Park Commissioners Street Control (1895) Act (70 ILCS 1255/)

Chapter 70 — Special Districts

Park

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Sec. 0.01. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Park Commissioners Street Control (1895) Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

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.)

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.)