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90_HB0584
5 ILCS 440/1 from Ch. 1, par. 3201
Amends the Time Standardization Act. Eliminates daylight
savings time. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT concerning the standardization of time.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Time Standardization Act is amended by
5 changing Section 1 as follows:
6 (5 ILCS 440/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3201)
7 Sec. 1. Time standardization. At two o'clock ante
8 meridian of the last Sunday in April of each year, the
9 standard time in this State shall be advanced one hour, and
10 at two o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in October of
11 each year The standard time in this State shall, by the
12 retarding of one hour, be made to coincide with the mean
13 astronomical time of the ninety degrees of longitude West
14 from Greenwich, the standard official time of which is
15 described as United States standard central time. , so that
16 between the last Sunday of April at two o'clock ante meridian
17 in each year and the last Sunday in October at two o'clock
18 ante meridian in each year the standard time in this state
19 shall be one hour in advance of the United States standard
20 central time: Provided, however, that Nothing in this Act
21 shall be so construed as to be in contravention of any
22 federal law or authorized order of the Interstate Commerce
23 Commission with respect to the time zones of the United
24 States. And In all laws, statutes, orders, judgments, rules,
25 and regulations relating to the time of performance of any
26 act of any officer or department of this State, or of any
27 county, township, city or town, municipal corporation, agency
28 or instrumentality of the State, or school district or school
29 authority or relating to the time in which any rights shall
30 accrue or determine, or within which any act shall or shall
31 not be performed by any person subject to the jurisdiction of
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1 the State, and in all the public schools and in all
2 institutions of the State, or of any county, township, city
3 or town, municipal corporation, agency or instrumentality of
4 the State or school district or school authority, and in all
5 contracts or choses in action made or to be performed in the
6 State, it shall be understood and intended that the time
7 shall be the time prescribed in this Section. This Act
8 exempts the State of Illinois from the provisions of
9 subsection (a) of Section 260a of Title 15 of the United
10 States Code with respect to the advancement of time.
11 (Source: P.A. 84-452.)
12 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
13 becoming law.