Illinois Compiled Statutes
Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS
70 ILCS 1255/ - Park Commissioners Street Control (1895) Act.

(70 ILCS 1255/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 142.9)
Sec. 0.01.
Short title.
This Act may be cited as the
Park Commissioners Street Control (1895) Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
 
(70 ILCS 1255/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 143)
Sec. 1.

Every board of park commissioners or park
authorities may 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 part thereof leading to such
park, boulevard or driveway, and may accept and add to any park under its
control any street or part thereof which adjoins or runs parallel to a
boundary line of such park. Streets so selected, to the extent taken, must
lie within the territory of the park district. The consent of the corporate
authorities having control of a street so selected and the consent in
writing of the owners of a majority of the frontage of the land abutting
the part of the street that has been selected must be obtained before that
part may be taken.

(Source: P.A. 76-894.)
 
(70 ILCS 1255/2) (from Ch. 105, par. 144)
Sec. 2.

That such board of park commissioners or park authorities shall
have power to improve such street or streets, or parts thereof, in such
manner as they may deem best and as they have or may hereafter have power
to improve other streets under their control, and for that purpose they are
hereby authorized to pay for the improvement thereof by levying, assessing
and collecting a special tax on contiguous property abutting on said street
or streets or parts thereof so improved, or a special assessment on
property benefited, in the manner in which said board of park commissioners
or park authorities are now or may be hereafter empowered by law to levy,
assess and collect special taxes on contiguous property or special
assessments for benefits in other cases, or to pay therefor by general
taxation, or both, but no such special tax or special assessment shall be
levied for the maintenance and repair of such improved street, but the same
shall be maintained and repaired by said park boards or park authorities as
in other cases. And such special taxes or special assessments as are hereby
authorized may be divided in to not exceeding ten annual installments,
bearing six per cent per annum interest from the date of confirmation
thereof by the court until paid, and the same shall be collected and
enforced in the same manner as is or may hereafter be provided by law for
the collection and enforcement of other special taxes or special
assessments for or on account of said park commissioners or park
authorities, so far as the same is applicable.

(Source: Laws 1909, p. 297.)
 
(70 ILCS 1255/3) (from Ch. 105, par. 145)
Sec. 3.

Such park boards or park authorities shall have the same power and
control over the streets or part of streets so selected and taken under
this act as are now or may be hereafter vested in them over and concerning
parks, boulevards or driveways or other streets.

(Source: Laws 1895, p. 290.)
 
(70 ILCS 1255/4) (from Ch. 105, par. 146)
Sec. 4.

In case any such streets or parts thereof shall pass from the
control of any such park commissioners or park authorities, 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 1895, p. 290.)
 
(70 ILCS 1255/5) (from Ch. 105, par. 147)
Sec. 5.

Any incorporated city, town or village in this state shall have
full power and authority to invest any such park commissioners, or park
authorities 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 1895, p. 290.)
 
(70 ILCS 1255/6) (from Ch. 105, par. 148)
Sec. 6.

The provisions of this act so far as the same applies to improving,
maintaining and repairing any street or streets or parts thereof, and of
the levy, assessment and collection of special taxes and special
assessments, shall apply to any street or streets or parts thereof that
have been heretofore selected and taken under the control of any park
commissioners or other park authorities, and to any such street or streets
or parts thereof which, or portions of which, have not yet been improved by
such park commissioners or park authorities.

(Source: Laws 1895, p. 290.)

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