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70 ILCS 1205/6-7
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 6 - General Indebtedness

(70 ILCS 1205/6-7)Sec. 6-7. Borrowing from financial institutions. The board may borrow money for any corporate purpose from any bank or other financial institution provided such money shall be repaid within 2 years from the time the money is borrowed. The president and secretary shall execute a promissory note or similar debt instrument to evidence the indebtedness incurred by the borrowing. The obligation to make the payments due under the promissory note or other debt instrument shall be a lawful direct general obligation of the park district payable from the general funds of that district and such other sources of payment as are otherwise lawfully available. The promissory note or other debt instrument shall be authorized by an ordinance passed by the board and shall be valid whether or not an appropriation with respect to that ordinance is included in any annual or supplemental appropriation adopted by the board. The indebtedness incurred under this Section, when aggregated with the existing indebtedness of the park district, may not exceed any debt limitation otherwise provided for by law. "Financial institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking Act, any savings and loan association subject to the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, any savings bank subject to the Savings Bank Act, any credit union subject to the Illinois Credit Union Act, and any federally chartered commercial bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, or credit union organized and operated in this State pursuant to the laws of the United States.  (Source: P.A. 98-906, eff. 8-15-14.)
70 ILCS 1205/Art. 7 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 7 - Local Improvements

 ARTICLE SEVEN.      LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS
70 ILCS 1205/7-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 7 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 105, par. 7-1)Sec. 7-1.         All park districts shall retain and be vested with all power and  authority contained in an act entitled "An Act to enable park commissioners  or corporate authorities to take, regulate, control and improve public  streets leading to public parks; to pay for the improvement thereof, and in  that behalf to make and collect a special assessment or special tax on  contiguous property," approved April 9, 1879, and "An Act to enable park  commissioners to condemn land in certain cases for the purpose of making  streets selected and taken for boulevards of uniform width and to provide  for the payment of the same", approved June 14, 1887.    (Source: Laws 1951, p. 113.)
70 ILCS 1205/7-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 7 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 105, par. 7-2)Sec. 7-2.         Power is hereby conferred upon any park district to acquire, lay  out, extend, maintain, and improve pleasure driveways and boulevards and to  acquire and improve any and all real estate, lands, riparian estates or  rights, and all other property acquired or needed for any such park,  boulevard, or driveway or for extending, adorning, or maintaining the same  if such land is located within such park district, under the provisions of  Article 9 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as heretofore and hereafter  amended. The Board shall, by resolution, designate the Local Improvement  Act under which it elects to proceed. The same provision shall apply to the  collections of the assessments by installments and for the issuing of bonds  and vouchers therefor as are provided in case of special assessments of  cities and villages in said Article 9 of the Illinois Municipal Code,  except as limited by Sections 7-3 to 7-5 hereof.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 1398.)
70 ILCS 1205/7-3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 7 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 105, par. 7-3)Sec. 7-3.         In the making of any local improvements by a park district and  except as in this section otherwise provided, the powers and duties  provided to be exercised and performed by the respective officers of cities  and villages under Article 9 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as heretofore  and hereafter amended shall be exercised and performed by the  corresponding officers of such park districts, insofar as action by any  such officers is required under the form of local improvement proceeding  the board elects to adopt for the improvement. The board of such district  shall act as the Board of Local Improvements. The superintendent of such  park district or such other official or person as the board may designate  shall act as Superintendent of Special Assessments. The engineer employed  by the board to prepare the plans and specifications for the improvements  shall be the "engineer," or if no such person be employed, then any  qualified engineer designated by the board may so act. The attorney for  said park district shall (unless a special attorney be employed by the  board for such purpose) be the attorney for said Board of Local  Improvements.The members of said board of local improvements shall act as such  without compensation, and the secretary shall be ex-officio secretary of  said board of local improvements and the treasurer shall perform the duties  of collector of said special assessment and shall be custodian of such  funds which shall be expended only for the improvement for which said  assessment is levied.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 1398.)
70 ILCS 1205/7-4
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 7 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 105, par. 7-4)Sec. 7-4.         The word "improvement" as used in this article shall include the  condemnation of property for park or boulevard purposes, or both.    (Source: Laws 1951, p. 113.)
70 ILCS 1205/7-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 7 - Local Improvements

(70 ILCS 1205/7-5) (from Ch. 105, par. 7-5)Sec. 7-5.         Any park district may, in the manner hereafter provided, levy an  annual tax not exceeding .025% of the value, as equalized or assessed by  the Department of Revenue, of all the taxable property  in such district, to be known as a public benefit tax, and the fund  arising therefrom shall be known as a public benefit fund and shall be  used solely for the purpose of paying any such amounts that may be  assessed for such public benefit under Section 7-2. No such tax shall be  levied in any park district until the question of levying such tax is  first certified by the board to the proper election officials who shall  submit the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election  law. The proposition shall be submitted to the voters of the district in  substantially the following  form:    --------------------------------------------------------------Shall a public benefit tax not exceeding.025% be levied each year on the taxable         YESproperty of.... Park District (naming it) as  ----------------provided in Section 7-5 of "The Park District    NOCode"?--------------------------------------------------------------Notice of the referendum shall be given and the referendum shall be  conducted in the manner provided by the general election law.If a majority of the votes cast upon the proposition are in favor,  the governing board may levy and collect such tax annually thereafter,  so long as there remains outstanding any assessment against the district  for public benefits under any special assessment proceeding. Should any  assessment be later assessed against the district in a subsequent local  improvement proceeding for public benefits, then the tax may again be  levied so long as the assessment remains unpaid without the necessity of  any additional referendum. Such tax shall be in addition to all other  taxes authorized by law to be levied and collected in such district and  shall not be included in any limitation of rate contained in this code  or any other law, but shall be excluded therefrom, in addition thereto,  and in excess thereof. The tax shall be levied and collected in like  manner as the general taxes for such district. 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. 81-1489; 81-1509.)
70 ILCS 1205/Art. 8 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

 ARTICLE EIGHT.      GENERAL POWERS OF PARK DISTRICTS
70 ILCS 1205/8-1.1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

Sec. 8-1.1. Property owned by a park district shall not be subject to annexation by a municipality without the express consent of the board of park commissioners of the district.  (Source: P.A. 94-396, eff. 8-1-05.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-1.2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

Sec. 8-1.2. Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, any power granted under this Code 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.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

 (from Ch. 105, par. 8-2)Sec. 8-2.         An Act entitled "An Act to provide for making improvements and  repairs by any park commissioners upon boulevards, parkways and highways",  approved April 22, 1907, as amended, and, also, "An Act to enable park  commissioners or park authorities to take, regulate, control, improve,  repair and maintain public streets and to provide a method of securing  funds for the improvement, repair, maintenance, regulation and control of  same", approved June 22, 1917, and also, "An Act to enable park  commissioners or park authorities to take, regulate, control and improve  public streets and to pay for the improvement thereof", approved June 21,  1895, shall not be deemed repealed as to districts under this code, but  all the rights, powers and privileges by said acts conferred shall remain  and be vested in and be available to all park districts.    (Source: Laws 1951, p. 113.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

 (from Ch. 105, par. 8-3)Sec. 8-3.         All park districts shall retain and be vested with all power and  authority contained in an act entitled "An Act concerning Aquariums and  Museums in Public Parks", approved June 17, 1898, as amended.    (Source: Laws 1951, p. 113.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-4
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

 (from Ch. 105, par. 8-4)Sec. 8-4.         All park districts shall retain and be vested with all power and  authority contained in an act entitled "An Act authorizing park  commissioners to acquire or provide sites for armories for the National  Guard and to acquire or establish and to maintain landing fields for  aircraft", approved July 11, 1927.    (Source: Laws 1951, p. 113.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

 (from Ch. 105, par. 8-5)Sec. 8-5.         All park districts shall retain and be vested with all the powers  granted by an act entitled "An Act in relation to the construction by park  districts of elevated pleasure highways and boulevards and the provision of  means for the payment of the cost thereof", approved June 24, 1929.    (Source: Laws 1951, p. 113.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-6
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

 (from Ch. 105, par. 8-6)Sec. 8-6.         Nothing in this Code shall be deemed to repeal "An Act to  authorize the confinement in houses of correction of persons convicted of  the violation of ordinances of public park commissioners", approved May 25,  1907, but said act shall be available to, and the powers, rights and  duties therein set forth shall apply to all park districts.    (Source: Laws 1951, p. 113.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-6a
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

Sec. 8-6a.         Park district land outside of boundaries; subject to  ordinances.  Park district land located outside the district's boundaries and  not contiguous for the purpose of annexation shall be subject to all personal  conduct and criminal provisions of the ordinances of the district, and any  police force having jurisdiction within the property may make arrests and  issue citations for violation of those district ordinances as if the land were  within the boundaries of the park district.  The violation shall be prosecuted  and adjudicated as if the violation occurred within park district  boundaries.    (Source: P.A. 89-458, eff. 5-24-96; 89-536, eff. 7-19-96.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-7
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

 (from Ch. 105, par. 8-7)Sec. 8-7.         Any park district shall have power within its jurisdiction to  designate by ordinance the whole or any part of two or more streets, roads,  or, boulevards under the jurisdiction of any city, town or village within  the boundaries of said district, as a public driveway, to be used for  pleasure driving only; and also to lay out, establish, alter, extend, pave  or otherwise improve and maintain the same and designate the same as  pleasure driveways, to be used for pleasure driving only. Such park  districts may, by ordinance, regulate, restrain and control the speed of  travel upon the same, and in all things may regulate, restrain and control  the use of said pleasure driveways and parks by the public or individuals,  and may exclude therefrom funeral processions or anything other than  pleasure vehicles; provided, that any and all roads, streets, boulevards or  parks lying wholly or in part within the corporate limits of any city, town  or village situated within any park district shall first, from and after  the organization of such district, by ordinance of such city, town or  village be turned over and placed under the control of such park district  and accepted, by ordinance, by such district.Any parks or boulevards within the limits of any park district and also  within any municipality or any parks owned by or under the control of any  municipality which are in or within four miles of the corporate limits of  such municipality may, with the consent of such municipality, on the  organization of said district, be turned over to and placed under the  control thereof. In any such park district any and all lands fronting on a  lake, now belonging to or under the control of any city, town or village in  said park district, with the riparian rights attached thereto, shall be and  are hereby appropriated for such park or parks, or boulevards, as are  authorized to be made and established by this code, with the consent of  the corporate authorities of such municipality.    (Source: Laws 1951, p. 113.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-8a
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

Sec. 8-8a.     Transfer of interest income.     Any park district, when requested  by  its  treasurer, may transfer the interest earned on any of the moneys of the  district into the  fund of the district that is most in need of the interest.  This Section does  not apply to any  interest earned that has been earmarked or restricted for a designated purpose.   This  Section does not apply to any interest earned on any funds for the purposes of  municipal  retirement under the Illinois Pension Code and  tort immunity under the Local  Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act.  Interest earned on  these funds may be used only for the purposes  authorized for the respective  funds from  which the interest earnings were derived.    (Source: P.A. 91-300, eff. 7-29-99.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-9
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

 (from Ch. 105, par. 8-9)Sec. 8-9. Name change.(a) Whenever two-thirds of the governing board of a park district  shall approve an ordinance or resolution to change the name of such park  district, a copy of such ordinance or resolution shall be duly certified by  the president and secretary of such board and filed in the office of the  county clerk of the counties wherein such park district is located. Upon  the filing of the aforesaid ordinance or resolution for change of name in  the office of said county clerk such change of name of such park district  shall be complete.(b) Whenever a Public Act changes the name of a park district, the secretary of the board of the park district shall, within 30 days after the date upon which the Public Act becomes law, obtain copies of the Public Act that are duly certified by the Secretary of State and file a certified copy of the Public Act in the office of the county clerk of each county in which the park district is located. The change of name of a park district by a Public Act shall be complete upon the Public Act becoming law. (Source: P.A. 98-772, eff. 7-16-14.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-10
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

 (from Ch. 105, par. 8-10)Sec. 8-10.         All park districts shall have power to plan, establish and  maintain recreational programs, provide musical concerts, to construct,  equip and maintain airports, landing fields for aircraft, armories, field  houses, gymnasiums, assembly rooms, comfort stations, indoor and outdoor  swimming pools, wading pools, bathing beaches, bath houses, locker rooms,  boating basins, boat houses, lagoons, skating rinks, piers, conservatories  for the propagation of flowers, shrubs, and other plants, animal and bird  houses and enclosures, athletic fields with seating stands, golf, tennis,  and other courses, courts, and grounds, and the power to make and enforce  reasonable rules, regulations, and charges therefor. The express  enumeration of each of the foregoing recreational facilities and equipment  which park districts are herein given the power to provide shall not be  construed as a limitation upon said park districts, nor prohibit any park  district from providing any other facilities or equipment which may be  appropriate for park purposes in any park of said district, nor shall the  same in any way be held to limit the power and authority conferred upon  park districts under other sections of this code.    (Source: Laws 1951, p. 113.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-10a
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

 (from Ch. 105, par. 8-10.1)Sec. 8-10a.     Every Park District is authorized to establish, maintain and manage  recreational programs for persons with disabilities, including both persons with mental disabilities and persons with physical disabilities, to provide transportation for persons with disabilities to  and from such programs, to provide for such examination of participants in  such programs as may be deemed necessary, to charge fees for participating  in such programs, the fee charged for non-residents of such district need  not be the same as the fees charged the residents of the district, and to  charge fees for transportation furnished to participants.  (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-10b
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

 (from Ch. 105, par. 8-10.2)Sec. 8-10b. Joint recreational programs for persons with disabilities.  Any 2 or more park districts, or in counties with a population of 300,000  or less, a single park district and another unit of local government,  are authorized to take any action  jointly relating to recreational programs for persons with disabilities that could  be taken individually and to enter into agreements with other park districts  and recreation  boards and the corporate authorities of cities, villages and  incorporated towns specified in Sections 11-95-2 and 11-95-3 of the  "Illinois Municipal Code", approved May 29, 1961, as amended, or any  combination thereof, for the purpose of providing for the establishment,  maintenance and management of joint recreational programs for persons with disabilities of all the participating districts and municipal areas,  including provisions for transportation of participants, procedures for  approval of budgets, authorization of expenditures and sharing of  expenses, location of recreational areas in the area of any of the  participating districts and municipalities, acquisition of real estate by  gift, legacy, grant, or purchase, employment of a director and  other professional workers for such program who may be employed by one  participating district, municipality or board which shall be reimbursed  on a mutually agreed basis by the other districts, municipalities and  boards that are parties to the joint agreement, authorization for one  municipality, board or district to supply professional workers for a  joint program conducted in another municipality or district and to  provide other requirements for operation of such joint program as may be  desirable.  (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
70 ILCS 1205/8-11
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 1205/ - Park District Code.|Article 8 - General Powers Of Park Districts

 (from Ch. 105, par. 8-11)Sec. 8-11.         In addition to the other powers and authority now possessed  by it, every park district shall have the power to grant licenses, easements,  and right of ways to municipalities, corporations or persons for the construction,  operation and maintenance of facilities upon, under or across any property  of such district for water, sewer, telephone, electric, gas or other public  service, subject to such terms and conditions as may be determined by the district.To all municipalities lying within the limits of any park district is hereby  expressly reserved the right to lay and repair water and sewer pipe under  the surface of any boulevard or park therein in the same manner and to the  same extent it could have been done before the organization of such park  district; provided, said property shall be restored to original condition by  said municipality on completion thereof.    (Source: P.A. 83-526.)