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HB4257 Engrossed                               LRB9212588BDdv

 1        AN ACT concerning aquariums and museums.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Park District Aquarium and Museum Act  is
 5    amended by changing Section 1 as follows:

 6        (70 ILCS 1290/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 326)
 7        Sec.  1.   The  corporate  authorities of cities and park
 8    districts having the control or  supervision  of  any  public
 9    park  or  parks, are hereby authorized to purchase, erect and
10    maintain within any public park or parks under the control or
11    supervision of such corporate  authorities,  edifices  to  be
12    used  as aquariums or as museums of art, industry, science or
13    natural or other history,  or  to  permit  the  directors  or
14    trustees  of  any  corporation  or  society organized for the
15    construction or maintenance and operation of an  aquarium  or
16    museum  as hereinabove described to erect, enlarge, ornament,
17    build, rebuild, rehabilitate, improve, maintain  and  operate
18    its  aquarium or museum or museums within any public park now
19    or hereafter under the control or supervision of any city  or
20    park  district,  and  to  contract with any such directors or
21    trustees of any such aquarium, museum or museums relative  to
22    the    erection,    enlargement,   ornamentation,   building,
23    rebuilding,  rehabilitation,  improvement,  maintenance   and
24    operation  thereof.  Any city or park district may charge, or
25    permit such an aquarium or museum  to  charge,  an  admission
26    fee.:  Provided,  that  Any such aquarium or museum, however,
27    shall be open to the public without charge for at  least  one
28    day  each  week,  and,  when accompanied by a teacher, to the
29    children  in  actual  attendance  upon  grades   kindergarten
30    through  twelve  in  any  of the schools in this State at all
31    times. During a 2-year period beginning on the effective date
 
HB4257 Engrossed            -2-                LRB9212588BDdv
 1    of this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly, Any such
 2    aquarium or museum, however,  must  be  open  to  the  public
 3    without charge for a period equivalent to 52 days, at least 6
 4    of  which must be during the period from June through August,
 5    each  year,  instead  of  at  least  one   day   each   week.
 6    Notwithstanding  said  provisions, charges may be made at any
 7    time for  special  services  and  for  admission  to  special
 8    facilities  within  any aquarium or museum for the education,
 9    entertainment or convenience of  visitors.  The  proceeds  of
10    such  admission  fees  and  charges  for special services and
11    special  facilities  shall  be  devoted  exclusively  to  the
12    purposes for which the tax authorized by Section 2 hereof may
13    be used. If any owner or owners of any lands or lots abutting
14    or fronting on any such public  park,  or  adjacent  thereto,
15    have  any  private  right,  easement, interest or property in
16    such public park  appurtenant  to  their  lands  or  lots  or
17    otherwise, which would be interfered with by the erection and
18    maintenance   of  any  aquarium  or  museum  as  hereinbefore
19    provided, or any right to have such public park  remain  open
20    or  vacant and free from buildings, the corporate authorities
21    of the city or park district having control of such park, may
22    condemn the same in the manner prescribed for the exercise of
23    the right of eminent domain under Article VII of the Code  of
24    Civil Procedure, as now or hereafter amended.
25    (Source: P.A. 91-918, eff. 7-7-00.)

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