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PROPOSED ORDINANCE
NEW RULES OF ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners that Chapter 2 Administration, Article III of the Cook County Code, is hereby repealed and enacted as follows:
ARTICLE III. - COUNTY BOARD
DIVISION 1. - GENERALLY
Sec. 2-71. - Definitions.
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
(a) Board or County Board means the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
(b) Commissioner means any duly elected or duly appointed Cook County Board Commissioner, and means the same as "member" of the Board.
(c) Committee means a committee of the Board and includes a standing committee, a special committee and a standing or special subcommittee of a committee.
(d) Clerk means the Clerk of the County Board who has been appointed by the County Clerk.
(e) Committee of the whole means a committee comprised of all Commissioners as required by this division.
(f) President means the President of the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
(g) Secretary means the Secretary of the Board who has been appointed by the President.
(h) Term means the four-year term of office established by State law for the President and the Commissioners.
Sec. 2-72. - Vacancies.
(a) If a vacancy occurs in the Office of Commissioner, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the appropriate district committee of the political party in the County Board District of which the incumbent was a candidate at the time of the candidate's election. If the incumbent Commissioner was appointed to the position, then such vacancy shall be filled by appointment of the appropriate district committee of the political party in the County Board District which appointed the incumbent. The appointee shall be of the same political party that the incumbent Commissioner was at the time of e...
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