shall be paid by him to the treasurer of said pension board: And, provided further, any such official shall at any and all times upon demand by said pension board furnish to said board statements or information of any kind relative to said official's method of collection or handling of said pension funds: And, provided, further, that all books and records of such official shall be produced at any time by said official for examination and inspection by said board of pension trustees for the purpose [purposes] herein provided.

§ 11. All persons who, upon the taking effect of this Act, are receiving any benefits 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, shall receive no further payment or benefits under said Act, but shal. in lieu thereof be entitled to the benefits provided for in this Act, the intention being that this Act shall supersede the aforesaid Act, but that neither pensions granted thereunder nor the amounts thereof shall in anywise be affected.

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 approved May 23, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, is hereby expressly repealed.

All moneys, fines and penalties in the possession of any such board of trustees created by the provisions of the Act aforesaid, or to which any such board may be by law entitled, shall, upon the taking effect of this Act, become the property, for the uses and purposes herein set forth, of the board herein provided for.

Whereupon said board first above referred to shall be and hereby is dissolved and abrogated: Provided, that all legal proceedings instituted by, or in the name of, or against said board, shall be continued without abatement either in the name of said board or in the name by which they are instituted or conducted.

All pensions granted under this Act and every portion thereof shall be exempt from attachment or garnishment processes and shall not be seized, taken, subjected to, detained or levied upon by virtue of any execution or any processes or proceedings whatsoever issued out of or by any court in this State for the payment and satisfaction, in whole or in part, of any debt, claim, damage, demand or judgment against any pensioner hereunder, and no pensioner shall have the right to transfer or assign his or her pension, or any part thereof, either by way of mortgage or otherwise.

FILED May 19, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this nineteenth (19th) day of May. A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

PUBLIC STREETS—REGULATION, IMPROVEMENT, AND MAINTENANCEPARK COMMISSIONERS.

§ 1. Authority of commissioners -consent of corporate authorities and property owners.

§ 2. Procedure, manner of taxation and date of meeting of city or village authorities when street is not within the jurisdiction of commissioners.

§ 3. When street passes from control of park board corporate authorities to assume control,

§ 4. Power to control streets in cities or villages.

§ 5. Authority of municipalities to vest park commissioners with right to take over streets.

(SENATE BILL No. 79. APPROVED JUNE 22, 1917.)

AN ACT to enable park commissioners or park authorities to take, regulate, control, improve, repair and maintain public streets and to provide a method of securing funds for the improvement, repair, maintenance, regulation and control of same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois; represented in the General Assembly: That every board of park commissioners or park authorities shall have the power to connect any public park, boulevard or driveway under its control, with any part of any incorporated city, town or village, the territory of which shall touch, bound or be contiguous to such public park, boulevard or driveway, by selecting and taking any connecting street or streets, or parts thereof, leading to such park, boulevard or driveway, and shall have the power to accept and add to any park or parks under their control, any street, in its entirety or parts thereof which adjoins or runs parallel with any boundary line of the same: Provided, that the consent of the corporate authorities having control of any such street or streets or part thereof. so far as selected and taken shall first be obtained.

And provided, further, that unless such street or streets or part or parts thereof shall have been previously restricted to boulevard or pleasure driveway purposes pursuant to law, the consent of the owners of at least two-thirds of the frontage of all property abutting upon said street or streets or part or parts thereof shall also first be obtained.

§ 2. In all cases when any such street or streets or part or parts thereof, taken as aforesaid by any board of park commissioners or park authorities shall lie in the city, town or village, the territory of which is not taxed for the maintenance of said board of park commissioners or park authorities, the said board of park commissioners or park authorities shall certify to the board of local improvements or other local municipal authorities of said city, town or village, the kind, character, quality and description of such improvement of such street or streets or part or parts thereof as such board of park commissioners or authorities propose to make on said street or streets or part or parts thereof under their control and which said board or authorities desire to have made on the said street or streets or part or parts thereof in said city, town or village, the territory of which is not taxed for the maintenance of said park commissioners or authorities, and thereupon said board of local improvements, or such other municipal authorities aforesaid, shall proceed under the local improvement Act or otherwise with the construction of said proposed improvement according to law.

It shall be the duty of the board of park commissioners or park authorities after the improvement of said street or streets. or parts thereof, taken as aforesaid from such city, town or village, to make an estimate of the amount of money required during the succeeding year for the maintenance, repair, up-keep and government of said street or streets or parts thereof in each city, town or village through which the said street or streets, or part or parts thereof, may extend that does not lie within the territory taxed for the maintenance of the board of park commissioners or park authorities taking said street or streets, or part or paris thereof, which estimate shall be made and certified to the local authorities of such city, town or village on or before the first day of September in each year. And it shall be the duty of the corporate authorities of said city, town or village to meet on the first Wednesday of October in each year and fix upon the amount of tax so certified to them by said board of park commissioners, for the purpose aforesaid, and immediately to certify to the county clerk in the county in which said taxing body is located the amount to be raised by taxation for the purpose aforesaid, in the respective city, town or village, and the county clerk shall compute and extend the same as other general taxes, but such tax shall be placed in a separate column headed "Driveway Maintenance Tax." The taxes so levied and collected shall be paid to the said board of park commissioners or park authorities upon their sole receipt to be expended by them within the district for which the taxes are levied for the purpose of such maintenance, repair, up-keep and government, and for none other. Provided, however, that the tax herein authorized to be levied shall not be subject to the scaling process required by the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act concerning the levy and extension of taxes" approved May 9, 1901, in force July 1, 1901 and amendments thereto.

§ 3. In case any such street or parts thereof, shall pass from the control of any such park board, the power and authority over the same, granted or authorized by this Act shall revert to the proper corporate authorities of such city, town or village, respectively as aforesaid.

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§ 4. The said board of park commissioners of park authorities shall have, in addition to the power conferred, the same power and control of the street or streets, or part or parts thereof, including the regu lation of traffic thereon, taken by them as aforesaid, as is now or may by law vested in them: Provided, that the power and control conferred on the board of park commissioners or park authorities by this Act shall not be in limitation or construed to be in limitation of the power of the corporate authorities in the city, town or village to enforce the ordinances thereof within the limits of the street or streets, or parts thereof, taken as aforesaid.

5. Any municipality in this State, located as defined and described in section one of this Act, shall have full power and authority by appropriate resolution or ordinance to vest such board of park commissioners or park authorities with the right to take over under the terms of this Act, any street of such municipality which may be used for the purpose of carrying out the provisions and conditions of this Act. APPROVED June 22, 1917.

WIDENING AND IMPROVEMENT OF BOULEVARDS AND DRIVEWAYS.

1. Powers of commissioners.

§ 2. Authority to condemn property.

(SENATE BILL No. 142.

§ 3. How funds are to be raised to pay expense of improvement.

§ 4. May issue bonds in certain casesvote of property owners.

APPROVED JUNE 26, 1917.)

AN ACT to enable park commissioners to widen, and improve any boulevard, driveway or parkway under their control, to condemn land therefor, and to defray the cost thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That every board of public park commissioners for any three towns, under and in pursuance of any act or acts of the General Assembly of this State, which has or have been or may be submitted to the legal voters of such three towns, and by them respectively adopted, which now has or hereafter shall acquire control over any boulevard, driveway or parkway, shall have the power to widen any such boulevard, driveway or parkway, or any part thereof, and to improve the same as widened.

§ 2. Any such board of park commissioners shall have power to take or damage such private property as may be necessary for such widening and may condemn the same in any manner in which such boards of park commissioners are now or may hereafter be authorized to exercise the power of condemnation in any other case, except as hereinafter provided.

§ 3. Any such board of park commissioners shall have power to pay for such widening and improvement or either by special assessment, or by general taxation, or by both special assessment and general taxation. For that purpose any such board is hereby authorized to levy, assess and collect (or) a special assessment on property benefited, in the manner provided by an Act entitled, an Act concerning local improvements, approved June 14, 1897, in force July 1, 1897, as amended. No such special assessment shall be levied for the maintenance or repair of any such boulevard, driveway or parkway, but the same shall be maintained and repaired by such park board or park authorities as in other

cases.

§ 4. If any such board of park commissioners shall decide to defray the cost of any private property taken or damaged for any such widening by general taxation, or if the cost of any such private property shall be assessed in any special assessment proceeding against such board of park commissioners on account of public benefits, it shall have power to pay for such property by the issue and sale, from time to time, of interest-bearing bonds, in addition to the bonds now authorized by law: Provided, no bonds shall be issued under this Act contrary to the provisions of section 12, Article IX of the Constitution of this State; And, provided further, that the proposition to issue such bonds shall be submitted to a vote of the legal voters of the park district, in which the property shall be taxable for the maintenance of the park system under the control of such board of park commissioners, and shall receive a majority of the votes cast upon such proposition. Authority is hereby

granted to any such board of park commissioners issuing such bonds, to levy and collect a direct annual tax upon the property within its jurisdiction, in addition to the amount of any tax now authorized by law to be levied and collected by it, sufficient to pay the interest on such bonds as it falls due, and also to pay the principal thereof within twenty (20) years from the date of issuing such bonds, and on receiving a certificate from such board of park commissioners that the amount mentioned in such certificate is necessary to pay the interest on such bonds and also to pay the principal thereof within twenty (20) years from the date of issuing the same, the county clerk of the county in which such park district may be located, or such other officer or officers as may be authorized to spread or assess taxes for park purposes, shall spread and assess such amount upon the taxable property embraced in such park district, in the same manner that other park taxes are by law spread and assessed, and the same shall be collected and paid to such board of park commissioners in the same manner that other park taxes are be collected and paid.

APPROVED June 26, 1917.

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