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| | 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB0601 Introduced 01/31/11, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | 105 ILCS 5/16-7 | from Ch. 122, par. 16-7 |
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Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning
playgrounds, recreation grounds, and athletic fields.
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| | A BILL FOR |
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| | HB0601 | | LRB097 03433 NHT 43470 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning education.
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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 School Code is amended by changing Section |
| 5 | | 16-7 as follows:
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| 6 | | (105 ILCS 5/16-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 16-7)
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| 7 | | Sec. 16-7.
Playgrounds,
recreation grounds and
and |
| 8 | | athletic fields.
Any school district organized and existing |
| 9 | | under the general law or by
special charter having a population |
| 10 | | of not more than 500,000 inhabitants
may acquire real estate by |
| 11 | | gift, donation, legacy, purchase or otherwise
and hold it for |
| 12 | | the purpose of establishing playgrounds, recreation grounds
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| 13 | | and athletic fields, and may equip, operate and maintain such |
| 14 | | playgrounds,
recreation grounds and athletic fields, the cost |
| 15 | | of such acquiring and
equipping to be paid either from the |
| 16 | | proceeds of bonds issued for that
purpose or out of the |
| 17 | | operations and maintenance fund, and the
cost of such |
| 18 | | maintaining and operating to be paid from the educational
fund, |
| 19 | | of the district. Such real estate need not be contiguous to any |
| 20 | | other
school property or real estate owned by the school |
| 21 | | district. |
| 22 | | (Source: P.A. 86-970.)
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