70 ILCS 1205/2-18
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 2 - Organization--Elections

 (from Ch. 105, par. 2-18)Sec. 2-18. (a) Except for the Fox Valley Park District on and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly, in any Pleasure Driveway and Park District in which the legal voters  have heretofore determined that the governing board shall be appointed,  such method shall continue in effect and the board shall consist of 7  trustees. In such case and if the district is wholly contained within  a single county the trustees shall be appointed by the presiding officer of the  county board with the advice and consent of the county board.  If the district is located in more than one county, the number of  trustees who are residents of a county shall be in  proportion, as nearly as practicable, to the number of  residents of the district who reside in that county in  relation to the total population of the district, except that the board of  trustees  may determine that one trustee is to be appointed from each county within  the district, such appointment to be made by the appropriate appointing  authority as hereinafter provided.  Each trustee shall be  appointed by the county board of his  or her county of residence, or in the case of a home rule  county, by the chief executive officer of the county with  the advice and consent of the county board.(b) Upon the expiration of the term of a trustee who is  in office at the time of the publication of each decennial Federal census  of population, the successor shall be a resident of whichever county is  entitled to such representation as determined under subsection (a), and he  shall be appointed by the county board of that county, or  in the case of a home rule county as defined by Article VII, Section 6  of the Illinois Constitution, the chief executive officer of that county,  with the advice and consent of the county board. Thereafter, each  trustee shall be succeeded by a resident of the same county who shall  be appointed by the same appointing authority.  The appropriate appointing authority  shall appoint trustees biennially for such district on the first Monday in July, to  fill the vacancies on the board of trustees caused by the expiration of the term of  office of trustees and the trustees shall be legal voters and reside within  the park district; provided, that no more than 4 trustees at any one time  shall belong to the same political party. Each of the trustees shall receive  a certificate of appointment and qualify within 10 days from the receipt of  notice of appointment.Trustees shall be appointed for a period of 4 years and shall hold  their office until their successors are appointed and qualified.Whenever a vacancy is created other than by the expiration of a  trustee's term of office, it shall be filled by the appropriate appointing  authority as provided in subsection (a).All trustees appointed for any park district, as herein provided, shall  have and exercise all the powers conferred upon trustees elected under the  provisions of this Code.In a Pleasure Driveway and Park District the trustees of which are  appointed as herein provided, whenever a provision in this Code or any other  applicable law authorizes  a public question of any kind to be submitted to the electors of the district at an  election, a petition by electors of the district asking that such question  be submitted shall be signed by a number of registered voters of  such district equal to not less than 10% of the number of registered voters in  the district as of the last preceding regular election.  (Source: P.A. 98-772, eff. 7-16-14.)