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91_HB0138eng HB0138 Engrossed LRB9100778MWgc 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 flagsflagso 15 provided shall be hoisted on theiritsflag-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 HB0138 Engrossed -2- LRB9100778MWgc 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.