65 ILCS 5/ Illinois Municipal Code.

(65 ILCS 5/11-84-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-84-8)

Sec. 11-84-8. If a special tax for the construction or repair of a sidewalk is annulled by the corporate authorities or set aside by any court, a new ordinance may be passed and a new tax may be made and returned. This power to pass a new ordinance providing for a new tax exists only when (1) the prior ordinance was passed under "An Act to provide additional means for the construction of sidewalks in cities, towns and villages," approved April 15, 1875, as amended, or under this Division 84, and (2) when the prior ordinance was merely defective but not void.

The proceedings therefor shall be the same as in the first instance, and all parties in interest shall have like rights and like powers in relation to any subsequent tax as are hereby given in relation to the first tax. No special tax shall be levied for work already done under a prior ordinance, unless it appears that the work was done in good faith, by the municipality, or under contract duly let and executed, pursuant to an ordinance providing that the sidewalk should be paid for by special tax.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 85 heading) DIVISION 85. CERTAIN JOINT MUNICIPAL AND TOWNSHIP CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

(65 ILCS 5/11-85-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-85-1)

Sec. 11-85-1. Municipalities lying within one or more townships, or whose boundaries are coextensive with the boundaries of a township, have the power to enter into a contract with any township within which the municipality lies, or with any township lying immediately contiguous to the municipality, and such township has the power to enter into a contract with such municipality, for the construction of any public improvement consisting of the construction of any bridge, subway, elevated way, or viaduct which may lie partly within the municipality, and partly outside the municipality and within the township, or consisting of the improvement of the roadway of any highway or street upon and along which runs the line of the corporate limits of the municipality, so that the improvement as proposed would lie partly within the municipality and partly within the township, in the manner authorized in this Division 85.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-85-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-85-2)

Sec. 11-85-2. The corporate authorities of such municipality and the commissioner of highways in and for such township, in the manner they agree upon, shall procure (1) detailed plans and specifications of the proposed improvement, (2) a detailed estimate of the cost thereof prepared by a competent engineer, showing the total estimated cost of the improvement, and (3) separate estimates from that engineer of the portions thereof within and without the municipality. As soon as the corporate authorities both of the municipality and of the township approve the plans, specifications, and estimates as a basis for the letting of a contract for the improvement, and as soon as the proportions of the cost thereof are agreed upon by the corporate authorities of the municipality and township, they may proceed jointly to let a contract therefor as provided in this section.

This contract shall be let only upon competitive bidding, in the manner provided for the letting of contracts by municipalities for the constructing of local improvements under the provisions of Article 9, except that (1) the advertising for bids for the construction of the proposed improvement shall be authorized and made by the corporate authorities of both the municipality and the township, (2) bids for the construction shall be received by those corporate authorities jointly at the time and place agreed upon and stated in the notice for bids, and (3) no contract shall be let except by the approval of the corporate authorities of both the municipality and the township. All contracts shall be signed and executed by the officials of the municipality and of the township who may be vested generally, by law or ordinance, with the duty of the execution of contracts, for and in behalf of the respective bodies, and all bonds for the performance of a contract shall be made payable to those corporate bodies jointly.

All consents, agreements, and approvals provided for in this Division 85 shall be by writing and when hereby required to be made or given by a municipality, shall be made or given by a resolution of the corporate authorities of the municipality.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-85-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-85-3)

Sec. 11-85-3. If a municipality desires to pay its proportion of the cost of such an improvement by a special assessment or a special tax upon the property within the municipality benefited by the improvement, either before or after the letting of the contract as provided by Section 11-85-2, it may pass an ordinance providing for the improvement and that the cost thereof shall be paid by a special tax or a special assessment, to be levied upon the municipality and upon the property within the municipality specially benefited by the improvement. The proceedings thereafter for the levy of that special assessment or special tax, and the collection thereof, shall conform to the provisions of Article 9, in so far as the provisions of Article 9 are applicable. It shall be no defense in any proceedings to levy a special assessment or a special tax hereunder that the special assessment or special tax is levied for work previously performed.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-85-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-85-4)

Sec. 11-85-4. A municipality participating in the construction of an improvement specified in this Division 85 has jurisdiction over the part thereof lying within the corporate limits of the municipality. The participating township has jurisdiction over that part of the improvement lying outside the municipality and within the township. The municipality and the township may repair, maintain, or reconstruct the portions of the improvement within their respective jurisdictions in the manner provided by law in cases of similar improvements lying wholly within their respective jurisdictions. But nothing contained in this section affects any power otherwise given by law to either the municipality or the township to expend money in the repair, maintenance, or reconstruction of the entire improvement or any part thereof.

Although parts of the improvements are under separate jurisdictions, the municipality and the township interested may enter into contracts with each other providing for the repair, maintenance, and upkeep, including lighting, of the improvement, apportioning the cost thereof and providing the method of that repair, maintenance, and upkeep, as may be agreed upon between them.

A township may surrender its jurisdiction over such an improvement to the municipality jointly interested, by agreement made between the corporate authorities of both the municipality and the township. The municipality thus assuming that jurisdiction thereafter shall be chargeable with the repair, maintenance, and upkeep of the part of the improvement so turned over, and may exercise its police powers thereover in like manner as if the improvement lay entirely within the municipality.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 86 heading) DIVISION 86. MUNICIPAL AND PARK RELATIONSHIP CONCERNING STREETS

(65 ILCS 5/11-86-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-86-1)

Sec. 11-86-1. Any city, incorporated town or village may construct and maintain an elevated way in or upon any street, and construct and maintain all necessary approaches, inclines and superstructures, and may by ordinance authorize any commission or board having jurisdiction of a public park or parks to take over, maintain and control any street or way, incline, approach or superstructure therein upon terms fixed by such ordinance.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-86-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-86-2)

Sec. 11-86-2. Any city, incorporated town or village may by ordinance duly passed grant to any commission or board having jurisdiction over parks and boulevards the right to take and improve by means of surface or elevated ways for vehicles and pedestrians a street or streets not more than one mile in length in any one instance, and for that purpose to construct, maintain and control all approaches, inclines and superstructures convenient or necessary for the purpose aforesaid.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-86-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-86-3)

Sec. 11-86-3. Where any park is located wholly within any city, the city council of such city shall have power by ordinance to extend streets through such park as the needs of the public shall demand. Such needs to be determined by the park commissioners having control thereof.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-86-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-86-4)

Sec. 11-86-4. If the street designated in Section 11-86-3 is to be used only for boulevard purposes, it may be extended through such park at the grade of other roadways to be crossed by such street so to be extended within such park in the discretion of the park commissioners having control thereof. If such street is to be used for general traffic purposes, it shall be depressed below the street level within such park, as the park commissioners, having control thereof, shall direct. The cost of the construction and maintenance of such depression shall be borne by the city. No such street or streets shall be extended through any park in any city without the consent and express direction of the park commissioners having control of such park.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 87 heading) DIVISION 87. RE-LOCATING WATER COURSES

(65 ILCS 5/11-87-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-87-1)

Sec. 11-87-1. Whenever in the judgment of the corporate authorities of any city or village it becomes necessary to change or re-locate the channel, course, or bed of any natural or artificial water course or stream within the corporate limits of the city or village, in order to properly lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave, or otherwise improve the streets, alleys, avenues, and sidewalks, or any of them in any part of the city or village, the corporate authorities are hereby vested with the power to provide by ordinance for the laying out, establishing, opening, altering, widening, extending, grading, paving, or otherwise improving those streets, alleys, avenues, and sidewalks, or any of them in any such part of the city or village, and by the same ordinance to provide for the changing or re-locating of the channel, course, or bed of any such water course or stream within the corporate limits of the city or village. The entire improvement provided for by such an ordinance shall constitute a local improvement, the cost of which may be paid for by special assessment, by special taxation of contiguous property, or by general taxation, or otherwise, as the corporate authorities by ordinance shall direct, and in providing for such an improvement they may proceed in accordance with the provisions of Article 9.

In case the corporate authorities re-locate any such channel or water course, the title of the State of Illinois in and to any land artificially made or reclaimed within the corporate limits of any city or village, which prior to the re-location was, but after the re-location is no longer a part of the channel, course, or bed of the natural or artificial water course or stream, shall vest in fee simple absolute, without further act or deed, in the city or village which so re-locates that channel, course, or bed. The State of Illinois shall take the same title and to the same extent in territory in metes and bounds in and to the channel course or bed of the watercourse or stream, after its re-location by the city or village, as it had in the channel course or bed of the watercourse or stream, before its re-location.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-87-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-87-2)

Sec. 11-87-2. For the purpose of this Division 87, a water course or stream shall be construed to include all banks, beds, and waters connected with, adjacent, and leading to the watercourse, or stream.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-87-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-87-3)

Sec. 11-87-3. Whenever any portion within the corporate limits of a city or village of a fork, branch, arm, canal, or slip terminating within the city or village of any natural or artificial watercourse or stream, or a fork, branch, arm, canal, or slip communicating therewith, has been declared non-navigable by the Congress of the United States of America, or the United States of America has surrendered, relinquished, or abandoned jurisdiction of such a portion thereof as a navigable body of water, and in the judgment of the corporate authorities of the city or village it becomes necessary to fill in all or any part of a portion of such a watercourse or stream in order to properly lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave, or otherwise improve streets, avenues, or alleys, or any of them, in any part of the city or village, without the construction of a bridge over or along such a watercourse or stream, the corporate authorities have the power to provide by ordinance for the laying out, establishing, opening, altering, widening, extending, grading, paving, or otherwise improving such streets, avenues, and alleys, or any of them, in that part of the city or village and by the same ordinance to provide for the filling in of the channel, course, or bed of a part or all of any portion of such a watercourse or stream within the corporate limits of the city or village.

By this ordinance the corporate authorities may provide for taking by eminent domain of so much of the specified portion of such a watercourse or stream as the city or village requires for the purposes of any such street, avenue, or alley and of the rights in such a watercourse or stream of all owners of land adjoining the specified portion of such a watercourse or stream. The entire improvement provided for by this ordinance shall constitute a local improvement, the cost of which may be paid for by special assessment or special taxation of contiguous property or by general taxation, or otherwise, as the corporate authorities shall direct by ordinance. In providing for such an improvement the corporate authorities may proceed in accordance with the provisions of Article 9.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)