2005 Illinois Code - Chapter 5 General Provisions 5 ILCS 465/ Flag Display Act.
(5 ILCS 465/0.01) (from Ch. 1, par. 3300)
Sec. 0.01.
Short title.
This Act may be cited as the
Flag Display Act.
(Source: P.A. 86‑1324.)
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(5 ILCS 465/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3301)
Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of each county
board to
provide United States national flags of not less than four by eight feet
in size, to be unfurled and kept floating from a suitable flag‑staff to
be placed on the top of the court house in its respective
county,
and it is hereby made the duty of the sheriff of each and every county
in the state to see that the flag so provided shall be hoisted on its
flag‑staff above the court house and kept floating from eight o'clock A.
M. to five o'clock P. M. on each and every legal holiday of the year,
and on such other days as the county board may direct.
The county board may provide for the display of an MIA flag at the court house in its county, either upon the same flag‑staff as the United States national flag or otherwise.
(Source: P.A. 93‑697, eff. 7‑9‑04.)
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(5 ILCS 465/2) (from Ch. 1, par. 3302)
Sec. 2.
The commissioners or trustees of all penal and reformatory,
state educational and state charitable institutions of this state shall
provide United States national flags of not less than ten by twenty feet
in size and cause the same to be unfurled and kept floating above the
said penal and reformatory, state educational and state charitable
institutions or on a suitable flag pole from eight o'clock A. M. to five
o'clock P. M. on each and every legal holiday in the year and on such
other days as the commissioners or trustees may determine.
(Source: Laws 1897, p. 229.)
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(5 ILCS 465/3) (from Ch. 1, par. 3303)
Sec. 3.
The directors or board of education of every school district
in the State of Illinois shall cause to be erected and shall keep in
repair on all public school houses or within the school grounds surrounding
such public school buildings which may be in their respective school
districts, a good and sufficient flag‑staff or pole, together with all
necessary adjustments, and shall provide a United States national flag
of not less than four by eight feet in size, which shall be floated from
such flag‑staff or pole during the school hours of such days as the
directors or board of education may determine: Provided, that the flag
shall not be hoisted on any court house, state institution or public
school building during any day when a violent storm or inclement weather
would destroy or materially injure such flag.
(Source: P.A. 81‑1509.)
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(5 ILCS 465/3a) (from Ch. 1, par. 3304)
Sec. 3a.
The directors or board of education of every school district
in the State of Illinois shall cause to be displayed in each class room
of all public schools during the school hours of each school day the
United States national flag of not less than eleven by eighteen inches
in size.
(Source: Laws 1939, p. 651.)
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(5 ILCS 465/3b) (from Ch. 1, par. 3305)
Sec. 3b.
In addition to the buildings and grounds described in this
Act in and upon which the United States national flag shall be
displayed, a flag shall also be displayed and flown each day of the week
from each city or village hall and village square, and at the principal
entrance to all supervised public parks.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 2052.)
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(5 ILCS 465/4) (from Ch. 1, par. 3306)
Sec. 4.
The flags used by any and all state institutions, as provided
for in this act, shall be paid for out of the funds appropriated for the
running expenses of said institutions, the same as other necessary
supplies are bought and paid for, and the flags for use over court
houses and public school buildings are hereby declared to be necessary
supplies, and may be paid for out of the public funds of the respective
counties or school districts.
(Source: Laws 1897, p. 229.)
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(5 ILCS 465/5) (from Ch. 1, par. 3307)
Sec. 5.
Any person or persons who shall wilfully injure, deface or destroy
any flag, flag‑staff or pole, or adjustments attached thereto, erected
and arranged for the purpose of carrying out the requirements of this
act, shall be deemed guilty of a petty offense and fined not less than
one (1) dollar nor more than fifteen (15) dollars.
(Source: P. A. 77‑2446.)
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