-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled or
11		shall be on the ballot as otherwise required by this Code:
12		(1) Elector of President and Vice President of the
13		United States;
14		(2) United States Senator and United States
15		Representative;
16		(3) State Executive Branch elected officers;
17		(4) State Senator and State Representative;
18		(5) County elected officers, including State's
19		Attorney, County Board member, County Commissioners, and
20		elected President of the County Board or County Chief
21		Executive;
22		(6) Circuit Court Clerk;
23		(7) Regional Superintendent of Schools, except in

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1		counties or educational service regions in which that
2		office has been abolished;
3		(7.5) Each of the following offices if election to such
4		office is on a nonpartisan basis: elected members of school
5		boards, directors of boards of school directors, and
6		members of boards of school inspectors; however, this
7		paragraph (7.5) does not apply to school boards in school
8		districts that adopt Article 33 of the School Code;
9		(8) Judges of the Supreme, Appellate and Circuit
10		Courts, on the question of retention, to fill vacancies and
11		newly created judicial offices;
12		(9) (Blank);
13		(10) Trustee of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of
14		Chicago, and elected Trustee of other Sanitary Districts;
15		(11) Special District elected officers, not otherwise
16		designated in this Section, where the statute creating or
17		authorizing the creation of the district requires an annual
18		election and permits or requires election of candidates of
19		political parties.
20		(b) At the general primary election:
21		(1) in each even-numbered year candidates of political
22		parties shall be nominated for those offices to be filled
23		at the general election in that year, except where pursuant
24		to law nomination of candidates of political parties is
25		made by caucus and except for those offices listed in
26		paragraph (7.5) of subsection (a) of this Section.

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1		(2) in the appropriate even-numbered years the
2		political party offices of State central committeeman,
3		township committeeman, ward committeeman, and precinct
4		committeeman shall be filled and delegates and alternate
5		delegates to the National nominating conventions shall be
6		elected as may be required pursuant to this Code. In the
7		even-numbered years in which a Presidential election is to
8		be held, candidates in the Presidential preference primary
9		shall also be on the ballot.
10		(3) in each even-numbered year, where the municipality
11		has provided for annual elections to elect municipal
12		officers pursuant to Section 6(f) or Section 7 of Article
13		VII of the Constitution, pursuant to the Illinois Municipal
14		Code or pursuant to the municipal charter, the offices of
15		such municipal officers shall be filled at an election held
16		on the date of the general primary election, provided that
17		the municipal election shall be a nonpartisan election
18		where required by the Illinois Municipal Code. For partisan
19		municipal elections in even-numbered years, a primary to
20		nominate candidates for municipal office to be elected at
21		the general primary election shall be held on the Tuesday 6
22		weeks preceding that election.
23		(4) in each school district which has adopted the
24		provisions of Article 33 of the School Code, successors to
25		the members of the board of education whose terms expire in
26		the year in which the general primary is held shall be

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1		elected.
2		(c) At the consolidated election in the appropriate
3		odd-numbered years, the following offices shall be filled:
4		(1) Municipal officers, provided that in
5		municipalities in which candidates for alderman or other
6		municipal office are not permitted by law to be candidates
7		of political parties, the runoff election where required by
8		law, or the nonpartisan election where required by law,
9		shall be held on the date of the consolidated election; and
10		provided further, in the case of municipal officers
11		provided for by an ordinance providing the form of
12		government of the municipality pursuant to Section 7 of
13		Article VII of the Constitution, such offices shall be
14		filled by election or by runoff election as may be provided
15		by such ordinance;
16		(2) Village and incorporated town library directors;
17		(3) City boards of stadium commissioners;
18		(4) Commissioners of park districts;
19		(5) Trustees of public library districts;
20		(6) Special District elected officers, not otherwise
21		designated in this section, where the statute creating or
22		authorizing the creation of the district permits or
23		requires election of candidates of political parties;
24		(7) Township officers, including township park
25		commissioners, township library directors, and boards of
26		managers of community buildings, and Multi-Township

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1		Assessors;
2		(8) Highway commissioners and road district clerks;
3		(9) Members of school boards in school districts which
4		adopt Article 33 of the School Code;
5		(10) The directors and chairman of the Chain O Lakes -
6		Fox River Waterway Management Agency;
7		(11) Forest preserve district commissioners elected
8		under Section 3.5 of the Downstate Forest Preserve District
9		Act;
10		(12) School Elected members of school boards, school
11		trustees and , directors of boards of school directors,
12		trustees of county boards of school trustees (except in
13		counties or educational service regions having a
14		population of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants) and members of
15		boards of school inspectors, except school boards in school
16		districts that adopt Article 33 of the School Code;
17		(13) Members of Community College district boards;
18		(14) Trustees of Fire Protection Districts;
19		(15) Commissioners of the Springfield Metropolitan
20		Exposition and Auditorium Authority;
21		(16) Elected Trustees of Tuberculosis Sanitarium
22		Districts;
23		(17) Elected Officers of special districts not
24		otherwise designated in this Section for which the law
25		governing those districts does not permit candidates of
26		political parties.

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1		(d) At the consolidated primary election in each
2		odd-numbered year, candidates of political parties shall be
3		nominated for those offices to be filled at the consolidated
4		election in that year, except where pursuant to law nomination
5		of candidates of political parties is made by caucus, and
6		except those offices listed in paragraphs (12) through (17) of
7		subsection (c).
8		At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate
9		odd-numbered years, the mayor, clerk, treasurer, and aldermen
10		shall be elected in municipalities in which candidates for
11		mayor, clerk, treasurer, or alderman are not permitted by law
12		to be candidates of political parties, subject to runoff
13		elections to be held at the consolidated election as may be
14		required by law, and municipal officers shall be nominated in a
15		nonpartisan election in municipalities in which pursuant to law
16		candidates for such office are not permitted to be candidates
17		of political parties.
18		At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate
19		odd-numbered years, municipal officers shall be nominated or
20		elected, or elected subject to a runoff, as may be provided by
21		an ordinance providing a form of government of the municipality
22		pursuant to Section 7 of Article VII of the Constitution.
23		(e) (Blank).
24		(f) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, public
25		questions may be submitted to voters pursuant to this Code and
26		any special election otherwise required or authorized by law or

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1		by court order may be conducted pursuant to this Code.
2		Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of officers
3		established in this Article, whenever a referendum is held for
4		the establishment of a political subdivision whose officers are
5		to be elected, the initial officers shall be elected at the
6		election at which such referendum is held if otherwise so
7		provided by law. In such cases, the election of the initial
8		officers shall be subject to the referendum.
9		Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of
10		officials established in this Article, any community college
11		district which becomes effective by operation of law pursuant
12		to Section 6-6.1 of the Public Community College Act, as now or
13		hereafter amended, shall elect the initial district board
14		members at the next regularly scheduled election following the
15		effective date of the new district.
16		(g) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, if in
17		any precinct there are no offices or public questions required
18		to be on the ballot under this Code then no election shall be
19		held in the precinct on that date.
20		(h) There may be conducted a referendum in accordance with
21		the provisions of Division 6-4 of the Counties Code.
22		(Source: P.A. 89-5, eff. 1-1-96; 89-95, eff. 1-1-96; 89-626,
23		eff. 8-9-96; 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)
24		(10 ILCS 5/2A-48) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-48)
25		Sec. 2A-48. Board of School Directors - Member - Time of

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1		Election. A member of a Board of School Directors or a member
2		of an elected Board of Education, as the case may be, shall be
3		elected at each general consolidated election to succeed each
4		incumbent member whose term ends before the following general
5		consolidated election.
6		(Source: P.A. 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)
7		(10 ILCS 5/2A-49) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-49)
8		Sec. 2A-49. Board of School Inspectors - Member - Time of
9		Election. A member of a Board of School Inspectors shall be
10		elected at the general consolidated election which immediately
11		precedes the expiration of the term of any incumbent school
12		inspector, to succeed each incumbent school inspector whose
13		term ends before the following general consolidated election.
14		(Source: P.A. 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)
15		(10 ILCS 5/2A-54) (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-54)
16		Sec. 2A-54. (a) In those cases in which the election to an
17		office is changed by the consolidation of elections to an
18		earlier or later month in the same year or to a different year,
19		the term of any incumbent serving on December 1, 1980 is
20		extended to the first Monday in the first month following the
21		election of his successor and until the successor has
22		qualified, and the term of the successor in office shall
23		commence on that first Monday.
24		The term of office of a person elected at a nonpartisan

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1		election whose term begins before the effective date of this
2		amendatory Act of 1997 shall expire on the date that his or her
3		term would have expired had this amendatory Act of 1997 not
4		been enacted. The term of office of a person elected at a
5		consolidated election held on or after the effective date of
6		this amendatory Act of 1997 to succeed to a term of office of a
7		person elected at a nonpartisan election shall begin upon the
8		termination of the predecessor's term of office. The term of
9		office of a person elected to succeed to a term of office of a
10		person elected at a nonpartisan election shall end after the
11		next consolidated election at which a successor is elected and
12		at the regularly scheduled time for the ending of terms of
13		office as provided in the Act or Acts creating or governing
14		that unit of local government or school district.
15		However, this general provision for the transition of terms
16		of office in relation to the adoption of a uniform schedule of
17		elections shall be subject to the specific provisions for the
18		transition of terms of office in the several Acts creating or
19		governing the creation of various units of local government and
20		school districts, as amended.
21		(b) With respect to the election of members of a board of
22		school directors, board of education, or board of school
23		inspectors being changed from the consolidated election to the
24		general election under this amendatory Act of the 99th General
25		Assembly, the term of any incumbent serving on January 1, 2018
26		is extended until his or her successor is elected and has

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1		qualified.
2		(Source: P.A. 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)
3		Section 10. The School Code is amended by changing Sections
4		9-5, 10-4, 10-10, 10-16, 11E-55, 32-1.1, and 32-2.12 as
5		follows:
6		(105 ILCS 5/9-5) (from Ch. 122, par. 9-5)
7		Sec. 9-5. Election dates and terms of offices.
8		(a) The dates upon which school officer elections shall be
9		held are as established in the general election law. Members of
10		boards of education shall unless otherwise provided serve terms
11		of 4 years.
12		(b) If, at a regularly scheduled election, a proposition is
13		submitted to the voters of a district, as provided by a
14		resolution of the board, on the question of whether board
15		members should serve for 6 year terms and the proposition
16		receives the affirmative vote of those voting thereon, members
17		of the board of education shall thereafter serve for terms of 6
18		years.
19		(c) The term of any incumbent serving on a school board on
20		January 1, 2018 is extended until his or her successor is
21		elected and has qualified as provided under subsection (b) of
22		Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
23		(Source: P.A. 82-1014.)

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1		(105 ILCS 5/10-4) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-4)
2		Sec. 10-4. Election of directors.
3		(a) In all districts, directors shall be elected in each
4		even-numbered odd-numbered year, each for a term of 4 years.
5		(b) In consolidated districts where 5 directors are elected
6		in 1981 pursuant to the extension of terms provided by law for
7		transition to the consolidated election schedule under the
8		general election law, those directors elected shall, by lot,
9		determine 2 of their number to serve 2 years and 3 to serve 4
10		years; their successors shall serve for a 4 year term.
11		(c) If a proposition to increase the membership of a school
12		district's board of school directors to 7 directors and to
13		elect a new 7-member board of school directors to replace the
14		district's existing board of 3 school directors is approved by
15		the electors of the district at a regular scheduled election as
16		provided in subsection (b) of Section 10-1, 7 members shall be
17		elected at the next regular school election, in the manner
18		provided by Article 9, to serve as the board of school
19		directors of that district. The terms of office of the 3
20		members of the board of school directors serving at the time of
21		the election of the initial 7-member board of school directors
22		shall expire when the 7 newly elected members of the initial
23		7-member board of school directors assume office and are
24		organized as provided in Section 10-5. At their organizational
25		meeting, the initial members of the 7-member board of school
26		directors shall by lot determine 4 of their number to serve 4

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1		year terms and 3 of their number to serve 2 year terms. Their
2		successors shall serve for a 4 year term.
3		(d) In all other districts, one school director shall be
4		elected in each district every other even-numbered
5		odd-numbered year, and 2 two school directors shall be elected
6		in the intervening even-numbered odd-numbered years.
7		(e) When a vacancy occurs in the membership of any board of
8		school directors the remaining members shall, within 30 days,
9		fill the vacancy by appointment until the next regular school
10		election, or, upon their failure so to do, the regional
11		superintendent shall make such appointment within the next 30
12		days to fill the vacancy as herein provided. Upon the regional
13		superintendent's failure to fill the vacancy, the vacancy shall
14		be filled at the next regularly scheduled election.
15		(Source: P.A. 90-757, eff. 8-14-98.)
16		(105 ILCS 5/10-10) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-10)
17		Sec. 10-10. Board of education; term; vacancy. All school
18		districts having a population of not fewer than 1,000 and not
19		more than 500,000 inhabitants, as ascertained by any special or
20		general census, and not governed by special Acts, shall be
21		governed by a board of education consisting of 7 members,
22		serving without compensation except as herein provided. Each
23		member shall be elected for a term of 4 years for the initial
24		members of the board of education of a combined school district
25		to which that subsection applies. If 5 members are elected in

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1		1983 pursuant to the extension of terms provided by law for
2		transition to the consolidated election schedule under the
3		general election law, 2 of those members shall be elected to
4		serve terms of 2 years and 3 shall be elected to serve terms of
5		4 years; their successors shall serve for a 4 year term. When
6		the voters of a district have voted to elect members of the
7		board of education for 6 year terms, as provided in Section
8		9-5, the terms of office of members of the board of education
9		of that district expire when their successors assume office but
10		not later than 7 days after such election. If at the regular
11		school election held in the first even-numbered odd-numbered
12		year after the determination to elect members for 6 year terms
13		2 members are elected, they shall serve for a 6 year term; and
14		of the members elected at the next regular school election 3
15		shall serve for a term of 6 years and 2 shall serve a term of 2
16		years. Thereafter members elected in such districts shall be
17		elected to a 6 year term. If at the regular school election
18		held in the first even-numbered odd-numbered year after the
19		determination to elect members for 6 year terms 3 members are
20		elected, they shall serve for a 6 year term; and of the members
21		elected at the next regular school election 2 shall serve for a
22		term of 2 years and 2 shall serve for a term of 6 years.
23		Thereafter members elected in such districts shall be elected
24		to a 6 year term. If at the regular school election held in the
25		first even-numbered odd-numbered year after the determination
26		to elect members for 6 year terms 4 members are elected, 3

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1		shall serve for a term of 6 years and one shall serve for a term
2		of 2 years; and of the members elected at the next regular
3		school election 2 shall serve for terms of 6 years and 2 shall
4		serve for terms of 2 years. Thereafter members elected in such
5		districts shall be elected to a 6 year term. If at the regular
6		school election held in the first even-numbered odd-numbered
7		year after the determination to elect members for a 6 year term
8		5 members are elected, 3 shall serve for a term of 6 years and 2
9		shall serve for a term of 2 years; and of the members elected
10		at the next regular school election 2 shall serve for terms of
11		6 years and 2 shall serve for terms of 2 years. Thereafter
12		members elected in such districts shall be elected to a 6 year
13		term. An election for board members shall not be held in school
14		districts which by consolidation, annexation or otherwise
15		shall cease to exist as a school district within 6 months after
16		the election date, and the term of all board members which
17		would otherwise terminate shall be continued until such
18		district shall cease to exist. Each member, on the date of his
19		or her election, shall be a citizen of the United States of the
20		age of 18 years or over, shall be a resident of the State and
21		the territory of the district for at least one year immediately
22		preceding his or her election, shall be a registered voter as
23		provided in the general election law, shall not be a school
24		trustee, and shall not be a child sex offender as defined in
25		Section 11-9.3 of the Criminal Code of 2012. When the board of
26		education is the successor of the school directors, all rights

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1		of property, and all rights regarding causes of action existing
2		or vested in such directors, shall vest in it as fully as they
3		were vested in the school directors. Terms of members are
4		subject to Section 2A-54 of the Election Code.
5		Nomination papers filed under this Section are not valid
6		unless the candidate named therein files with the county clerk
7		or the county board of election commissioners, as the case may
8		be, of the county in which the principal office of the school
9		district is located a receipt from the county clerk showing
10		that the candidate has filed a statement of economic interests
11		as required by the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Such
12		receipt shall be so filed either previously during the calendar
13		year in which his nomination papers were filed or within the
14		period for the filing of nomination papers in accordance with
15		the general election law.
16		Whenever a vacancy occurs, the remaining members shall
17		notify the regional superintendent of that vacancy within 5
18		days after its occurrence and shall proceed to fill the vacancy
19		until the next regular school election, at which election a
20		successor shall be elected to serve the remainder of the
21		unexpired term. However, if the vacancy occurs with less than
22		868 days remaining in the term, or if the vacancy occurs less
23		than 88 days before the next regularly scheduled election for
24		this office then the person so appointed shall serve the
25		remainder of the unexpired term, and no election to fill the
26		vacancy shall be held. Should they fail so to act, within 45

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1		days after the vacancy occurs, the regional superintendent of
2		schools under whose supervision and control the district is
3		operating, as defined in Section 3-14.2 of this Act, shall
4		within 30 days after the remaining members have failed to fill
5		the vacancy, fill the vacancy as provided for herein. Upon the
6		regional superintendent's failure to fill the vacancy, the
7		vacancy shall be filled at the next regularly scheduled
8		election. Whether elected or appointed by the remaining members
9		or regional superintendent, the successor shall be an
10		inhabitant of the particular area from which his or her
11		predecessor was elected if the residential requirements
12		contained in Section 10-10.5 or 12-2 of this Code apply.
13		A board of education may appoint a student to the board to
14		serve in an advisory capacity. The student member shall serve
15		for a term as determined by the board. The board may not grant
16		the student member any voting privileges, but shall consider
17		the student member as an advisor. The student member may not
18		participate in or attend any executive session of the board.
19		(Source: P.A. 97-1150, eff. 1-25-13; 98-115, eff. 7-29-13.)
20		(105 ILCS 5/10-16) (from Ch. 122, par. 10-16)
21		Sec. 10-16. Organization of Board. Within 28 days after the
22		general consolidated election, other than the consolidated
23		elections in 1999 and 2001, the board shall organize by
24		electing its officers and fixing a time and place for the
25		regular meetings. However, when school board members are

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1		elected at the consolidated elections held in April of 1999 and
2		April of 2001, the board shall organize within 7 days after the
3		first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in each such
4		year by electing officers and setting the time and place of the
5		regular meetings. Upon organizing itself as provided in this
6		paragraph, the board shall enter upon the discharge of its
7		duties.
8		The regional superintendent of schools having supervision
9		and control, as provided in Section 3-14.2, of a new school
10		district that is governed by this the School Code and formed on
11		or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1998
12		shall convene the newly elected board within 7 days after the
13		election of the board of education of that district, whereupon
14		the board shall proceed to organize by electing one of their
15		number as president and electing a secretary, who may or may
16		not be a member. At such meeting the length of term of each of
17		the members shall be determined by lot so that 4 shall serve
18		for 4 years, and 3 for 2 years from the commencement of their
19		terms; provided, however, if such members were not elected at
20		the general consolidated election in an odd-numbered year, such
21		initial terms shall be extended to the general consolidated
22		election for school board members immediately following the
23		expiration of the initial 4 or 2 year terms. The provisions of
24		this paragraph that relate to the determination of terms by lot
25		shall not apply to the initial members of the board of
26		education of a combined school district who are to be elected

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1		to unstaggered terms.
2		The terms of the officers of a board of education shall be
3		for 2 years, except that the terms of the officers elected at
4		the organization meeting in November, 2001 shall expire at the
5		organization meeting in April, 2003; provided that the board by
6		resolution may establish a policy for the terms of office to be
7		one year, and provide for the election of officers.
8		Special meetings of the board of education may be called by
9		the president or by any 3 members of the board by giving notice
10		thereof in writing, stating the time, place and purpose of the
11		meeting. Such notice may be served by mail 48 hours before such
12		meeting or by personal service 24 hours before such meeting.
13		Public notice of meetings must also be given as prescribed in
14		Sections 2.02 and 2.03 of the Open Meetings Act, as now or
15		hereafter amended.
16		At each regular and special meeting which is open to the
17		public, members of the public and employees of the district
18		shall be afforded time, subject to reasonable constraints, to
19		comment to or ask questions of the board.
20		The president or district superintendent shall, at each
21		regular board meeting, report any requests made of the district
22		under provisions of the The Freedom of Information Act and
23		shall report the status of the district's response.
24		(Source: P.A. 93-847, eff. 7-30-04; 94-1019, eff. 7-10-06.)
25		(105 ILCS 5/11E-55)

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1		Sec. 11E-55. Holding of elections.
2		(a) Elections provided by this Article shall be conducted
3		in accordance with the general election law. The regional
4		superintendent of schools shall perform the election duties
5		assigned by law to the secretary of a school board for the
6		election and shall certify the officers and candidates
7		therefore pursuant to the general election law.
8		(b) Nomination papers filed under this Article are not
9		valid unless the candidate named therein files with the
10		regional superintendent of schools a receipt from the county
11		clerk showing that the candidate has filed a statement of
12		economic interests as required by the Illinois Governmental
13		Ethics Act. This receipt shall be so filed either previously
14		during the calendar year in which his or her nomination papers
15		were filed or within the period for the filing of nomination
16		papers in accordance with the general election law.
17		(c)(1) If the petition requests the election of school
18		board members of the school district proposed to be created at
19		the same election at which the proposition to establish that
20		district is to be submitted to voters or if the regional
21		superintendent of schools finds it to be in the best interest
22		of the districts involved to elect school board members of the
23		school district proposed to be created at the same a
24		consolidated election or general primary election, then that
25		fact shall be included in the notice of referendum.
26		(2) If the members of the school board of the school

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1		district proposed to be created are not to be elected at the
2		same election at which the proposition to establish that
3		district is to be submitted to the voters, then the regional
4		superintendent of schools shall order an election to be held on
5		the next regularly scheduled election date for the purpose of
6		electing a school board for that district.
7		(3) In either event, the school board elected for a new
8		school district or districts created under this Article shall
9		consist of 7 members who shall have the terms and the powers
10		and duties of school boards as provided by statute.
11		(d) All notices regarding propositions for reorganization
12		or creation of new school districts under this Article shall be
13		given in accordance with the general election law in
14		substantially the following form:
15		(1) Notice in high school - unit conversion or unit to
16		dual conversion:
17		NOTICE OF REFERENDUM TO DISSOLVE
18		CERTAIN SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND
19		ESTABLISH CERTAIN NEW SCHOOL DISTRICTS
20		NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
21		referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county
22		(counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the
23		proposition to dissolve (here identify the school
24		districts to be dissolved by name and number) and to

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1		establish new school districts for the following described
2		territory: A new (here specify elementary, high school, or
3		unit) district shall be formed from (here describe the
4		territory, which, for territory currently included in an
5		entire school district, may be a general reference to all
6		of the territory included within that particular school
7		district). (Here repeat the territory information for each
8		new school district.)
9		The election is called and will be held pursuant to an
10		order of the Regional Superintendent dated on (insert
11		date), which order states that if a majority of the voters
12		in each of the affected districts voting on the proposition
13		at the referendum vote in favor thereof, the tax rates for
14		various purposes of the new districts shall be as follows:
15		For the new (here specify elementary, high school, or unit)
16		district formed from the territory of (here describe
17		territory, which, for territory currently included in an
18		entire school district, may be a general reference to all
19		of the territory included within that particular
20		district), the tax rates for various purposes shall be
21		(here specify the maximum tax rates for various purposes
22		the proposed school district is authorized to levy and, if
23		applicable, the specifications related to the Property Tax
24		Extension Limitation Law, in accordance with Section
25		11E-80 of this Code). (Here repeat the tax rate information
26		for each new school district.)

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1		Dated (insert date).
2		Regional Superintendent of Schools ..................
3		(2) Notice for combined school district formation:
4		NOTICE OF REFERENDUM
5		TO ESTABLISH COMBINED SCHOOL DISTRICT
6		NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
7		referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county
8		(counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the
9		proposition to establish a combined (here insert
10		elementary, high school, or unit) school district for the
11		following described territory: (here describe the
12		territory, which, for territory currently included in an
13		entire school district, may be a general reference to all
14		of the territory included within that particular school
15		district). The election is called and will be held pursuant
16		to an order of the Regional Superintendent dated on (insert
17		date), which order states that if a majority of the voters
18		in each of the affected school districts voting on the
19		proposition at the referendum vote in favor thereof, the
20		tax rates for various purposes of the proposed combined
21		school district shall be (here specify the maximum tax
22		rates for various purposes the proposed combined school
23		district is authorized to levy and, if applicable, the

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1		specifications related to the Property Tax Extension
2		Limitation Law, in accordance with Section 11E-80 of this
3		Code).
4		Dated (insert date).
5		Regional Superintendent of Schools ..................
6		(3) Notice for unit district formation (other than a
7		partial elementary unit district):
8		NOTICE OF REFERENDUM TO ESTABLISH
9		A COMMUNITY UNIT DISTRICT
10		NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
11		referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county
12		(counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the
13		proposition to establish a unit district for the following
14		described territory: (here describe the territory, which,
15		for territory currently included in an entire school
16		district, may be a general reference to all of the
17		territory included within that particular school
18		district). The election is called and will be held pursuant
19		to an order of the Regional Superintendent dated on (insert
20		date), which order states that if a majority of the voters
21		in each of the affected school districts voting on the
22		proposition at the referendum vote in favor thereof, the
23		tax rates for various purposes for the proposed unit

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1		district shall be (here specify the maximum tax rates for
2		various purposes the proposed unit district shall be
3		authorized to levy and, if applicable, the specifications
4		related to the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, in
5		accordance with Section 11E-80 of this Code).
6		Dated (insert date).
7		Regional Superintendent of Schools ..................
8		(4) Notice for combined high school - unit district
9		formation:
10		NOTICE OF REFERENDUM
11		TO ESTABLISH COMBINED HIGH SCHOOL - UNIT DISTRICT
12		NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
13		referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county
14		(counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the
15		proposition to establish a combined high school - unit
16		district for the following described territory: (here
17		describe the territory, which, for territory currently
18		included in an entire school district, may be a general
19		reference to all of the territory included within that
20		particular school district). The following described
21		territory shall be included in the combined high school -
22		unit district for high school purposes only: (here describe
23		the territory that will be included only for high school

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1		purposes, which, for territory currently included in an
2		entire school district, may be a general reference to all
3		of the territory included within that particular school
4		district). The election is called and will be held pursuant
5		to an order of the Regional Superintendent dated on (insert
6		date), which order states that if a majority of the voters
7		in each of the affected school districts voting on the
8		proposition at the referendum vote in favor thereof, the
9		tax rates for various purposes for the proposed combined
10		high school - unit district shall be (here specify the
11		maximum tax rates for various purposes the proposed
12		combined high school - unit district shall be authorized to
13		levy and, if applicable, the specifications related to the
14		Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, in accordance with
15		Sections 11E-80 and 11E-90 of this Code).
16		Dated (insert date).
17		Regional Superintendent of Schools ..................
18		(5) Notice for multi-unit conversion:
19		NOTICE OF REFERENDUM TO DISSOLVE CERTAIN
20		UNIT SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND ESTABLISH CERTAIN
21		NEW SCHOOL DISTRICTS
22		NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
23		referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county

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1		(counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the
2		proposition to dissolve (here identify the districts to be
3		dissolved by name and number) and to establish new school
4		districts for the following described territory: A new
5		(here specify elementary or combined high school - unit)
6		district shall be formed from (here describe the territory,
7		which, for territory currently included in an entire school
8		district, may be a general reference to all of the
9		territory included within that particular school
10		district). (Here repeat the territory information for each
11		new school district.) The following described territory
12		shall be included in the proposed combined high school -
13		unit district only for high school purposes: (here describe
14		the territory that will only be included for high school
15		purposes, which, for territory currently included in an
16		entire school district, may be a general reference to all
17		of the territory included within that particular school
18		district).
19		The election is called and will be held pursuant to an
20		order of the Regional Superintendent dated on (insert
21		date), which order states that if a majority of the voters
22		in each of the affected districts voting on the proposition
23		at the referendum vote in favor thereof, the tax rates for
24		various purposes of the new districts shall be as follows:
25		For the new elementary district formed from the territory
26		of (here identify the unit district by name and number) the

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1		tax rates for various purposes shall be (here specify the
2		maximum tax rates for various purposes the proposed
3		elementary district is authorized to levy and, if
4		applicable, the specifications related to the Property Tax
5		Extension Limitation Law, in accordance with Section
6		11E-80 of this Code). (Here repeat the tax rate and
7		Property Tax Extension Limitation Law information for each
8		new elementary district.) For the new combined high school -
9		unit district, the tax rates for various purposes shall
10		be (here specify the maximum tax rates for various purposes
11		the proposed combined high school - unit district shall be
12		authorized to levy and, if applicable, the specifications
13		related to the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, in
14		accordance with Sections 11E-80 and 11E-90 of this Code).
15		Dated (insert date).
16		Regional Superintendent of Schools ..................
17		(6) Notice for optional elementary unit district
18		formation:
19		NOTICE OF REFERENDUM TO ESTABLISH
20		AN OPTIONAL ELEMENTARY UNIT DISTRICT
21		NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
22		referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county
23		(counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the

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1		proposition to establish an optional elementary unit
2		district for the following described territory: (here
3		describe the elementary and high school district territory
4		by name and number). If a majority of the voters in one or
5		more of the affected elementary districts and in the
6		affected high school district voting on the proposition at
7		the referendum vote in favor thereof, all of the territory
8		included within the affected high school district shall be
9		included in the optional elementary unit district for high
10		school purposes. However, only the territory of elementary
11		districts in which a majority of the voters voting in the
12		proposition at the referendum vote in favor thereof shall
13		be included in the optional elementary unit district for
14		elementary purposes. The election is called and will be
15		held pursuant to an order of the Regional Superintendent
16		dated on (insert date), which order states that if a
17		majority of the voters in one or more of the affected
18		elementary districts and in the affected high school
19		district voting on the proposition at the referendum vote
20		in favor thereof, the tax rates for various purposes for
21		the proposed optional elementary unit district shall be
22		(here list the maximum tax rates for various purposes the
23		proposed optional elementary unit district is authorized
24		to levy and, if applicable, the specifications related to
25		the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, in accordance
26		with Sections 11E-80 and 11E-95 of this Code).

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1		Dated (insert date).
2		Regional Superintendent of Schools ..................
3		(7) Notice for an elementary district to opt into a
4		partial elementary unit district:
5		NOTICE OF REFERENDUM TO JOIN
6		AN OPTIONAL ELEMENTARY UNIT DISTRICT
7		NOTICE is hereby given that on (insert date), a
8		referendum will be held in part(s) of ....... county
9		(counties) for the purpose of voting for or against the
10		proposition to dissolve an elementary district and join an
11		optional elementary unit district for kindergarten through
12		12 grade-level purposes for all of the territory included
13		within (here identify the elementary district by name and
14		number). The election is called and will be held pursuant
15		to an order of the Regional Superintendent dated on (insert
16		date), which order states that if a majority of the voters
17		in the elementary school district voting on the proposition
18		at the referendum vote in favor thereof, the tax rates for
19		various purposes for the optional elementary unit district
20		shall be (here list the maximum tax rates for various
21		purposes the optional elementary unit district is
22		authorized to levy and, if applicable, the specifications
23		related to the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law, in

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1		accordance with Sections 11E-80 and 11E-95 of this Code)
2		and the elementary district, prior to dissolution, shall
3		issue funding bonds pursuant to Sections 19-8 and 19-9 of
4		the School Code to liquidate any operational deficit or
5		debt incurred or accumulated since the date of the election
6		in which the proposition to form the optional elementary
7		unit district passed.
8		Dated (insert date).
9		Regional Superintendent of Schools ....................
10		(Source: P.A. 94-1019, eff. 7-10-06.)
11		(105 ILCS 5/32-1.1) (from Ch. 122, par. 32-1.1)
12		Sec. 32-1.1. Election and powers of board - No provision in
13		special act. In all special charter districts maintaining
14		schools under any general school laws, where there is no
15		provision in the special Acts creating such districts for the
16		election of boards of education as otherwise provided, there
17		shall be elected, in lieu of the school directors as now
18		provided, a board of education, to consist of 7 members to be
19		elected at the time and in the manner as provided by the
20		general election law for the election and qualification of
21		boards of education in other cases. In any district having a
22		population of more than 100,000 but less than 2,000,000 such
23		board may be increased in size to 11 members upon adoption by a
24		majority of electors residing in the district and voting on the
25		question in a referendum as provided in this Section. Such

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1		question shall be submitted to the electors at an election upon
2		a resolution adopted by the Board. Members shall be elected
3		biennially in the school district, whose term of office shall
4		be 4 years, and there shall also be elected in each
5		even-numbered odd-numbered year a president of the board.
6		Following the first such election, those members elected, other
7		than the president, shall, by lot, determine 3 to serve 2 years
8		and 3 to serve 4 years; thereafter, all terms shall be 4 years.
9		In other cases, however, if 4 members, other than the
10		president, are elected in 1983, then those elected shall, by
11		lot, determine one to serve for 2 years and 3 to serve 4 years;
12		thereafter all terms shall be 4 years. In neither case shall
13		such determinations affect the biennial selection of the
14		president. At the first regular school election after the
15		adoption by the district electors of a question as provided in
16		this Section increasing the size of the board in those
17		districts entitled to exercise an option for and elect an 11
18		member board, 4 additional members shall be elected and shall
19		determine by lot 2 to serve for 2 years and 2 for 4 years. Their
20		successors shall serve for a 4 year term. In case of an 11
21		member board already in existence, if 7 members, other than the
22		president, are elected in 1983 then those members elected
23		shall, by lot determine one to serve 2 years and 6 to serve 4
24		years. Terms thereafter shall be 4 years. The board of
25		education shall have all the powers and duties of trustees of
26		schools in school townships and the powers and duties of boards

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1		of education in districts having a population of not fewer than
2		1,000 and not more than 500,000 as provided by this Act.
3		The day upon which the election provided for in this
4		section is to be held is subject to the provisions of the
5		general election law.
6		(Source: P.A. 86-225.)
7		(105 ILCS 5/32-2.12) (from Ch. 122, par. 32-2.12)
8		Sec. 32-2.12. Time for election of board members. In all
9		special charter districts, the regular election of members of
10		such boards shall hereafter be held on the date set for school
11		elections as provided in the general election law in odd
12		numbered years.
13		(Source: P.A. 81-1490.)
14		Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January
15		1, 2018.