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| 1 | AN ACT concerning government. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Section 5. The Time Standardization Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 1 as follows: | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | (5 ILCS 440/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3201) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 1. (a)(1) This subsection (a) becomes inoperative if | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | subsection (b) becomes operative. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | (2) At two o'clock ante meridian of the second Sunday in | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | March of each year, the standard time in this State shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | advanced one hour, and at two o'clock ante meridian of the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | first Sunday in November of each year the standard time in this | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | State shall, by the retarding of one hour, be made to coincide | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | with the mean astronomical time of the ninety degrees of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | longitude West from Greenwich, the standard official time of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | which is described as United States standard central time, so | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | that between the second Sunday of March at two o'clock ante | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | meridian in each year and the first Sunday in November at two | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | o'clock ante meridian in each year the standard time in this | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | State shall be one hour in advance of the United States | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | standard central time: Provided, however, that nothing in this | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | Act shall be so construed as to be in contravention of any | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | federal law or authorized order of the Interstate Commerce | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | Commission with respect to the time zones of the United | ||||||
| 2 | States. And in all laws, statutes, orders, judgments, rules, | ||||||
| 3 | and regulations relating to the time of performance of any act | ||||||
| 4 | of any officer or department of this State, or of any county, | ||||||
| 5 | township, city or town, municipal corporation, agency or | ||||||
| 6 | instrumentality of the State, or school district or school | ||||||
| 7 | authority or relating to the time in which any rights shall | ||||||
| 8 | accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not | ||||||
| 9 | be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the | ||||||
| 10 | State, and in all the public schools and in all institutions of | ||||||
| 11 | the State, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal | ||||||
| 12 | corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State, or school | ||||||
| 13 | district or school authority, and in all contracts or choses | ||||||
| 14 | in action made or to be performed in the State, it shall be | ||||||
| 15 | understood and intended that the time shall be the time | ||||||
| 16 | prescribed in this Section. | ||||||
| 17 | (3) If the date on which time is to be advanced one hour, | ||||||
| 18 | the date on which time is to be retarded one hour, or both, as | ||||||
| 19 | set forth under Section 260a of the federal Uniform Time Act of | ||||||
| 20 | 1966 (15 U.S.C. 260a), as now or hereafter amended, | ||||||
| 21 | renumbered, or succeeded, differs from either or both of those | ||||||
| 22 | dates as set forth under this Section, then the dates set forth | ||||||
| 23 | under the federal law shall control and shall apply in | ||||||
| 24 | Illinois, notwithstanding the dates set forth in this Section. | ||||||
| 25 | (b)(1) This subsection (b) becomes operative on the first | ||||||
| 26 | day of January in the first year following or coinciding with | ||||||
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| 1 | the date upon which exemption from daylight saving time in the | ||||||
| 2 | states of Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin takes effect. | ||||||
| 3 | (2) The standard time in this State shall be made to | ||||||
| 4 | coincide year-round with the mean astronomical time of the | ||||||
| 5 | ninety degrees of longitude West from Greenwich, the standard | ||||||
| 6 | official time of which is described as United States standard | ||||||
| 7 | central time in the Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. 261 and | ||||||
| 8 | 263. The State, acting under the exemption provisions of the | ||||||
| 9 | federal Uniform Time Act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. 260a, shall be | ||||||
| 10 | exempt from the provisions of that law that establish daylight | ||||||
| 11 | saving time. And in all laws, statutes, orders, judgments, | ||||||
| 12 | rules, and regulations relating to the time of performance of | ||||||
| 13 | any act of any officer or department of this State, or of any | ||||||
| 14 | county, township, city or town, municipal corporation, agency | ||||||
| 15 | or instrumentality of the State, or school district or school | ||||||
| 16 | authority or relating to the time in which any rights shall | ||||||
| 17 | accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall not | ||||||
| 18 | be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of the | ||||||
| 19 | State, and in all the public schools and in all institutions of | ||||||
| 20 | the State, or of any county, township, city or town, municipal | ||||||
| 21 | corporation, agency or instrumentality of the State, or school | ||||||
| 22 | district or school authority, and in all contracts or choses | ||||||
| 23 | in action made or to be performed in the State, it shall be | ||||||
| 24 | understood and intended that the time shall be the time | ||||||
| 25 | prescribed in this Section. | ||||||
| 26 | (Source: P.A. 95-725, eff. 6-30-08.) | ||||||