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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2287
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 2287 by replacing
3 the title with the following:
4 "AN ACT concerning museums."; and
5 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the
6 following:
7 "Section 5. The Department of Natural Resources Act is
8 amended by changing Section 1-25 as follows:
9 (20 ILCS 801/1-25)
10 Sec. 1-25. Powers of the scientific surveys and State
11 Museum. In addition to its other powers and duties, the
12 Department shall have the following powers and duties which
13 shall be performed by the scientific surveys and the State
14 Museum:
15 (1) To investigate and study the natural resources
16 of the State and to prepare printed reports and furnish
17 information fundamental to the conservation and
18 development of natural resources and for that purpose the
19 officers and employees thereof may, pursuant to rule
20 adopted by the Department, enter and cross all lands in
21 this State, doing no damage to private property.
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1 (2) To cooperate with and advise departments having
2 administrative powers and duties relating to the natural
3 resources of the State, and to cooperate with similar
4 departments in other states and with the United States
5 Government.
6 (3) To conduct a natural history survey of the
7 State, giving preference to subjects of educational and
8 economical importance.
9 (4) To publish, from time to time, reports covering
10 the entire field of zoology and botany of the State.
11 (5) To supply natural history specimens to the
12 State educational institutions and to the public schools.
13 (6) To investigate the entomology of the State.
14 (7) To investigate all insects dangerous or
15 injurious to agricultural or horticultural plants and
16 crops, livestock, to nursery trees and plants, to the
17 products of the truck farm and vegetable garden, to shade
18 trees and other ornamental vegetation of cities and
19 villages, to the products of the mills and the contents
20 of warehouses, and all insects injurious or dangerous to
21 the public health.
22 (8) To conduct experiments with methods for the
23 prevention, arrest, abatement and control of insects
24 injurious to persons or property.
25 (9) To instruct the people, by lecture,
26 demonstration or bulletin, in the best methods of
27 preserving and protecting their property and health
28 against injuries by insects.
29 (10) To publish, from time to time, articles on the
30 injurious and beneficial insects of the State.
31 (11) To study the geological formation of the State
32 with reference to its resources of coal, ores, clays,
33 building stones, cement, materials suitable for use in
34 the construction of roads, gas, mineral and artesian
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1 water and other products.
2 (12) To publish, from time to time, topographical,
3 geological and other maps to illustrate resources of the
4 State.
5 (13) To publish, from time to time, bulletins
6 giving a general and detailed description of the
7 geological and mineral resources, including water
8 resources, of the State.
9 (14) To cooperate with United States federal
10 agencies in the preparation and completion of a contour
11 topographic map and the collection, recording and
12 printing of water and atmospheric resource data including
13 stream flow measurements and to collect facts and data
14 concerning the volumes and flow of underground, surface
15 and atmospheric waters of the State and to determine the
16 mineral qualities of water from different geological
17 formations and surface and atmospheric waters for the
18 various sections of the State.
19 (15) To publish, from time to time, the results of
20 its investigations of the mineral qualities, volumes and
21 flow of underground and surface waters of the State to
22 the end that the available water resources of the State
23 may be better known and to make mineral analyses of
24 samples of water from municipal or private sources giving
25 no opinion from those analyses of the hygienic,
26 physiological or medicinal qualities of such waters.
27 (16) To act as the central data repository and
28 research coordinator for the State in matters related to
29 water and atmospheric resources. The State Water Survey
30 Division of the Department may monitor and evaluate all
31 weather modification operations in Illinois.
32 (17) To distribute, in its discretion, to the
33 various educational institutions of the State, specimens,
34 samples, and materials collected by it after the same
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1 have served the purposes of the Department.
2 (18) To cooperate with the Illinois State Academy
3 of Science and to publish a suitable number of the
4 results of the investigations and research in the field
5 of natural science to the end that the same may be
6 distributed to the interested public.
7 (19) To maintain a State Museum, and to collect and
8 preserve objects of scientific and artistic value,
9 representing past and present fauna and flora, the life
10 and work of man, geological history, natural resources,
11 and the manufacturing and fine arts; to interpret for and
12 educate the public concerning the foregoing.
13 (20) To cooperate with the Illinois State Museum
14 Society for the mutual benefit of the Museum and the
15 Society, with the Museum furnishing necessary space for
16 the Society to carry on its functions and keep its
17 records, and, upon the recommendation of the Museum
18 Director with the approval of the Board of State Museum
19 Advisors and the Director of the Department, to enter
20 into agreements with the Illinois State Museum Society
21 for the operation of a sales counter and other
22 concessions for the mutual benefit of the Museum and the
23 Society.
24 (21) To accept grants of property and to hold
25 property to be administered as part of the State Museum
26 for the purpose of preservation, research of
27 interpretation of significant areas within the State for
28 the purpose of preserving, studying and interpreting
29 archaeological and natural phenomena.
30 (22) To contribute to and support the operations,
31 programs and capital development of public museums in
32 this State. For the purposes of this Section, "public
33 museum" means a facility: (A) that is operating for the
34 purposes of promoting cultural development through
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1 special activities or programs or performing arts, and
2 acquiring, conserving, preserving, studying,
3 interpreting, enhancing, and in particular, organizing
4 and continuously exhibiting specimens, artifacts,
5 articles, documents and other things of historical,
6 anthropological, archaeological, industrial, scientific
7 or artistic import, to the public for its instruction and
8 enjoyment, and (B) that either (i) is operated by or
9 located upon land owned by a unit of local government or
10 (ii) is a museum that has an annual indoor attendance of
11 at least 150,000 and offers educational programs to
12 school groups during school hours. A museum is eligible
13 to receive funds for capital development under this
14 subdivision (22) only if it is operated by or located
15 upon land owned by a unit of local government or if it is
16 certified by a unit of local government in which it is
17 located as a public museum meeting the criteria of this
18 Section. Recipients of funds for capital development
19 under this subdivision (22) shall match State funds with
20 local or private funding according to the following:
21 (a) for a public museum with an attendance of
22 300,000 or less during the preceding calendar year,
23 no match is required;
24 (b) for a public museum with an attendance of
25 over 300,000 but less than 600,000 during the
26 preceding calendar year, the match must be at a
27 ratio of $1 from local and private funds for every
28 $1 in State funds; and
29 (c) for a public museum with an attendance of
30 over 600,000 during the preceding calendar year, the
31 match must be at a ratio of $2 from local and
32 private funds for every $1 in State funds. at a
33 ratio of $2 from local and private funds for every
34 $1 in State funds.
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1 The Department shall formulate rules and regulations
2 relating to the allocation of any funds appropriated by
3 the General Assembly for the purpose of contributing to
4 the support of public museums in this State.
5 (23) To perform all other duties and assume all
6 obligations of the former Department of Energy and
7 Natural Resources and the former Department of
8 Registration and Education pertaining to the State Water
9 Survey, the State Geological Survey, the State Natural
10 History Survey, and the State Museum.
11 (24) To maintain all previously existing
12 relationships between the State Water Survey, State
13 Geological Survey, and State Natural History Survey and
14 the public and private colleges and universities in
15 Illinois.
16 (25) To participate in federal geologic mapping
17 programs.
18 (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96; 90-604, eff. 1-1-99.)".