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HB7263 Engrossed |
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LRB093 21391 JAM 48015 b |
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| AN ACT concerning flag displays.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Flag Display Act is amended by changing |
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| Section 1 as follows:
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| (5 ILCS 465/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3301)
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| Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of each county
board to
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| provide United States national flags of not less than four by |
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| eight feet
in size, to be unfurled and kept floating from a |
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| suitable flag-staff to
be placed on the top of the court house |
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| in its respective
county,
and it is hereby made the duty of the |
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| sheriff of each and every county
in the state to see that the |
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| flag so provided shall be hoisted on its
flag-staff above the |
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| court house and kept floating from eight o'clock A.
M. to five |
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| o'clock P. M. on each and every legal holiday of the year,
and |
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| on such other days as the county board may direct.
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| The county board may provide for the display of an MIA flag |
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| at the court house in its county, either upon the same |
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| flag-staff as the United States national flag or otherwise.
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| (Source: P.A. 86-1028.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
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| becoming law.
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