70 ILCS 1260

in effect

70 ILCS 1260/0.01

(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

(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

(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

(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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