70 ILCS 1225/ Park Commissioners Land Condemnation Act.

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70 ILCS 1225/0.01

(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

(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 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," and any part or portion of said street
so selected and taken has not been legally laid out or dedicated to the
uniform width of one hundred feet, the said board of park commissioners
shall have the power to widen said street or the part of said street so
selected and taken to the uniform width of one hundred feet: Provided, that
some portion of each mile of said street, or the part thereof so selected
and taken, shall be of the width of one hundred feet at the time of such
selection and taking.

(Source: Laws 1887, p. 248.)

70 ILCS 1225/2

(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
prescribed for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act.

(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)

70 ILCS 1225/2.5

(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. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)

70 ILCS 1225/3

(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 purpose of raising the amount necessary to pay the
compensation and damages for the said land necessary to be taken for such
widening, with the costs of the proceedings; and to that end they shall
have all the power and authority now or hereafter granted to them relative
to the levy, assessment and collection of taxes or assessments for
corporate purposes.

(Source: Laws 1887, p. 248.)