(105 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 122, par. 1821)
Sec. 1.
No membership or other dues or fees shall be paid by the
governing body of any public elementary or public secondary school in this
State to any association or other entity which has as one of its purposes
promoting, sponsoring, regulating or in any manner providing for
interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools
and students within this State if such association or other entity adopts
or maintains in effect any bylaw, rule, regulation or policy which
designates or requires a member to designate its school principal or any
other school administrator as the representative of the member who alone is
entitled to cast the vote of the member on any matter coming before such
association or entity which is to be determined by a vote of its general
membership; provided, that the provisions of this Section shall not apply
if the bylaws, rules, regulations or policies of such association or
entity, as adopted and applied: (i) authorize the governing board of each
secondary school which is a member of the association or entity to appoint,
as the allotted representative of such secondary school entitled to cast its
vote on any matter coming before the association or entity which is to be
determined by a vote of its general membership, any coach, athletic
director, teacher, principal or other school administrator employed at the
secondary school which the governing body chooses to appoint as such
representative, and (ii) provide that if no representative of a member is
so appointed by its governing body, that the school principal of the member
shall be its representative authorized to cast its vote unless and until
the governing body shall otherwise appoint.
(Source: P.A. 85-656.)
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