(310 ILCS 5/42) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 192)
Sec. 42. In addition to the rights, powers and duties of the Department under this Act, it has the following powers and duties with respect to housing authorities created pursuant to "An Act in relation to housing authorities", approved March 19, 1934, as amended:
Whenever the Department issues a certificate for the creation of a housing authority in any county or in any city, village or incorporated town having more than twenty-five thousand inhabitants, the presiding officer of the county or of the city, village or incorporated town, as the case may be, shall as soon as possible thereafter, appoint with the approval of the Department five commissioners with initial terms of one, two, three, four and five years. Upon the approval of such appointments, the Department shall cause a certificate of such appointments and its approval thereof to be filed in the office in which deeds of property in the county are recorded. The appointment of any succeeding commissioners of a housing authority shall be subject to similar approval; and each such appointment shall be effective upon the filing by the Department of a certificate of appointment and of its approval thereof as hereinbefore provided.
No officer or employee of the Department shall be eligible to serve as a commissioner of a housing authority.
(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)
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