AMENDMENTS PROPOSED
Constitution of the State of Illinois
TRANSITION SCHEDULE
The following Schedule Provisions shall remain part of this Constitution until their terms have been executed. Once each year the Attorney General shall review the following provisions and certify to the Secretary of State which, if any, have been executed. Any provisions so certified shall thereafter be removed from the Schedule and no longer published as part of this Constitution. Section 1. (Removed) Section 2. Prospective Operation of Bill of Rights. Section 3. (Removed) Section 4. Judicial Offices. Section 5. Local Government. Section 6. Authorized Bonds. Section 7. (Removed) Section 8. Cumulative Voting for Directors. Section 9. General Transition. Section 10. (Removed) (Source: Illinois Constitution.) SECTION 2. PROSPECTIVE OPERATION OF BILL OF RIGHTS Any rights, procedural or substantive, created for the first time by Article I shall be prospective and not retroactive. (Source: Illinois Constitution.) SECTION 4. JUDICIAL OFFICES (a) On the effective date of this Constitution, Associate Judges and magistrates shall become Circuit Judges and Associate Judges, respectively, of their Circuit Courts. All laws and rules of court theretofore applicable to Associate Judges and magistrates shall remain in force and be applicable to the persons in their new offices until changed by the General Assembly or the Supreme Court, as the case may be. (b) (Removed) (c) (Removed) (d) Until otherwise provided by law and except to the extent that the authority is inconsistent with Section 8 of Article VII, the Circuit Courts shall continue to exercise the non-judicial functions vested by law as of December 31, 1963, in county courts or the judges thereof. (Source: Illinois Constitution.) SECTION 5. LOCAL GOVERNMENT (a) The number of members of a county board in a county which, as of the effective date of this Constitution, elects three members at large may be changed only as approved by county-wide referendum. If the number of members of such a county board is changed by county-wide referendum, the provisions of Section 3(a) of Article VII relating to the number of members of a county board shall govern thereafter. (b) In Cook County, until (1) a method of election of county board members different from the method in existence on the effective date of this Constitution is approved by a majority of votes cast both in Chicago and in the area outside Chicago in a county-wide referendum or (2) the Cook County Board by ordinance divides the county into single member districts from which members of the County Board resident in each district are elected, the number of members of the Cook County Board shall be fifteen except that the county board may increase the number if necessary to comply with apportionment requirements. If either of the foregoing changes is made, the provisions of Section 3(a) of Article VII shall apply thereafter to Cook County. (c) Townships in existence on the effective date of this Constitution are continued until consolidated, merged, divided or dissolved in accordance with Section 5 of Article VII. (Source: Illinois Constitution.) SECTION 6. AUTHORIZED BONDS Nothing in Section 9 of Article IX shall be construed to limit or impair the power to issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness authorized but unissued on the effective date of this Constitution. (Source: Illinois Constitution.) SECTION 8. CUMULATIVE VOTING FOR DIRECTORS Shareholders of all corporations heretofore organized under any law of this State which requires cumulative voting of shares for corporate directors shall retain their right to vote cumulatively for such directors. (Source: Illinois Constitution.) SECTION 9. GENERAL TRANSITION The rights and duties of all public bodies shall remain as if this Constitution had not been adopted with the exception of such changes as are contained in this Constitution. All laws, ordinances, regulations and rules of court not contrary to, or inconsistent with, the provisions of this Constitution shall remain in force, until they shall expire by their own limitation or shall be altered or repealed pursuant to this Constitution. The validity of all public and private bonds, debts and contracts, and of all suits, actions and rights of action, shall continue as if no change had taken place. All officers filling any office by election or appointment shall continue to exercise the duties thereof, until their offices shall have been abolished or their successors selected and qualified in accordance with this Constitution or laws enacted pursuant thereto. (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
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