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90_HB2425
5 ILCS 465/1 from Ch. 1, par. 3301
5 ILCS 465/2 from Ch. 1, par. 3302
5 ILCS 465/2a new
5 ILCS 465/3 from Ch. 1, par. 3303
Amends the Flag Display Act. Provides that the POW/MIA
flag shall be flown at courthouses; State penal and
reformatory, educational and charitable institutions; and
school houses in the State of Illinois. Provides that the
United States national flag and the POW/MIA flag shall be
flown at each State building and facility.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Flag Display Act by changing Sections
2 1, 2, and 3 and by adding Section 2a.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Flag Display Act is amended by changing
6 Sections 1, 2, and 3 and by adding Section 2a as follows:
7 (5 ILCS 465/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3301)
8 Sec. 1. Court houses. It shall be the duty of each
9 county board to provide United States national flags of not
10 less than four by eight feet in size and POW/MIA flags, to be
11 unfurled and kept floating from a suitable flag-staff to be
12 placed on the top of the court house in its respective
13 county, and it is hereby made the duty of the sheriff of each
14 and every county in the state to see that the flags flag so
15 provided shall be hoisted on their its flag-staff above the
16 court house and kept floating from eight o'clock a. m. to
17 five o'clock p. m. on each and every legal holiday of the
18 year, and on such other days as the county board may direct.
19 The POW/MIA flag shall be flown below the United States
20 national flag.
21 (Source: P.A. 86-1028.)
22 (5 ILCS 465/2) (from Ch. 1, par. 3302)
23 Sec. 2. State institutions. The commissioners or
24 trustees of all penal and reformatory, State educational and
25 state charitable institutions of this State shall provide
26 United States national flags of not less than ten by twenty
27 feet in size and POW/ MIA flags and cause the same to be
28 unfurled and kept floating above the said penal and
29 reformatory, state educational and state charitable
30 institutions or on a suitable flag pole from eight o'clock a.
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1 m. to five o'clock p. m. on each and every legal holiday in
2 the year and on such other days as the commissioners or
3 trustees may determine. The POW/MIA flag shall be flown
4 below the United States national flag.
5 (Source: Laws 1897, p. 229.)
6 (5 ILCS 465/2a new)
7 Sec. 2a. State buildings and facilities. A United
8 States national flag and a POW/MIA flag shall be unfurled and
9 kept floating above each State building or facility or on a
10 suitable flag pole from 8 o'clock a.m. to 5 o'clock p.m. on
11 each and every legal holiday in the year and on any other
12 days that the Governor may determine. The POW/MIA flag shall
13 be flown below the United States national flag.
14 (5 ILCS 465/3) (from Ch. 1, par. 3303)
15 Sec. 3. School houses and school grounds. The directors
16 or board of education of every school district in the State
17 of Illinois shall cause to be erected and shall keep in
18 repair on all public school houses or within the school
19 grounds surrounding such public school buildings which may be
20 in their respective school districts, a good and sufficient
21 flag-staff or pole, together with all necessary adjustments,
22 and shall provide a United States national flag of not less
23 than four by eight feet in size and a POW/MIA flag, which
24 shall be floated from such flag-staff or pole during the
25 school hours of such days as the directors or board of
26 education may determine: Provided, that the flag shall not be
27 hoisted on any court house, state institution or public
28 school building during any day when a violent storm or
29 inclement weather would destroy or materially injure such
30 flag. The POW/MIA flag shall be flown below the United
31 States national flag.
32 (Source: P.A. 81-1509.)