Illinois Compiled Statutes
Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS
70 ILCS 1245/ - Park Commissioners Street Control (1879) Act.

(70 ILCS 1245/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 119.9)
Sec. 0.01.
Short title.
This Act may be cited as the
Park Commissioners Street Control (1879) Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
 
(70 ILCS 1245/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 120)
Sec. 1.

That every board of park commissioners shall
have power to connect any public park, boulevard or driveway under its
control with any part of any incorporated city, town or village, by
selecting and taking any connecting street or streets or part thereof
leading to such park; and shall also have power to accept and add to any
such park, any street or part thereof which adjoins and runs parallel with
any boundary line of the same, Provided, that the streets so selected and
taken, so far as taken, shall lie within the district or territory the
property of which shall be taxable for the maintenance of such parks: And
provided further, that the consent of the corporate authorities having
control of any such street or streets so far as selected and taken, and
also the consent in writing of the owners of a majority of the frontage of
the lots and lands abutting on such street or streets so far as taken,
shall be first obtained: And provided further, that every board of park
commissioners who shall have exercised the power hereinabove granted to
select and take streets or parts of streets for the purpose of connecting
any public park, boulevard or driveway under its control with any part of
any incorporated city, town or village, shall have the power to abandon and
surrender over any street or part of any street forming the whole or any
part of such connection so made, to the proper corporate authorities of the
city, village or town respectively, to which the control of any such street
or part of a street so abandoned would revert, and for the purpose of
connecting the same points or of making any portion of such connection, to
select and take in place of any streets, street or part of a street so
surrendered, any other and different streets, street or part of a street,
which may be desirable and expedient for making the said connection; but
such power shall only be exercised upon the consent first obtained of the
proper corporate authorities to whom the control of the streets, street or
parts of a street, so far as abandoned would revert, and of the proper
corporate authorities having control of the streets, street or part of a
street, so far as proposed to be taken, and upon the consent in writing
first obtained of the owners of a majority of the frontage of the lots and
lands abutting on the streets, street or part of a street so far as
abandoned, and upon the consent in writing first obtained of the owners of
a majority of the frontage of the lots and lands abutting on the streets,
street or part of a street, so far as proposed to be taken.

(Source: Laws 1895, p. 270.)
 
(70 ILCS 1245/2) (from Ch. 105, par. 121)
Sec. 2.

That such park commissioners, or such corporate authorities as are
by law authorized to levy taxes or assessments for the maintenance of such
parks, shall have power to improve, maintain and repair such street or
streets in such manner as they may deem best, and for that purpose they are
hereby authorized to pay for the improvement thereof, and from time to time
to levy, or cause to be levied and collected, a special tax or assessment
on contiguous property abutting upon such street so improved for a sum of
money not exceeding the estimated cost of such first improvement or
improvements, as shall be ordered and estimated by such board of park
commissioners, but not for any subsequent care, maintenance or repair
thereof; and to that end such board or corporate authorities shall have all
the power and authority now or hereafter granted to them respectively,
relative to the levy, assessment and collection of taxes, or assessment for
corporate purposes; and such special tax or assessments as are hereby
authorized may be divided into not exceeding ten annual installments,
bearing interest at the rate of six per cent per annum from the date of
confirmation until paid, and the assessment or installments thereof shall
be collected and enforced in the same manner as is provided by law for the
collection and enforcement of other taxes or assessments for, or on account
of such corporate bodies or boards, as aforesaid, so far as the same are
applicable.

(Source: Laws 1909, p. 294.)
 
(70 ILCS 1245/3) (from Ch. 105, par. 122)
Sec. 3.

Such park boards shall have the same power and control over the
parts of streets taken under this act, as are or may be by law vested in
them of and concerning the parks, boulevards or driveways under their
control.

(Source: Laws 1879, p. 216.)
 
(70 ILCS 1245/4) (from Ch. 105, par. 123)
Sec. 4.

In case any such streets or parts thereof, shall pass from the
control of such park board, the power and authority over the same, granted
or authorized by this act shall revert to the proper corporate authorities
of such city, town or village, respectively as aforesaid.

(Source: Laws 1879, p. 216.)
 
(70 ILCS 1245/5) (from Ch. 105, par. 124)
Sec. 5.

Any city, town or village in this state, shall have full power and
authority to invest any of such park boards with the right to control,
improve and maintain any of the streets of such city, town or village, for
the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act.

(Source: Laws 1879, p. 216.)

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