Legislative Report
1987 Session — 85th General Assembly

By THOMAS W. KELTY, Chief Counsel
Illinois Municipal League

The following is a synopsis of legislation adopted by the 85th Illinois General Assembly and sent to the Governor for his signature. Included is the Public Act number and the effective date of each Bill.

Please note that these are only summaries of the Bills and should be reviewed by the attorney for your municipality to determine their exact application.

BILLS SIGNED INTO LAW

HB 3 (PA 85-0143)

Requires smoke detectors in all buildings containing dwelling units. Requires installation and maintenance of smoke detectors in all and substantially remodeled dwelling units at the time of first occupancy, and in all existing dwelling units by July 1,1988; provides criminal penalties for noncompliance and for tampering with installed smoke detectors. Effective August 14, 1987.

HB 48 (PA 85-0586)

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the use of red or white (now red only) oscillating, rotating or flashing lights whether lighted or unlighted, is prohibited except on specified law enforcement and emergency vehicles. Effective September 20, 1987.

HB 87 (PA 85-0385)

Creates a new act allowing any unit of government to waive charges and fees for public protection for any parade held on not more than two federal holidays by a Congressionally or State chartered veterans organization. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 88 (PA 85-0347)

Allows wine and beer (now beer only) to be sold or delivered in various public buildings and at State, county and city fairs as listed in ch. 43, par. 130. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 89 (PA 85-0488)

Amends the municipal civil service division of the Municipal Code (ch. 24, par. 10-1-17) to allow an elected Board of Library Trustees, by a 2/3 vote, to exclude any position of employment in a public library from classified service. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 124 (PA 85-0764)

Amends Ch. 73, Par. 1009.1 by raising from seven (7) to thirty (30) days the time a municipality has to complete an insurance company's request for a certificate showing the actual or estimated expense of demolishing a building where a fire has caused over $15,000 damage; if the certificate is not received by the insurance company within thirty (30) days, they may pay the claimant as if no demolition expenses were incurred; designates the city or village clerk as the person responsible for executing the certificate unless the mayor or chief executive designates an alternate. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 187 (PA 85-0447)

Raises from $15,000 to $25,000 the threshold of insured fire loss necessary to trigger an insurance company's need to obtain a certificate from a local government showing the amount of delinquent property taxes and unpaid demolition expenses. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 213 (PA 85-0876)

Establishes a municipal administrative adjudication procedure for parking ticket scofflaws. Effective November 6, 1987.

HB 245 (PA 85-0449)

Rewrites several statutes in relation to public and community service being provided by offenders in lieu of or in addition to imprisonment. Revises provisions relating to liability of cities and public or community service programs and their sites for loss or injury suffered by a person performing public or community service and relating to liability for acts of persons performing public or community service. Effective September 17, 1987.

HB 301 (PA 85-0591)

Creates the Southwestern Illinois Development Authority to promote industrial, commercial and recreational growth in Madison and St. Clair Counties. Empowers the authority to finance development projects through issuance of bonds; authorizes cities and counties to levy taxes in support of the authority. Effective September 20, 1987.

HB 308 (PA 85-0288)

Amends the Environmental Protection Act and the Build Illinois Bond Act by authorizing the EPA to distribute grants for sewer and water projects and authorizes the issuance of Build Illinois Bonds for sewer and water projects. Amends the Build Illinois Bond Fund and the Build Illinois Fund to authorize grants to municipalities and counties to demolish abandoned buildings for the purpose of making unimproved land available for purchase by businesses for economic development. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 318 (PA 85-0592)

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Limits the existing-contract solid waste fee exception to the first fifty thousand (50,000) tons of waste received pursuant to a contract during a calendar year. Authorizes imposition of a local fee on solid waste receipts under any contract involving more than fifty thousand (50,000) tons, even though the contract was executed before June 1,1986. Effective September 20, 1987.

HB 345 (PA 85-0358)

Amends the Environmental Protection Act to require the Pollution Control Board, in making an order or determination of a monetary penalty, to consider any economic benefits accrued by

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a noncomplying pollution source because of its delay in compliance with pollution control requirements. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 396 (PA 85-0594)

Raises various sheriff's fees and limits the local government exemption from paying those fees to just police departments or other law enforcement agencies. Effective September 20, 1987.

HB 423 (PA 85-0495)

Restricts disciplinary procedures for police and fire personnel in municipalities operating under the civil service sections of the Municipal Code (ch. 24, par. 10-1-18). Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 429 (PA 85-0496)

Provides that police and fire personnel covered by the civil service or board of fire and police commissioners acts may not have more restrictive residency requirements placed on them than those in effect on the day they were hired; residency cannot be made a condition of promotion except for police or fire chiefs. Effective September 18, 1987.

HB 532 (PA 85-0500)

Requires a municipality, before approving a subdivision plat, to obtain approval by the Department of Transportation or other local highway authority regarding roadway access and approval by the Illinois Department of Public Health or local health department with respect to sewage disposal systems if the proposed plat is not served by a public sewer system. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 560 (PA 85-0600)

Creates the Transient Merchant Act of 1987 to regulate transient merchants and itinerant vendors who are operating without a county or municipal license. Such persons are required to obtain a license under this act and post a bond with the local police agency which becomes the licensing agency. Authorizes municipalities to license transient merchants and itinerant vendors in a manner not inconsistent with the act. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 594 (PA 85-0504)

Amends the Park District Code by providing that where territory to be annexed consists of a municipality not currently part of any park district, the territory may be annexed only in its entirety. Effective September 18, 1987.

HB 642 (PA 85-0508)

Allows all municipalities the option of passing two (2) or more ordinances, resolutions or motions by one omnibus vote. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 643 (PA 85-0156)

Allows municipalities to regulate or prohibit the presence of persons under age twenty-one (21) on the premises of licensed retail liquor establishments. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 692 (PA 85-0887)

Permits municipalities to be sued in any county where any part of the transaction occurred out of which the cause of action arose. Effective November 6, 1987.

HB 717 (PA 85-0888)

Requires that local siting requirements for a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility must be met prior to granting of a Department license for operation. Effective November 6, 1987.

HB 745 (PA 85-0134)

Allows certain old people's homes or homes for the aged or facilities for the developmentally disabled to be exempt from property taxes, even though they do not allow waiver or reduction of fees based on ability to pay, if the home or facility is qualified, built or financed under Section 202 of the National Housing Act of 1959. Effective August 13, 1987.

HB 747 (PA 85-0456)

Amends the Illinois Chemical Safety Act to require the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency (ESDA) to notify municipalities and water suppliers of a chemical release within forty-eight (48) hours of such release and requires ESDA to establish procedures for notification. Effective September 17, 1987.

HB 845 (PA 85-0372)

Increases the penalty from a Class B to a Class A misdemeanor for any person who wilfully or through culpable negligence violates the provisions of Section 10-1-16 of the Municipal Code (granting veteran's preference in the municipal civil service division of the Municipal Code). Effective. January 1, 1988.

HB 854 (PA 85-0158)

Adds Division 4.1 to Article 8 of the Municipal Code to create the Municipal Bond Reform Act thus allowing non-home rule municipalities more flexibility in issuing debt. Effective August 15, 1987.

HB 860 (PA 85-0166)

Amends the Charitable Games Act by adding veterans and labor organizations to the list of groups authorized to obtain charitable games licenses from the State. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 862 (PA 85-0459)

Allows municipalities to appropriate money from general revenues to their working cash fund up to the maximum allowable in the fund and permits the fund to receive those appropriations or any other contributions. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 869 (PA 85-0461)

Provides that a manager form municipality which has previously chosen to change from councilmen to aldermen pursuant to ch. 24, par. 5-2-18, may provide by ordinance for the appointment rather than election of the city clerk and city treasurer. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 898 (PA 85-0515)

Amends the Public Aid Code to provide that local taxing bodies which utilize recipients of public assistance in job search, work and training projects are urged to include such recipients in the formulation of their employment policies. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 953 (PA 85-0462)

Amends the civil service division of the Municipal Code (ch. 24, par. 10-1-13) to change the life of a promotional roster. Previously the commission could strike off names after two years. Under this bill, the commission shall strike off names after no less than two (2) years and not more than three (3) years. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 976 (PA 85-0864)

Exempts from State and municipal retailers' occupation taxes any licensed day care center as defined in Section 2.09 of the Child Care Act of 1969 if it is operated by a not-for-profit corporation, society, association, foundation, institution or organization. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 1060 (PA 85-0606)

Amends the Firemen's Disciplinary Act to place more restrictive procedures on informal questioning in relation to an allegation of misconduct. Effective January 1, 1988

HB 1135 (PA 85-0782)

Amends the Environmental Protection Act to encourage consolidation of sewage treatment capacity; requires an agency permit before commencing the construction of certain sewage treatment improvements; prohibits issuance of such a permit, and requires consolidation, if the long-term cost of the improve-

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ment exceeds the cost of diverting the sewage to a nearby sanitary district; authorizes issuance of local general obligation and revenue bonds to fund the diversion and consolidation. Effective September 24, 1987.

HB 1167 (PA 85-0415)

Exempts from State and local retailers' occupation taxes any sale to a not-for-profit service enterprise for the benefit of persons sixty-five (65) years of age or older and if not purchased for resale; exempts from State and local retailers' occupation taxes and places in the base of State and local auto renting taxes the sale and rental of vans capable of holding not less than seven (7) nor more than sixteen (16) passengers. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 1237 (PA 85-0784)

Removes the requirement that the mayor and commissioners in commission form municipalities of over 20,000 persons must devote at least thirty (30) hours per week to the performance of their official duties; allows municipal jurisdictional boundary line agreements to provide that one or more of the municipalities shall not annex territory that lies within the jurisdiction of any other municipality, as established by such line; allows jurisdictional boundary line agreements to be valid for up to twenty (20) years and are valid for twenty (20) years if no term is stated in the contract; prohibits municipalities from imposing a connection or water use charge that exceeds the actual cost required for the installation or usage of an automatic sprinkler system. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 1238 (PA 85-0532)

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code (Ch. 85, Par. 11-207) to require that local traffic regulations are not effective until signs are posted giving "reasonable" notice of the regulations.

HB 1259 (PA 85-0160)

Allows municipal or county raffle licenses to be issued for one raffle (as permitted now) or for a specified number of raffles to be conducted during a specified period not to exceed one year; allows a raffle license to be issued to a nonprofit fund-raising organization that the licensing authority determines is organized for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to an identified individual or group of individuals suffering extreme financial hardship as a result of illness, accident or disaster.

Amends the Revenue Act with respect to housing property acquired by municipality through foreclosure of repair lien, deed in lieu of foreclosure or tax sale. In part, requires that such property acquired by a municipality shall be sold subject to a condition that it be used for low or moderate income housing for ten years. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 1419 (PA 85-0420)

Reduces from six (6) to three (3) months the maximum time a business in an enterprise zone has to wait after certification before they begin to receive exemption from State and municipal utility taxes. Effective January 1, 1988

HB 1494 (PA 85-0545)

Amends the section of the Enterprize Zone Act providing for amendment and decertification of enterprise zones to permit amending a designating ordinance to include an area within another city or county as part of the designated enterprise zone. Effective September 18, 1987.

HB 1500 (PA 85-0798)

Amends Section 15 of the Animal Control Act (Ch. 8, Par. 365) to strengthen restrictions on vicious or dangerous dogs. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 1727 (PA 85-0466)

Amends the Liquor Control Act to provide that for appeals of a license suspension or revocation a certified official record of the revocation or suspension hearing shall be filed with the State Liquor Control Commission within five (5) days after the notice of filing of the appeal if the appellant licensee pays for the cost of the record. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 1938 (PA 85-0479)

Amends the municipal special assessment laws so that every municipality must file a duplicate petition and copy of the assessment roll for use by the County Recorder of Deeds and the lien is not effective until the date a certified copy of the judgment and assessment roll is recorded in the office of the recorder. Effective September 17, 1987.

HB 1966 (PA 85-0870)

Amends the Enterprise Zone Act by providing that at least 40% of all new enterprise zones approved and certified by the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs during any calendar shall be located wholly or partially within counties with county employment rates, of or above 8%. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 2164 (PA 85-0949)

Adds a new exemption to the Illinois Human Rights Act by providing that nothing in the Act prohibits an employer from imposing a mandatory retirement age for firefighters or law enforcement officers of 63 years of age or less. Effective December 3, 1987.

HB 2167 (PA 85-0296)

Amends the Liquor Control Act to increase the penalties for the offense of selling liquor without a license to a maximum fine of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) for the first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for subsequent offenses. Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 2173 (PA 85-0552)

Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to make loans to units of local government for construction of revenue producing capital facilities. Effective September 18, 1987.

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HB 2193 (PA 85-0950)

Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act by authorizing the awarding of punitive damages for civil rights violations and awards of interest on actual damages and backpay. Effective December 3, 1987.

HB 2363 (PA 85-0565)

Rewrites various sections of the Mobile Home and Mobile Home Park Act. Specifies information, fees and procedure regarding application for a permit to construct a new mobile home park, application for an original license to operate and maintain a mobile home park, and application for a permit to alter a licensed mobile home park. Specifies that construction shall not commence until the applicant obtains required municipal or county building and zoning approvals. Effective September 18, 1987.

HB 2403 (PA 85-0936)

Requires smoke detectors to be installed in all long-term care nursing homes, community residential alternative facilities, elementary or secondary public or private schools and child care facilities. Effective December 2, 1987.

HB 2507 (PA 85-0634)

Expands the powers of a receiver appointed to take control of abandoned property located within a municipality under Division 31 of Article II of the Municipal Code. (Ch. 24, par. 11-31-1, et seq.) Effective January 1, 1988.

HB 2530 (PA 85-0202)

Authorizes any public agency to invest in a fund managed, operated and administered by a bank, provided that the public agency has an undivided interest in the assets of the fund; such fund must invest in the same types of investments and be subject to the same limitations provided for the investment of public funds. Effective August 21, 1987.

HB 2584 (PA 85-0635)

Allows local law enforcement officers or agencies to send the Department of State Police copies of fingerprints and descriptions of all minors who are alleged to have committed the crime of unlawful use of weapons or a forcible felony. Effective January 1, 1988

HB 2636 (PA 85-0963)

Provides that when a law enforcement agency authorizes the towing of a vehicle from public or private property pursuant to Section 4-203 of the Illinois Vehicle Code (ch. 95 1/2, par. 4-203), the owner of the vehicle is responsible for all towing and storage charges. Effective July 1, 1988

HB 2820 (PA 85-0575)

Amends the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act by defining the term "specialized emergency medical services vehicle" and provides that such vehicles shall be subject to regulation by the Department of Public Health. Exempt from such regulation vehicles owned and regulated by a unit of local government. Effective July 1, 1988

SB 66 (PA 85-0009)

Amends the coterminous township annexation law to exempt from automatic annexation in areas to be annexed which permit sale of alcohol and annexing city does not. Also provides one-time disconnection for such property if (i) the annexation occurred between August 1, 1986 and the effective date; and (ii) if the corporate authorities of the municipality approve the disconnection within ninety (90) days of the effective date of the amendment. Effective June 30, 1987.

SB 77 (PA 85-0163)

Amends Par. 11-40-3 of the Municipal Code to allow a municipality to authorize, by ordinance, the police department to remove, upon seven (7) days' notice, any inoperable motor vehicles, including historic vehicles, which have been declared a nuisance.

SB 80 (PA 85-0744)

Allows all arresting authorities to receive reimbursement from the arrestee, when available, for medical expenses incurred in providing medical assistance to arrestees. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 203 (PA 85-0312)

Amends the Revenue Act by permitting rather than requiring a county clerk to cancel extension and collection of the tax on real property with an equalized assessed valuation of less than One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150) and expands the charitable organization property tax exemption. Effective September 10, 1987.

SB 256 (PA 85-0748)

Amends the Human Rights Act by eliminating the upper age limit of 70 for mandatory retirement and the prohibition against discrimination in employment. Extends applicability to employees subject to collective bargaining agreements. Effective September 23, 1987.

SB 259 (PA 85-0314)

Allows, but does not require, the Secretary of State to furnish, without fee, driver's record information to law enforcement agencies. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 277 (PA 85-0262)

Allows the corporate authorities of any municipality to provide by ordinance that alcoholic liquor may be sold or delivered in any specifically designated building belonging to or under the control of the municipality. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 301 (PA 85-0263)

Requires the Director of the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety to give prompt notice to any municipality within twenty-five (25) miles of a site which is being considered for a permanent low-level radioactive waste facility. Effective January 1, 1988.

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SB 382 (PA 85-0915)

Allows police and fire employees up to five (5) days (currently twenty-four (24) hours) to request a Board of Fire and Police Commissioners' review of a suspension; specifies that the maximum suspension without pay is five (5) calendar days; allows the Chief of Police in cities over 100,000 population operating under the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners Act to appoint up to six (6) officers as deputy chiefs or assistant deputy chiefs without the advice or consent of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners. Effective July 1, 1988.

SB 465 (PA 85-0242)

Requires a liquor licensee appealing a decision of a local liquor control commissioner to pay for the cost of transcripts required for the appeal. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 467 (PA 85-0275)

Amends the Animal Control Act (ch. 8, par. 357) by allowing funds in the County Animal Control Fund to be used for the costs of carrying out the provisions of local ordinances relating to animal control. When such ordinances are concurred in, or approved, by the Illinois Department of Agriculture. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 483 (PA 85-0014)

Allows county governments to establish county-wide solid waste management systems which can include the area within municipalities. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 600 (PA 85-0124)

Raises municipal and park district tax rates for joint recreational programs for the handicapped from .02% to .04% and removes the backdoor referendum requirement. Effective January 1, 1988

SB 653 (PA 85-0958)

Eases voter registration procedures for municipal clerks and deputy municipal clerks in municipalities with territory in more than one county. Effective December 4, 1987.

SB 682 (PA 85-0854)

Changes procedures for the procurement of architectural, engineering and land surveying services by non-home rule municipalities; removes requirement that mayor and commissioners in commission form municipalities of over 20,000 population must devote at least thirty (30) hours per week to performance of their official duties; permits municipalities to register arborists or tree experts performing services within the municipality, but such municipalities may not charge a registration fee; specifies terms of office for members of municipal tax increment financing commissions; requires municipalities subject to flooding from nearby natural waterways to post Federal Flood Insurance Rate Maps in the municipal hall and replace such map at least once every five (5) years with the most recently issued map; changes allowable term and potential contents of jurisdictional boundary line agreements between two or more municipalities; makes technical changes to language in that portion of the Tort Immunity Act which allows debt to be issued to pre-fund a reserve for payment of future tort claims; restores municipal authority to impose a property tax of .05%, but not more than twenty-five cents ($.25) per capita, for emergency services and disaster operations. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 749 (PA 85-0945)

Adds additional siting criteria for local siting approval of new regional pollution control facilities. Among these are: (1) flood proofed to protect public health, safety and welfare and (2) if a local solid waste plan has been adopted, proposed facility is consistent with the plan and local government may consider past performance of applicant and a denied application may not be refiled for two (2) years. Effective July 1, 1988.

SB 769 (PA 85-0330)

Provides that the Illinois Local Governmental Law Enforcement Officers Training Board may make grants to each county, municipality or township for payment of additional compensation to full-time law enforcement officers qualifying under the act subject to the approval of the Board. Currently, present law requires such grants upon application to the Board and its approval. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 832 (PA 85-0484)

Amends provisions of the Illinois Vehicle Code regarding handicapped parking spaces and permits. Requires signs designating handicapped parking spaces to carry the words "$50 fine." Requires signs designating spaces to conform to Section 11-301 of the Vehicle Code, except that signs currently in use may continue to be displayed during "their useful lives." Requires law enforcement agencies to honor handicapped decals regardless of the issuing authority of the decal. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 910 (PA 85-0653)

Changes the definition of "criminal history record information" in the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act and the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. Effective September 20, 1987.

SB 914 (PA 85-0226)

Provides that any buildings or facilities built by the State of Illinois or the United States Department of Energy as a part of the Superconducting Supercollider facility are exempt from all laws, ordinances, codes, regulations, plans or licensing procedures of all units of local government including home rule units. Effective September 1, 1987.

SB 926 (PA 85-0922)

Creates a new "Illinois Uniform Conviction Information Act" and amends Section 2-201 of the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act to specify that nothing in that Act affects liability, if any, based on the newly created Illinois Uniform Conviction Information Act. Effective July 1, 1990.

SB 931 (PA 85-0654)

Removes the requirement that the Department of Transportation shall make determinations that proposed regional pollution control facilities are flood-proofed and outside the one hundred (100) year flood plain. Effective September 20, 1987.

SB 958 (PA 85-0859)

Allows a local government engaged in a "siting review" of a proposed regional pollution control facility to request the Department of Transportation to perform traffic impact studies of proposed or potential locations for the facilities.

SB 981 (PA 85-0338)

Allows fifteen (15) Enterprise Zones to be certified in 1987

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and raises the maximum size of a zone from ten (10) to twelve (12) square miles. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 1032 (PA 85-0253)

Removes the limitation in Chapter 100, Section 4, that any notice's publication cost cannot exceed an amount sufficient to publish the same in a weekly newspaper. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 1112 (PA 85-0659)

Amends the Illinois Development Finance Authority Act by modifying provisions relating to the issuance of bonds by public corporations and amends the municipal code in relation to payment of certain bonds. Effective September 20, 1987.

SB 1215 (PA 85-0924)

Allows municipalities to enter into multi-year collective bargaining agreements. Makes it an unfair labor practice to expend public funds in certain impermissible ways to influence the outcome of representational elections and adds various other technical changes to the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Effective July 1, 1988

SB 1243 (PA 85-0925)

Imposes a backdoor referendum requirement on the authority of municipalities to issue bonds pursuant to a compliance order issued by the U.S.E.P.A. or the Illinois Pollution Control Board. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 1283 (PA 85-0485)

Allows law enforcement officer to use preliminary breath screening tests approved by the Illinois Department of Public Health if the officer has probable cause to believe that a person has violated Section 11-501 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or a similar local ordinance. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 1291 (PA 85-0343)

Requires newly installed fire hydrants to have their discharge at least fourteen (14) inches, but not more than twenty-six (26) inches, from the surface from which the hydrant protrudes; no object may be constructed, maintained or installed within forty-eight (48) inches of a fire hydrant; makes it unlawful to install, maintain, construct or enlarge any barriers, trees, bushes, walls or other obstacles which may hide or impede the use of a fire hydrant. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 1421 (PA 85-0399)

Creates the Bed and Breakfast Act providing mandatory regulation, licensing, inspection and examination of bed and breakfast establishments by municipalities for incorporated areas and counties for unincorporated areas; establishes a new State program of matching grants of up to $40,000 per grant to counties, municipalities or local promotion groups for the development or improvement of tourism attractions. Effective September 14, 1987.

SB 1453 (PA 85-0164)

Mandates that no more than two inmates may be housed in a single cell or detention room of a county or municipal jail or house of correction; changes restrictions on separating various types of persons in jails and detention areas. Effective January 1, 1988.

SB 1482 (PA 85-0863)

Creates the Illinois Groundwater Protection Act providing expanded State regulatory authority over actions which could pollute groundwater; municipalities and counties are given specific authority to perform groundwater protection needs assessments and adopt ordinances to establish minimum or maximum setback zones around wellheads. Effective September 24, 1987.

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