Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 Special Districts: Article -
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 0.01
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 1
This Act shall apply only to forest preserve districts lying wholly within counties having a population of 3,000,000 or more. (Source: P.A. 80-320.)
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 2
As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms specified in Section 2.1 through 2.3 have the meanings ascribed to them...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 2.1
"Board" means the county board of commissioners when acting as the governing body of a forest preserve district. (Source: P.A. 80-320.)
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 2.2
"County" means a county having a population of 3,000,000 or more. (Source: P.A. 80-320.)
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 2.3
"District" means a forest preserve district wholly within a county having a population of 3,000,000 or more. (Source: P.A. 80-320.)
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 3
Any contiguous territory lying wholly within one county may be incorporated as a forest preserve district under the conditions and in the manner prescribed...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 4
All courts shall take judicial notice of all forest preserve districts organized under or otherwise subject to this Act and every such district shall...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 5
The county board of commissioners of the county in which a forest preserve district is located shall be the forest preserve district board of...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 6
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 Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 7
Any forest preserve district shall have the power to create forest preserves, and for that purpose shall have the power to acquire in fee simple...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 8
Any forest preserve district shall have power to acquire easements in land, lands in fee simple and grounds within such district for the aforesaid purposes...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 8.1
Property owned by a forest preserve district and property in which a forest preserve district is the grantee of a conservation easement or grantee of...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 8.2
Property owned by a forest preserve district shall not be subject to special assessments by any other unit of local government. (Source: P.A. 80-1443.)
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 8.3
Property owned by a forest preserve district shall not be subject to annexation without express consent of the district. (Source: P.A. 80-1443.)
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 8.4
Building codes. The building codes of a county, and not the building codes of any other unit of local government in which the affected...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 8.5
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 Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 9
Every forest preserve district board is empowered to dedicate areas as nature preserves as provided in the "Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act", as now...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 10
The board of each forest preserve district has the power by ordinance to purchase or lease as lessee real or personal property (including, without...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 11
The board of any forest preserve district may by ordinance regulate and control the speed of travel on all paths, driveways and roadways within...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 12
The board of any forest preserve district may by ordinance regulate, control and license all modes of travel within forest preserves. (Source: P.A. 80-320.)
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 13
The board of any forest preserve district may by ordinance issue licenses for any activity reasonably connected with the purpose for which the forest...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 14
The board, as corporate authority of a forest preserve district, shall have power to pass and enforce all necessary ordinances, rules and regulations for the...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 14.1
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 Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 15
The board shall have the right and power to appoint and maintain a sufficient police force, the members of which may have and exercise...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 16
The board of any forest preserve district, when so requested by the treasurer of the district, shall designate one or more banks or savings...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 17
Application of human resource ordinance. Whenever the county in which any such forest preserve district is located shall be governed by any county human...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 17.5
Power to deduct wages for debts. (a) Upon receipt of notice from the comptroller of a municipality with a population of 500,000 or more,...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 18
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 Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 19
All ordinances imposing any fine or penalty or making any appropriation of money, shall within ten days after their passage, be published at least...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 20
The president shall preside at all meetings of the board and be the executive officer of the district. He shall sign all ordinances, resolutions...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 21
The board may, for any of the purposes enumerated in this Act, borrow money upon the faith and credit of such district, and may...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 21.1
Contracts with the County. (a) A forest preserve district may lease or acquire from the county in which it is located any buildings or...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 21.2
Indebtedness of district; additional bonds. For the purpose of making capital improvements to any land acquired or to be acquired by the district and repairs,...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 22
All general taxes levied by the board of any forest preserve district shall be levied by general categories by March 28 annually for all...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 23
Any appropriation or levy made for the purpose of constructing improvements in the development of forests and lands of the district need not be...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 24
The fiscal year of each forest preserve district subject to this Act shall extend from January 1, until December 31. The forest preserve district...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 25
In forest preserve districts subject to this Act, all earnings accruing on any investments or deposits, except that pro rata share, if any, belonging...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 26
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 Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 27
In each forest preserve district subject to this Act a fund to be known as a forest preserve district working cash fund may be...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 28
For the purpose of creating a fund as prescribed in Section 27, any district by resolution of its board may incur an indebtedness and...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 29
All moneys received from the issuance of bonds as provided in Section 28 shall be set apart in the working cash fund by the...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 30
Moneys shall be transferred from a forest preserve district working cash fund to the general corporate fund of the district only upon the authority...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 31
A forest preserve district under this Act has the power from time to time to construct, equip, acquire, extend, improve, maintain, and operate recreational...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 32
Whenever the board determines to construct, equip, acquire, extend or improve any recreational facility or facilities or any combination thereof and to issue bonds...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 33
The bonds issued pursuant to Sections 31 through 39 shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 34
Bonds issued pursuant to Sections 31 through 39 of this Act shall be payable solely from the revenues derived from the operation of the...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 35
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 Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 36
Each forest preserve district which issues bonds and constructs, equips, acquires, extends or improves any recreational facility or facilities under Sections 31 through 39...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 37
The holder of any bond or coupon of any bond issued under Sections 31 through 39 of this Act may proceed either in law...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 38
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 Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 39
Nothing in Sections 31 through 39 shall prohibit any such forest preserve district from appropriating funds as otherwise provided in this Act for the...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 40
The corporate authorities of forest preserve districts, having the control or supervision of any forest preserves, may erect and maintain within such forest preserves,...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 41
For the purpose of constructing and maintaining and caring for any such zoological park and the buildings and grounds thereof and of securing and...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 42
For the purpose of making capital improvements and major repairs in connection with a zoological park, the corporate authorities of the forest preserve district in...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 42.1
For each zoological park subject to this Act a fund to be known as a zoological park working cash fund may be created, set...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 42.2
For the purpose of creating a fund as prescribed in Section 42.1, a forest preserve district by resolution of its board may incur an...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 42.3
All moneys received from the issuance of bonds as provided in Section 42.2 shall be set apart in the zoological park working cash fund...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 42.4
Moneys shall be transferred from a zoological park working cash fund to the zoological fund of the district only upon the authority of the...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 43
The corporate authorities of forest preserve districts are authorized, on land now or hereafter under the control of such forest preserve districts, to prepare...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 44
For the purpose of establishing, constructing and maintaining any botanic garden authorized by Section 43, the corporate authorities of any forest preserve district are...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 44.1
For the purpose of making capital improvements in connection with botanical gardens, the corporate authorities of the forest preserve district in which such gardens are...
- Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. - 70 ILCS 810, Section 45
Any member of the board of a district to which this Act applies or any other person holding any other office, trust or employment...
Last modified: February 18, 2015