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92_HB3598
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1 AN ACT concerning promotion.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Illinois Promotion Act is amended by
5 changing Section 5 as follows:
6 (20 ILCS 665/5) (from Ch. 127, par. 200-25)
7 Sec. 5. The Department is authorized to make grants to
8 Illinois counties, municipalities and local promotion groups
9 and to assist such counties, municipalities and local
10 promotion groups in their promotional activities.
11 Before any such grant may be made the county,
12 municipality or local promotion group, pursuant to an order,
13 resolution, ordinance or other appropriate action of its
14 governing body, must make application to the Department for
15 such grant, setting forth the studies, surveys and
16 investigations proposed to be made and other promotional
17 activities proposed to be undertaken. The application shall
18 further state, under oath or affirmation, with evidence
19 thereof satisfactory to the Department, the amount of funds
20 held by, committed to or subscribed to, and proposed to be
21 expended by, the applicant for the purposes herein described
22 and the amount of the grant for which application is made.
23 The Department shall make grants from funds transferred
24 into the Tourism Promotion Fund under subsection (1) of
25 Section 4a to match funds appropriated or otherwise allocated
26 by counties, municipalities and local promotion groups
27 subsequent to the effective date of this Act. The Department
28 shall make grants from funds transferred into the Tourism
29 Promotion Fund under subsection (1) of Section 4a only to
30 match funds from sources in the private sector.
31 (Source: P.A. 90-26, eff. 7-1-97.)