93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB5050

 

Introduced 02/05/04, by Sandra M. Pihos

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
20 ILCS 801/1-25

    Amends the Department of Natural Resources Act. In the definition of museums eligible for certain financial support from the State Museum, provides that performing arts must be performed in an indoor setting and, for museums not operated by or located on land of a unit of local government, requires an annual attendance (now, "annual indoor attendance") of at least 150,000.


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1     AN ACT concerning museums.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Department of Natural Resources Act is
5 amended by changing Section 1-25 as follows:
 
6     (20 ILCS 801/1-25)
7     Sec. 1-25. Powers of the scientific surveys and State
8 Museum. In addition to its other powers and duties, the
9 Department shall have the following powers and duties which
10 shall be performed by the scientific surveys and the State
11 Museum:
12         (1) To investigate and study the natural resources of
13     the State and to prepare printed reports and furnish
14     information fundamental to the conservation and
15     development of natural resources and for that purpose the
16     officers and employees thereof may, pursuant to rule
17     adopted by the Department, enter and cross all lands in
18     this State, doing no damage to private property.
19         (2) To cooperate with and advise departments having
20     administrative powers and duties relating to the natural
21     resources of the State, and to cooperate with similar
22     departments in other states and with the United States
23     Government.
24         (3) To conduct a natural history survey of the State,
25     giving preference to subjects of educational and
26     economical importance.
27         (4) To publish, from time to time, reports covering the
28     entire field of zoology and botany of the State.
29         (5) To supply natural history specimens to the State
30     educational institutions and to the public schools.
31         (6) To investigate the entomology of the State.
32         (7) To investigate all insects dangerous or injurious

 

 

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1     to agricultural or horticultural plants and crops,
2     livestock, to nursery trees and plants, to the products of
3     the truck farm and vegetable garden, to shade trees and
4     other ornamental vegetation of cities and villages, to the
5     products of the mills and the contents of warehouses, and
6     all insects injurious or dangerous to the public health.
7         (8) To conduct experiments with methods for the
8     prevention, arrest, abatement and control of insects
9     injurious to persons or property.
10         (9) To instruct the people, by lecture, demonstration
11     or bulletin, in the best methods of preserving and
12     protecting their property and health against injuries by
13     insects.
14         (10) To publish, from time to time, articles on the
15     injurious and beneficial insects of the State.
16         (11) To study the geological formation of the State
17     with reference to its resources of coal, ores, clays,
18     building stones, cement, materials suitable for use in the
19     construction of roads, gas, mineral and artesian water and
20     other products.
21         (12) To publish, from time to time, topographical,
22     geological and other maps to illustrate resources of the
23     State.
24         (13) To publish, from time to time, bulletins giving a
25     general and detailed description of the geological and
26     mineral resources, including water resources, of the
27     State.
28         (14) To cooperate with United States federal agencies
29     in the preparation and completion of a contour topographic
30     map and the collection, recording and printing of water and
31     atmospheric resource data including stream flow
32     measurements and to collect facts and data concerning the
33     volumes and flow of underground, surface and atmospheric
34     waters of the State and to determine the mineral qualities
35     of water from different geological formations and surface
36     and atmospheric waters for the various sections of the

 

 

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1     State.
2         (15) To publish, from time to time, the results of its
3     investigations of the mineral qualities, volumes and flow
4     of underground and surface waters of the State to the end
5     that the available water resources of the State may be
6     better known and to make mineral analyses of samples of
7     water from municipal or private sources giving no opinion
8     from those analyses of the hygienic, physiological or
9     medicinal qualities of such waters.
10         (16) To act as the central data repository and research
11     coordinator for the State in matters related to water and
12     atmospheric resources. The State Water Survey Division of
13     the Department may monitor and evaluate all weather
14     modification operations in Illinois.
15         (17) To distribute, in its discretion, to the various
16     educational institutions of the State, specimens, samples,
17     and materials collected by it after the same have served
18     the purposes of the Department.
19         (18) To cooperate with the Illinois State Academy of
20     Science and to publish a suitable number of the results of
21     the investigations and research in the field of natural
22     science to the end that the same may be distributed to the
23     interested public.
24         (19) To maintain a State Museum, and to collect and
25     preserve objects of scientific and artistic value,
26     representing past and present fauna and flora, the life and
27     work of man, geological history, natural resources, and the
28     manufacturing and fine arts; to interpret for and educate
29     the public concerning the foregoing.
30         (20) To cooperate with the Illinois State Museum
31     Society for the mutual benefit of the Museum and the
32     Society, with the Museum furnishing necessary space for the
33     Society to carry on its functions and keep its records,
34     and, upon the recommendation of the Museum Director with
35     the approval of the Board of State Museum Advisors and the
36     Director of the Department, to enter into agreements with

 

 

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1     the Illinois State Museum Society for the operation of a
2     sales counter and other concessions for the mutual benefit
3     of the Museum and the Society.
4         (21) To accept grants of property and to hold property
5     to be administered as part of the State Museum for the
6     purpose of preservation, research of interpretation of
7     significant areas within the State for the purpose of
8     preserving, studying and interpreting archaeological and
9     natural phenomena.
10         (22) To contribute to and support the operations,
11     programs and capital development of public museums in this
12     State. For the purposes of this Section, "public museum"
13     means a facility: (A) that is operating for the purposes of
14     promoting cultural development through special activities
15     or programs or through performing arts that are performed
16     in a indoor setting, and acquiring, conserving,
17     preserving, studying, interpreting, enhancing, and in
18     particular, organizing and continuously exhibiting
19     specimens, artifacts, articles, documents and other things
20     of historical, anthropological, archaeological,
21     industrial, scientific or artistic import, to the public
22     for its instruction and enjoyment, and (B) that either (i)
23     is operated by or located upon land owned by a unit of
24     local government or (ii) is a museum that has an annual
25     indoor attendance of at least 150,000 and offers
26     educational programs to school groups during school hours.
27     A museum is eligible to receive funds for capital
28     development under this subdivision (22) only if it is
29     operated by or located upon land owned by a unit of local
30     government or if it is certified by a unit of local
31     government in which it is located as a public museum
32     meeting the criteria of this Section. Recipients of funds
33     for capital development under this subdivision (22) shall
34     match State funds with local or private funding according
35     to the following:
36             (a) for a public museum with an attendance of

 

 

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1         300,000 or less during the preceding calendar year, no
2         match is required;
3             (b) for a public museum with an attendance of over
4         300,000 but less than 600,000 during the preceding
5         calendar year, the match must be at a ratio of $1 from
6         local and private funds for every $1 in State funds;
7         and
8             (c) for a public museum with an attendance of over
9         600,000 during the preceding calendar year, the match
10         must be at a ratio of $2 from local and private funds
11         for every $1 in State funds.
12         The Department shall formulate rules and regulations
13     relating to the allocation of any funds appropriated by the
14     General Assembly for the purpose of contributing to the
15     support of public museums in this State.
16         (23) To perform all other duties and assume all
17     obligations of the former Department of Energy and Natural
18     Resources and the former Department of Registration and
19     Education pertaining to the State Water Survey, the State
20     Geological Survey, the State Natural History Survey, and
21     the State Museum.
22         (24) To maintain all previously existing relationships
23     between the State Water Survey, State Geological Survey,
24     and State Natural History Survey and the public and private
25     colleges and universities in Illinois.
26         (25) To participate in federal geologic mapping
27     programs.
28 (Source: P.A. 92-606, eff. 6-28-02.)