HB5413 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB5413

Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Laura Faver Dias

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

70 ILCS 1205/8-10b

from Ch. 105, par. 8-10.2

Amends the Park District Code. Provides that a joint agreement to provide recreational programs for persons with disabilities that is entered into between a park district and another unit of local government before, on, or after the effective date of the amendatory Act establishes a special recreation association that is a unit of local government. Provides that, unless otherwise provided in the provisions, a special recreation association shall have all powers, duties, and responsibilities of a park district organized under the Code. Provides that a special recreation association is dissolved upon termination of the joint agreement. Provides that nothing in the provisions authorizes a special recreation association to levy or collect taxes, except that a park district that is a party to a joint agreement is allowed to levy a tax for recreational programs under the joint agreement.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Park District Code is amended by changing Section 8-10b as follows:

(70 ILCS 1205/8-10b) (from Ch. 105, par. 8-10.2)

Sec. 8-10b. Joint recreational programs for persons with disabilities.

(a) Any 2 or more park districts, or in counties with a population of 300,000 or less, a single park district and another unit of local government, are authorized to take any action jointly relating to recreational programs for persons with disabilities that could be taken individually and to enter into agreements with other park districts and recreation boards and the corporate authorities of cities, villages and incorporated towns specified in Sections 11-95-2 and 11-95-3 of the "Illinois Municipal Code", approved May 29, 1961, as amended, or any combination thereof, for the purpose of providing for the establishment, maintenance and management of joint recreational programs for persons with disabilities of all the participating districts and municipal areas, including provisions for transportation of participants, procedures for approval of budgets, authorization of expenditures and sharing of expenses, location of recreational areas in the area of any of the participating districts and municipalities, acquisition of real estate by gift, legacy, grant, or purchase, employment of a director and other professional workers for such program who may be employed by one participating district, municipality or board which shall be reimbursed on a mutually agreed basis by the other districts, municipalities and boards that are parties to the joint agreement, authorization for one municipality, board or district to supply professional workers for a joint program conducted in another municipality or district and to provide other requirements for operation of such joint program as may be desirable.

(b) A joint agreement to provide recreational programs for person with disabilities that is entered into under this Section before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly establishes a special recreation association that is a unit of local government, as defined in Section 1 of Article VII of the Constitution. Unless otherwise provided by this Section, a special recreation association shall have all powers, duties, and responsibilities of a park district organized under this Code. A special recreation association is dissolved upon termination of the joint agreement.

(c) Nothing in this Section authorizes a special recreation association to levy or collect taxes, except that a park district that is a party to a joint agreement is allowed to levy a tax under Section 5-8.

(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)