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2005 Illinois Code - Chapter 70 Special Districts 70 ILCS 845/ Forest Preserve District Tax Levy Validation (1967) Act.
(70 ILCS 845/0.01) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6601.9)
Sec. 0.01.
Short title.
This Act may be cited as the
Forest Preserve District Tax Levy Validation (1967) Act.
(Source: P.A. 86‑1324.)
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(70 ILCS 845/1) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6602)
Sec. 1.
In all cases where a board of forest preserve commissioners
of any forest preserve district having a population of 500,000 or more
inhabitants has heretofore, during the fiscal years, 1965, 1966, 1967,
1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979,
1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990,
and 1991 within the time required by law adopted annual appropriation
ordinances for said years, and thereafter same were published in a newspaper as
provided by law, and subsequently in such fiscal years, within the time
required by law the board of forest preserve district commissioners had adopted
tax levy ordinances based upon the appropriation ordinances for said fiscal
years, for corporate, zoological, botanical, construction of improvements and
development of forests and lands and employees annuity
and benefit fund purposes, and a certified copy of such tax levy
ordinances was duly filed with the county clerk of the county in which
said districts are located, then such appropriation ordinances and tax
levy ordinances and the taxes assessed, levied and extended thereon, are
hereby validated, notwithstanding that the several amounts and purposes
for which such appropriations were made and taxes levied, for such
corporate, zoological, botanical, construction of improvements and
development of forests and lands and employees annuity and benefit fund
purposes, were not specifically itemized in detail, as required by
statute, and notwithstanding that in said appropriation or levy
ordinances stated amounts of money are appropriated and levied for named
public purposes, and general language is used which renders the amounts
for such purposes uncertain and illegal, or the purposes for which the
amounts are appropriated and levied uncertain and illegal. Nothing
herein contained shall be construed as validating any tax levy in excess
of the statutory rate of taxation authorized for any such fiscal year or
for any purpose not permitted by the constitution.
(Source: P.A. 86‑186; 86‑1252; 87‑508; 87‑1128.)
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