Public Act 099-0053
 
HB0405 EnrolledLRB099 03885 AWJ 23901 b


  
    AN ACT concerning local government.
  
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
    Section 5. The Park Commissioners Land Sale Act is amended  
by changing Section 1 as follows:
 



    (70 ILCS 1235/1)  (from Ch. 105, par. 113)



    Sec. 1. 
Any board of park commissioners having the
control 
or supervision of any public park, boulevard, driveway or 
highway,
and having any piece or parcel of land not exceeding 3 
acres in area,
which shall no longer be needed or deemed 
necessary or useful for the
purpose of said park, boulevard, 
driveway or highway may apply to the
Circuit Court of the 
county in which such piece or parcel of land is
situated, by 
petition in writing for leave to sell the same. Notice of such

application shall be given by said board of park commissioners 
in some
newspaper published in said county at least ten days 
before the day of the hearing on such application named

therein, when said application will be made. All persons 
interested may
appear before said Circuit Court either in 
person or by attorney at the hearing on such when said

application shall be made, and object to the granting thereof. 
After
hearing all persons interested, if said court shall deem 
the granting of
said application to be for the public interest, 
it shall direct that the
property mentioned in said 
application, or any part thereof, be sold and
conveyed by the 
said board of park commissioners for the use of said park,

boulevard, driveway or highway, upon such terms and conditions 
as the said
court may think proper.

(Source: P.A. 81-1333.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law. 
  


Effective Date:  7/16/2015