103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB5413

 

Introduced 2/9/2024, by Rep. Laura Faver Dias

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
70 ILCS 1205/8-10b  from Ch. 105, par. 8-10.2

    Amends the Park District Code. Provides that a joint agreement to provide recreational programs for persons with disabilities that is entered into between a park district and another unit of local government before, on, or after the effective date of the amendatory Act establishes a special recreation association that is a unit of local government. Provides that, unless otherwise provided in the provisions, a special recreation association shall have all powers, duties, and responsibilities of a park district organized under the Code. Provides that a special recreation association is dissolved upon termination of the joint agreement. Provides that nothing in the provisions authorizes a special recreation association to levy or collect taxes, except that a park district that is a party to a joint agreement is allowed to levy a tax for recreational programs under the joint agreement.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Park District Code is amended by changing
5Section 8-10b as follows:
 
6    (70 ILCS 1205/8-10b)  (from Ch. 105, par. 8-10.2)
7    Sec. 8-10b. Joint recreational programs for persons with
8disabilities.
9    (a) Any 2 or more park districts, or in counties with a
10population of 300,000 or less, a single park district and
11another unit of local government, are authorized to take any
12action jointly relating to recreational programs for persons
13with disabilities that could be taken individually and to
14enter into agreements with other park districts and recreation
15boards and the corporate authorities of cities, villages and
16incorporated towns specified in Sections 11-95-2 and 11-95-3
17of the "Illinois Municipal Code", approved May 29, 1961, as
18amended, or any combination thereof, for the purpose of
19providing for the establishment, maintenance and management of
20joint recreational programs for persons with disabilities of
21all the participating districts and municipal areas, including
22provisions for transportation of participants, procedures for
23approval of budgets, authorization of expenditures and sharing

 

 

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1of expenses, location of recreational areas in the area of any
2of the participating districts and municipalities, acquisition
3of real estate by gift, legacy, grant, or purchase, employment
4of a director and other professional workers for such program
5who may be employed by one participating district,
6municipality or board which shall be reimbursed on a mutually
7agreed basis by the other districts, municipalities and boards
8that are parties to the joint agreement, authorization for one
9municipality, board or district to supply professional workers
10for a joint program conducted in another municipality or
11district and to provide other requirements for operation of
12such joint program as may be desirable.
13    (b) A joint agreement to provide recreational programs for
14person with disabilities that is entered into under this
15Section before, on, or after the effective date of this
16amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly establishes a
17special recreation association that is a unit of local
18government, as defined in Section 1 of Article VII of the
19Constitution. Unless otherwise provided by this Section, a
20special recreation association shall have all powers, duties,
21and responsibilities of a park district organized under this
22Code. A special recreation association is dissolved upon
23termination of the joint agreement.
24    (c) Nothing in this Section authorizes a special
25recreation association to levy or collect taxes, except that a
26park district that is a party to a joint agreement is allowed

 

 

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1to levy a tax under Section 5-8.
2(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)