Chapter 70 — SPECIAL DISTRICTS

(70 ILCS 1215/27) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 140) Sec. 27. No applicant for appointment in said classified service, or to a position named in the thirteenth section of this Act, shall pay or promise to pay, either directly or indirectly, any money or other valuable thing to any perso…

(70 ILCS 1215/28) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 141) Sec. 28. No applicant for appointment or promotion in the classified service shall ask for or receive a recommendation or assistance from any officer or employee in said service or from any person in consideration of any political ser…

(70 ILCS 1215/29) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 142) Sec. 29. The Civil Service Board shall certify to the financial or auditing officer all appointments to offices and places in the classified service, and all vacancies occurring therein, whether by dismissal, resignation or death, and…

(70 ILCS 1215/3) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 116) Sec. 3. The Civil Service Board shall within ninety days after this act goes into effect, classify all offices and places of employment in said Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund system with refere…

(70 ILCS 1215/30) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 143) Sec. 30. No treasurer, custodian, comptroller, paymaster, auditing officer or other officer or agent of such Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund shall approve the payment of or be in any manner con…

(70 ILCS 1215/31) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 144) Sec. 31. Any person who shall be served with a subpoena to appear and testify or to produce books and papers, issued by the Civil Service Board or by any member thereof, or by any person or persons acting under the orders of said Boar…

(70 ILCS 1215/32) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 145) Sec. 32. Persons who were engaged in the military or naval service of the United States during the years 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, any time between September 16, 1940 and July 25, 1947, or at an…

(70 ILCS 1215/33) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 146) Sec. 33. Any person who shall willfully or through culpable negligence violate any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. (Source: P.A. 77-2362.)

(70 ILCS 1215/34) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 147) Sec. 34. If any person shall be convicted under the last preceding section, any public office or place of public employment which such person may hold, shall, by force of such conviction, be rendered vacant. (Source: Laws 1939, p. 418…

(70 ILCS 1215/35) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 148) Sec. 35. Prosecutions for violations of this Act may be instituted either by the Attorney General, the State's Attorney for the county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed, or by the Civil Service Board acting throug…

(70 ILCS 1215/36) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 149) Sec. 36. Whenever the Attorney General, or the State's Attorney for the county in which an offense under this Act is alleged to have been committed shall refuse to prosecute the person or persons alleged to have committed such an offe…

(70 ILCS 1215/37) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 149a) Sec. 37. All final administrative decisions of the Civil Service Board or the Board of Hearings hereunder shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modific…

(70 ILCS 1215/4) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 117) Sec. 4. In any Park Employees' and Retirement Board Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund system created under the provisions of Article 12 of the "Illinois Pension Code" as the same may from time to time be amended, which is now or whic…

(70 ILCS 1215/5) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 118) Sec. 5. The Civil Service Board shall make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act and for examinations, appointments, transfers and removals, and for maintaining and keeping records of the efficiency of officers and employees, and…

(70 ILCS 1215/6) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 119) Sec. 6. All rules made as herein provided and all changes therein shall forthwith be printed for distribution by the Civil Service Board, and it shall give notice of the places where copies of said rules may be obtained by publication …

(70 ILCS 1215/7) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 120) Sec. 7. All applicants for offices or places in said classified civil service shall be citizens of the United States of America and residents of the State of Illinois for at least one year prior to the beginning date of an examination …

(70 ILCS 1215/8) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 121) Sec. 8. Notice of the time and place and general scope and fee of every examination and of the duties and nature of the position sought to be filled shall be given by the Civil Service Board by a publication two (2) weeks preceding suc…

(70 ILCS 1215/9) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 122) Sec. 9. From the return or report of examiners or from the examinations made by the Civil Service Board the secretary of the Civil Service Board shall prepare a register for each grade or class of position in the classified service of …

(70 ILCS 1220/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 47.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Park Commissioners Control of Municipal Parks Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(70 ILCS 1220/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 48) Sec. 1. Every board of public park commissioners shall have the power to take under its control, and to regulate, control and govern, in the same manner as it may govern other parks or boulevards, under its control, any public park now und…

(70 ILCS 1220/2) (from Ch. 105, par. 49) Sec. 2. Such boards of park commissioners shall have the same power and control over the parks taken under this act as are, or may be, by law vested in them, of and concerning the parks, boulevards or driveways now under their control. (So…

(70 ILCS 1220/3) (from Ch. 105, par. 50) Sec. 3. In case any such parks so to be taken shall pass from the control of any such park board, the power and authority over the same, granted or authorized by this act, shall revert to the proper authorities of such city, town or villag…

(70 ILCS 1220/4) (from Ch. 105, par. 51) Sec. 4. Any city, town or village in this state, shall have full power and authority to vest any such board of public park commissioners with the right to control, improve and maintain any such park within the district over which such boar…

(70 ILCS 1225/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 53.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Park Commissioners Land Condemnation Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(70 ILCS 1225/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 54) Sec. 1. In all cases where any board of park commissioners has selected and taken any street or part thereof under the provisions of an act of the General Assembly entitled, "An Act to enable park commissioners or corporate authorities to …

(70 ILCS 1225/2) (from Ch. 105, par. 55) Sec. 2. Such park commissioners are hereby vested with power to take and acquire title to such pieces or parcels of land as may be necessary for such widening, and may proceed to procure the condemnation of the same in the manner prescribe…

(70 ILCS 1225/2.5) Sec. 2.5. 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-…

(70 ILCS 1225/3) (from Ch. 105, par. 56) Sec. 3. Such park commissioners are hereby authorized to levy, or cause to be levied and collected, a special assessment or special tax upon the contiguous property abutting on said street or part thereof so selected and taken for the purp…

(70 ILCS 1230/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 91.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Park Commissioners Water Control Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(70 ILCS 1230/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 92) Sec. 1. Every board of park commissioners existing under the laws of this state, which has now, or may hereafter have or acquire control over any public park, boulevard or driveway bordering upon any public waters in this state shall have …

(70 ILCS 1230/1-a) (from Ch. 105, par. 93) Sec. 1-a. The fact that any individual, corporation, or other person shall be made a party defendant to any such condemnation proceedings hereby authorized, shall not establish any presumption as to the validity or the extent of the titl…

(70 ILCS 1230/1-b) Sec. 1-b. 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-…

(70 ILCS 1230/2) (from Ch. 105, par. 94) Sec. 2. In all cases in which said board of park commissioners shall have acquired or contracted to acquire the riparian rights of the owners of any lands along the shore adjoining such public waters or rivers, or have acquired or contract…

(70 ILCS 1230/3) (from Ch. 105, par. 95) Sec. 3. Such board of park commissioners shall have the power to pay for any such rights, lands or territory, thus acquired, and for the construction and protection of such park, boulevard, driveway or parkway or such extension or connecti…

(70 ILCS 1230/4) (from Ch. 105, par. 96) Sec. 4. The title to any such extension or connection of such park or parks, boulevards, driveways and parkways, and to the bed thereof shall be, and hereby becomes vested in such board of park commissioners for public purposes, and the sa…

(70 ILCS 1230/5) (from Ch. 105, par. 97) Sec. 5. No such board of park commissioners shall be hereby authorized to extend any of its park or boulevard system outside of or beyond the limits of the district or territory, the property of which shall be taxable for the maintenance o…

(70 ILCS 1230/6) (from Ch. 105, par. 98) Sec. 6. The powers granted by this act to any board of park commissioners shall not be construed to have been exhausted by any one use of the same, but said commissioners may, from time to time, proceed with further enlargements or extensi…

(70 ILCS 1235/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 112.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Park Commissioners Land Sale Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(70 ILCS 1235/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 113) Sec. 1. Any board of park commissioners having the control or supervision of any public park, boulevard, driveway or highway, and having any piece or parcel of land not exceeding 3 acres in area, which shall no longer be needed or deemed …

(70 ILCS 1235/10) Sec. 10. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 100-595, eff. 6-29-18. Repealed internally, eff. 12-31-19.)

(70 ILCS 1235/15) Sec. 15. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 102-914, eff. 5-27-22. Repealed internally, eff. 6-30-24.)

(70 ILCS 1235/20) (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027) Sec. 20. Elliot Golf Course. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Rockford Park District may sell all or part of the property containing the former Elliot Golf Course or other property adjacent…

(70 ILCS 1235/25) (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027) Sec. 25. Sale of Joliet Park District land. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Joliet Park District may sell Splash Station if: (1) the board of commissioners of the Joliet Park District auth…

(70 ILCS 1235/5) Sec. 5. (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 98-333, eff. 8-13-13. Repealed internally, eff. 12-31-18.)

(70 ILCS 1240/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 114.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Park Commissioners Land Conveyance Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(70 ILCS 1240/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 115) Sec. 1. When any park district organized under the provisions of any general law of this state and which park district shall lie wholly within the limits of any city within this state, shall have acquired any lands for park purposes, and …

(70 ILCS 1240/2) (from Ch. 105, par. 116) Sec. 2. The board of commissioners of such park district shall give notice of the referendum as required by the general election law. The proposition shall be in the following form: --------------------------------------------------------…

(70 ILCS 1245/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 119.9) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Park Commissioners Street Control (1879) Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(70 ILCS 1245/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 120) Sec. 1. That every board of park commissioners shall have power to connect any public park, boulevard or driveway under its control with any part of any incorporated city, town or village, by selecting and taking any connecting street or …

(70 ILCS 1245/2) (from Ch. 105, par. 121) Sec. 2. That such park commissioners, or such corporate authorities as are by law authorized to levy taxes or assessments for the maintenance of such parks, shall have power to improve, maintain and repair such street or streets in such m…