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HB1615 Enrolled                      LRB104 08979 BDA 19035 b

1   AN ACT concerning government.

2   Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,

3 represented in the General Assembly:

4   Section 5. The Flag Display Act is amended by changing

5 Section 1 as follows:

6   (5 ILCS 465/1) (from Ch. 1, par. 3301)

7   Sec. 1. It shall be the duty of each county board to

8 provide United States national flags of not less than four by

9 eight feet in size, to be unfurled and kept floating from a

10 suitable flag-staff to be placed on the top of or prominently

11 displayed on the grounds of the court house in its respective

12 county, and it is hereby made the duty of the sheriff of each

13 and every county in the State to see that the flag so provided

14 shall be hoisted on its flag-staff above or at the court house

15 and kept floating from eight o'clock a.m. to five o'clock p.m.

16 on each and every legal holiday of the year, and on such other

17 days as the county board may direct.

18  The county board may provide for the display of an MIA flag

19 at the court house in its county, either upon the same

20 flag-staff as the United States national flag or otherwise.

21 (Source: P.A. 93-697, eff. 7-9-04.)
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