70 ILCS 410/13.1

(70 ILCS 410/13.1) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 7114.1)

Sec. 13.1.

(a) Not less than 5% of the voters in any district may petition
the board of that district to levy, in addition to all other taxes which
the board is now or may hereafter be authorized to levy, an annual tax for
the purpose of providing staff, special educational programming, equipment,
supplies, maintenance of facilities and equipment, and funding for research
projects associated with endangered, threatened, and protected species, as
defined by State and Federal law, of native Illinois fauna and flora.  Upon
the filing of such petition with the board of a district, the board shall
adopt an ordinance calling for the referendum and setting
forth the proposition of whether to levy such a tax.  The clerk or
secretary of the district shall certify
the ordinance and the proposition to the proper election officials who shall
submit the proposition to the voters of the district at a referendum in
accordance with the general election law.

(b) If such tax is first approved at the referendum by a majority of voters
voting on the issue, the board may levy the tax at a rate not to exceed
.01% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue,
of taxable property in the district.  Funds derived from the tax shall not be used for
land acquisition or for the construction of permanent facilities.

(c) The board of any district may maintain within that district buildings
and such other facilities as may be used for the protection and study of
such fauna or flora, or permit the directors or trustees of any not for
profit organization devoted to such purposes to maintain such facilities
out of funds belonging to such not for profit organization, or to contract
with the directors or trustees of any not for profit organization on such
terms and conditions as the board may deem best, relative to the operation
and maintenance of facilities for the protection and study of such fauna
and flora within the District, out of the tax funds received from this Section.

(Source: P.A. 84-465.)