2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 75 - LIBRARIES › 75 ILCS 65/ - Libraries in Parks Act.

(75 ILCS 65/0.01) (from Ch. 81, par. 40.9)
Sec. 0.01. 
		Short title. 
		This Act may be cited as the
Libraries in Parks Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
(75 ILCS 65/1) (from Ch. 81, par. 41)
Sec. 1. That the corporate authorities of cities and
park districts, or any board of park commissioners having the control or
supervision of any public park or parks, are hereby authorized to permit
any free public library, organized under the terms and provisions of an act
entitled, "An Act to encourage and promote the establishment of free public
libraries in cities, villages and towns of this State," approved June 17,
1891, in force July 1, 1891, to erect and maintain, at its own expense, its
library building within any public park now or hereafter under the control
or supervision of such city, park district or board of park commissioners
and to contract with any such free public library relative to the erection,
maintenance and administration thereof. If any owner or owners of any lands
or lots abutting or fronting on any such park, or adjacent thereto, or any
other person or persons, have any right, easement, interest or property in
such public park appurtenant to their lands or lots, or otherwise, which
would be interfered with by the erection and maintenance of any free public
library building, as hereinbefore provided, or any right to have such
public park, or any part thereof, remain open and vacant and free from any
buildings the corporate authorities of the city or park district or any
board of park commissioners, having control of such park, may condemn the
same in the manner prescribed for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under
the Eminent Domain Act.
(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)
(75 ILCS 65/1.5)
Sec. 1.5. 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.)
(75 ILCS 65/2) (from Ch. 81, par. 42)
Sec. 2. 
		
		The directors, trustees or managers of any public library which
shall erect its library building in or upon any public park, under the
terms and provisions as aforesaid, shall, so long as said building is
maintained as a free public library, control, direct and manage the affairs
of such library, as heretofore, under the terms and provisions of an act
entitled, "An Act to encourage and promote the establishment of free public
libraries in cities, villages and towns of this State," approved June 17,
1891, in force July 1, 1891, and in all respects the same as though the
said building was not erected in or upon a public park.
(Source: Laws 1903, p. 262.)
(75 ILCS 65/3) (from Ch. 81, par. 43)
Sec. 3. 
		
		In case the directors, trustees or managers of any free
public library, or a majority of them, shall make request in writing, of
the corporate authorities of such city, park district or board of park
commissioners for permission to erect a free public library building in
or upon any public park, under the control, supervision or jurisdiction
of such city, park district or board of park commissioners designating
the site desired and the general style and approximate cost of such
building, it shall be the duty of the clerk or secretary thereof to certify the
resolution and proposition of granting such request to
the proper election officials who shall submit the proposition at an election
in accordance with the
general election law; and if a majority of the
legal voters, voting upon such question at any such election shall favor
the granting by said city, park district or board of park commissioners
of the aforesaid request, then the said authorities or board of park
commissioners shall authorize the erection of said building, as
aforesaid, and if necessary proceed to condemn, as aforesaid, any right,
easement or interest, belonging to such abutting property owners, which
would be interfered with by the erection of said library building, and
such city or park district shall have the power to pay for any right,
easement or interest so condemned out of its general revenues.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
(75 ILCS 65/3a) (from Ch. 81, par. 44)
Sec. 3a. 
		
		The corporate authorities of any park district whose limits are
co-extensive with the limits of any city, village, or incorporated town
lying wholly within any congressional township, in which there is
established and maintained a free public library under
"The Illinois Local Library Law", approved
July 12, 1965, as heretofore or hereafter amended, or the corporate
authorities of any such city, village, or incorporated town having the
control or supervision of any public park or parks, may permit the board of
library trustees having control of such library or the board of trustees
of a library district whose geographical area of service includes all or
part of a public park or park district to erect and maintain in any public
park of such park district, city, village, or incorporated town, a library
building which shall be under the exclusive control and supervision of the
board of library trustees, so long as such building is
used as a free public library; and may contract with such board of library
trustees relative to the erection and maintenance and
administration thereof.  Any portion of such building less than the whole
which shall not from time to time be needed for library purposes, may be
rented for public purposes only by the board of
library trustees to or with the consent of such park district, city,
village, or incorporated town.
(Source: P.A. 84-770.)