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92_SB0188eng
SB188 Engrossed LRB9203851NTsb
1 AN ACT with regard to 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 Section 11-4.1 as follows:
6 (10 ILCS 5/11-4.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 11-4.1)
7 Sec. 11-4.1. (a) In appointing polling places under this
8 Article, the county board or board of election commissioners
9 shall, insofar as they are convenient and available, use
10 schools and other public buildings as polling places.
11 (b) Upon request of the county board or board of
12 election commissioners, the proper agency of government
13 (including school districts and units of local government)
14 shall make a public building under its control available for
15 use as a polling place on an election day and for a
16 reasonably necessary time before and after election day,
17 without charge, unless such use is impossible. If the county
18 board or board of election commissioners chooses a school to
19 be a polling place, then the school district must make the
20 school available for use as a polling place. However, for
21 the day of the election, a school district may choose to (i)
22 keep the school open or (ii) hold a teachers institute on
23 that day.
24 (c) A government agency which makes a public building
25 under its control available for use as a polling place shall
26 ensure the portion of the building to be used as the polling
27 place is accessible to handicapped and elderly voters.
28 (Source: P.A. 84-1467.)
29 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
30 becoming law.
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