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Public Act 92-0548
HB3710 Enrolled LRB9211183BDpk
AN ACT in relation to forest preserve districts.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Forest Preserve Zoological Parks Act is
amended by changing Sections 1 and 2 as follows:
(70 ILCS 835/1) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6801)
Sec. 1. The corporate authorities of forest preserve
districts, containing a population of 140,000 150,000 or more
located in counties of less than 3,000,000 inhabitants,
having the control or supervision of any forest preserves,
may erect and maintain within such forest preserves, under
the control or supervision of such corporate authorities,
edifices to be used for the collection and display of animals
as customary in zoological parks, and may collect and display
such animals, or permit the directors or trustees of any
zoological society devoted to the purposes aforesaid to erect
and maintain a zoological park and to collect and display
zoological collections within any forest preserve now or
hereafter under the control or supervision of such forest
preserve district, out of funds belonging to such zoological
society, or to contract with the directors or trustees of any
zoological society on such terms and conditions as may to
such corporate authorities seem best, relative to the
erection, operation and maintenance of a zoological park and
the collection and display of such animals within such forest
preserve, out of the tax hereinafter in this Act provided.
This Act applies to any forest preserve district that
maintains a zoological park that was established under this
Act prior to 1964, regardless of whether the population
requirements continue to be met.
Such a forest preserve district, or the directors or
trustees of such zoological society when so authorized by the
forest preserve district, may (a) police the property of the
zoological park, (b) employ, establish, maintain and equip a
security force for fire and police protection of the
zoological park and (c) provide that the personnel of the
security force shall perform other tasks relating to the
maintenance and operation of the zoological park. Members of
the security force shall be conservators of the peace with
all the powers of policemen in cities and of sheriffs, other
than to serve or execute civil processes, but such powers may
be exercised only within the area comprising the zoological
park when required to protect the zoological park's property
and interests, its personnel and persons using the facilities
or at the specific request of appropriate federal, State or
local law enforcement officials.
Such forest preserve district may charge, or permit such
zoological society to charge an admission fee. The proceeds
of such admission fee shall be devoted exclusively to the
operation and maintenance of such zoological park and the
collections therein. All such zoological parks shall be open
to the public without charge for at least one day each week
and to the children in actual attendance upon any of the
schools in the State at all times, except that charges may be
made at any time for special services and for admission to
special facilities within any zoological park for the
education, entertainment or convenience of visitors.
(Source: P.A. 91-817, eff. 6-13-00.)
(70 ILCS 835/2) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6802)
Sec. 2. For the purpose of constructing and maintaining
and caring for any such zoological park and the buildings and
grounds thereof and of securing and displaying zoological
collections thereon the corporate authorities of any forest
preserve district containing a population of 150,000 or more
but less than 3,000,000 are authorized to levy annually a tax
of not to exceed .0058% of value as equalized or assessed by
the Department of Revenue, upon all the taxable property in
the district; provided however, in a forest preserve district
located in a county with a population in excess of 140,000
150,000 but less than 200,000 and contiguous to the
Mississippi River, the annual tax may be at a rate not to
exceed .01%. This tax shall be levied and collected in the
same manner as the general taxes of the forest preserve
district and shall be in addition to the maximum of all other
taxes and tax rates which the district is now or may
hereafter be authorized to levy upon the aggregate valuation
of all taxable property within the district and shall be
exclusive of and in addition to the maximum amount and rate
of taxes the district is now or may hereafter be authorized
to levy for general purposes under Section 13 of "An Act to
provide for the creation and management of forest preserve
districts and repealing certain Acts therein named", approved
June 27, 1913, as amended, or under any other law which may
limit the amount of tax which the district may levy for
general purposes. The proceeds of the tax herein authorized
shall be kept as a separate fund.
(Source: P.A. 85-1352.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
Passed in the General Assembly April 18, 2002.
Approved June 24, 2002.
Effective June 24, 2002.
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