Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 ILCS 1310 — Park District Elevated Highway Act.

Short title

Short title. This Act may be cited as the Park District Elevated Highway Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

The board of park commissioners of any park district in this State is authorized and empowered to establish, lay out, construct and build, within the territorial limits of the park district, elevated pleasure highways and boulevards, together with all structures, substructures, superstructures, foundations, ramps, incl…

Any such elevated pleasure highway or boulevard may be constructed upon, along or over any public park, parkway, pleasureway, driveway, boulevard, street or alley now or hereafter under the control of the board of park commissioners, or, when, in the judgment of the board of park commissioners, the public good will be…

The location, design, construction, maintenance and control of any improvement made under the provisions of this Act, shall be and remain in the board of park commissioners, any agreement, rule, regulation, ordinance or statute to the contrary notwithstanding. The board of park commissioners is authorized and empowered…

For the purpose of defraying, in part the cost of making an improvement under the provisions of this Act, the board of park commissioners is authorized and empowered to accept and use any funds made available for the purpose as follows: 1. By an appropriation of the Congress of the United States; 2. By an appropriation…

Whenever the making of any part of an improvement or the locating of a route or any part thereof under the provisions of this Act will require that private property or property devoted to a public or semi-public use be acquired, the board of park commissioners, in its name, shall have the right and power to purchase th…

Eminent domain

Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject to, and shall be exercised in accordance with, the Eminent Domain Act. (Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)

Whenever any Board of Park Commissioners seek to defray the cost of the construction of an elevated pleasure highway or boulevard wholly or in part out of the proceeds of a bond issue as hereinafter provided, such Board of Park Commissioners shall by ordinance duly passed before submission of the question of the issuan…

For the purpose of carrying out the powers conferred by this Act, the board of park commissioners is hereby authorized to incur indebtedness (in addition to any indebtedness heretofore authorized) in an amount not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000.00) and in evidence of such inde…

Said bonds shall be issued in the name of the board of park commissioners in such form and denomination and shall be payable at such place and time, not exceeding twenty years, from the date thereof, as the board of park commissioners may determine by ordinance duly adopted. Said bonds shall be signed by the President,…

The board of park commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to levy a direct annual tax upon all taxable property within said park district and under its control in addition to all other taxes heretofore or hereafter authorized to be levied, sufficient to pay the interest upon and also to pay and discharge the pr…

The board of park commissioners may not, however, issue any bonds under the provisions of this Act until the proposition of the issuance of such bonds has been submitted and approved by a majority of the legal voters of the district voting upon the proposition. The proposition may be submitted at any regular election,…

The procedure to be followed in submitting the proposition to the voters of the district shall be substantially as follows: First: The board of park commissioners shall pass the ordinance hereinbefore referred to in Section 6 providing that the proposition is to be voted upon at a specified ensuing regular election, sp…

The proposition shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall bonds of the

The proposition shall be in substantially the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- Shall bonds of the.... Park District to the amount of.... Dollars ($....) be issued for the purpose of constructing an elevated pleasure highway or boulevard in, along, over and YES upon the foll…

The referendum on the proposition shall be conducted in the manner provided by the general election law of the State

The referendum on the proposition shall be conducted in the manner provided by the general election law of the State. In case a majority of the votes cast upon the proposition shall be in favor thereof, the proposition shall be deemed to be adopted and the board of park commissioners may proceed to carry out the provis…

The grant of powers and authorities by this Act to boards of park commissioners shall not be held to be in limitation of any existing powers, or authorities, but shall be held to be a granting of additional and supplemental powers to boards of park commissioners. (Source: Laws 1929, p. 562.)

The invalidity of any part or portion of this Act shall not affect the validity of the remaining part thereof

The invalidity of any part or portion of this Act shall not affect the validity of the remaining part thereof. (Source: Laws 1929, p. 562.)