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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Library System Act is amended by
5changing Section 8.1 as follows:
 
6    (75 ILCS 10/8.1)  (from Ch. 81, par. 118.1)
7    Sec. 8.1. The State Librarian shall make grants annually
8under this Section to all qualified public libraries in the
9State from funds appropriated by the General Assembly. Such
10grants shall be in the amount of up to $1.25 per capita for the
11population of the area served by the respective public library
12and, in addition, the amount of up to $0.19 per capita to
13libraries serving populations over 500,000 under the Illinois
14Major Urban Library Program. If the moneys appropriated for
15grants under this Section are not sufficient the State
16Librarian shall reduce the per capita amount of the grants so
17that the qualifying public libraries receive the same amount
18per capita.
19    To be eligible for grants under this Section, a public
20library must:
21        (1) Provide, as determined by the State Librarian,
22    library services which either meet or show progress toward
23    meeting the Illinois library standards, as most recently

 

 

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1    adopted by the Illinois Library Association.
2        (2) Be a public library for which is levied a tax for
3    library purposes at a rate not less than .13% or a county
4    library for which is levied a tax for library purposes at a
5    rate not less than .07%. If a library is subject to the
6    Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax
7    Code and its tax levy for library purposes has been lowered
8    to a rate of less than .13%, this requirement will be
9    waived if the library qualified for this grant in the
10    previous year and if the tax levied for library purposes in
11    the current year produces tax revenue for library purposes
12    that is an increase over the previous year's extension of
13    5% or the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index,
14    whichever is less. Beginning in State Fiscal Year 2012 and
15    continuing through and including State Fiscal Year 2015,
16    the eligibility requirement in this subsection shall be
17    waived if a library's tax levy for library purposes has
18    been lowered to a rate of less than 0.13%, and the State
19    Librarian determines that the library (i) continues to meet
20    the requirements of item (1) of this Section and (ii)
21    received a grant under this Section in the previous fiscal
22    year.
23    Any other language in this Section to the contrary
24notwithstanding, grants under this Section 8.1 shall be made
25only upon application of the public library concerned, which
26applications shall be entirely voluntary and within the sole

 

 

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1discretion of the public library concerned.
2    In order to be eligible for a grant under this Section, the
3corporate authorities, in lieu of a tax levy at a particular
4rate, may provide funds from other sources, an amount
5equivalent to the amount to be produced by that levy.
6(Source: P.A. 93-527, eff. 8-14-03.)
 
7    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
8becoming law.