SB1926 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB1926

Introduced 2/20/2015, by Sen. Kwame Raoul

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

745 ILCS 10/1-206

from Ch. 85, par. 1-206

Amends the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act. Provides that "local public entity" includes any not-for-profit corporation authorized by agreement with a local governmental body to operate a museum, zoological park, horticultural park or garden, aquarium, or other cultural institution on land owned by a municipality, county, park district, or forest preserve district. Provides that the changes are declarative of existing law.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning civil law.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act is amended by changing Section 1-206 as follows:

(745 ILCS 10/1-206) (from Ch. 85, par. 1-206)

Sec. 1-206. "Local public entity" includes a county, township, municipality, municipal corporation, school district, school board, educational service region, regional board of school trustees, trustees of schools of townships, treasurers of schools of townships, community college district, community college board, forest preserve district, park district, fire protection district, sanitary district, museum district, emergency telephone system board, and all other local governmental bodies. "Local public entity" also includes library systems and any intergovernmental agency or similar entity formed pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Illinois or the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act as well as any not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of conducting public business, including any not-for-profit corporation authorized by agreement with a local governmental body to operate a museum, zoological park, horticultural park or garden, aquarium, or other cultural institution on land owned by a municipality, county, park district, or forest preserve district. It does not include the State or any office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, commission, university or similar agency of the State.

The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly do not apply to an action or proceeding accruing on or before its effective date. The changes made by this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly are declarative of existing law.

(Source: P.A. 94-424, eff. 8-2-05.)