(65 ILCS 5/11-97-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-97-1)
Sec. 11-97-1.
The corporate authorities of any municipality, whether
incorporated under the general law or a special charter, may designate by
ordinance the whole or any part of not to exceed 2 streets, roads, avenues,
boulevards, or highways, under their jurisdiction, as public driveways, to
be used for pleasure driving only, and to improve and maintain the same,
and also to lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave, or
otherwise improve and maintain not more than 2 roads, streets, or avenues,
and designate them as pleasure driveways to be used for pleasure driving
only. But these powers can only be exercised when the corporate authorities
are petitioned to do so by the owners of more than two-thirds of the
frontage of land fronting upon a proposed pleasure driveway.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-97-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-97-2)
Sec. 11-97-2. The corporate authorities of any municipality, whether
incorporated under the general law or a special charter, may lay out,
establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave, or otherwise improve
and maintain one or more driveways from the corporate limits of the
municipality to parks owned by the municipality outside its corporate
limits. The cost of these driveways may be paid out of any fund in the
municipal treasury, acquired under the authority of law for park purposes.
The corporate authorities may acquire the land necessary for this purpose
by purchase, legacy or gift, or in case the land cannot be so acquired,
they may acquire it by condemnation in the manner provided for the exercise
of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act.
(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-97-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-97-3)
Sec. 11-97-3.
Pleasure driveways specified in Section 11-97-1 may be laid
out, extended, and improved under the provisions of Article 9.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-97-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-97-4)
Sec. 11-97-4.
The corporate authorities, by ordinance, may regulate,
restrain, and control the speed of travel upon these pleasure driveways,
may prescribe the kind of vehicles that shall be allowed thereon, and in
all things may regulate, restrain, and control the use of these pleasure
driveways. The corporate authorities may exclude therefrom funeral
processions, hearses, and traffic teams and vehicles, so as to free these
pleasure driveways from all business traffic or objectionable travel and
make them pleasure driveways for pleasure driving only. They may prescribe
in that ordinance such fines or penalties for the violation thereof as they
are allowed by law to prescribe for the violation of other ordinances.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 98 heading) DIVISION 98.
PARKS IN CITIES AND VILLAGES
OF LESS THAN 50,000
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(65 ILCS 5/11-98-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-98-1)
Sec. 11-98-1.
The corporate authorities of each city and village with a population of
less than 85,000, whether incorporated under the general law or a
special charter, may purchase, establish, and maintain public parks for
the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the municipality. For that
purpose, the corporate authorities may levy a tax not to exceed .075%,
or the rate limit in effect on September 1, 1967, whichever is greater,
of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue,
annually on all taxable property embraced in the
municipality for the current year. This tax shall be levied and
collected in the manner provided by law for the levy and collection of
other municipal taxes in the municipality.
If the inhabitants of a specified municipality with a population of
500 or more so determine, as provided by Section 11-98-2, this annual
tax may be levied in that municipality in addition to taxes for general
purposes authorized by Section 8-3-1, and in addition to taxes levied as
limited by any provision of a special charter under which the
municipality is now incorporated.
The corporate authorities have the power to lease such a public park
for the purpose of holding county fairs therein.
The foregoing limitations upon tax rates may be increased or
decreased under the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of
Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-98-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-98-2)
Sec. 11-98-2.
In any city or village with a population of 500 or more
but less than 50,000, upon a petition signed by electors of the
municipality equal in number to 1% of the number of votes cast at the
last preceding general municipal election but in no case fewer than 100
electors, the municipal clerk of the municipality shall certify for submission
at an election in accordance with the general election law, a proposition
to levy additional taxes for park purposes as provided by Section 11-98-1.
The proposition shall be in
substantially the following form:
Shall an annual tax of not exceeding .......% on all taxable property within the city (or YES village) be levied in addition to taxes for general purposes
as authorized by Section 8-3-1 of the Illinois Municipal Code, NO for the purpose of maintaining a park in the ....?
If a majority of the electors voting upon the proposition vote in
favor thereof, the specified tax shall be levied and collected as
provided by Section 11-98-1.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489 .)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-98-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-98-3)
Sec. 11-98-3.
Any specified municipality which heretofore has authorized or
hereafter may authorize the levy of the tax provided for by Section 11-98-1
or by "An Act to authorize certain cities and villages to establish and
maintain public parks by taxation and to lease the same to county fairs,"
approved May 13, 1907, as amended, at a time when the population of the
municipality was less than 50,000, may continue the levy annually at
one-half of the rate approved by the referendum required under Section 2 of
that Act or at the rate provided under Section 11-98-1, notwithstanding
that after that approval the population of the municipality has increased
to 50,000 or more.
The foregoing limitations upon tax rates may be increased or decreased
according to the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of
Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 76-1235.)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-98-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-98-4)
Sec. 11-98-4.
Any city or village a majority of whose electors voting
thereon have voted in favor of a proposition to levy an additional tax for
park purposes as provided in "An Act to authorize certain cities and
villages to establish and maintain public parks by taxation and to lease
the same to county fairs," approved May 13, 1907, as amended, shall
continue to levy and collect the additional tax thereby approved as
provided by and at the rate authorized in Section 11-98-1 without
submitting the proposition specified in Section 11-98-2 to the electors for
approval.
The foregoing limitations upon tax rates may be increased or decreased
according to the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of
Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 76-1235.)
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(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 99 heading) DIVISION 99.
PARKS AND BOULEVARDS IN CITIES FROM 5,000 TO 100,000
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(65 ILCS 5/11-99-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-99-1)
Sec. 11-99-1.
Subject to the provisions of Section 11-99-3, the city council in
every city with a population of not less than 5,000 nor more than
100,000, whether incorporated under the general law or special charter,
has the power, by ordinance, to levy annually a tax not to exceed .03%
of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue,
of the taxable property within the corporate limits
of the city for the current year. This tax shall be levied and collected
in the same manner as the other general taxes for that city are levied
and collected. When collected, the money from this tax shall be placed
in a separate fund to be used only for the purpose of purchasing land
for parks and boulevards in and around the city, and for the purpose of
opening, improving, and maintaining these parks and boulevards. This
annual park and boulevard tax shall be levied in addition to taxes for
general purposes authorized by Section 8-3-1 and in addition to the
taxes as limited by any provision of any special charter under which the
city is now incorporated.
An amount not to exceed 20% of this special fund may be expended for
the purpose of providing music in city-owned parks during the months of
May, June, July, August, and September in each year.
The foregoing limitation upon tax rates may be increased or decreased
according to the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of
Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-99-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-99-2)
Sec. 11-99-2.
Where a boulevard and park association incorporated under the
general law is doing the work provided for under Section 11-99-1, the
proceeds of the specified tax may be transferred to that association for
the purposes specified in that section.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-99-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-99-3)
Sec. 11-99-3.
No city is authorized to levy or collect the tax
provided for by Section 11-99-1 until the question of that levy has been
certified by the clerk and
submitted to the electors of the city at an election in accordance with
the general election law
and authorized by a majority of the votes cast on the question.
However, in any city whose electors have authorized the levy of a tax
under "An Act to provide for the assessment and collection of a general
tax by cities for parks and boulevard purposes," approved June 17, 1893,
as amended, that tax may be continued to be levied under Sections
11-99-1 through 11-99-3 without submitting the question of its levy to
the electors for approval.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
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(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 100 heading) DIVISION 100.
PARKS IN CITIES OF LESS THAN
15,000 INHABITANTS
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(65 ILCS 5/11-100-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-100-1)
Sec. 11-100-1.
Every city with a population not exceeding 15,000 has
the power to acquire by purchase, or otherwise, land in or within 4
miles of the corporate limits of the city for the purpose of providing
public parks for the use of the city's inhabitants. It may enclose,
improve, and maintain such a public park and regulate its use by
ordinance. However, no money shall be expended for the purchase of any
land for the designated purpose until the question whether the money
shall be so expended has been certified by the clerk and submitted to
a vote of the electors of the
city at an election in accordance with the general election law, and
has received the approval of a majority
of the votes cast on the question.
But any city whose electors have approved the question of the
expenditure of money for the purchase of land for the designated purpose
under "An Act to enable certain cities to provide and maintain public
parks for the use of the inhabitants thereof," approved April 24, 1899,
as amended, may continue to expend money for the designated purpose
without submitting the question to the electors for approval under
Sections 11-100-1 and 11-100-2.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-100-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-100-2)
Sec. 11-100-2.
A city specified in Section 11-100-1 may borrow money and
levy and collect a general tax for the purpose of providing public parks
for the use of the city's inhabitants or for the purpose of enclosing,
improving, and maintaining them in the same manner as for the purpose of
purchasing and maintaining water works under the laws of this state. It may
appropriate money for these purposes.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/Art 11 prec Div 101 heading)
AIRPORTS
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(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 101 heading) DIVISION 101.
AIRPORTS - GENERAL AUTHORITY
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