Illinois Compiled Statutes 315 Urban Problems: Article -

• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 1
  This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947." (Source: Laws 1947, p. 1072.)
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 2
  It is hereby found and declared (a) that there exist in many urban communities within this State slum and blighted areas, as defined herein;...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 3
  Definitions. The following terms, wherever used or referred to in this Act shall have the following respective meanings, unless in any case a different meaning...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 4
  Excepting any municipality for and in which there exists a Department of Urban Renewal created pursuant to the provisions of the "Urban Renewal Consolidation...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 5
  As soon as possible after the issuance of a certificate by the Department the presiding officer of such municipality or county shall appoint, with...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 6
  A Commission shall be designated as the Land Clearance Commission of the city, village, incorporated town or county for which it has been created....
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 7
  Whenever it shall appear to the State Housing Board that a commissioner is incompetent or guilty of neglect of duty or malfeasance, the Board...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 8
  No commissioner or employee of a Commission shall acquire any interest direct or indirect in any redevelopment project or in any property included or...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 9
  As soon as possible after the creation of a Commission the commissioners shall organize for the transaction of business by choosing from among their...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 10
  No commissioner shall receive any compensation, whether in form of salary, per diem allowances or otherwise, for or in connection with his services as...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 11
  A Commission shall be a municipal corporation and shall constitute a body both corporate and politic, exercising public and essential governmental functions, and having...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 11.1
  Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act", approved by the Eighty-fourth General Assembly....
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 12
  In making investigations herein authorized the Commission may hold public hearings. Any hearing may be conducted by the Commission or by a committee appointed...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 13
  Whenever a Commission determines that a particular slum or blighted area, or any other area which may constitute a redevelopment project, as herein defined,...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 14
  Upon approval of the determination as provided in the preceding Section the Land Clearance Commission may proceed to plan and undertake a redevelopment project which...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 14.5
  Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 15
  When a Land Clearance Commission has acquired title to, and possession of, all or any part of the real property located within a redevelopment...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 16
  The Land Clearance Commission, if it sees fit so to do, may pave and improve streets in the area included in the redevelopment project,...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 17
  When the Commission has acquired title to, and possession of any or all real property in the area of a redevelopment project, the Commission...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 18
  The Commission, with the approval of the Department and the governing body of the municipality in which the redevelopment project is located, may sell...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 18.1
  A Commission created for a municipality having a population in excess of 500,000 as determined by the last preceding Federal or State census, with...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 19
  The Commission may at such times as it deems expedient transfer and sell the fee simple title, or such lesser estate as the Commission...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 19.1
  Prior to making a sale or conveyance of any part of the real property within the area of a redevelopment project pursuant to any...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 20
  The sale of any real property by a Land Clearance Commission where required to be made for a monetary consideration, except public sales as...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 21
  Any Land Clearance Commission may apply to the Department for the grant of a sum from the amount appropriated for grants under this Act...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 22
  If an allocation from the monies to be appropriated for this Act is made and set aside to a Land Clearance Commission having the...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 23
  For the purpose of aiding and cooperating with Land Clearance Commissions in accomplishing the objectives of this Act any state public body (city, village,...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 23a
  For the purpose of aiding in the planning, undertaking or carrying out of a redevelopment project, the governing body of any municipality, after public...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 24
  Every municipality is authorized and empowered to incur indebtedness and issue bonds in such amount or amounts as the governing body of the municipality...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 25
  With the approval of the Department and the governing body of the municipality, a Land Clearance Commission may use any of the funds arising...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 25a
  In the event of the dissolution of any Land Clearance Commission organized under the provisions of this Act or "An Act to promote the...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 26
  The Department may, in its discretion, prescribe methods and forms for keeping accounts, records and books to be used by a Commission, and prescribe...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 26.1
  (a) A Commission shall have power to issue bonds from time to time in its discretion to procure funds for any of its corporate...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 26.2
  In connection with the issuance of bonds and in order to secure the payment of such bonds, a Commission, in addition to its other...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 26.3
  A bondholder or trustee for a bondholder shall have the right in addition to all other rights which may be conferred on such bondholder...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 26.4
  The State and all counties, cities, villages, incorporated towns and other municipal corporations, political subdivisions and public bodies and public officers of any thereof,...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 27
  This Act shall be deemed to create an additional and alternative method for the eradication of slum and blighted areas and for sound community...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 28
  This Act being necessary for and intended to secure the public health, safety and welfare, the provisions of this Act shall be liberally construed...
• Illinois Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947. - 315 ILCS 5, Section 29
  If any section, clause, sentence, paragraph, part or provision of this Act shall be held to be invalid by any Court, it shall be...

Last modified: February 18, 2015