Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 Special Districts: Article -
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 0.001
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section .01
The provisions of this Act apply only to forest preserve districts in counties having a population of less than 3,000,000. (Source: P.A. 80-320.)
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 1
Whenever any area of contiguous territory lying wholly within one county contains one or more natural forests or parks thereof and one or more cities,...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 2
The proposition shall be substantially in the following form: -------------------------------------------------------------- "Shall there be organized a forestpreserve district in accordance withthe order of the judge...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 3
All courts shall take judicial notice of all forest preserve districts organized under this act. (Source: Laws 1947, p.1027.)
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 3a
Except as otherwise provided in this Section, and except as provided in Section 3c, 3d, and 3.5, the affairs of the district shall be managed...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 3b
The board shall comply with the provisions of "An Act concerning the use of Illinois mined coal in certain plants and institutions", filed July...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 3c
Elected board of commissioners in certain counties. If the boundaries of a district are co-extensive with the boundaries of a county having a population of...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 3d
Elected board of commissioners in certain other counties. If the boundaries of a district are co-extensive with the boundaries of a county having a population...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 3.5
Elected board of commissioners. (a) In counties with a population more than 30,000 but less than 90,000, in each forest preserve district organized after the...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 4
In the case of appointed commissioners, whenever any person holding the office of president or commissioner of any such district shall, from any cause,...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 5
Any forest preserve district organized under this Act shall have the power to create forest preserves, and for that purpose shall have the power...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 5a
When any district borders upon any navigable body of water, the title to the bed or submerged land of which is vested in the...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 5b
Whenever the land so taken possession of, enclosed, filled in, and reclaimed under Section 5a shall lie along property not belonging to such district,...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 5c
Whenever any district is located along any such navigable body of water as set forth in Section 5a, the right is hereby given to...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 5d
Nothing in Sections 5a through 5c shall be construed as granting to any such district the right to interfere with the navigation of any...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 5e
Property owned by a forest preserve district and property in which a forest preserve district is the grantee of a conservation easement or the grantee...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 5.2
Special assessments. Property owned by a forest preserve district shall not be subject to special assessments by any other unit of local government. (Source:...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 5.3
Property owned by a forest preserve district shall not be subject to annexation without express consent of the forest preserve district. (Source: P.A. 84-1398.)
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 6
Acquisition of property. Any such District shall have power to acquire lands and grounds for the aforesaid purposes by lease, or in fee simple by...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 6.5
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 Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 6a
Every forest preserve district and the board thereof is empowered to dedicate areas as nature preserves as provided in the "Illinois Natural Areas Preservation...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 6b
The board of each forest preserve district has the power by ordinance to purchase or lease as lessee real or personal property, or to...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 6c
The board of any forest preserve district situated in a county with a population over 600,000 may sell or lease as lessor to any...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 6d
Trading parcels of land. The board of a forest preserve district within a county which has a population of no more than 550,000 may...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 6e
Counties under 550,000; sales of land. The board of a forest preserve district located in a county that has a population of no more...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 6f
A forest preserve district that acquires a parcel of land in excess of 600 acres that includes one or more vacant, subdivided residential outlots on...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 7
The board of any forest preserve district organized hereunder may by ordinance regulate and control the speed of travel on all paths, driveways and...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 7a
The board of any forest preserve district organized hereunder may by ordinance regulate, control and license all modes of travel within the forest preserve...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 7b
The board of any Forest Preserve District organized under this Act may by ordinance issue licenses for any activity reasonably connected with the purpose...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 8
Powers and duties of corporate authority and officers; contracts; salaries. (a) The board shall be the corporate authority of such forest preserve district and shall...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 8a
The board shall have the right and power to appoint and maintain a sufficient police force, the members of which shall be peace officers...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 8b
The board of commissioners of any forest preserve district organized under this Act, when so requested by the treasurer of the district, shall designate...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 9
Whenever the county in which any such forest preserve district is located shall be governed by any law regulating its civil service and the...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 10
The board shall keep a record of all ordinances and other proceedings which shall be open to the inspection of any person residing in...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 11
All ordinances imposing any fine or penalty or making any appropriation of money shall, within 10 days after their passage, be published either in...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 12
The president of the board of any district organized hereunder, shall preside at all meetings of the board, be the executive officer of the...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 13
Bonds; limitation on indebtedness. The board of any forest preserve district organized hereunder may, for any of the purposes enumerated in this Act, borrow money...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 13.1
Tax levies. After the first Monday in October and by the first Monday in December in each year, the board shall levy the general taxes...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 13.1a
Forest preserve districts created under Conservation District Act. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a forest preserve district created under Section 18.5...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 13.2
Any appropriation or levy made for the purpose of constructing, restoring, reconditioning, reconstructing or acquiring improvements in the development of forests and lands of...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 13.3
(a) The board of each forest preserve district organized under this Act shall fix a fiscal year for the district. The board shall, within...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 13.4
After the adoption of the annual appropriation ordinance, no further appropriations may be made at any other time during that fiscal year, except as...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 13.5
(a) With respect to monies appropriated in the annual appropriation ordinance which are generated from the levy of real estate taxes or the charge...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 13.6
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 Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 13.7
Endowment Fund. Each forest preserve district may create, maintain, and increase a separate fund to be known as the "Endowment Fund" to pay all...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 13.8
In the preparation of the annual appropriation ordinance, an amount not to exceed 0.02% of the equalized assessed value of property subject to taxation by...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 14
Any territory adjoining any forest preserve district organized hereunder and situated in the same county as such district may become a part of such...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 14.1
(a) Territory included within the limits of any forest preserve district and exactly coterminous with the boundaries of any county with a population of...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.1
Any forest preserve district in a county with a population of less than 3,000,000, has the power from time to time, before, on, or...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.2
Whenever the board of commissioners of any such forest preserve district determines to construct, equip, acquire, extend or improve any such facility or facilities...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.3
The bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.4
Bonds issued pursuant to Sections 18.1 through 18.10 of this Act shall be payable solely from the revenues derived from the operation of the...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.5
All revenue derived from the operation of such facility or facilities constructed, equipped, acquired, extended or improved in whole or in part with the...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.6
Each forest preserve district which issues bonds and constructs, equips, acquires, extends or improves any recreational facility or facilities under Sections 18.1 through 18.10...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.6a
Each forest preserve district which has on its property a sanitary landfill or pollution control facility may create, maintain and increase a separate fund...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.6b
Any forest preserve district may transfer all or a part of the interest earned on the Landfill Expense Fund to the General Fund of...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.6c
Landfills. (a) No land that is owned or acquired by a forest preserve district may be used for the development or operation of any...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.6d
All real property owned by a forest preserve district that has located upon it an operating sanitary landfill, pollution control facility, or new pollution...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.7
The holder of any bond or coupon of any bond issued under Sections 18.1 through 18.10 of this Act may proceed by civil action...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.8
Any such forest preserve district has the power to acquire by purchase, gift, condemnation or otherwise, property necessary or appropriate for the purpose of...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.9
Nothing in Sections 18.1 through 18.10 of this Act shall prohibit any such forest preserve district from appropriating funds as otherwise provided in this...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 18.10
If any provision of Sections 18.1 through 18.10 of this Act or the application thereof is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 19
Any member of the board of a district to which this Act applies or any other person holding any other office, trust or employment...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 20
The board of commissioners of any forest preserve district whose boundaries encompass 2 or more municipalities may elect to be governed by all rules...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 22
Each forest preserve district shall indemnify and protect its commissioners and employees against civil rights damage claims and suits, constitutional rights damage claims and...
- Illinois Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 805, Section 23
Transfer of interest income. Each forest preserve district shall have the power to transfer the interest earned from any moneys of the district into...
Last modified: February 18, 2015