Bill Text: IL SB0647 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning playgrounds, recreation grounds, and athletic fields.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [SB0647 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-SB0647-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 SB0647 Introduced 2/8/2011, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
105 ILCS 5/16-7 from Ch. 122, par. 16-7
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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AN ACT concerning education.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The School Code is amended by changing Section
16-7 as follows:
(105 ILCS 5/16-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 16-7)
Sec. 16-7. Playgrounds, recreation grounds and and
athletic fields. Any school district organized and existing
under the general law or by special charter having a population
of not more than 500,000 inhabitants may acquire real estate by
gift, donation, legacy, purchase or otherwise and hold it for
the purpose of establishing playgrounds, recreation grounds
and athletic fields, and may equip, operate and maintain such
playgrounds, recreation grounds and athletic fields, the cost
of such acquiring and equipping to be paid either from the
proceeds of bonds issued for that purpose or out of the
operations and maintenance fund, and the cost of such
maintaining and operating to be paid from the educational fund,
of the district. Such real estate need not be contiguous to any
other school property or real estate owned by the school
district.
(Source: P.A. 86-970.)