093_SB1583
LRB093 03532 NHT 03561 b
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. TheSuch 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.)