(610 ILCS 130/1) (from Ch. 131 1/4, par. 13)
Sec. 1.
That no person or persons, corporation or
corporations, shall construct or maintain any elevated railroad or any
elevated way or conveyor to be operated by steam power, or animal power or
any other motive power, along any street or alley in any incorporated city
or village, except by the permission of the city council or board of
trustees of such city or village, granted upon a petition of the owners of
the lands representing more than one-half of the frontage of the street or
alley, or of so much thereof as is sought to be used for such elevated
railroad or elevated way or conveyor; and the city council, or board of
trustees, shall have no power to grant permission to use any street or
alley, or part thereof, for any of the purposes aforesaid, except upon such
petition of landowners as is herein provided for.
(Source: Laws 1883, p. 126.)
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