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91_HB0138

 
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Flag Display Act by changing Sections
 2    1 and 2 and by adding Section 2a.

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

 5        Section   5.  The Flag Display Act is amended by changing
 6    Sections 1 and 2 and by adding Section 2a as follows:

 7        (5 ILCS 465/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3301)
 8        Sec. 1. Court houses.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each
 9    county  board  to provide United States national flags of not
10    less than four by eight feet in size and POW/MIA flags, to be
11    unfurled and kept floating from a suitable flag-staff  to  be
12    placed  on  the  top  of  the  court  house in its respective
13    county, and it is hereby made the duty of the sheriff of each
14    and every county in the State to see that the flags  flag  so
15    provided  shall  be hoisted on their its flag-staff above the
16    court house and kept floating from eight  o'clock  a.  m.  to
17    five  o'clock  p.  m.  on each and every legal holiday of the
18    year, and on such other days as the county board may  direct.
19    The  POW/MIA  flag  must  be  flown  below  the United States
20    national flag.
21    (Source: P.A. 86-1028.)

22        (5 ILCS 465/2) (from Ch. 1, par. 3302)
23        Sec.  2.  State  institutions.   The   commissioners   or
24    trustees  of all penal and reformatory, State educational and
25    state charitable institutions of  this  State  shall  provide
26    United  States  national flags of not less than ten by twenty
27    feet in size and cause the  same  to  be  unfurled  and  kept
28    floating   above   the  said  penal  and  reformatory,  State
29    educational  and  State  charitable  institutions  or  on   a
30    suitable  flag  pole from eight o'clock a. m. to five o'clock
 
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 1    p. m. on each and every legal holiday in the year and on such
 2    other days as the commissioners or  trustees  may  determine.
 3    In  addition  to the United States national flag, the POW/MIA
 4    flag must be unfurled  and  kept  floating  above  all  State
 5    penal,  reformatory,  and  educational  institutions  or on a
 6    suitable flag pole from 8 o'clock a.m. to 5 o'clock  p.m.  on
 7    each  and  every  legal  holiday in the year and on any other
 8    days the commissioners or  trustees  determine.  The  POW/MIA
 9    flag must be flown below the United States national flag.
10    (Source: Laws 1897, p. 229.)

11        (5 ILCS 465/2a new)
12        Sec.  2a.  State  buildings  and  facilities.   A  United
13    States  national flag and a POW/MIA flag must be unfurled and
14    kept floating above each State building or facility or  on  a
15    suitable  flag  pole from 8 o'clock a.m. to 5 o'clock p.m. on
16    each and every legal holiday in the year  and  on  any  other
17    days  that the Governor determines.  The POW/MIA flag must be
18    flown below the United States national flag.

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