Bill Text: IL HB1130 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Movable Soccer Goal Safety Act. Requires any organization that sets up, moves, or stores a movable soccer goal to follow all applicable guidelines for anchoring, securing, and counterweighting a movable soccer goal as those guidelines are set forth in "Guidelines for Movable Soccer Goal Safety", a publication of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Provides that beginning on the effective date of the Act, no commercial dealer, manufacturer, importer, distributor, wholesaler, or retailer may manufacture, re-manufacture, retrofit, distribute, sell at wholesale or retail, contract to sell or resell, lease, or sublet, or otherwise place in the stream of commerce, a movable soccer goal that is not tip-resistant. Requires movable soccer goals with specified measurements to comply with applicable ASTM standards. Provides that a violation of the Act is a petty offense for which a fine not to exceed $500 may be imposed. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-08-02 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 97-0234 [HB1130 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2011-HB1130-Introduced.html

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2011 and 2012 HB1130 Introduced 2/7/2011, by Rep. Carol A. Sente SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Movable Soccer Goal Safety Act. Requires any organization that sets up, moves, or stores a movable soccer goal to follow all applicable guidelines for anchoring, securing, and counterweighting a movable soccer goal as those guidelines are set forth in "Guidelines for Movable Soccer Goal Safety", a publication of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Provides that beginning on the effective date of the Act, no commercial dealer, manufacturer, importer, distributor, wholesaler, or retailer may manufacture, re-manufacture, retrofit, distribute, sell at wholesale or retail, contract to sell or resell, lease, or sublet, or otherwise place in the stream of commerce, a movable soccer goal that is not tip-resistant. Requires movable soccer goals with specified measurements to comply with applicable ASTM standards. Provides that a violation of the Act is a petty offense for which a fine not to exceed $500 may be imposed. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning movable soccer goals.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Movable Soccer Goal Safety Act.
Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Movable soccer goal" means a freestanding structure
consisting of at least 2 upright posts, a crossbar, and support
bars that is designed:
(1) to be used by adults or children for the purposes
of a soccer goal;
(2) to be used without any other form of support or
restraint (other than pegs, stakes, or other forms of
temporary anchoring device); and
(3) to be able to be moved to different locations.
"Guidelines for Movable Soccer Goal Safety" means the
publication "Guidelines for Movable Soccer Goal Safety"
published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in
January 1995 or any successor version of that publication.
"Organization" means any individual, park district, school
district, sporting club, soccer organization, unit of local
government, religious organization, business, or other similar
organization that owns or controls a movable soccer goal to be

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used during organized soccer games, excluding private
residential soccer games, on private, commercial, or local
governmental property.
Section 10. Setting up, moving, or storing a movable soccer
goal. An organization must follow all applicable guidelines for
anchoring, securing, and counterweighting a movable soccer
goal that are set forth in "Guidelines for Movable Soccer Goal
Safety" when setting up a movable soccer goal for use, after
moving a goal previously set up, or when storing a movable
soccer goal.
Section 15. Tip-resistant movable soccer goals required.
(a) Beginning on the effective date of this Act, no
commercial dealer, manufacturer, importer, distributor,
wholesaler, or retailer may manufacture, re-manufacture,
retrofit, distribute, sell at wholesale or retail, contract to
sell or resell, lease, or sublet, or otherwise place in the
stream of commerce, a movable soccer goal that is not
tip-resistant.
(b) For purposes of this Act, a movable soccer goal whose
inside measurements are 6.5 to 8 feet high and 18 to 24 feet
wide is not presumed to be tip-resistant if it does not conform
to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
standard F2673-08 for tip-resistant movable soccer goals.

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Section 20. Penalty. Violation of this Act is a petty
offense for which a fine not to exceed $500 may be imposed.