(70 ILCS 1710/6.5) (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a delayed effective date) Sec. 6.5. Commission membership. (a) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly, the Commission shall consist of 33 commissioners, 27 of whom shall be voting members and 6 of whom shall be nonvoting, at-large members. (1) The 27 voting members of the Commission shall consist of the following commissioners: (A) the chairman of the Bond County Board, the chairman of the Clinton County Board, the chairman of the Monroe County Board, the chairman of the Randolph County Board, the chairman of the Washington County Board, the chairman of the Madison County Board, and the chairman of the St. Clair County Board shall each serve as a commissioner during their respective terms of office; (B) the chairman of the Bond County Board, the chairman of the Clinton County Board, the chairman of the Monroe County Board, the chairman of the Randolph County Board, and the chairman of the Washington County Board shall each appoint 2 commissioners; the commissioners appointed under this subparagraph (B) shall be either elected or appointed officials of the county board or a unit of local government in the county that appointed them; (C) the chairman of the Madison County Board and the chairman of the St. Clair County Board shall each appoint 3 commissioners; the commissioners appointed under this subparagraph (C) shall be either elected or appointed officials of the county board or a unit of local government in the county that appointed them; (D) the board of the America's Central Port District and the board of Kaskaskia Regional Port District shall each appoint one commissioner; (E) the Southwestern Illinois Council of Mayors shall appoint one commissioner from among its members; and (F) the board of the Metro East Sanitary District shall appoint one commissioner from among its members. (2) The 6 nonvoting at-large members of the Commission shall reside in the Metropolitan and Regional Counties Area and be appointed as follows: (A) one member appointed by the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity; (B) one member appointed by the executive committee of the Southwestern Illinois Leadership Council; (C) one member appointed by the Board of Commissioners of the Bi-State Development Agency; (D) one member appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Madison County Transit District; (E) one member appointed by the Board of Trustees of the St. Clair County Transit District; and (F) one member appointed by the Board of Directors of the East-West Gateway Council of Governments. (b) Commissioners appointed under subparagraphs (B), (C), (D), (E), and (F) of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) and Commissioners appointed under subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E) of paragraph (2) of subsection (a) shall serve 4-year terms. Persons appointed under subparagraphs (B), (C), (D), (E), and (F) of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) and Commissioners appointed under subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E) of paragraph (2) of subsection (a) may be reappointed. (c) If a vacancy occurs by reason of death, resignation, or otherwise among the commissioners, then the authority that appointed the commissioner shall appoint a replacement within 90 days. (d) Commissioners appointed under subparagraphs (B), (C), (D), (E), or (F) of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) and paragraph (2) of subsection (a) shall be residents of the Metropolitan and Regional Counties Area and shall meet all other required qualifications as required in this Act.
(Source: P.A. 104-791, eff. 1-1-27.)