Full Text of HB5050 93rd General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning museums.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Department of Natural Resources Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing
Section 1-25 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 801/1-25)
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| Sec. 1-25. Powers of the scientific surveys and State | 8 |
| Museum.
In addition to its other powers and duties, the | 9 |
| Department shall
have the following powers and duties which | 10 |
| shall be performed by the
scientific surveys and the State | 11 |
| Museum:
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| (1) To investigate and study the natural resources of | 13 |
| the State and
to prepare printed reports and furnish | 14 |
| information fundamental to the
conservation and | 15 |
| development of natural resources and for that purpose
the | 16 |
| officers and employees thereof may, pursuant to rule | 17 |
| adopted by the
Department, enter and cross all lands in | 18 |
| this State, doing
no damage to private property.
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| (2) To cooperate with and advise departments having | 20 |
| administrative
powers and duties relating to the natural | 21 |
| resources of the State, and to
cooperate with similar | 22 |
| departments in other states and with the United
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| Government.
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| (3) To conduct a natural history survey of the State, | 25 |
| giving
preference to subjects of educational and | 26 |
| economical importance.
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| (4) To publish, from time to time, reports covering the | 28 |
| entire field
of zoology and botany of the State.
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| (5) To supply natural history specimens to the State | 30 |
| educational
institutions and to the public schools.
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| (6) To investigate the entomology of the State.
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| (7) To investigate all insects dangerous or injurious |
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agricultural or horticultural plants and crops, | 2 |
| livestock, to nursery
trees and plants, to the products of | 3 |
| the truck farm and vegetable
garden, to shade trees and | 4 |
| other ornamental vegetation of cities and
villages, to the | 5 |
| products of the mills and the contents of warehouses,
and | 6 |
| all insects injurious or dangerous to the public health.
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| (8) To conduct experiments with methods for the | 8 |
| prevention, arrest,
abatement and control of insects | 9 |
| injurious to persons or property.
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| (9) To instruct the people, by lecture, demonstration | 11 |
| or bulletin,
in the best methods of preserving and | 12 |
| protecting their property and
health against injuries by | 13 |
| insects.
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| (10) To publish, from time to time, articles on the | 15 |
| injurious and
beneficial insects of the State.
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| (11) To study the geological formation of the State | 17 |
| with reference
to its resources of coal, ores, clays, | 18 |
| building stones, cement,
materials suitable for use in the | 19 |
| construction of roads, gas, mineral
and artesian water and | 20 |
| other products.
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| (12) To publish, from time to time, topographical, | 22 |
| geological and
other maps to illustrate resources of the | 23 |
| State.
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| (13) To publish, from time to time, bulletins giving a | 25 |
| general and
detailed description of the geological and | 26 |
| mineral resources, including
water resources, of the | 27 |
| State.
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| (14) To cooperate with United States federal agencies | 29 |
| in the preparation
and completion of a contour topographic | 30 |
| map and the collection, recording
and printing of water and | 31 |
| atmospheric resource data including stream flow
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| measurements and to collect facts and data concerning the | 33 |
| volumes and flow
of underground, surface and atmospheric | 34 |
| waters of the State and to
determine the mineral qualities | 35 |
| of water from different geological
formations and surface | 36 |
| and atmospheric waters for the various sections of
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| State.
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| (15) To publish, from time to time, the results of its
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| investigations of the mineral qualities, volumes and flow | 4 |
| of underground
and surface waters of the State to the end | 5 |
| that the available water
resources of the State may be | 6 |
| better known and to make mineral analyses
of samples of | 7 |
| water from municipal or private sources giving no opinion
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| from those analyses of the hygienic, physiological or | 9 |
| medicinal
qualities of such waters.
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| (16) To act as the central data repository and research | 11 |
| coordinator
for the State in matters related to water and | 12 |
| atmospheric resources.
The State Water Survey Division of | 13 |
| the Department may monitor and evaluate
all weather | 14 |
| modification operations in Illinois.
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| (17) To distribute, in its discretion, to the various | 16 |
| educational
institutions of the State, specimens, samples, | 17 |
| and materials collected
by it after the same have served | 18 |
| the purposes of the Department.
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| (18) To cooperate with the Illinois State Academy of | 20 |
| Science and to
publish a suitable number of the results of | 21 |
| the investigations and
research in the field of natural | 22 |
| science to the end that the same may be
distributed to the | 23 |
| interested public.
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| (19) To maintain a State Museum, and to collect and | 25 |
| preserve objects
of scientific and artistic value, | 26 |
| representing past and present fauna
and flora, the life and | 27 |
| work of man, geological history, natural
resources, and the | 28 |
| manufacturing and fine arts; to interpret for and
educate | 29 |
| the public concerning the foregoing.
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| (20) To cooperate with the Illinois State Museum | 31 |
| Society for the
mutual benefit of the Museum and the | 32 |
| Society, with the Museum furnishing
necessary space for the | 33 |
| Society to carry on its functions and keep its
records, | 34 |
| and, upon the recommendation of the Museum Director with | 35 |
| the
approval of the Board of State Museum Advisors and the | 36 |
| Director of the
Department, to enter into agreements with |
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| the Illinois State Museum
Society for the operation of a | 2 |
| sales counter and other concessions for
the mutual benefit | 3 |
| of the Museum and the Society.
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| (21) To accept grants of property and to hold property | 5 |
| to be
administered as part of the State Museum for the | 6 |
| purpose of
preservation, research of interpretation of | 7 |
| significant areas within the
State for the purpose of | 8 |
| preserving, studying and interpreting
archaeological and | 9 |
| natural phenomena.
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| (22) To contribute to and support the operations, | 11 |
| programs
and capital development of public museums in this | 12 |
| State.
For the purposes of this Section, "public museum" | 13 |
| means a facility: (A) that
is operating for the purposes of | 14 |
| promoting cultural development
through
special activities | 15 |
| or programs or through performing arts that are
performed | 16 |
| in an indoor setting , and acquiring,
conserving, | 17 |
| preserving,
studying, interpreting, enhancing, and in | 18 |
| particular, organizing and
continuously exhibiting | 19 |
| specimens, artifacts, articles, documents and
other things | 20 |
| of historical, anthropological, archaeological, | 21 |
| industrial,
scientific or artistic import, to the public | 22 |
| for its instruction and
enjoyment, and (B) that either (i) | 23 |
| is operated by or located upon land
owned by a unit of | 24 |
| local
government
or (ii) is a museum that has an annual | 25 |
| indoor attendance of at least
150,000 and
offers | 26 |
| educational programs to school groups during school hours.
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| A museum is eligible to receive funds for capital | 28 |
| development under
this subdivision
(22) only if it is | 29 |
| operated by or located upon land owned by a unit of local
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| government or if it is certified by a unit of local
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| government in
which it is located as a public museum | 32 |
| meeting the criteria of this Section.
Recipients of funds | 33 |
| for capital development under
this subdivision (22) shall | 34 |
| match State funds with local or private funding
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| to the following:
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| (a) for a public museum with an attendance of |
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| 300,000 or less during the
preceding calendar year, no | 2 |
| match is required;
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| (b) for a public museum with an attendance of over | 4 |
| 300,000 but less than
600,000 during the preceding | 5 |
| calendar year, the match must be at a ratio of $1
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| local and
private funds for every $1 in State funds; | 7 |
| and
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| (c) for a public museum with an attendance of over | 9 |
| 600,000 during the
preceding calendar year, the match | 10 |
| must be at a ratio of $2 from local and
private funds | 11 |
| for every
$1 in State funds.
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| The Department shall formulate rules and regulations | 13 |
| relating to the
allocation of any funds appropriated by the | 14 |
| General Assembly for the
purpose of contributing to the | 15 |
| support of public museums in this State.
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| (23) To perform all other duties and assume all | 17 |
| obligations of the former
Department of Energy and Natural | 18 |
| Resources and the former Department of
Registration and | 19 |
| Education pertaining to the State Water Survey, the State
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| Geological Survey, the State Natural History Survey, and | 21 |
| the State Museum.
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| (24) To maintain all previously existing relationships | 23 |
| between the
State Water Survey, State Geological Survey, | 24 |
| and State Natural History
Survey and the public and private | 25 |
| colleges and universities in Illinois.
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| (25) To participate in federal geologic mapping | 27 |
| programs.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-606, eff. 6-28-02.)
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