The Board of Trustees finds that following recent high-profile
misrepresentations of personal experience among candidates for elective
office, additional measures are necessary to ensure that members of
the public can be confident that their local elected officials have
the experience that they profess to have obtained. Candidates for
the elected positions of Mayor and Trustee will be required to complete
a candidate disclosure form providing biographical information, including
the candidate's educational, military and employment histories.
Such forms will be available to the public except for that information
which is required to be withheld pursuant to state or federal law.
The candidate disclosure form shall be subject to public disclosure
in its entirety other than information that is subject to redaction
pursuant to state or federal law.
A candidate or appointee may request an advisory opinion from the Board of Ethics in the same manner as set out in §
17-5E of the Village Code and the Policies and Procedures of the Board of Ethics.
The provisions of this chapter are separable and if any provision,
clause, sentence, subsection, work or part thereof is held illegal,
invalid or unconstitutional, or inapplicable to any person or circumstance,
such illegality, invalidity or unconstitutionality, or inapplicability
shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, clauses,
sentences, subsections, words or parts of this chapter. It is hereby
declared to be the legislative intent that this chapter would have
been adopted if such illegal, invalid or unconstitutional provision,
clause, sentence, subsection, word or part had not been included therein.
This chapter shall take effect upon filing with the Secretary
of State pursuant to the Municipal Home Rule Law.