Illinois Compiled Statutes
Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS
70 ILCS 1265/ - Park Commissioners Street Control (1917) Act.

(70 ILCS 1265/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 158.9)
Sec. 0.01.
Short title.
This Act may be cited as the
Park Commissioners Street Control (1917) Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
 
(70 ILCS 1265/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 159)
Sec. 1.

Every board of park commissioners or park authorities shall have
the power to connect any public park, boulevard or driveway under its
control, with any part of any incorporated city, town or village, the
territory of which shall touch, bound or be contiguous to such public park,
boulevard or driveway, by selecting and taking any connecting street or
streets, or parts thereof, leading to such park, boulevard or driveway, and
shall have the power to accept and add to any park or parks under their
control, any street, in its entirety or parts thereof which adjoins or runs
parallel with any boundary line of the same: Provided, that the consent of
the corporate authorities having control of any such street or streets or
part thereof so far as selected and taken shall first be obtained.
And provided, further, that unless such street or streets or part or
parts thereof shall have been previously restricted to boulevard or
pleasure driveway purposes pursuant to law, the consent of the owners of at
least two-thirds of the frontage of all property abutting upon said street
or streets or part or parts thereof shall also first be obtained.
The corporate authorities or the corporate authorities with the consent
of the owners of at least two-thirds of the frontage of abutting property
where consent of such owners was required for the taking, may re-take any
street or part thereof taken under this Section by sending written notice
of their action to the board of park commissioners or park authorities. The
street or part thereof so re-taken shall revert to the corporate
authorities 30 days after sending the notice. The corporate authorities
shall assume any contractual obligation for improvement of the streets
entered into by the board of park commissioners or park authorities prior
to receipt of the notice.

(Source: Laws 1951, p. 1173.)
 
(70 ILCS 1265/2) (from Ch. 105, par. 160)
Sec. 2.

In all cases when any such street or streets or part or parts
thereof, taken as aforesaid by any board of park commissioners or park
authorities shall lie in the city, town or village, the territory of which
is not taxed for the maintenance of said board of park commissioners or
park authorities, the said board of park commissioners or park authorities
shall certify to the board of local improvements or other local municipal
authorities of said city, town or village, the kind, character, quality and
description of such improvement of such street or streets or part or parts
thereof as such board of park commissioners or authorities propose to make
on said street or streets or part or parts thereof under their control and
which said board or authorities desire to have made on the said street or
streets or part or parts thereof in said city, town or village, the
territory of which is not taxed for the maintenance of said park
commissioners or authorities, and thereupon said board of local
improvements, or such other municipal authorities aforesaid, shall proceed
under the local improvement act or otherwise with the construction of
said proposed improvement according to law.
It shall be the duty of the board of park commissioners or park
authorities after the improvement of said street or streets, or parts
thereof, taken as aforesaid from such city, town or village, to make an
estimate of the amount of money required during the succeeding year for the
maintenance, repair, up-keep and government of said street or streets or
parts thereof in each city, town or village through which the said street
or streets, or part or parts thereof, may extend that does not lie within
the territory taxed for the maintenance of the board of park commissioners
or park authorities taking said street or streets, or part or parts
thereof, which estimate shall be made and certified to the local
authorities of such city, town or village on or before the first day of
September in each year. And it shall be the duty of the corporate
authorities of said city, town or village to meet on the first Wednesday of
October in each year and fix upon the amount of tax so certified to them by
said board of park commissioners, for the purpose aforesaid, and
immediately to certify to the county clerk in the county in which said
taxing body is located the amount to be raised by taxation for the purpose
aforesaid, in the respective city, town or village, and the county clerk
shall compute and extend the same as other general taxes, but such tax
shall be placed in a separate column headed "Driveway Maintenance Tax." The
taxes so levied and collected shall be paid to the said board of park
commissioners or park authorities upon their sole receipt to be expended by
them with the district for which the taxes are levied for the purpose of
such maintenance, repair, up-keep and government, and for none other.
The tax herein authorized to be levied shall not be subject to the
scaling process required by the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act
concerning the levy and extension of taxes," approved May 9, 1901, in force
July 1, 1901, and amendments thereto; and the "Driveway Maintenance Tax"
shall be in addition to the maximum of taxes permitted under Section 8-3-1
of the Illinois Municipal Code, as heretofore and hereafter amended,
and exclusive of all other taxes such municipality may levy or collect.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 1396.)
 
(70 ILCS 1265/3) (from Ch. 105, par. 161)
Sec. 3.

In case any such street or parts thereof, shall pass from the
control of any 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 1917, p. 621.)
 
(70 ILCS 1265/4) (from Ch. 105, par. 162)
Sec. 4.

The said board of park commissioners or park authorities shall
have, in addition to the power conferred, the same power and control of the
street or streets, or part or parts thereof, including the regulation of
traffic thereon, taken by them as aforesaid, as is now or may be by law
vested in them: Provided, that the power and control conferred on the board
of park commissioners or park authorities by this act shall not be in
limitation or construed to be in limitation of the power of the corporate
authorities in the city, town or village to enforce the ordinances thereof
within the limits of the street or streets, or parts thereof, taken as
aforesaid.

(Source: Laws 1917, p. 621.)
 
(70 ILCS 1265/5) (from Ch. 105, par. 163)
Sec. 5.

Any municipality in this State, located as defined and described in
Section one of this Act, shall have full power and authority by
appropriate resolution or ordinance to vest such board of park
commissioners or park authorities with the right to take over under the
terms of this Act, any street of such municipality which may be used for
the purpose of carrying out the provisions and conditions of this Act.

(Source: Laws 1917, p. 621.)

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