093_SB1168eng SB1168 Engrossed SRS093 00002 PLM 00002 b 1 AN ACT in relation to park districts. 2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 3 represented in the General Assembly: 4 Section 5. The Park System Civil Service Act is amended 5 by changing Section 1 as follows: 6 (70 ILCS 1210/1) (from Ch. 24 1/2, par. 78) 7 Sec. 1. Application. All offices and places of 8 employment, other than those specifically exempted by the 9 provisions of section 11 of this Act, in any park district 10 (including under this designation any one or more towns 11 having under Acts adopted by such town or towns, corporate 12 authorities authorized by law to levy taxes for the 13 maintenance of a public park or public parks) having 500,000 14one hundred and fifty thousandor more inhabitants residing 15 within its territorial limits shall be classified and filled 16 in the manner hereinafter provided for and not otherwise. 17 Whenever any park district not now containing within its 18 territorial limits 500,000one hundred and fifty thousandor 19 more inhabitants shall have attained such number of 20 inhabitants as shown by any census hereafter taken, thereupon 21 this Act shall become applicable to such park district on the 22 first day of July next succeeding the completion of the 23 taking of such census. 24 (Source: Laws 1939, p. 440.) 25 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 26 becoming law.