70 ILCS 850/ Forest Preserve District Tax Levy Validation (1986) Act.

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70 ILCS 850/0.01

(70 ILCS 850/0.01) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6350)

Sec. 0.01.

Short title.

This Act may be cited as the

Forest Preserve District Tax Levy Validation (1986) Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

70 ILCS 850/1

(70 ILCS 850/1) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6351)

Sec. 1.

In all cases where a board of forest preserve commissioners
of any forest preserve district having a population of less than 3,000,000
has heretofore during 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, and
1990 within the time required by law adopted annual appropriation ordinances
for fiscal years beginning in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989,
1990, and 1991, thereafter same were published in a newspaper as provided by
law, and subsequently in such year, within the time required by law the board
of forest preserve commissioners had adopted tax levy ordinances based upon the
appropriation ordinances for said fiscal years 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, and a certified copy of such tax levy ordinances
was duly filed with the county clerk of the county in which said districts
are located, then such appropriation ordinances and tax levy ordinances and
the taxes assessed, levied and extended thereon, are hereby validated,
notwithstanding that the several amounts and purposes for which such
appropriations were made and taxes levied, for such 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 said appropriation or levy ordinances
stated amounts of money are appropriated and levied for named public
purposes, and general language is used which renders the amounts for such
purposes uncertain and illegal, or the purposes for which the amounts are
appropriated and levied uncertain and illegal.  Nothing herein contained
shall be construed as validating any tax levy in excess of the statutory
rate of taxation authorized for any such fiscal year or for any purpose not
permitted by the constitution.

(Source: P.A. 86-186; 86-1252; 87-508; 87-1128.)

70 ILCS 850/2

(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.)