Illinois Compiled Statutes
Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS
70 ILCS 1545/ - Chicago Park and City Exchange of Functions Act.

(70 ILCS 1545/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.50)
Sec. 0.01.
Short title.
This Act may be cited as the
Chicago Park and City Exchange of Functions Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.51)
Sec. 1.
For the purposes of this Act:
(a) "city" means any city having a population in excess of 500,000.
(b) "park district" means a park district having a population in excess
of 500,000 and a geographic area coextensive with such a city.
(c) "boulevards" means all boulevards, driveways, roadways and highways
under the jurisdiction of a park district, both within and without the
public parks proper, used as thoroughfares for vehicular traffic, including
bridges, subways, viaducts and approaches appurtenant thereto.
(d) "boulevard appurtenances" means parking meters, light posts and
facilities used for lighting boulevards, traffic signs and signals.
(e) "park policemen's annuity act" means Article 5 of the "Illinois
Pension Code", approved March 18, 1963, as amended.
(f) "park policemen's annuity fund" means the annuity and benefit fund
created under the park policemen's annuity act.
(g) "park employees' annuity act" means Article 12 of the "Illinois
Pension Code" as amended.
(h) "park employees annuity fund" means the annuity and benefit fund
created under the park employees' annuity act.
(i) "city policemen's annuity act" means Article 5 of the "Illinois
Pension Code" as amended.

(Source: P.A. 83-333.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/2) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.52)
Sec. 2.

On the effective date, the title to, control and jurisdiction of
all park district boulevards, boulevard appurtenances, and park district
street maintenance equipment, shall be vested in the city. On that date the
city shall assume responsibility for the supervision, maintenance and
repair of such boulevards and boulevard appurtenances, and for their
policing and traffic regulation and control. The corporate authorities of
the city may from time to time establish by ordinance all needful rules and
regulations for the government of boulevards; may exclude all objectionable
travel and traffic and may make and enforce reasonable traffic and other
regulations, and provide penalties not exceeding $200 for any one offense
for the violation of such rules and regulations. The city shall have the
same powers over boulevards so transferred as it exercises over streets
under its jurisdiction and control. The city shall also assume the duty and
responsibility of providing police personnel for the parks of the park
district.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/3) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.53)
Sec. 3.

On the effective date, the title to, control and jurisdiction of
all parks, bathing beaches, bathing bath houses and playgrounds under the
jurisdiction of the city, including in each case park and playground
equipment and facilities, shall be vested in the park district. All such
parks and playgrounds shall be public parks and the responsibility for
their maintenance, management, supervision and operation shall be in the
park district. The park district shall have the same powers in respect to
the parks and playgrounds so transferred as it exercises over all parks and
playgrounds under its control and jurisdiction.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/4) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.54)
Sec. 4.

All persons employed by the park district upon the effective date
as park policemen, or in boulevard maintenance and repair work, or in the
investigation, study and planning of traffic on boulevards, who held such
positions by virtue of the classified civil service under "An Act relating
to the civil service in park systems," approved June 10, 1911, as
amended, shall be transferred to the employment of the city and be given
a civil service status under Division 1 of Article 10 of the Illinois
Municipal Code, as heretofore and hereafter amended, without examination.
Eligible and reemployment registers of the civil service board of the park
district pertaining to such positions of employment shall be transferred to
the civil service commission of the city and accorded the same legal status
in respect to persons designated therein as if such registers had been
established under the procedures of the civil service commission of the
city. The Civil Service Commission of the city shall classify the positions
of all park district employees so transferred and such employees shall be
assigned to positions, so far as may be practicable, having duties and
responsibilities equivalent to their park district employment. For the
purpose of establishing the civil service status of park policemen
transferred to the city, any rank above the rank of captain shall not be
recognized. The civil service commission of the city may, in its
discretion, cancel any eligible register of the civil service board of the
park district transferred to it as has been in force more than two years.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 1393.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/5) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.55)
Sec. 5.

All persons employed by the city upon the effective date in
positions related to the management, maintenance, supervision and operation
of the parks and playgrounds transferred to the park district who held such
positions by virtue of the classified civil service under Division 1 of
Article 10 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as heretofore and hereafter
amended, shall be transferred to the employment of the park district and
be given a comparable civil service status under "An Act relating to the
civil service in park systems," approved June 10, 1911, as amended,
without examination. Eligible and re-employment registers of the civil
service commission of the city pertaining to such positions of employment
shall be transferred to the civil service board of the park district and
accorded the same legal status in respect to persons designated therein as
if such registers had been established under the procedures of the civil
service board of the park district. The civil service board of the park
district shall classify the positions of all employees so transferred and
such employees shall be assigned to positions, so far as may be
practicable, having duties and responsibilities equivalent to their city
employment. The civil service board of the park district may, in its
discretion, cancel any eligible register of the civil service commission of
the city transferred to it as has been in force more than two years.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 1393.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/6) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.56)
Sec. 6.

Employees transferred under Sections 4 and 5 shall have the same
standing, grade, class or rank which they held in the classified service of
the governmental unit from which they were transferred. For the purpose of
determining seniority in class, grade or rank, each employee shall be
credited with the time served by him in the employment held by him on the
effective date.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/7) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.57)
Sec. 7.

In the event the classified civil service of the city or park
district exempts from its provisions positions held by any employees
transferred hereunder, the employees so affected shall be assigned a
position in the classified civil service as nearly comparable in
responsibilities and duties to their former employment as it may be
possible to approximate.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/8) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.58)
Sec. 8.

The provisions of Sections 4, 5, 6 and 7 shall not be construed
to require the subsequent retention or employment of more employees than
are necessary to the performance of the functions assumed by the city and
park district under this Act.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/9) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.59)
Sec. 9.

Except as otherwise herein provided, this Act shall not affect the
annuity rights, credits or status of persons who on the effective date were
eligible members, contributors or annuitants under the park policemen's
annuity act, the park employees annuity act, or under any pension,
annuity or benefit fund maintained and operated by the city.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/10) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.60)
Sec. 10.

Persons who were employed on the effective date as Park Policemen
and whose employment is transferred to the city by the Act, shall, until
January 1, 1960, remain members of the park police annuity fund. From and
after January 1, 1960, such persons, as provided by the city policemen's
annuity act, shall become members of the city policemen's annuity fund.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 780.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/11) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.61)
Sec. 11.

Park district employees, other than park policemen, whose
employment is transferred to the city by this Act, and who were members of
the park employees annuity fund, shall remain members of the park employees
annuity fund.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/12) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.62)
Sec. 12.

Employees of the city who are members of an annuity and benefit
fund maintained by the city and whose employment is transferred by this Act
to the park district, shall remain members of such annuity and benefit
fund.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/13) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.63)
Sec. 13.

The park policemen's annuity act and the park policemen's
annuity fund shall be continued to the end that the annuity rights and
credits of eligible members, contributors and annuitants shall be
preserved.
Annuitants and recipients of disability benefits thereunder on the
effective date shall continue to receive their benefits in accordance with
its provisions. Such disability beneficiaries, however, upon termination of
their disability, shall be transferred to the employment of the city in
accordance with the provisions of Section 4.
Persons who are members of the park policemen's annuity fund on the
effective date, but who are then not in the actual employment of the park
district, having service credits sufficient to vest in them a right to a
retirement annuity, shall be entitled to receive such annuity under said
act upon attainment of retirement age or upon fulfillment of such other
conditions necessary to qualify them for receipt of annuity.
Members of the park policemen's fund on the effective date who are not
then in actual employment of the park district, having service credits
insufficient to vest in them a right to a retirement annuity, shall have
such credits preserved if subsequent to the effective date and without
intervening employment by the park district, the city or any other
governmental unit in the State which provides retirement plan protection,
they are employed by the city as policemen, and, in such event, they shall
remain members of the park policemen's annuity fund.
If the park policemen's annuity fund is merged into and superseded by
the city policemen's annuity fund by action of the 71st General Assembly,
the rights granted by this Section to members, contributors, annuitants and
other persons shall be preserved in the administration of the city
policemen's annuity act.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 780.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/14) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.64)
Sec. 14.

The park employees annuity Act and the Park employees annuity
Fund shall be continued to the end that the annuity rights and credits of
eligible members, contributors and annuitants shall be preserved. Persons
employed by the park district in positions transferred to the city, other
than park policemen, who are disability beneficiaries on the effective date
under the park employees annuity fund shall, upon termination of their
disability, unless they are then employed by the park district in another
capacity, be transferred to the employment of the city in accordance with
the provisions of Section 4, but shall remain members of the park
employees annuity fund.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/15) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.65)
Sec. 15.

Persons classified in the civil service of the city in positions
pertaining to the management, maintenance, supervision and operation of the
parks and playgrounds transferred by this Act to the park district who on
the effective date are receiving disability benefits under an annuity and
benefit fund maintained by the city shall, upon termination of their
disability, unless they are then employed by the city in another capacity,
be transferred to the employment of the park district in accordance with
the provisions of Section 5, but shall remain members of the fund
maintained by the city for such employees.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/16) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.66)
Sec. 16.

The city shall be obligated to make the contributions heretofore
required of the park district under the park policemen's annuity act and
the park employees annuity act in respect to park policemen and other
park employees who are transferred under the provisions of this Act to the
employment of the city. The park district shall be obligated to make the
contributions heretofore required of the city under the appropriate annuity
and benefit fund maintained by the city in respect to employees of the city
who are transferred under the provisions of this Act to the employment of
the park district.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/17) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.67)
Sec. 17.

This Act shall not affect the powers of the park district to
acquire, lay out, establish, construct and maintain public parks under "An
Act in relation to the creation, maintenance, operation and improvement of
the Chicago Park District," approved July 10, 1933, as amended. In
respect to parks acquired by the park district after the effective date,
the city and park district shall jointly plan the layout and location of
boulevards therein for purposes of vehicular traffic, wherever the same may
be necessary, and may enter into agreements for the assumption or division
of the costs incident to such layout, location and construction. The park
district will dedicate such boulevards and driveways which shall be under
the control and jurisdiction of the city as provided in Section 2.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/18) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.68)
Sec. 18.

The city shall succeed to the rights and powers of the park
district in respect to agreements and permits relating to the Chicago
Transit Authority under Section 7 of "An Act in relation to the creation,
maintenance, operation and improvement of the Chicago Park District,"
approved July 10, 1933, as amended; provided that this Act shall not
affect the validity of any right, privilege or permit granted by the park
district to the Chicago Transit Authority under authority of said law.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/19) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.69)
Sec. 19.

If any surface or subsurface utilities serve parks and boulevards
and it is either impossible or impractical to separate the maintenance and
operation of such utilities between parks and boulevards, the park district
and the city may by agreement provide that either the park district or the
city may maintain and operate such utilities upon such terms, conditions
and compensations as shall be reasonable. If the city and park district
cannot reach agreement, and the city elects to receive such services, the
park district shall maintain and operate such utilities and the city shall
pay the park district the reasonable value of the services rendered.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)
 
(70 ILCS 1545/20) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.70)
Sec. 20.

If any provision of this Act is held invalid such provision
shall be deemed to be excised from this Act and the invalidity thereof
shall not affect any of the other provisions of this Act. If the
application of any provision to any person or circumstance is held
invalid it shall not affect the application of such provision to other
persons or circumstances.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1075.)

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