(70 ILCS 850/2) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6352)
Sec. 2.
In cases where a board of commissioners of a forest preserve
district in a county having a population of less than 3,000,000 adopted,
within the time required by law, tax levy ordinances in 1988, 1989, and 1990
for corporate, zoological, botanical, construction of improvements and
development of forests and lands, and employees' annuity and benefit fund
purposes, or any other purpose, and filed, within the time required by law, a
certified copy with the county clerk of the county in which the district is
located, and thereafter adopted and published appropriation ordinances, within
the time required by law, appropriating sums required to defray all necessary
expenses and liabilities of the district to be paid or incurred during the
fiscal years commencing in 1989, 1990, and 1991, including those sums
which were raised by the 1988, 1989, and 1990 tax levies, then those tax levy
ordinances, together with the taxes assessed, levied and extended, and the
appropriation ordinances are validated, notwithstanding that the several
amounts and purposes for which the taxes were levied and appropriations
made for corporate, zoological, botanical, construction of improvements and
development of forests and lands, and employees' annuity and benefit fund
purposes, or any other proper purpose, were not specifically itemized in
detail, as required by statute, and notwithstanding that in the levy or
appropriation ordinance stated amounts of money were levied and
appropriated for named public purposes and general language was used which
renders the amounts for such purposes uncertain and illegal, or the
purposes for which the amounts were levied and appropriated uncertain and
illegal. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as validating any tax
levy in excess of the statutory rate of taxation authorized for the fiscal
year or for any purpose not permitted by the constitution.
(Source: P.A. 86-1252; 87-1128.)
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