105 ILCS 5/3-14.21
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 105 - SCHOOLS|105 ILCS 5/ - School Code.|Article 3 - Regional Superintendent of Schools

 (from Ch. 122, par. 3-14.21)Sec. 3-14.21. Inspection of schools.(a) The regional superintendent shall inspect and survey all  public  schools under his or her supervision and notify the board of education, or the  trustees of schools in a district with trustees, in writing before July 30,  whether or not the several schools in their district have been kept as required  by law, using forms provided by the State Board of Education which are based on  the Health/Life Safety Code for Public Schools adopted under Section 2-3.12.  The regional  superintendent shall report his or her findings to the State Board of  Education on  forms provided by the State Board of Education.(b) If the regional superintendent determines that a school board has  failed in a timely manner to correct urgent items identified in a previous  life-safety report completed under Section 2-3.12 or as otherwise previously  ordered by the regional superintendent, the regional superintendent shall order  the school board to adopt and submit to the regional superintendent a plan for  the immediate correction of the building violations.  This plan shall be  adopted following a public hearing that is conducted by the school board on the  violations and the plan and that is preceded by at least 7 days' prior notice  of the hearing published in  a newspaper of general circulation within the school district.  If the regional  superintendent determines in the next annual inspection that the plan has not  been completed and that the violations have not been corrected, the regional  superintendent shall submit a report to the State Board of Education with a  recommendation that the State Board withhold from payments of general State aid or evidence-based funding  due to the district an amount necessary to correct the outstanding violations.  The State Board, upon notice to the school board  and to the regional superintendent, shall consider the report at a meeting of  the State Board, and may order that a sufficient amount of general State aid or evidence-based funding be  withheld from payments due to the district to correct the violations.  This  amount shall be paid to the regional superintendent who shall contract on  behalf of the school board for the correction of the outstanding violations.(c)  The Office of the State Fire Marshal or a qualified fire official, as defined in Section 2-3.12 of this Code, to whom the State Fire Marshal has delegated his or her authority shall conduct an annual fire safety inspection of each school building in this State.  The State Fire Marshal or the fire official shall coordinate its inspections with the regional superintendent. The inspection shall be based on the fire safety code authorized in Section 2-3.12 of this Code.  Any violations shall be reported in writing to the regional superintendent and shall reference the specific code sections where a discrepancy has been identified within 15 days after the inspection has been conducted.  The regional superintendent shall address  those violations that are not corrected in a timely manner pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section.  The inspection must be at no cost to the school district.(d) If a municipality or, in the case of an unincorporated area, a county or, if applicable, a fire protection district wishes to perform new construction inspections under the jurisdiction of a regional superintendent, then the entity must register this wish with the regional superintendent. These inspections must be based on the building code authorized in Section 2-3.12 of this Code. The inspections must be at no cost to the school district.  (Source: P.A. 100-465, eff. 8-31-17.)