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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Library System Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 8.1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (75 ILCS 10/8.1) (from Ch. 81, par. 118.1)
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| 7 | | Sec. 8.1.
The State Librarian shall make grants annually
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| 8 | | under this Section to all qualified public libraries in the
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| 9 | | State from funds appropriated by the General Assembly. Such
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| 10 | | grants shall be in the amount of up to $1.25 per capita for the
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| 11 | | population of the area served by the respective public
library |
| 12 | | and, in addition, the amount of up to $0.19 per capita to |
| 13 | | libraries
serving populations over 500,000 under the Illinois |
| 14 | | Major Urban Library
Program. If the moneys appropriated for |
| 15 | | grants under this
Section are not sufficient the State |
| 16 | | Librarian shall reduce
the per capita amount of the grants so |
| 17 | | that the qualifying
public libraries receive the same amount |
| 18 | | per capita.
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| 19 | | To be eligible for grants under this Section, a public |
| 20 | | library must:
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| 21 | | (1) Provide, as determined by the State Librarian, |
| 22 | | library services
which either meet or show progress toward |
| 23 | | meeting the Illinois library
standards, as most recently |
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| 1 | | adopted by the Illinois Library Association.
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| 2 | | (2) Be a public library for which is levied a tax for
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| 3 | | library purposes at a rate not less than .13% or a county |
| 4 | | library for which
is levied a tax for library purposes at a |
| 5 | | rate not less than .07%.
If a library is subject to the |
| 6 | | Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the
Property Tax |
| 7 | | Code and its tax levy for library purposes has been lowered |
| 8 | | to a
rate of less than .13%, this requirement will be |
| 9 | | waived if the library
qualified
for this grant in the |
| 10 | | previous year and if the tax levied for library purposes
in |
| 11 | | the current year produces tax revenue for library purposes |
| 12 | | that is an
increase over the previous year's extension of |
| 13 | | 5% or the percentage increase in
the Consumer Price Index, |
| 14 | | whichever is less. Beginning in State Fiscal Year 2012 and |
| 15 | | continuing through and including State Fiscal Year 2015, |
| 16 | | the eligibility requirement in this subsection shall be |
| 17 | | waived if a library's tax levy for library purposes has |
| 18 | | been lowered to a rate of less than 0.13%, and the State |
| 19 | | Librarian determines that the library (i) continues to meet |
| 20 | | the requirements of item (1) of this Section and (ii) |
| 21 | | received a grant under this Section in the previous fiscal |
| 22 | | year.
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| 23 | | Any other language in this Section to the contrary
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| 24 | | notwithstanding, grants under this Section 8.1 shall be made
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| 25 | | only upon application of the public library concerned, which
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| 26 | | applications shall be entirely voluntary and within the sole
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| 1 | | discretion of the public library concerned.
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| 2 | | In order to be eligible for a grant under this Section, the |
| 3 | | corporate
authorities, in lieu of a tax levy at a particular |
| 4 | | rate, may provide
funds from other sources, an amount |
| 5 | | equivalent to the amount to be produced
by that levy.
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| 6 | | (Source: P.A. 93-527, eff. 8-14-03.)
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| 7 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 8 | | becoming law. |