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§ 7. POWERS OF TAXATION PRESERVED TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF CREDITORS.] All powers of taxation or assessment that may have become part of any contract of indebtedness incurred or entered into by any of the municipal corporations or quasi-municipal corporation hereby consolidated with the city of Chicago shall be preserved only in so far as their exercise may become necessary to save and protect or enforce the rights of creditors, or those holding obligations created in view or respect of any tax, assessment or power of taxation or assessment, and, in the event of any such powers so becoming necessary, shall be exercised by the corporate authorities of the city of Chicago to the same extent as the corporate authorities contracting such indebtedness would have been bound. to exercise the same.

§ 8. PRESENT ORDINANCES TO BE CONTINUED IN FORCE UNTIL REPEALED.] All lawful ordinances, resolutions, by-laws, orders or rules in any municipal corporation, quasi-municipal corporation, or other local government or authority hereby consolidated in the municipal government of the city of Chicago, at the time this Act takes effect, and not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, shall, notwithstanding any change of organization effected by this Act, continue in full force and effect within the territory included within the jurisdiction of the authority by which such ordinances, resolutions, by-laws, orders or rules were respectively enacted until repealed, abrogated or amended by the city council of the city of Chicago. No ordinance of the city of Chicago. in force in the city when this Act takes effect shall be affected or impaired by the consolidation provided by this Act.

§ 9. TRUST FUNDS TO CONTINUE SUBJECT TO SAME TRUST.] Any property or funds held by any of the municipal corporations, quasimunicipal corporations or corporate authorities hereby consolidated with the city of Chicago upon any special express trust shall be held by said. city upon such trust. The proceeds of special assessments levied before this Act takes effect shall be applied to the purposes for which they were levied or imposed.

§ 10. RETIRING OFFICER SHALL DELIVER RECORDS AND PROPERTY TO THE CITY COMPTROLLER.] Any officer ceasing to hold office by virtue of this Act shall deliver and turn over to the city comptroller or such officer as the city comptroller may designate as the one upon whom the powers and duties of such retiring officers devolves, all papers, records and property of every kind in his possession and custody by virtue of his office, and shall account to said city comptroller for all funds, credits or property of any kind with which he is properly chargeable: Provided, however, that all papers, records, and property of every kind pertaining to the present park commissioners, board of park commissioners and park boards shall be turned over to the board of park commissioners, as provided for in this Act.

§ 11. OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS CONSOLIDATED.] The offices of all officers of all towns or townships, parks or park districts, or other local governments and authorities hereby consolidated are hereby abrogated and abolished, except as herein otherwise expressly provided. All officers and employees included in and subject to the civil service laws relating to any of the local governments and authorities hereby consolidated with the city of Chicago, and all other officers and

employees (excepting all elective officers, general superintendents, attorneys and secretaries) employed by local governments and authorities not under civil service law who have served for at least six months prior to the passage of this Act by the General Assembly and who would, if employees of the city of Chicago, be included in and subject to the civil service laws relating to said city, shall be transferred to and without examination, shall become officers and employees of the city of Chicago, subject to the provisions of the civil service laws relating to said city, and the civil service commission of the city of Chicago, upon the taking effect of this Act, shall classify and place, in accordance with the character of his former duties, rank and responsibilities, each of said officers and employees in his appropriate class and grade in the classified civil service of said city, and, for the purpose of determining seniority in such class and grade, each of said officers and employees shall be credited with the time, prior to such transfer to the employ of the city, served by them as officers and employees of the local governments and authorities hereby consolidated, in the respective offices and places of employment held by them respectively at the time of such transfer and no such officer or employee shall be removed or discharged except for cause, upon written charges and after an opportunity to be heard in this own defense. All employees, except policemen, so transferred to the city of Chicago, who would, if employees of said city, be included within the provisions of an act entitled, "An Act to provide for the formation and disbursement of a pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants for municipal employees appointed to their positions under and by virtue of an Act entitled, 'An Act to regulate the civil service of cities,' approved and in force March 20, 1895, and for those who were appointed prior to the passage of said act and who are now in the service of such city, village or town," approved May 31, 1911, and in force July 1, 1911, and all amendments thereto. heretofore or hereafter made, shall have credit thereunder, in respect of time of service, for the time theretofore served and shall become subject to all the provisions of said pension fund act last above mentioned. All policemen so transferred to the city of Chicago and all persons who were formerly employed as policemen in any of the local governments or local authorities hereby consolidated and who are now employed as policemen by the city of Chicago, shall have credit, in respect of time of service, under an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns," approved April 29, 1887, and in force July 1, 1887, as subsequently amended, and under any act of like nature superseding said act and applying to the city of Chicago, for the time theretofore at any time served by them as policemen of the local governments and authorities hereby consolidated. All fines, penalties, rewards, funds, moneys, and property in the possession or control of the various boards of trustees created by virtue of an act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation, administration and disbursement of a park police pension fund," approved May 23, 1913, and in force July 1, 1913, or in the possession or control of any board or boards succeeding such boards and created by virtue of any similar act, or to which any such board or boards may be by law entitled, shall, upon the taking effect of this Act, become

the property of the board of trustees of the police pension fund of the city of Chicago, created by virtue of an act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns," approved April 29, 1887, and in force July 1, 1887, as subsequently amended, for the uses and purposes set forth in said last mentioned Act, whereupon said board or boards of trustees of park police pension funds above mentioned shall be dissolved and abrogated, provided that all legal proceedings instituted by or in the name of or against any such board or boards of trustees of park police pension funds shall be continued without abatement either in the name of the board of trustees of the police pension fund of the city of Chicago or in the name by which they were instituted or conducted. All pensions and all lawful claims for pensions payable out of the fund created under an act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation, administration and disbursement of a park police pension fund," approved May 23, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, and all amendments thereto, heretofore or hereafter made, shall, when such fund becomes the property of the trustees of the police pension fund of the city of Chicago, as herein provided, attach to and be payable out of such police pension fund of the city of Chicago, in accordance with the law relating thereto.

ARTICLE II.

REVENUE.

SECTION 1. RATE OF TAX LEVY FOR CITY PURPOSES.] The city council of the city of Chicago shall annually, during the first half of the fiscal year, by ordinance, levy a general tax on real and personal property not exempt from taxation for corporate purposes, including general city, park, library, and house of correction purposes, to meet the requirements of the annual appropriation bill for such year, not exceeding in the aggregate, exclusive of the amount levied for the payments of bonded indebtedness and the interest on bonded indebtedness, one and six-tenths per centum of the assessed value of the taxable property within said city, as assessed and equalized according to law for municipal purposes. The city council in its annual tax levy ordinance shall specify the amount levied for the payment of bonded indebtedness, the amount levied for the payment of interest on bonded indebtedness and the amount levied for corporate purposes, including general city, park, library, and house of correction purposes. A certified copy of such ordinance shall be filed in the county clerk's office. The county clerk shall extend upon the collector's warrant all of said corporate purposes taxes, subject to the limitation herein contained, in a single column as the city of Chicago tax. In case the aggregate amounts levied, exclusive of the amounts levied for the payments of bonded indebtedness and the interest on bonded indebtedness, shall exceed, as to the corporate purposes tax, the limitation herein contained, such excesses shall be disregarded, and the residue only treated as certified for extension. In such case all items for corporate purposes in such tax levy, except those for payments of bonded indebtedness and the interest on bonded indebtedness, shall be reduced pro rata. The rate so fixed shall not be further impaired by reason of the require

ments of an "Act concerning the levy and extension of taxes," approved May 9, 1901, as thereafter amended, but after all reductions have been made proportionately, as required by said act, shall be restored to the figures of percentage fixed under the provisions of this section. The taxes levied shall be collected and enforced in the same manner and by the same officers as state and county taxes, and shall be paid over by the officers collecting the same to the city treasurer, and the city treasurer of th city of Chicago shall keep, under the direction of the city comptroller, a separate account in conformity to said tax levy, and the funds in same shall be paid out by him upon the order of the proper authority for the purposes only for which the same were levied.

§ 2. REPORTS OF RECEIPTS, EXPENDITURES AND OPERATIONS AND ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES TO BE TRANSMITTED TO THE CITY COUNCIL.] The several departments, bureaus, officers, boards, commissions and other institutions for the support or maintenance of which moneys are appropriated by the city council shall, respectively, transmit to the city council, at such time as the city council may direct, such statements of their receipts, expenditures and operations as the city council may require. Such departments, bureaus, officers, boards, commissions and institutions, respectively, at such time before the passage of the annual appropriation bill by the city council, and in such manner and form as the city council may direct, shall severally prepare an estimate or estimates, in writing, of the amount of expenditures required for their respective departments, bureaus, offices, boards, commissions and institutions.

§ 3. CITY COUNCIL MAY CREATE BOARD OF ESTIMATE.] The city council may create a board of estimate, the members of which shall be selected or designated in such manner as the city council may provide. Such board of estimate shall, before the passage of the annual appropriation bill by the city council, submit to the city council at such time and in such manner and form as the city council may direct, a report or reports of its estimates of moneys necessary to be appropriated in said bill. The city council may require the several departments, bureaus, officers, boards and commissions of the city government, and other institutions for the support or maintenance of which moneys are appropriated by the city council, to transmit to said board of estimate, at such time and in such manner and form as the city council may direct, an estimate or estimates, in writing, of the amount of expenditures required for their respective departments, bureaus, officers, boards, commissions and institutions.

ARTICLE III.

INDEBTEDNESS.

SECTION 1. LIMIT OF CITY'S INDEBTEDNESS.] The city of Chicago may become indebted for municipal, educational and school building purposes to an amount (including its existing indebtedness and the indebtedness of the corporations or corporate authorities consolidated with the government of the city and whose indebtedness the city has assumed by this Act and the indebtedness of all other municipal corporations lying wholly within the limits of said city, and the city's proportionate share of the indebtedness of the county of Cook and of the

sanitary district of Chicago, which shall be determined as hereinafter provided) in the aggregate not exceeding 5 per centum of the full value of the taxable property within the limits of said city as ascertained by the last assessment for State or municipal purposes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.

§ 2. CITY'S PROPORTIONATE SHARE OF COOK COUNTY'S INDEBTEDNESS.] For the purpose of determining such aggregate indebtedness, the city's proportionate share of the indebtedness of the county of Cook shall bear the same ratio to the entire existing indebtedness of the county of Cook as the value of the taxable property within the city of Chicago bears to the value of the taxable property in the entire county of Cook, as ascertained by the last assessment for municipal and county purposes, respectively, previous to the incurring of any increase in the debt of the city. The amount of the indebtedness of the county of Cook, upon request of the city comptroller at any time shall be certified. to such comptroller by the county clerk of Cook county under the seal of the board of county commissioners. If the city comptroller questions the correctness of such certificate the amount of the county's indebtedness may be determined summarily by the circuit court of Cook county upon proceedings brought by the city against the county for that purpose. The certificate of the county clerk or the judgment of the circuit court, as the case may be, shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of Cook county, and the amount thus recorded shall be conclusive as to the indebtedness of the county of Cook for the purposes herein contemplated.

§ 3. CITY'S PROPORTIONATE SHARE OF SANITARY DISTRICT'S INDEBTEDNESS.] For the purpose of determining such aggregate indebtedness, the city's proportionate share of the indebtedness of the sanitary district of Chicago shall bear the same ratio to the entire existing indebtedness of the said sanitary district as the value of the taxable property of that portion of the city lying within said sanitary district bears to the value of the whole taxable property in said sanitary district, as ascertained by the last assessment for municipal and sanitary district purposes, respectively, previous to the incurring of any increase in the debt of the city. The amount of indebtedness of the sanitary district, upon request of the city comptroller at any time, shall be certified to such comptroller by the clerk of the board of trustees of the sanitary district under the seal of such board. If the city comptroller questions the correctness of such certificate the amounts in dispute may be determined summarily by the circuit court of Cook county upon proceedings brought by the city of Chicago against the sanitary district for that purpose. The certificate of the clerk of the board of trustees of the sanitary district or the judgment of the circuit court, as the case may be, shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of Cook county and the amounts thus recorded shall be conclusive as to the indebtedness of the sanitary district of Chicago for the purposes herein contemplated.

§ 4. BONDS.] For the purpose of raising funds or securing any indebtedness the city council may issue interest-bearing coupon bonds, either registered or payable to bearer, or other evidences of indebtedness or obligations, pledging the faith and credit of the city for their

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