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Full Text of HB4448  94th General Assembly

HB4448 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


 


 
94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4448

 

Introduced 1/9/2006, by Rep. Jim Durkin

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
60 ILCS 1/120-5

    Amends the Township Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the power to acquire park land.


LRB094 17595 HLH 52892 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

HB4448 LRB094 17595 HLH 52892 b

1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Township Code is amended by changing Section
5 120-5 as follows:
 
6     (60 ILCS 1/120-5)
7     Sec. 120-5. Power to acquire park land; inapplicable to
8 church.
9     (a) A township, acting through the the township board, may
10 acquire lands (not exceeding for any one park 25 acres in
11 extent, unless received as a gift) to be set apart and forever
12 held and maintained and improved as public parks for the free
13 use of the public.
14     (b) This Section does not apply to property owned by a
15 church or any organization owned, operated, or controlled by or
16 affiliated with a church, regardless of whether the property is
17 subject to a lease, occupancy agreement, or other contract,
18 agreement, or arrangement with a person or entity other than a
19 church.
20 (Source: P.A. 86-282; 88-62.)