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70 ILCS 3205/2
(70 ILCS 3205/2) (from Ch. 85, par. 6002)
Sec. 2.
Definitions; general provisions.
In this Act the
following words have the meanings indicated:
(A) "Authority" means the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority.
(B) "Facility" means:
(1) Stadiums, arenas or other structures for the | | holding of athletic contests and other events and gatherings, including, without limitation, baseball, football and automobile racing; musical, dramatic and other artistic, cultural or social events; public meetings; and other public events; and
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(2) Practice fields, or other areas where
| | professional sports teams and other sports teams may practice or perform.
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(3) "Facility" also means the following types of
| | property if that property is related to or located near an item listed in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (B) of this Section:
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(i) Offices, parking lots and garages, access
| | roads, streets, intersections, highway interchanges, pedestrian walkways, tunnels, and bridges, transportation facilities, monuments, restaurants, stores, and other facilities providing goods and services to persons attending meetings, contests, gatherings or events at the facility;
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(ii) Other recreation areas and recreational
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(iii) Other property or structures including all
| | fixtures, furnishings, and appurtenances normally associated with such facilities; and
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(iv) Landscaping,
parks, and open spaces.
(C) "Governmental Owner" means a body politic, public corporation,
political subdivision, unit of local government, or municipality formed under
the laws of the State of Illinois, including, without limitation, the
Chicago Park District, that owns or is
to own a facility located within the corporate limits of the Authority
described in
Section 11 of this Act and to which the Authority provides financial
assistance.
Where the title to all or any part of a
facility is held by a public building commission because the public building
commission has financed, under the
authority of the Public Building Commission Act, the acquisition of real
estate
or the construction, acquisition, or enlargement of improvements to real
estate,
or both, for any body politic, public corporation, political subdivision, unit
of local government, or municipality formed under the laws of the State of
Illinois,
the term "governmental owner" when used with respect to that
facility means the body politic, public corporation, political
subdivision, unit of local government, or municipality rather than the public
building commission.
(D) "Management Agreement" means a legally binding contract between the
Authority and a tenant of a facility owned by the Authority,
which contains at least the
following provisions:
(1) a provision requiring the tenant to conduct its
| | complete regular home season schedule and any home playoff events in the facility;
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(2) a provision requiring the tenant to provide
| | routine maintenance of and to operate the facility with its personnel or contractors;
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(3) a provision requiring the tenant to advertise and
| | promote events it conducts at the facility;
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(4) a provision requiring the tenant to operate or
| | contract for concessions for the patrons of the facility, including a stadium club and restaurant where food and beverages will be served; and
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(5) a provision permitting the Authority or its
| | designee to hold other events in any such facility owned by the Authority at such times as shall not unreasonably interfere with the use of that facility by the tenant.
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(E) "Assistance Agreement" means one or more legally binding contracts,
with respect to a facility for which the Authority is to provide financial
assistance as provided in this Act, to which the Authority and a governmental
owner of a facility or its tenant, or both, and any other appropriate persons
are parties, which may be in the form of an
intergovernmental agreement.
(F) "Financial Assistance" means the use by the Authority, pursuant to an
assistance agreement, of its powers under this Act, including, without
limitation, the power to borrow money, to issue bonds and notes, to impose an
occupation tax as provided in Section 19 of this Act and to receive and expend
the proceeds of that tax, to assist a governmental owner or its tenant, or
both, with one or more of the following: designing, developing, establishing,
constructing, erecting, acquiring, repairing, reconstructing, renovating,
remodeling,
adding to, extending, improving, equipping, operating, and maintaining a
facility owned or to be owned by the governmental owner.
(G) "Tenant" means any person with which a governmental owner or the
Authority has entered into an agreement for the use by a professional sports
team or other sports team of any facility. Such an agreement may be a
management agreement or an
assistance agreement or may be a lease of or a license,
permit, or similar agreement with respect to the use of a facility by such team
for such
period as shall be agreed upon by the person and the governmental owner or the
Authority, as the case may be.
(Source: P.A. 91-935, eff. 6-1-01.)
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