the general school laws of this State are hereby declared to be legal and valid in all respects. § 3. Whenever there are two such districts which overlap in territory, that district which shall have first established and now continues to conduct a high school, is hereby validated and confirmed. § 4. All pending actions attacking the organization of districts coming under the provisions of this Act shall abate. § 5. The invalidity of any section of this Act shall not affect the remainder thereof. § 6. WHEREAS, an emergency exists, therefore this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval. APPROVED June 14th, 1917. AN ACT authorizing school districts to acquire real estate by gift, donation or devise for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and operating play grounds, recreation grounds and athletic fields and to provide for the policing thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Any school district in this State organized and existing under the general law or by special charter is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by gift, donation or devise, real estate, and to hold the same, not to exceed ten (10) acres in school districts having less than ten thousand inhabitants, for the purpose of establishing play grounds, recreation grounds and athletic fields, and to equip the same and to operate and maintain the same, the cost of equipping, maintaining and operating the same to be paid from the building fund levied, collected and appropriated in such school district. § 2. Such real estate so acquired need not be contiguous to any other school property or real estate owned by such school district. § 3. If such real estate so acquired by such school district shall lie partly or wholly outside the corporate limits of any city, village or incorporated town situated in such district, then such real estate so acquired shall, if the same be situated within one mile of the corporate limits of any such city, village or incorporated town in such school district, be under the police control and protection of the police force or police department of such city, village or incorporated town, and it is hereby made the duty of any such city, village or incorporated town to exercise police control and protection over such real estate and its equipment, in the same manner and to the same extent that such city, village or incorporated town would exercise police control and protection thereover if such real estate were situated within the corporate limits of such city, village or incorporated town. § 4. WHEREAS an emergency exists; therefore, this Act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. APPROVED June 25, 1917. PROPERTY CONVEYED, DEVISED OR BEQUEATHED FOR USE OF PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICTS. § 1. Title to property, conveyed, devised, bequeathed, or donated for use (HOUSE BILL No. 775. § 2. Act not to apply where instrument vests the title in a designate) trustee or grantee. § 3. Saving clause. APPROVED JUNE 27, 1917.) AN ACT relative to property conveyed, devised or bequeathed for the use and benefit of any public school district. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep resented in the General Assembly: Whenever any grant, gift, donation. devise or bequest of real estate or personal property has been or sha be, directly or indirectly, made to or for the use of any public schoc district in this State and the deed, will or other instrument by which such grant, gift, donation, devise or bequest is made declares in terms or in substance that such property shall be held, managed, improved and to be vested in the board of directors (or board of education as the case may be) of such district for the use so expressed and shall be held. managed, improved, invested or disposed of by such board in such manner as will best promote and carry into effect the intention of the person making such grant, gift, donation, devise or bequest as expressed in the instrument by which the same was or shall be so made. § 2. This Act shall not apply in any case where the deed, will or other instrument by which such gift, donation, devise or bequest has been or shall be made, effectively vests the title and control of such property in a trustee or grantee named in such deed, will or other instrument, provided, however, if the trustee or grantee so named is incapable of taking or administering the trust so created, or if the grantee or trustee so named shall refuse or fail to accept such trust, then the title and control thereof shall vest as provided in section 1 hereof. § 3. Nothing contained herein is intended to, nor shall it be so construed as to validate or make effective any bequest, devise or legacy which but for this enactment would have been invalid or ineffective. APPROVED June 27, 1917. TEACHERS' PENSION FUND IN DISTRICTS UNDER SPECIAL ACTS. § 1. Amends section 3, Act of 1913. § 3. What fund consists of. (SENATE BILL NO. 491. FILED JUNE 26. 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to enable any board of school inspectors, or any body or board of officials which governs or has charge of the affairs of any school district having a population of not fewer than ten thousand (10,000) and not more than one hundred thousand (100.000) inhabitants and governed by special Acts of the General Assembly of this State and in such other districts as may hereafter be ascertained by any special or general census to have such population. and which school districts are also governed by like special Acts, to establish and maintain a Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund." approved June 27. 1913, in force July 1, 1913, as subsequently amended. by amending section 3 thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled "An Act to nable any board of school inspectors or any body or board of officials which governs or has charge of the affairs of any school district having population of not fewer than ten thousand (10,000) and not more han one hundred thousand (100,000) inhabitants and governed by pecial Acts of the General Assembly of this State, and in such other disricts as may hereafter be ascertained by any special or general census to have such population, and which school districts are also governed by like special Acts, to establish and maintain a Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, as subsequently amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending section 3 thereof to read as follows: § 3. The Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund shall consist of moneys contributed by teachers under the provisions of this Act; also of moneys received from donations, legacies, gifts, bequests and otherwise, of moneys paid into said fund in pursuance of any law now in force or hereafter enacted; and of any sum or sums payable thereto from the common school fund of the State as may be provided by law. Provided that any amounts taken from the common school fund shall be taken away only from that part of said fund which under the law would otherwise be distributable to counties or districts coming under the provisions of this Act. FILED June 26, 1917. This bill having remained with the Goverr.or ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-sixth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State. TEACHERS' PENSION AND RETIREMENT FUND-STATE. 1. Amends section 23, Act of 1915. § 23. Maintenance and administration of the Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund. (SENATE BILL No. 490. FILED JUNE 26, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled: “An Act in relation to an Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund," approved May 27, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, by amending section twenty-three (23) thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled: "An Act in relation to an Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund," approved May 27, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, be, and the same is hereby amended, by amending section twenty-three (23) thereof, to read as follows: § 23. Such sums as shall be provided by law to apply to the maintenance and administration of the Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund shall be covered into said fund and drawn and disbursed according to law: Provided, that any portion of the common school fund apportioned to cities or school districts not coming under the provisions of this Act shall not be diminished or affected by the provisions of this Act. FILED June 26, 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 twenty-sixth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State. TEACHERS' PENSION AND RETIREMENT FUND-STATE INSTITUTIONS. AN ACT to create and administer a State Institutions Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That there be and is hereby created a fund to be known as the State Institutions Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund, which shall be administered by the board of trustees of the Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund as provided by an Act approved May 27, 1915. § 2. The provisions of this Act shall apply to any teacher employed in any State educational, correctional, or charitable institution (excepting the University of Illinois) supported wholly or in part by public moneys of this State. 3. The board of trustees shall administer said fund. It shall have power to invest the same upon the approval of the State Treasurer in the same manner and subject to the same terms and conditions as govern township trustees in investing school funds under the law, and shall have power to pay from said fund pensions or annuities granted in this Act. § 4. The necessary expenses incurred in the administration of the State Institutions Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund shall be paid from the fund. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw warrants payable from said fund upon the State Treasurer for such expenses upon the presentation of vouchers approved by the president and the secretary of said board of trustees. The amount of such expenses shall bear the same ratio to the total expenses of said board of trustees in administering both the Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund and the State Institutions Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund as the number of annuitants under this fund bears to the total number of annuitants under both funds. 5. The board of trustees shall report annually at the first meeting after June 30. A copy of such report shall be transmitted to the Superintendent of Public Instruction who shall include the same in his biennial report to the Governor. 6. The administrative officers, boards, and commissions or officer of schools or institutions of the State, coming under the provisions of this Act, shall retain on every pay-day from the salary of each teacher the amount hereinafter provided, provided, that such amount shall not be retained from the salary of any teacher employed in said schools or institutions when this Act takes effect who has not elected to come within the provisions of this Act as provided for in section nine (9). Each teacher shall be furnished a statement by such board showing the amount deducted from the salary of said teacher. § 7. All persons coming under the provisions of this Act, shall, after this Act takes effect, be entitled to the benefits of the fund upon complying with the provisions of this Act, and for the purposes of this Act such persons shall be divided into the following classes; First-Those who have taught or been so employed ten years or fewer than ten years. Second-Those who have taught or been so employed more than ten years but not more than fifteen years. Third-Those who have taught or been so employed more than fifteen years. After this Act shall take effect there shall be set apart from the salaries of all such persons for the first five months taught after July first of each year, $1.00 per month for each teacher of the first class, $2.00 per month for each teacher of the second class, $6.00 per month for the first ten years of each teacher of the third class; which amount shall be deducted by the managing body or officer of the school in which such teacher shall be teaching from the salary of such teacher at the regular time for the payment thereof, and the same shall be paid into and constitute a part of the said State Institutions Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund. The total amount paid into said fund by each teacher shall be based upon twenty-five (25) years of service as provided in this section: Provided, that such total amount thus set apart from any teacher's salary for the State Institutions Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund together with portions of such teacher's salary |