HB1625 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB1625

Introduced 2/18/2009, by Rep. Michael J. Madigan - Barbara Flynn Currie - Patrick J Verschoore

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

60 ILCS 1/120-5

Amends the Township Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the power to acquire park land.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Township Code is amended by changing Section 120-5 as follows:

(60 ILCS 1/120-5)

Sec. 120-5. Power to acquire park land; inapplicable to church.

(a) A township, acting through the the township board, may acquire lands (not exceeding for any one park 25 acres in extent, unless received as a gift) to be set apart and forever held and maintained and improved as public parks for the free use of the public.

(b) This Section does not apply to property owned by a church or any organization owned, operated, or controlled by or affiliated with a church, regardless of whether the property is subject to a lease, occupancy agreement, or other contract, agreement, or arrangement with a person or entity other than a church.

(Source: P.A. 86-282; 88-62.)