Public Act 0697 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Public Act 093-0697

HB7263 Enrolled

LRB093 21391 JAM 48015 b

AN ACT concerning flag displays.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,

represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Flag Display Act is amended by changing

Section 1 as follows:

(5 ILCS 465/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3301)

Sec. 1.

It shall be the duty of each county
board to

provide United States national flags of not less than four by

eight feet
in size, to be unfurled and kept floating from a

suitable flag-staff to
be placed on the top of the court house

in its respective
county,
and it is hereby made the duty of the

sheriff of each and every county
in the state to see that the

flag so provided shall be hoisted on its
flag-staff above the

court house and kept floating from eight o'clock A.
M. to five

o'clock P. M. on each and every legal holiday of the year,
and

on such other days as the county board may direct.

The county board may provide for the display of an MIA flag

at the court house in its county, either upon the same

flag-staff as the United States national flag or otherwise.

(Source: P.A. 86-1028.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon

becoming law.