Full Text of HB0373 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 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. Erect, operate, and maintain aquariums and museums. | 8 | | The corporate authorities of cities and park districts having | 9 | | the
control or supervision over of any public park or parks, | 10 | | including parks located on formerly submerged land, are hereby | 11 | | authorized
to purchase, erect , and maintain within any such | 12 | | public park or parks under the
control or supervision of such | 13 | | corporate authorities, edifices to be used
as aquariums or as | 14 | | museums of art, industry, science , or natural or other
history, | 15 | | including presidential libraries, centers, and museums, such | 16 | | aquariums and museums consisting of all facilities for their | 17 | | collections, exhibitions, programming, and associated | 18 | | initiatives, or to permit the directors or trustees of any | 19 | | corporation or
society organized for the construction or | 20 | | maintenance and operation of an
aquarium or museum as | 21 | | hereinabove described to erect, enlarge, ornament,
build, | 22 | | rebuild, rehabilitate, improve, maintain , and operate its | 23 | | aquarium or
museum or museums within any public park now or |
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| 1 | | hereafter under the control
or supervision of any city or park | 2 | | district, and to contract with any such
directors or trustees | 3 | | of any such aquarium or , museum or museums relative to
the | 4 | | erection, enlargement, ornamentation, building, rebuilding,
| 5 | | rehabilitation, improvement, maintenance , ownership, and | 6 | | operation of such aquarium or museum. Notwithstanding the | 7 | | previous sentence, a city or park district may enter into a | 8 | | lease for an initial term not to exceed 99 years, subject to | 9 | | renewal, allowing a corporation or society as hereinabove | 10 | | described to erect,
enlarge, ornament, build, rebuild, | 11 | | rehabilitate, improve, maintain, and operate its aquarium or | 12 | | museum, together with grounds immediately adjacent to such | 13 | | aquarium or museum, and to use, possess, and occupy grounds | 14 | | surrounding such aquarium or museum as hereinabove described | 15 | | for the purpose of beautifying and maintaining such grounds in | 16 | | a manner consistent with the aquarium or museum's purpose, and | 17 | | on the conditions that (1) the public is allowed access to such | 18 | | grounds in a manner consistent with its access to other public | 19 | | parks, and (2) the city or park district retains a reversionary | 20 | | interest in any improvements made by the corporation or society | 21 | | on the grounds, including the aquarium or museum itself, that | 22 | | matures upon the expiration or lawful termination of the lease. | 23 | | It is hereby reaffirmed and found that the aquariums and | 24 | | museums as described in this Section, and their collections, | 25 | | exhibitions, programming, and associated initiatives, serve | 26 | | valuable public purposes, including, but not limited to, |
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| 1 | | furthering human knowledge and understanding, educating and | 2 | | inspiring the public, and expanding recreational and cultural | 3 | | resources and opportunities and operation thereof . Any city or
| 4 | | park district may charge, or permit such an aquarium or museum | 5 | | to charge,
an admission fee. Any such aquarium or museum,
| 6 | | however, shall be open without charge, when
accompanied by a | 7 | | teacher, to the children in actual attendance upon grades
| 8 | | kindergarten through twelve in any of the schools in this State | 9 | | at all
times. In addition, any Any such aquarium or museum , | 10 | | however, must be open to persons who reside in this State | 11 | | without
charge
for a period equivalent to 52 days, at least 6 | 12 | | of which must be during the
period from June through August, | 13 | | each year.
Notwithstanding said provisions, charges may be made | 14 | | at any
time for
special services and for admission to special | 15 | | facilities within any
aquarium or museum for the education, | 16 | | entertainment , or convenience of
visitors. The proceeds of such | 17 | | admission fees and charges for special
services and special | 18 | | facilities shall be devoted exclusively to the
purposes for | 19 | | which the tax authorized by Section 2 hereof may be used. If
| 20 | | any owner or owners of any lands or lots abutting or fronting | 21 | | on any such
public park, or adjacent thereto, have any private | 22 | | right, easement,
interest or property in such public park | 23 | | appurtenant to their lands or lots
or otherwise, which would be | 24 | | interfered with by the erection and
maintenance of any aquarium | 25 | | or museum as hereinbefore provided, or any
right to have such | 26 | | public park remain open or vacant and free from
buildings, the |
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| 1 | | corporate authorities of the city or park district having
| 2 | | control of such park, may condemn the same in the manner | 3 | | prescribed for the
exercise
of the right of eminent domain | 4 | | under the Eminent Domain Act. The changes made to this Section | 5 | | by this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly are | 6 | | declaratory of existing law and shall not be construed as a new | 7 | | enactment.
| 8 | | (Source: P.A. 97-187, eff. 7-22-11.)
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