Illinois Compiled Statutes 60 Townships: Article 115 - Township Open Space

• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-5
  Definitions. As used in this Article, unless the context otherwise requires: "Board" means the township board in counties having a population of more than...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-10
  Open space plan; petition. (a) A board desiring to enter upon an open space program may do so only after adoption of an open space...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-15
  Public hearing. (a) Before adopting an open space plan or an amendment to a plan, the board shall conduct a public hearing on the...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-20
  Referendum on recommended plan; petition. (a) If the board recommends adoption of the open space plan, or if a subsequent petition is filed by not...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-25
  Amendments or additions to plan. If the board recommends any amendments or additions to a plan that has been adopted by a township, no...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-30
  Property within municipality; petition; referendum. (a) If the open space plan recommended for adoption under Section 115-20 contains property that is situated within the...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-35
  Property contiguous to municipality; petition; referendum. (a) If the open space plan recommended for adoption under Section 115-20 contains property that is contiguous to...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-40
  Later submission of proposition to include property. If in a township in a county having a population of more than 250,000 a parcel of...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-45
  Powers of township board. In any township in which the establishment of an open space program has been authorized by the voters under this...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-50
  Study; coordinated plan. The board may study and ascertain the open space resources and outdoor recreation facilities in the township, the need for preserving...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-55
  (a) The board may acquire by gift, legacy, purchase, condemnation in the manner provided for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-60
  Classification of areas; structures. The board may classify, designate, plan, develop, preserve, administer, and maintain all areas, places, and facilities in which it has...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-65
  Acceptance of money and personal property. The board may accept gifts, grants, bequests, contributions, and appropriations of money and other personal property for open...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-66
  Surplus for maintenance and operation of open spaces. A township that has adopted an open space plan may maintain and receive from year to year...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-70
  Executive officer. The board may employ and fix the compensation of an executive officer who shall be responsible to the board for the carrying...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-75
  Fees. The board may charge and collect reasonable fees for the use of such facilities, privileges and conveniences as may be provided. (Source: P.A....
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-80
  Police powers. The board may police its property and exercise police powers in respect thereto or in respect to the enforcement of any rule...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-85
  Natural resources studies. The board may undertake studies pertaining to the natural history, archaeology, history or conservation of natural resources of the township. (Source:...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-90
  Lease of lands. The board may lease land for a period not longer than 50 years from the date of the lease to a...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-95
  Lease of buildings or facilities. The board may lease any building or facility constructed, reconstructed, altered, renewed, equipped, furnished, extended, developed, and maintained by...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-100
  Dedication of nature preserves. The board may dedicate open lands, held by the township under this Article, as nature preserves within the Illinois system...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-105
  Borrowing money; bonds. The township board may borrow money and issue bonds, after referendum, for the purpose of acquiring, developing, rehabilitating and renovating open...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-110
  Report. No later than March 31 of each calendar year, the board of any township that has established an open space program pursuant to...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-115
  Property tax exemption. All property acquired by any township for open space purposes pursuant to an open space program as defined in this Article...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-120
  Applicability. Only the following provisions of Sections of the Township Open Space Act as changed or added by Public Act 85-1140 shall apply to...
• Illinois Township Code. - 60 ILCS 1, Section 115-125
  Validation. Sections 4.06 through 8 of the Township Open Space Act were inadvertently omitted from the Township Code when that Code was enacted by...

Last modified: February 18, 2015