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 1        AN ACT concerning museums.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Department of Natural  Resources  Act  is
 5    amended by changing Section 1-25 as follows:

 6        (20 ILCS 801/1-25)
 7        Sec.  1-25.  Powers  of  the scientific surveys and State
 8    Museum.  In addition to its  other  powers  and  duties,  the
 9    Department  shall  have the following powers and duties which
10    shall be performed by the scientific surveys  and  the  State
11    Museum:
12             (1)  To  investigate and study the natural resources
13        of the State and to prepare printed reports  and  furnish
14        information   fundamental   to   the   conservation   and
15        development of natural resources and for that purpose the
16        officers  and  employees  thereof  may,  pursuant to rule
17        adopted by the Department, enter and cross all  lands  in
18        this State, doing no damage to private property.
19             (2)  To cooperate with and advise departments having
20        administrative  powers and duties relating to the natural
21        resources of the State, and  to  cooperate  with  similar
22        departments  in  other  states and with the United States
23        Government.
24             (3)  To conduct a  natural  history  survey  of  the
25        State,  giving  preference to subjects of educational and
26        economical importance.
27             (4)  To publish, from time to time, reports covering
28        the entire field of zoology and botany of the State.
29             (5)  To supply  natural  history  specimens  to  the
30        State educational institutions and to the public schools.
31             (6)  To investigate the entomology of the State.
 
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 1             (7)  To   investigate   all   insects  dangerous  or
 2        injurious to agricultural  or  horticultural  plants  and
 3        crops,  livestock,  to  nursery  trees and plants, to the
 4        products of the truck farm and vegetable garden, to shade
 5        trees and  other  ornamental  vegetation  of  cities  and
 6        villages,  to  the products of the mills and the contents
 7        of warehouses, and all insects injurious or dangerous  to
 8        the public health.
 9             (8)  To  conduct  experiments  with  methods for the
10        prevention, arrest,  abatement  and  control  of  insects
11        injurious to persons or property.
12             (9)  To    instruct    the   people,   by   lecture,
13        demonstration  or  bulletin,  in  the  best  methods   of
14        preserving  and  protecting  their  property  and  health
15        against injuries by insects.
16             (10)  To publish, from time to time, articles on the
17        injurious and beneficial insects of the State.
18             (11)  To study the geological formation of the State
19        with  reference  to  its  resources of coal, ores, clays,
20        building stones, cement, materials suitable  for  use  in
21        the  construction  of  roads,  gas,  mineral and artesian
22        water and other products.
23             (12)  To publish, from time to time,  topographical,
24        geological  and other maps to illustrate resources of the
25        State.
26             (13)  To  publish,  from  time  to  time,  bulletins
27        giving  a  general  and  detailed  description   of   the
28        geological   and   mineral   resources,  including  water
29        resources, of the State.
30             (14)  To  cooperate  with  United   States   federal
31        agencies  in  the preparation and completion of a contour
32        topographic  map  and  the  collection,   recording   and
33        printing of water and atmospheric resource data including
34        stream  flow  measurements  and to collect facts and data
 
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 1        concerning the volumes and flow of  underground,  surface
 2        and  atmospheric waters of the State and to determine the
 3        mineral qualities  of  water  from  different  geological
 4        formations  and  surface  and  atmospheric waters for the
 5        various sections of the State.
 6             (15)  To publish, from time to time, the results  of
 7        its  investigations of the mineral qualities, volumes and
 8        flow of underground and surface waters of  the  State  to
 9        the  end  that the available water resources of the State
10        may be better known  and  to  make  mineral  analyses  of
11        samples of water from municipal or private sources giving
12        no   opinion   from   those  analyses  of  the  hygienic,
13        physiological or medicinal qualities of such waters.
14             (16)  To act as  the  central  data  repository  and
15        research  coordinator for the State in matters related to
16        water and atmospheric resources.  The State Water  Survey
17        Division  of  the Department may monitor and evaluate all
18        weather modification operations in Illinois.
19             (17)  To  distribute,  in  its  discretion,  to  the
20        various educational institutions of the State, specimens,
21        samples, and materials collected by  it  after  the  same
22        have served the purposes of the Department.
23             (18)  To  cooperate  with the Illinois State Academy
24        of Science and  to  publish  a  suitable  number  of  the
25        results  of  the investigations and research in the field
26        of natural science to  the  end  that  the  same  may  be
27        distributed to the interested public.
28             (19)  To maintain a State Museum, and to collect and
29        preserve   objects  of  scientific  and  artistic  value,
30        representing past and present fauna and flora,  the  life
31        and  work  of man, geological history, natural resources,
32        and the manufacturing and fine arts; to interpret for and
33        educate the public concerning the foregoing.
34             (20)  To cooperate with the  Illinois  State  Museum
 
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 1        Society  for  the  mutual  benefit  of the Museum and the
 2        Society, with the Museum furnishing necessary  space  for
 3        the  Society  to  carry  on  its  functions  and keep its
 4        records, and,  upon  the  recommendation  of  the  Museum
 5        Director  with  the approval of the Board of State Museum
 6        Advisors and the Director of  the  Department,  to  enter
 7        into  agreements  with  the Illinois State Museum Society
 8        for  the  operation  of  a  sales   counter   and   other
 9        concessions  for the mutual benefit of the Museum and the
10        Society.
11             (21)  To accept  grants  of  property  and  to  hold
12        property  to  be administered as part of the State Museum
13        for   the   purpose   of   preservation,   research    of
14        interpretation  of significant areas within the State for
15        the purpose  of  preserving,  studying  and  interpreting
16        archaeological and natural phenomena.
17             (22)  To  contribute  to and support the operations,
18        programs and capital development  of  public  museums  in
19        this  State.  For  the  purposes of this Section, "public
20        museum" means a facility: (A) that is operating  for  the
21        purposes   of   promoting  cultural  development  through
22        special activities or programs or  performing  arts,  and
23        acquiring,      conserving,     preserving,     studying,
24        interpreting, enhancing, and  in  particular,  organizing
25        and   continuously   exhibiting   specimens,   artifacts,
26        articles,  documents  and  other  things  of  historical,
27        anthropological,  archaeological,  industrial, scientific
28        or artistic import, to the public for its instruction and
29        enjoyment, and (B) that either  (i)  is  operated  by  or
30        located upon land owned by a unit of local government  or
31        (ii)  is a museum that has an annual indoor attendance of
32        at least  150,000  and  offers  educational  programs  to
33        school groups during school hours.   A museum is eligible
34        to  receive  funds  for  capital  development  under this
 
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 1        subdivision (22) only if it is  operated  by  or  located
 2        upon land owned by a unit of local government or if it is
 3        certified  by  a  unit of local government in which it is
 4        located as a public museum meeting the criteria  of  this
 5        Section.    Recipients  of  funds for capital development
 6        under this subdivision (22) shall match State funds  with
 7        local or private funding according to the following:
 8                  (a)  for  a public museum with an attendance of
 9             300,000 or less during the preceding calendar  year,
10             no match is required;
11                  (b)  for  a public museum with an attendance of
12             over  300,000  but  less  than  600,000  during  the
13             preceding calendar year, the  match  must  be  at  a
14             ratio  of  $1 from local and private funds for every
15             $1 in State funds; and
16                  (c)  for a public museum with an attendance  of
17             over 600,000 during the preceding calendar year, the
18             match  must  be  at  a  ratio  of  $2 from local and
19             private funds for every $1  in  State  funds.  at  a
20             ratio  of  $2 from local and private funds for every
21             $1 in State funds.
22             The Department shall formulate rules and regulations
23        relating to the allocation of any funds  appropriated  by
24        the  General  Assembly for the purpose of contributing to
25        the support of public museums in this State.
26             (23)  To perform all other  duties  and  assume  all
27        obligations  of  the  former  Department  of  Energy  and
28        Natural   Resources   and   the   former   Department  of
29        Registration and Education pertaining to the State  Water
30        Survey,  the  State  Geological Survey, the State Natural
31        History Survey, and the State Museum.
32             (24)  To   maintain    all    previously    existing
33        relationships  between  the  State  Water  Survey,  State
34        Geological  Survey,  and State Natural History Survey and
 
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 1        the public  and  private  colleges  and  universities  in
 2        Illinois.
 3             (25)  To  participate  in  federal  geologic mapping
 4        programs.
 5    (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96; 90-604, eff. 1-1-99.)

 6        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 7    becoming law.

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