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If this Act shall fail to be adopted at the election referred to in paragraph two of this section by a majority of the legal voters voting thereon, the question of the adoption of this Act may also again be submitted to the legal voters of the City of Chicago, at any general, municipal or special election in and for the entire city to be held not less than forty days from and after the filing of the petition hereinafter provided for, in the following manner: A petition signed by legal voters of the city equal in number to at least five per cent of the legal voters of the city voting at the last preceding election for mayor, demanding the submission of the question of the adoption of this Act, may be filed with said board of election commissioners and it shall thereupon be the duty of said board of election commissioners to submit the question of the adoption of this Act to such legal voters at the election specified in said petition.

If this Act shall fail to be adopted, at any time, at which it is submitted under the requirements of this section, by a majority of the legal voters of the City of Chicago voting thereon, then it may be resubmitted from time to time by ordinance or petition as above provided.

The said board of election commissioners shall give notice of any election provided for in this section by publishing a notice thereof, not less than twenty days prior to such election, in at least one newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Chicago.

The ballot to be used at such election shall be in substantially the following form :

For the adoption of an Act to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," so as to provide for nonpartisan elections for aldermen in the City of Chicago.

Yes

Νο

If a majority of such legal voters of the City of Chicago, voting thereon at any such election, shall vote for the adoption of this Act. it shall thereby and thereupon be adopted.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

EMPLOYEES-APPOINTMENT AND DISCHARGE.

§ 1. Amends section 26 of Article XIII, Act of 1872.

§ 26.

Appointment and discharge of employees. etc.-board of fire and police commissioners.

(SENATE BILL NO. 483. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend section 26 of Article XIII of an Act entitled: “An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois. represented in the General Assembly: Section 26 of Article XIII of an

Act entitled: "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

§ 26. (a) In all cities or villages which have heretofore or may hereafter adopt an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the civil service of cities," approved and in force March 20, 1895, all officers, assistants and employees, of such city or village, except those named and mentioned in sections 23, 24 and 27 of this Act, shall be appointed and discharged only in accordance with and in pursuance of the provisions of said civil service Act: Provided, that for the purpose of the performance of the duties imposed upon, and the exercise of the powers and authority vested in a head of department or office, by virtue of said civil service Act, the commissioner of each respective department under the commission form of municipal government shall be considered the head of department or office under said Civil Service Act.

(b) In all cities or villages which have heretofore or may hereafter adopt an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the appointment of a board of fire and police commissioners in all cities of this State having a population of not less than seven thousand nor more than two hundred thousand and prescribing the powers and duties of such board," approved and in force April 2, 1903, all officers and members of the fire and police departments of any such city or village, including the chief of police and chief of fire department, shall be appointed and discharged only in accordance with and in pursuance of the provisions of said board of fire and police commissioners Act.

(c) Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to prevent any city or village adopting the commission form of municipal government, from adopting "An Act to regulate the civil service of cities," approved and in force March 20, 1895, or when of the required population, from adopting "An Act to provide for the appointment of a board of fire and police commissioners in all cities of this State having a population of not less than seven thousand nor more than two hundred thousand and prescribing the powers and duties of such board," approved and in force April 2, 1903.

(d) In all cities and villages which have heretofore adopted an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the appointment of a board of fire and police commissioners in all cities having a population of not less than 7,000 nor more than 200,000, and prescribing the powers and duties of such board," approved and in force April 2, 1903, and which have also heretofore adopted this Act, said Act to provide for a board of fire and police commissioners shall continue in full force and effect in said city or village in like manner as said Act would have continued in force therein if this Act had not been adopted therein. Provided, that the council shall have the right, power and authority to appoint and discharge the board of fire and police commissioners.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

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(SENATE BILL NO. 482. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend the title and sections 1 and 19 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the appointment of a board of fire and police commissioners in all cities of this State having a population of not less than seven thousand nor more than one hundred thousand, and prescribing the powers and duties of such board," approved and in force April 2, 1903, as amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the title and sections 1 and 19 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the appointment of a board of fire and police commissioners in all cities of this State having a population of not less than seven thousand, nor more than one hundred thousand, and prescribing the powers and duties of such board," approved and in force April 2, 1903, as amended, are amended to read as follows:

An Act to provide for the appointment of a board of fire and police commissioners in all cities of this State having a population of not less than seven thousand, nor more than two hundred thousand, and prescribing the powers and duties of such board.

SECTION 1. In every city in this State having a population of not less than (7,000) seven thousand nor more than (200,000) two hundred thousand, there shall be appointed by the mayor, by and with the consent of the city council, a board of fire and police commissioners consisting of three members, whose term of office shall be three years and until their respective successors shall be appointed and qualified, except as hereinafter provided: Provided, no such appointments shall be made by any such mayor within thirty (30) days before the expiration of his term of office: Provided, further that in all cities which have heretofore adopted, or which may hereafter adopt "The commission form of municipal government Act', the board of fire and police commissioners shall be appointed by the council.

§ 19. The electors of any city, of the population herein described, may adopt the provisions of this Act in the following manner: Whenever the legal voters of said city equal in number to twenty per cent of the legal votes cast at the last preceding general city election shall petition the city clerk or the officer or officers whose duty it is to prepare the ballots, to submit the proposition as to whether such city shall adopt the provisions of this Act, then it shall be the duty of such officer or officers to submit such proposition accordingly at the next succeeding regular city election, and if such proposition be not adopted at such election, the same may in like manner be submitted to any regular city election thereafter.

The proposition so to be voted for shall be prepared and provided for that purpose in the same manner as other ballots and shall be substantially in the following form:

For the adoption of the provisions of an Act to provide
for the appointment of a board of fire and police com-
missioners in all cities of this State having a popula-
tion of not less than 7,000 and not more than 200,000
and prescribing the powers and duties of such board.

Yes

No

If a majority of the votes cast in said city at said election shall be for such proposition then this Act shall be declared adopted and in force in such city.

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AN ACT to authorize cities which have a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants to acquire, own, construct, manage, control, maintain and operate municipal convention halls.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: POWER.] That every city in this State which has a population exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants shall have power and authority and such power and authority are hereby granted to acquire, own, construct, manage, control, maintain and operate within the corporate limits of such city a municipal convention hall or municipal convention halls with all necessary adjuncts thereto.

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§ 2. ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY APPROPRIATIONS BONDS.] Every such city shall have full power to acquire by dedication, gift, lease, contract, purchase or condemnation all property and rights, necessary or proper, within the corporate limits of the city, for such municipal convention hall purposes; and to appropriate money, to levy and collect taxes, to borrow money on the credit of the city for such purposes and to issue bonds therefor.

In all cases where property is acquired or sought to be acquired by condemnation, the procedure shall be, as nearly as may be, like that provided for in Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the exercise of the right of eminent domain," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and all amendments thereto now in force or which may hereafter be enacted.

§ 3. APPROPRIATIONS AND BOND ISSUES HOW MADE.] All appropriations and bond issues for the use of any such municipal convention hall shall be made by the city council in the manner provided by law. All warrants upon which any portion of said funds is to be paid out shall bear the signature of such official or officials as may be designated by the city council.

§ 4. PAYMENT OF BONDS AND INTEREST.] The city council shall, in the manner and at the time or times provided by law, by ordinance provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such bonds as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof at the time such principal falls due.

§ 5. LETTING CONVENTION HALL TO ASSEMBLAGE.] Every such city which shall acquire and own under the provisions of this Act a municipal convention hall, shall have power and authority and such power and authority are hereby granted to license or lease out all or any part of the same to gatherings or assemblages for definite short periods of time, upon such terms and compensation as may be prescribed by the city council or as may be determined by and through ordinances, rules or regulations passed or prescribed by the city council.

§ 6. FREE USE TO INHABITANTS AND LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS. The city council under rules and regulations prescribed by general ordinance, and not otherwise, may provide for granting the free use of such municipal convention hall to the inhabitants of such city or to local bodies or organizations existing within such city, for civic, patriotic, educational. charitable or political uses and purposes and for historic celebrations, free amusements, concerts, entertainments, lectures and discussions.

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§ 7. CITY COUNCIL MAY PASS ORDINANCES TO REGULATE CONVENTION HALL.] The city council may from time to time establish by ordinance all needful rules and regulations for the management and control of any such municipal convention hall. All ordinances, for the violations of which fines are imposed, shall be published in the newspaper selected as the official journal of the city, and the same may printed in book or pamphlet form in such manner as the city council shall direct, and rules framed in conformity with such ordinances shall be brought to the notice of the public by being posted in conspicuous places in the convention hall. When such ordinances are printed in book or pamphlet form, purporting to be published by authority of the city council, such book or pamphlet shall be received as evidence of the contents of such ordinances, and of the passage and publication thereof as of the dates therein mentioned in all courts without further proof.

§ 8. BOOKS OF ACCOUNT.] Every city owning and operating any such municipal convention hall shall keep books of account for such convention hall, separate and distinct from other city accounts and in

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