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Public Act 92-0606
SB2287 Enrolled LRB9215656EGfg
AN ACT concerning museums.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Natural Resources Act is
amended by changing Section 1-25 as follows:
(20 ILCS 801/1-25)
Sec. 1-25. Powers of the scientific surveys and State
Museum. In addition to its other powers and duties, the
Department shall have the following powers and duties which
shall be performed by the scientific surveys and the State
Museum:
(1) To investigate and study the natural resources
of the State and to prepare printed reports and furnish
information fundamental to the conservation and
development of natural resources and for that purpose the
officers and employees thereof may, pursuant to rule
adopted by the Department, enter and cross all lands in
this State, doing no damage to private property.
(2) To cooperate with and advise departments having
administrative powers and duties relating to the natural
resources of the State, and to cooperate with similar
departments in other states and with the United States
Government.
(3) To conduct a natural history survey of the
State, giving preference to subjects of educational and
economical importance.
(4) To publish, from time to time, reports covering
the entire field of zoology and botany of the State.
(5) To supply natural history specimens to the
State educational institutions and to the public schools.
(6) To investigate the entomology of the State.
(7) To investigate all insects dangerous or
injurious to agricultural or horticultural plants and
crops, livestock, to nursery trees and plants, to the
products of the truck farm and vegetable garden, to shade
trees and other ornamental vegetation of cities and
villages, to the products of the mills and the contents
of warehouses, and all insects injurious or dangerous to
the public health.
(8) To conduct experiments with methods for the
prevention, arrest, abatement and control of insects
injurious to persons or property.
(9) To instruct the people, by lecture,
demonstration or bulletin, in the best methods of
preserving and protecting their property and health
against injuries by insects.
(10) To publish, from time to time, articles on the
injurious and beneficial insects of the State.
(11) To study the geological formation of the State
with reference to its resources of coal, ores, clays,
building stones, cement, materials suitable for use in
the construction of roads, gas, mineral and artesian
water and other products.
(12) To publish, from time to time, topographical,
geological and other maps to illustrate resources of the
State.
(13) To publish, from time to time, bulletins
giving a general and detailed description of the
geological and mineral resources, including water
resources, of the State.
(14) To cooperate with United States federal
agencies in the preparation and completion of a contour
topographic map and the collection, recording and
printing of water and atmospheric resource data including
stream flow measurements and to collect facts and data
concerning the volumes and flow of underground, surface
and atmospheric waters of the State and to determine the
mineral qualities of water from different geological
formations and surface and atmospheric waters for the
various sections of the State.
(15) To publish, from time to time, the results of
its investigations of the mineral qualities, volumes and
flow of underground and surface waters of the State to
the end that the available water resources of the State
may be better known and to make mineral analyses of
samples of water from municipal or private sources giving
no opinion from those analyses of the hygienic,
physiological or medicinal qualities of such waters.
(16) To act as the central data repository and
research coordinator for the State in matters related to
water and atmospheric resources. The State Water Survey
Division of the Department may monitor and evaluate all
weather modification operations in Illinois.
(17) To distribute, in its discretion, to the
various educational institutions of the State, specimens,
samples, and materials collected by it after the same
have served the purposes of the Department.
(18) To cooperate with the Illinois State Academy
of Science and to publish a suitable number of the
results of the investigations and research in the field
of natural science to the end that the same may be
distributed to the interested public.
(19) To maintain a State Museum, and to collect and
preserve objects of scientific and artistic value,
representing past and present fauna and flora, the life
and work of man, geological history, natural resources,
and the manufacturing and fine arts; to interpret for and
educate the public concerning the foregoing.
(20) To cooperate with the Illinois State Museum
Society for the mutual benefit of the Museum and the
Society, with the Museum furnishing necessary space for
the Society to carry on its functions and keep its
records, and, upon the recommendation of the Museum
Director with the approval of the Board of State Museum
Advisors and the Director of the Department, to enter
into agreements with the Illinois State Museum Society
for the operation of a sales counter and other
concessions for the mutual benefit of the Museum and the
Society.
(21) To accept grants of property and to hold
property to be administered as part of the State Museum
for the purpose of preservation, research of
interpretation of significant areas within the State for
the purpose of preserving, studying and interpreting
archaeological and natural phenomena.
(22) To contribute to and support the operations,
programs and capital development of public museums in
this State. For the purposes of this Section, "public
museum" means a facility: (A) that is operating for the
purposes of promoting cultural development through
special activities or programs or performing arts, and
acquiring, conserving, preserving, studying,
interpreting, enhancing, and in particular, organizing
and continuously exhibiting specimens, artifacts,
articles, documents and other things of historical,
anthropological, archaeological, industrial, scientific
or artistic import, to the public for its instruction and
enjoyment, and (B) that either (i) is operated by or
located upon land owned by a unit of local government or
(ii) is a museum that has an annual indoor attendance of
at least 150,000 and offers educational programs to
school groups during school hours. A museum is eligible
to receive funds for capital development under this
subdivision (22) only if it is operated by or located
upon land owned by a unit of local government or if it is
certified by a unit of local government in which it is
located as a public museum meeting the criteria of this
Section. Recipients of funds for capital development
under this subdivision (22) shall match State funds with
local or private funding according to the following:
(a) for a public museum with an attendance of
300,000 or less during the preceding calendar year,
no match is required;
(b) for a public museum with an attendance of
over 300,000 but less than 600,000 during the
preceding calendar year, the match must be at a
ratio of $1 from local and private funds for every
$1 in State funds; and
(c) for a public museum with an attendance of
over 600,000 during the preceding calendar year, the
match must be at a ratio of $2 from local and
private funds for every $1 in State funds. at a
ratio of $2 from local and private funds for every
$1 in State funds.
The Department shall formulate rules and regulations
relating to the allocation of any funds appropriated by
the General Assembly for the purpose of contributing to
the support of public museums in this State.
(23) To perform all other duties and assume all
obligations of the former Department of Energy and
Natural Resources and the former Department of
Registration and Education pertaining to the State Water
Survey, the State Geological Survey, the State Natural
History Survey, and the State Museum.
(24) To maintain all previously existing
relationships between the State Water Survey, State
Geological Survey, and State Natural History Survey and
the public and private colleges and universities in
Illinois.
(25) To participate in federal geologic mapping
programs.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96; 90-604, eff. 1-1-99.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
Passed in the General Assembly June 02, 2002.
Approved June 28, 2002.
Effective June 28, 2002.
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