Public Act 093-0872
 
HB5050 Enrolled LRB093 18065 BDD 43752 b

    AN ACT concerning museums.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Department of Natural Resources Act is
amended by changing Section 1-25 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 801/1-25)
    Sec. 1-25. Powers of the scientific surveys and State
Museum. In addition to its other powers and duties, the
Department shall have the following powers and duties which
shall be performed by the scientific surveys and the State
Museum:
        (1) To investigate and study the natural resources of
    the State and to prepare printed reports and furnish
    information fundamental to the conservation and
    development of natural resources and for that purpose the
    officers and employees thereof may, pursuant to rule
    adopted by the Department, enter and cross all lands in
    this State, doing no damage to private property.
        (2) To cooperate with and advise departments having
    administrative powers and duties relating to the natural
    resources of the State, and to cooperate with similar
    departments in other states and with the United States
    Government.
        (3) To conduct a natural history survey of the State,
    giving preference to subjects of educational and
    economical importance.
        (4) To publish, from time to time, reports covering the
    entire field of zoology and botany of the State.
        (5) To supply natural history specimens to the State
    educational institutions and to the public schools.
        (6) To investigate the entomology of the State.
        (7) To investigate all insects dangerous or injurious
    to agricultural or horticultural plants and crops,
    livestock, to nursery trees and plants, to the products of
    the truck farm and vegetable garden, to shade trees and
    other ornamental vegetation of cities and villages, to the
    products of the mills and the contents of warehouses, and
    all insects injurious or dangerous to the public health.
        (8) To conduct experiments with methods for the
    prevention, arrest, abatement and control of insects
    injurious to persons or property.
        (9) To instruct the people, by lecture, demonstration
    or bulletin, in the best methods of preserving and
    protecting their property and health against injuries by
    insects.
        (10) To publish, from time to time, articles on the
    injurious and beneficial insects of the State.
        (11) To study the geological formation of the State
    with reference to its resources of coal, ores, clays,
    building stones, cement, materials suitable for use in the
    construction of roads, gas, mineral and artesian water and
    other products.
        (12) To publish, from time to time, topographical,
    geological and other maps to illustrate resources of the
    State.
        (13) To publish, from time to time, bulletins giving a
    general and detailed description of the geological and
    mineral resources, including water resources, of the
    State.
        (14) To cooperate with United States federal agencies
    in the preparation and completion of a contour topographic
    map and the collection, recording and printing of water and
    atmospheric resource data including stream flow
    measurements and to collect facts and data concerning the
    volumes and flow of underground, surface and atmospheric
    waters of the State and to determine the mineral qualities
    of water from different geological formations and surface
    and atmospheric waters for the various sections of the
    State.
        (15) To publish, from time to time, the results of its
    investigations of the mineral qualities, volumes and flow
    of underground and surface waters of the State to the end
    that the available water resources of the State may be
    better known and to make mineral analyses of samples of
    water from municipal or private sources giving no opinion
    from those analyses of the hygienic, physiological or
    medicinal qualities of such waters.
        (16) To act as the central data repository and research
    coordinator for the State in matters related to water and
    atmospheric resources. The State Water Survey Division of
    the Department may monitor and evaluate all weather
    modification operations in Illinois.
        (17) To distribute, in its discretion, to the various
    educational institutions of the State, specimens, samples,
    and materials collected by it after the same have served
    the purposes of the Department.
        (18) To cooperate with the Illinois State Academy of
    Science and to publish a suitable number of the results of
    the investigations and research in the field of natural
    science to the end that the same may be distributed to the
    interested public.
        (19) To maintain a State Museum, and to collect and
    preserve objects of scientific and artistic value,
    representing past and present fauna and flora, the life and
    work of man, geological history, natural resources, and the
    manufacturing and fine arts; to interpret for and educate
    the public concerning the foregoing.
        (20) To cooperate with the Illinois State Museum
    Society for the mutual benefit of the Museum and the
    Society, with the Museum furnishing necessary space for the
    Society to carry on its functions and keep its records,
    and, upon the recommendation of the Museum Director with
    the approval of the Board of State Museum Advisors and the
    Director of the Department, to enter into agreements with
    the Illinois State Museum Society for the operation of a
    sales counter and other concessions for the mutual benefit
    of the Museum and the Society.
        (21) To accept grants of property and to hold property
    to be administered as part of the State Museum for the
    purpose of preservation, research of interpretation of
    significant areas within the State for the purpose of
    preserving, studying and interpreting archaeological and
    natural phenomena.
        (22) To contribute to and support the operations,
    programs and capital development of public museums in this
    State. For the purposes of this Section, "public museum"
    means a facility: (A) that is operating for the purposes of
    promoting cultural development through special activities
    or programs or through performing arts that are performed
    in an indoor setting, and acquiring, conserving,
    preserving, studying, interpreting, enhancing, and in
    particular, organizing and continuously exhibiting
    specimens, artifacts, articles, documents and other things
    of historical, anthropological, archaeological,
    industrial, scientific or artistic import, to the public
    for its instruction and enjoyment, and (B) that either (i)
    is operated by or located upon land owned by a unit of
    local government or (ii) is a museum that has an annual
    indoor attendance of at least 150,000 and offers
    educational programs to school groups during school hours.
    A museum is eligible to receive funds for capital
    development under this subdivision (22) only if it is
    operated by or located upon land owned by a unit of local
    government or if it is certified by a unit of local
    government in which it is located as a public museum
    meeting the criteria of this Section. Recipients of funds
    for capital development under this subdivision (22) shall
    match State funds with local or private funding according
    to the following:
            (a) for a public museum with an attendance of
        300,000 or less during the preceding calendar year, no
        match is required;
            (b) for a public museum with an attendance of over
        300,000 but less than 600,000 during the preceding
        calendar year, the match must be at a ratio of $1 from
        local and private funds for every $1 in State funds;
        and
            (c) for a public museum with an attendance of over
        600,000 during the preceding calendar year, the match
        must be at a ratio of $2 from local and private funds
        for every $1 in State funds.
        The Department shall formulate rules and regulations
    relating to the allocation of any funds appropriated by the
    General Assembly for the purpose of contributing to the
    support of public museums in this State.
        (23) To perform all other duties and assume all
    obligations of the former Department of Energy and Natural
    Resources and the former Department of Registration and
    Education pertaining to the State Water Survey, the State
    Geological Survey, the State Natural History Survey, and
    the State Museum.
        (24) To maintain all previously existing relationships
    between the State Water Survey, State Geological Survey,
    and State Natural History Survey and the public and private
    colleges and universities in Illinois.
        (25) To participate in federal geologic mapping
    programs.
(Source: P.A. 92-606, eff. 6-28-02.)