Illinois Compiled Statutes
Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS
70 ILCS 1260/ - Park Commissioners Street Control (1907) Act.

(70 ILCS 1260/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 153.9)
Sec. 0.01.
Short title.
This Act may be cited as the
Park Commissioners Street Control (1907) Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
 
(70 ILCS 1260/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 154)
Sec. 1.

That whenever any boulevard or parkway under the
control of any public park commissioners is in need of improvements or
repairs, it shall be competent for said park commissioners to make such
improvements or repairs; or whenever any public street, avenue or alley
under the control of any city, town or village adjoining any public park,
or pleasure ground under the control of any public park commissioners is in
need of improvements or repairs, it shall be competent for said park
commissioners and said city, town or village, from time to time, to enter
into an agreement for the payment to such city, town or village, by such
park commissioners, of such portion of the cost of the improvement or
repair of such public street, avenue or alley, as may in the judgment of
said commissioners be of benefit to said park or pleasure ground, or to
enter into an agreement for the making of such portion of the improvements
or repairs by said park commissioners to any such public street, avenue or
alley adjoining such public park or pleasure ground.

(Source: Laws 1919, p. 694.)
 
(70 ILCS 1260/2) (from Ch. 105, par. 155)
Sec. 2.

In case such boulevards or parkways are improved or repaired, or in
case an agreement shall have been entered into by the park commissioners
for the improving or repairing of any such street, avenue or alley
adjoining such park or pleasure ground, the commissioners having the
control of such boulevards, parkways, parks or pleasure grounds, or the
corporate authorities within which such boulevards, parkways, parks or
pleasure grounds may be situated, shall have the power to pay for such
improvements or repairs of such boulevards and parkways, and shall have the
power to pay for such portion of the cost of such improvements or repairs
of any public street, avenue or alley adjoining such park or pleasure
ground, out of the general revenues of such board of park commissioners or
corporate authorities controlling any such boulevards, parkways, parks or
pleasure grounds, or by the issue and sale, from time to time, of interest
bearing bonds; provided no bonds shall be issued under this Act contrary to
the provisions of section 12, Article 9 of the Constitution of this State,
and provided further that the total amount of said bonds to be so issued
shall not at any time exceed the sum of five hundred thousand dollars
($500,000); and authority is hereby expressly granted to the park
commissioners or corporate authorities issuing such bonds to levy and
collect a direct annual tax upon the property within the jurisdiction of
such park commissioners or corporate authorities, in addition to any tax
now authorized by law to be levied and collected by them, sufficient to pay
the interest on said bonds as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge
the principal thereof within twenty years from the date of the issue of
said bonds, and the county clerk of the county in which such district or
town is located, or such other officer or officers as are by law authorized
to spread or assess taxes for park purposes, on receiving certificate from
such park commissioners or corporate authorities, that the amount mentioned
in such certificate is necessary to pay the interest on said bonds and also
to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the
date of issuing said bonds, shall spread and assess such amount upon the
taxable property embraced in said park district or town, the same as other
taxes are by law spread and assessed and the same shall be collected and
paid over as other park taxes are required by law to be collected and paid.

(Source: Laws 1919, p. 694.)
 
(70 ILCS 1260/3) (from Ch. 105, par. 156)
Sec. 3.

The remainder of the cost of making such improvements or repairs
upon any public street, avenue or alley adjoining any public park or
pleasure ground shall be raised by said city, town or village, by general
taxation or special assessment, as said city, town or village may
determine.

(Source: Laws 1919, p. 694.)
 
(70 ILCS 1260/4) (from Ch. 105, par. 157)
Sec. 4.

Park commissioners having the control of any public park or
pleasure ground adjoining any street, avenue or alley under the control of
any city, town or village shall have the power under this Act to pay to
such city, town or village such sum or sums of money, out of the proceeds
of the sale of said bonds, not to exceed, however, a total amount of one
hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), as may be necessary for the purpose of
discharging any valid existing indebtedness of such park commissioners
arising from any agreement or agreements made by such park commissioners,
with such city, town or village prior to the adoption of this Act, for the
improvement and repair of any such public street, avenue or alley.

(Source: Laws 1919, p. 694.)

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