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55 ILCS 5/2-3015 (2026)

Qualifications of County Board Members and Commissioners

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(55 ILCS 5/2-3015)
    Sec. 2-3015. Qualifications of County Board Members and Commissioners. In counties with a population of 3,000,000 or less, no person is eligible to hold the office of county board member or commissioner unless he or she is a legal voter and has been a resident of the county for at least one year next preceding the election.
(Source: P.A. 90-173, eff. 1-1-98.)


 
    (55 ILCS 5/Div. 2-4 heading)
Division 2-4. Counties not under Township Organization
Organized as a Commission Form of Government
(Source: P.A. 100-107, eff. 1-1-18.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2005–2022 · leading case: People Ex Rel. Madigan v. Baumgartner, 823 N.E.2d 1144 (Ill. App. Ct. 2005).
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People Ex Rel. Madigan v. Baumgartner, 823 N.E.2d 1144 (Ill. App. Ct. 2005). · cites it 2× “55 ILCS 5/2-3015 (West 2002). The indictment charges that defendant made a false statement in a required affidavit by stating that his address was R.”
Kloeppel v. Champaign Cnty. Bd., 2021 IL App (4th) 210091 (Ill. App. Ct. 2021). “And to know who is eligible to serve on a county board, one has to go outside the County Executive Law to other provisions in the Counties Code, presumably sections 2-3015 and 2-4010 (55 ILCS 5/2-3015, 2-4010 (West 2020)). Indeed, the County Executive Law makes no provision for…”
Sbarra-Hagee v. Lake Cnty. Electoral Bd., 2022 IL App (2d) 220193 (Ill. App. Ct. 2022). “¶ 20 The last statutory provision that the parties disagree on is section 2-3015 of the Counties Code (55 ILCS 5/2-3015 (West 2020)). Section 2-3015 provides: “In counties with a population of 3,000,000 or less, no person is eligible to hold the office of county board member or…”
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