093_SB1583

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning schools.

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

 4        Section  5.   The  School  Code  is  amended  by changing
 5    Section 16-7 as follows:

 6        (105 ILCS 5/16-7) (from Ch. 122, par. 16-7)
 7        Sec. 16-7.  Playgrounds, recreation grounds and  athletic
 8    fields.  Any school district organized and existing under the
 9    general law or by special charter having a population of  not
10    more  than  500,000  inhabitants  may  acquire real estate by
11    gift, donation, legacy, purchase or otherwise and hold it for
12    the purpose of establishing playgrounds,  recreation  grounds
13    and athletic fields, and may equip, operate and maintain such
14    playgrounds, recreation grounds and athletic fields, the cost
15    of  such  acquiring  and equipping to be paid either from the
16    proceeds of bonds issued for  that  purpose  or  out  of  the
17    operations  and  maintenance  fund,  and  the  cost  of  such
18    maintaining  and  operating  to  be paid from the educational
19    fund, of the district. The  Such  real  estate  need  not  be
20    contiguous  to any other school property or real estate owned
21    by the school district.
22    (Source: P.A. 86-970.)