(745 ILCS 25/1) (from Ch. 122, par. 821)
Sec. 1.
The General Assembly finds and hereby enacts as the public policy
of the State of Illinois that public schools in the exercise of purely
governmental functions should be protected from excessive diversion of
their funds for purposes not directly connected with their statutory
functions, if there is liability imposed by any court, and that there
should be a reasonable distribution among the members of the public at
large of the burden of individual loss from injuries incurred as a result
of negligence in the conduct of school district affairs; and that
non-profit private schools conducted by bona fide eleemosynary or religious
institutions should be protected from excessive diversion of their funds
for purposes not directly connected with their educational functions and
also that there should be a reasonable contribution by non-profit private
schools conducted by bona fide eleemosynary or religious institutions
toward alleviation of the burden of individual loss arising from injuries
incurred as a result of negligence in the conduct of such non-profit
private schools.
(Source: Laws 1959, p. 2060.)
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