105 ILCS 5/6-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 6 - Regional Board of School Trustees

 (from Ch. 122, par. 6-2)Sec. 6-2. Regional board; creation; membership; abolition and  transfer of duties.(a) There is created a regional board of school trustees for that territory  in each educational service region exclusive of any school district organized  under Article 34 and exclusive of any school district whose school board has  been given the powers of school trustees; provided that on the effective date  of this amendatory Act of 1992 the regional board of school trustees  theretofore created and existing for any territory in an educational service  region containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants is abolished, the terms of  office of all members of the regional board of school trustees so abolished are  terminated on that effective date, and from and after that effective date all  rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities that were vested in or required by  law to be exercised and performed by the former regional board of school  trustees shall be vested in and exercised and performed by the successors to  the former regional board of school trustees as provided in subsection (b) of  this Section 6-2. Any school district whose board of education acts as a board  of school trustees shall have within its district the powers and duties of a  regional board of school trustees.Unless abolished as provided in this Section, the regional board of  school trustees, in both single county and multi-county  educational service regions, shall consist of 7 members. In single county  regions not more than one trustee may be a resident of any one congressional  township; however, in case there are fewer than 7 congressional townships  in the region then not more than two of such trustees may be residents of  the same congressional township. Notwithstanding the foregoing residency provision, in a single county region with a population of greater than 750,000 inhabitants, but less than 1,200,000 inhabitants, 2 trustees may be residents of the same congressional township if and only if such trustees were elected at the April 9, 2013 consolidated election. In 2 county regions at least 2 trustees  shall be residents of each county. In 3 or more county regions at least  one trustee shall be a resident of each county. If more than 7 counties  constitute the educational service region, the regional board of school  trustees shall consist of one resident of each county.The regional board of school trustees shall be a body politic and corporate  by the name of "Regional Board of School Trustees of.... County (or Counties),  Illinois." Such corporation shall have perpetual existence with power to  sue and be sued and to plead and be impleaded in all courts and places where  judicial proceedings are had.(b) Upon the abolition of the regional board of school trustees and  the termination of the terms of office of the members of that former  regional board of school trustees in an educational service region  containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants as provided in subsection (a), the  trustees of schools of each township included within the territory of that  educational service region that was served by the former regional board of  school trustees, or if any such township is a township referred to in  subsection (b) of Section 5-1 and there are no trustees of schools acting  in that township then the school board of each school district located in  that township, shall be the successors to the former regional board of  school trustees.  As successors to the former regional board of school  trustees, the trustees of schools of each such township and the school  board of each such school district, with respect to all territory included  within the school township or school district served by the trustees of  schools of the township or school board, shall be vested with and shall  exercise and perform all rights, powers, duties, and responsibilities  formerly held, exercised, and performed with respect to that territory by  the regional board of school trustees abolished under subsection (a) of this Section.Upon abolition of the regional board of school trustees in an educational  service region having 2,000,000 or more inhabitants as provided in  subsection (a) of this Section, all books, records, maps, papers,  documents, equipment, supplies, accounts, deposits, and other personal  property belonging to or subject to the control or disposition of the  former regional board of school trustees (excepting only such items as may  have been provided by the county board) shall be transferred and delivered  to the trustees of schools of the townships and the school boards that are  the successors to the former regional board of school trustees for the  territory included within their respective school townships or school  districts.From and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1992, any  reference in the School Code or any other law of this State to the regional  board of school trustees or county board of school trustees shall mean,  with respect to all territory within an educational service region  containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants that formerly was served by a  regional board of school trustees abolished under subsection (a) of this  Section, the trustees of schools of the township or the school board of the  school district that is the successor to the former regional board of  school trustees with respect to the territory included within that school  township or school district.  (Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 7-29-13.)