65 ILCS 5/5-5-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 5 - Managerial Form Of Municipal Government

 (from Ch. 24, par. 5-5-1)Sec. 5-5-1. Petition for abandonment of managerial form; referendum;  succeeding elections of officers and alderpersons or trustees.(a) A city or village that has operated for 4  years or more under the  managerial form of municipal government may abandon that  organization as provided in this Section. For the purposes of this  Article, the  operation of the managerial form of municipal government shall be deemed  to begin on the date of the appointment of the first manager in  the city or village. When a petition for abandonment  signed by electors of the  municipality equal in number to at least 10% of the number of votes cast  for candidates for mayor at the preceding general quadrennial municipal  election is filed with the circuit court for the county in which that  city or village is located, the court shall set a date not less than 10  nor more than 30 days thereafter for a hearing on the sufficiency of the  petition. Notice of the filing of the petition and of the date of the  hearing shall be given in writing to the city or village clerk and to  the mayor or village president at least 7 days before the date of the  hearing. If the petition is found sufficient, the court shall enter an  order directing that the  proposition be submitted at an election other than a primary election for  the municipality. The clerk of the court shall certify the proposition to  the proper election authorities for submission.  The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:Shall (name of city or village) retain the managerial     form of municipal government?(b) If the majority of the votes at the  election are "yes", then the  proposition to abandon is rejected and the municipality shall continue  operating under this Article 5. If the majority of the votes are "no",  then the proposition to abandon operation under this Article 5 is  approved.(c) If the proposition for abandonment is approved, the city or village  shall become subject to Article 3.1 or Article 4,  whichever Article was in force in the city or village  immediately before the adoption of the plan authorized by this Article 5, upon the  election and qualification of officers to be elected at the next  succeeding general municipal election.  Those officers shall be those  prescribed by Article 3.1 or Article 4, as the case may be, but the  change shall not in any manner or degree affect the property rights or  liabilities of the city or village. The mayor, clerk, and treasurer and  all other elected officers of a city or village in office at the time  the proposition for abandonment is approved shall continue in office  until the expiration of the term for which they were elected.(d) If a city or village operating under this Article 5 has alderpersons or  trustees elected from wards or districts and a proposition to abandon operation under this Article 5 is approved, then the officers  to be elected at the next  succeeding general municipal election shall be elected from the same  wards or districts as exist immediately before the abandonment.(e) If a city or village operating under this Article 5 has a council or  village board elected from the municipality at large and a proposition  to abandon operation under this Article 5 is approved, then  the first group of alderpersons,  board of trustees, or commissioners so elected shall be of the same  number as was provided for in the municipality at the time of the  adoption of a plan under this Article 5, with the same ward or district  boundaries in cities or villages that immediately before the adoption  of this Article 5 had wards or districts, unless the municipal  boundaries have been changed. If there has been such a change,  the council or village board shall so alter the former ward or district  boundaries so as to conform as nearly as possible to the former  division. If the plan authorized by this Article 5 is  abandoned, the next general municipal election for officers shall be  held at the time specified in Section 3.1-10-75 or  3.1-25-15 for that  election. The alderpersons or trustees elected at that election shall, if  the city or village was operating under Article 3 at the time of  adoption of this Article 5 and had at that time staggered 4 year terms  of office for the alderpersons or trustees, choose by lot which shall serve  initial 2 year terms as provided by Section 3.1-20-35 or  3.1-15-5, whichever  may be applicable, in the case of election of those officers at  the first  election after a municipality is incorporated.(f) The proposition to abandon the managerial form of municipal  government shall not be submitted in any city or village oftener than  once in 46 months.  (Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)