Section 2-118. Committees; vacancies, how filled and effect of change of boundaries  


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  • 1. In the case of  the  death,  declination,  enrollment  in
      another  party, removal from the unit or removal from office of a member
      of a committee, or the failure  to  nominate  or  elect  a  member,  the
      vacancy  created thereby shall be filled by the remaining members of the
      committee by the selection of an enrolled voter of the  party  qualified
      for election from the unit of representation in which such vacancy shall
      have  occurred.  When a state committee fills a vacancy pursuant to this
      subdivision, the chairman or secretary of such committee  shall,  within
      ten days after such vacancy is filled, file a certificate with the state
      board  of  elections  setting  forth  the  name,  address,  and  unit of
      representation of the person so selected.
        2. If the boundaries of any unit of representation  be  changed  after
      the  election  of  members  of  a  state  committee or assembly district
      leaders or associate assembly district leaders, the  terms  of  members,
      assembly district leaders or associate assembly district leaders elected
      in  such  units  of representation and the units of representation which
      such members, assembly district leaders or associate  assembly  district
      leaders  represent  shall  continue  until  the next regularly scheduled
      election for  such  party  positions  and  until  their  successors  are
      elected.
        3.  The  county committee, upon its organization after the election of
      its members, or at any time thereafter, may determine that a vacancy  or
      vacancies  in  such  committee  exists  by  reason of an increase in the
      number of election districts within the county occasioned by a change of
      the boundaries of one or more election districts,  taking  effect  after
      such  election, and may determine the districts that the elected members
      shall represent until  the  next  election  at  which  members  of  such
      committee  are elected. A vacancy so determined to exist shall be filled
      as provided in subdivision one.