Full Text of HB2568 97th General Assembly
HB2568ham001 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Joe Sosnowski Filed: 4/11/2011
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2568
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2568 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Park District Aquarium and Museum Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Section 1 as follows:
| 6 | | (70 ILCS 1290/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 326)
| 7 | | Sec. 1. The corporate authorities of cities and park | 8 | | districts having the
control or supervision of any public park | 9 | | or parks, are hereby authorized
to purchase, erect and maintain | 10 | | within any public park or parks under the
control or | 11 | | supervision of such corporate authorities, edifices to be used
| 12 | | as aquariums or as museums of art, industry, science or natural | 13 | | or other
history, or to permit the directors or trustees of any | 14 | | corporation or
society organized for the construction or | 15 | | maintenance and operation of an
aquarium or museum as | 16 | | hereinabove described to erect, enlarge, ornament,
build, |
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| 1 | | rebuild, rehabilitate, improve, maintain and operate its | 2 | | aquarium or
museum or museums within any public park now or | 3 | | hereafter under the control
or supervision of any city or park | 4 | | district, and to contract with any such
directors or trustees | 5 | | of any such aquarium, museum or museums relative to
the | 6 | | erection, enlargement, ornamentation, building, rebuilding,
| 7 | | rehabilitation, improvement, maintenance and operation | 8 | | thereof. Any city or
park district may charge, or permit such | 9 | | an aquarium or museum to charge,
an admission fee. Any such | 10 | | aquarium or museum,
however, shall be open without charge, when
| 11 | | accompanied by a teacher, to the children in actual attendance | 12 | | upon grades
kindergarten through twelve in any of the schools | 13 | | in this State at all
times. Any such aquarium or museum, | 14 | | however, must be open to the
public without
charge
for a period | 15 | | equivalent to 26 52 days, at least 6 of which must be during | 16 | | the
period from June through August, each year.
Notwithstanding | 17 | | said provisions, charges may be made at any
time for
special | 18 | | services and for admission to special facilities within any
| 19 | | aquarium or museum for the education, entertainment or | 20 | | convenience of
visitors. The proceeds of such admission fees | 21 | | and charges for special
services and special facilities shall | 22 | | be devoted exclusively to the
purposes for which the tax | 23 | | authorized by Section 2 hereof may be used. If
any owner or | 24 | | owners of any lands or lots abutting or fronting on any such
| 25 | | public park, or adjacent thereto, have any private right, | 26 | | easement,
interest or property in such public park appurtenant |
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| 1 | | to their lands or lots
or otherwise, which would be interfered | 2 | | with by the erection and
maintenance of any aquarium or museum | 3 | | as hereinbefore provided, or any
right to have such public park | 4 | | remain open or vacant and free from
buildings, the corporate | 5 | | authorities of the city or park district having
control of such | 6 | | park, may condemn the same in the manner prescribed for the
| 7 | | exercise
of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent | 8 | | Domain Act.
| 9 | | (Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)
| 10 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 11 | | becoming law.".
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