(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 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)

(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 Article VII of the Code of Civil Procedure; the provisions of which said Article are hereby extended to said park commissioners.

(Source: P.A. 82‑783.)

(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.)