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| 1 | AN ACT concerning government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Flag Display Act is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 10 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (5 ILCS 465/10) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 10. Death of resident military member, law enforcement | ||||||
| 8 | officer, or firefighter, or members of EMS crews. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) The Governor shall issue an official notice to fly the | ||||||
| 10 | following flags at half-staff upon the death of a resident of | ||||||
| 11 | this State killed (i) by hostile fire as a member of the United | ||||||
| 12 | States armed forces, (ii) in the line of duty as a law | ||||||
| 13 | enforcement officer, or (iii) in the line of duty as a | ||||||
| 14 | firefighter, or (iv) in the line of duty as a member of an | ||||||
| 15 | Emergency Medical Services (EMS) crew: the United States | ||||||
| 16 | national flag, the State flag of Illinois, and, in the case of | ||||||
| 17 | the death of the member of the United States armed forces, the | ||||||
| 18 | appropriate military flag as defined in subsection (b) of | ||||||
| 19 | Section 18.6 of the Condominium Property Act. Upon the | ||||||
| 20 | Governor's notice, each person or entity required by this Act | ||||||
| 21 | to ensure the display of the United States national flag on a | ||||||
| 22 | flagstaff shall ensure that the flags described in the notice | ||||||
| 23 | are displayed at half-staff on the day designated for the | ||||||
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| 1 | resident's funeral and the 2 days preceding that day. | ||||||
| 2 | (b) The Department of Veterans' Affairs shall notify the | ||||||
| 3 | Governor of the death by hostile fire of an Illinois resident | ||||||
| 4 | member of the United States armed forces. The Department of | ||||||
| 5 | State Police shall notify the Governor of the death in the line | ||||||
| 6 | of duty of an Illinois resident law enforcement officer. The | ||||||
| 7 | Office of the State Fire Marshal shall notify the Governor of | ||||||
| 8 | the death in the line of duty of an Illinois resident | ||||||
| 9 | firefighter. The Department of Public Health shall notify the | ||||||
| 10 | Governor of the death in the line of duty of an Illinois | ||||||
| 11 | resident member of an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) crew. | ||||||
| 12 | Notice to the Governor shall include at least the resident's | ||||||
| 13 | name and Illinois address, the date designated for the funeral, | ||||||
| 14 | and the circumstances of the death. | ||||||
| 15 | (c) For the purpose of this Section, the United States | ||||||
| 16 | armed forces includes: (i) the United States Army, Navy, Marine | ||||||
| 17 | Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard; (ii) any reserve component | ||||||
| 18 | of each of the forces listed in item (i); and (iii) the | ||||||
| 19 | National Guard. | ||||||
| 20 | (d) Nothing in this Section requires the removal or | ||||||
| 21 | relocation of any existing flags currently displayed in the | ||||||
| 22 | State. This Section does not apply to a State facility if the | ||||||
| 23 | requirements of this Section cannot be satisfied without a | ||||||
| 24 | physical modification to that facility.
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| 25 | (Source: P.A. 95-596, eff. 9-11-07; 96-436, eff. 8-14-09.)
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