HB1060 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB1060

Introduced 2/17/2021, by Rep. Emanuel Chris Welch

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

745 ILCS 67/1

Amends the State of Illinois Recreational Use of Leased Land Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title and purpose.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning civil law.

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

Section 5. The State of Illinois Recreational Use of Leased Land Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:

(745 ILCS 67/1)

Sec. 1. Short title; purpose. This Act may be cited as the the State of Illinois Recreational Use of Leased Land Act.

The purpose of this Act is to encourage owners of land through nominal leases to the State of Illinois Department of Natural Resources to make land and water areas available to members of the general public for recreational uses by limiting their liability toward persons entering thereon for such uses.

(Source: P.A. 95-603, eff. 9-11-07.)