(70 ILCS 1525/0.01) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.43a9)
Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Chicago Park District Bond (1965) Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
(70 ILCS 1525/1) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.43b)
Sec. 1. The commissioners of the Chicago Park District without submission of the question to the voters for approval may incur indebtedness and issue bonds therefor in the amount of not to exceed $10,000,000 for the payment of any and all real estate, riparian estates or rights, condemned or purchased for parks or boulevards, and all other property required or needed for any park or for parkways, driveways, or boulevards, or for extending, adorning, or maintaining the same, for the purpose of establishing, acquiring, completing, enlarging, ornamenting, building, rebuilding and improving public parks, boulevards, bridges, subways, viaducts and approaches thereto, wharfs, piers, jetties, air landing fields and basins, shore protection works, pleasure grounds and ways, walks, pathways, driveways, roadways, highways and all public works, grounds or improvements under the control of and within the jurisdiction of such park commissioners and including the filling in of submerged land for park purposes and constructing all buildings, field houses, stadiums, shelters, conservatories, museums, service shops, power plants, structures, playground devices, boulevard and building lighting systems and building all other types of permanent improvement and construction necessary to render the property under the control of said park commissioners usable for the enjoyment thereof as public parks, parkways, boulevards and pleasureways.
Such bonds shall be authorized by ordinance and shall be in form and denomination, payable at the place and bear such date as may be determined by the commissioners and shall mature within not to exceed 20 years from their date or, for bonds issued after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, within not to exceed 30 years from their date, but may be made callable on any interest payment date at the price of par and accrued interest after notice shall be given by publication or otherwise and at the time or times and in the manner as may be provided in the bond ordinance.
Such bonds may be made registerable as to principal and shall bear interest at the rate of not to exceed six per cent per annum, such interest to be payable at such time and place and in such manner as may be provided in the bond ordinance. Bonds may be signed by the facsimile signature of the president with like effect as if signed by his genuine signature and shall be signed by such other officers of the park district as may be designated in the bond ordinance.
The validity of any bonds shall remain unimpaired although one or more of the officers executing same shall have ceased to be such officer or officers before delivery thereof.
The bonds shall be sold for not less than par and accrued interest upon such terms as shall be approved and directed by the commissioners.
(Source: P.A. 93-338, eff. 7-24-03.)
(70 ILCS 1525/2) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.43c)
Sec. 2. The ordinance authorizing said bonds shall prescribe all details thereof and shall provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property within the Chicago Park District sufficient to pay the principal thereof and interest thereon as the same become due, which tax shall be in addition to and exclusive of the maximum of all other taxes authorized to be levied by said park district. A copy of the bond ordinance duly certified shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of Cook County and shall constitute authority for the extension and collection of such bond and interest taxes as required by the Constitution.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1821.)
(70 ILCS 1525/3) (from Ch. 105, par. 333.43d)
Sec. 3. Money received from the proceeds of taxes levied for payment of principal of and interest upon such bonds shall be deposited in a special fund of such park district suitably designated for identification and such fund shall be faithfully applied to the payment of bonds and interest thereon for which such taxes were levied.
If such money is not immediately necessary for the payment of said bonds or if such bonds cannot be purchased before maturity then said money may be invested under the direction of the commissioners in direct obligations of the United States of America, which shall mature or which shall be subject to redemption by the holder thereof at the option of such holder prior to the date such funds shall be required for the purpose for which they are held. Interest accruing on and profit or loss realized from the investment of such funds shall be credited or charged to such special account.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1821.)