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stitute the board of trustees for all pleasure driveways and park districts organized under this Act, and thereafter said judges shall appoint trus tees biennially for such districts, on the first Monday in July, to fill the vacancy on said board of trustees caused by the expiration of the term of office of trustees or to fill any vacancy on said board occurring from any cause whatsoever, and said trustees shall be legal voters and reside within the said park district: Provided, that no more than four of said trustees, at any one time shall belong to the same political party. Each of said trustees shall receive a certificate of appointment and qualify within ten days from the receipt of notice of election.

In each pleasure driveway and park district organized, or hereafter organized under this Act, immediately upon the appointment of park trustees as herein provided, said trustees shall meet in some convenient place in said park district and organize and elect by ballot from among their members a president and vice president, who shall qualify and hold their respective offices for a term of two years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. At the first meeting of the trustees appointed as provided herein, they shall divide themselves by lot into two classes, the first class, consisting of four members, shall hold their office for a period of four years, and the second class, consisting of three members, shall hold their office for a period of two years and at the expiration of the term of office of the second class their successors shall be appointed for a period of four years, and thereafter each class of trustees shall be appointed for a period of four years and shall hold their office until their successors are appointed and qualified. The presi dent shall preside at all meetings and in his absence or disability the vice president shall preside.

The president and trustees shall elect a secretary and treasurer, whose term of office shall not be longer than two years, and they shall give such bond and perform such duties as shall be required of them by

Isaid board of trustees.

All trustees appointed for any park district, as herein provided, shall have and exercise all the powers conferred by this Act upon trustees elected under the provisions of this Act.

All Acts and parts of Acts relating to holding elections in the State of Illinois which in any way conflict with the provisions for elections in pleasure driveway and park districts organized under this Act and amendments thereto, be and they are hereby repealed in so far as they relate to elections and the manner of holding the same in such pleasure driveway and park districts.

APPROVED June 14, 1917.

OATHS OF COMMISSIONERS.

§ 1. Amends section 7, Act of 1895.

§ 7. Oath of commissioners-filing.

(SENATE BILL No. 328. APPROVED MAY 26, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895 as subsequently amended by amending section 7 thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895 as subsequently amended be and the same is hereby amended by amending section 7 thereof to read as

follows:

§7. Each of said commissioners before entering upon the duties of his office shall take and subscribe an oath to well and faithfully discharge his duties as such commissioner, which oath shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in which the commissioner resides. APPROVED May 26, 1917.

ORGANIZATION OF PARK DISTRICTS AND TRANSFER OF SUBMERGED LANDS-LEASE OF LANDS FOR PLAY GROUNDS.

§ 1. Amends section 15, Act of 1895.

15. As amended, provides park district may acquire land from any municipal corporation by lease or permit for play grounds.

(SENATE BILL No. 442. APPROVED JUNE 14, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section 15 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, as amended by an Act approved April 22, 1899, in force July 1, 1899.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section 15 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, as amended by an Act approved April 22, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 15. Said park district shall have the power to acquire by gift, grant or purchase, or by condemnation under the Act of eminent domain, any and all real estate, lands, riparian estates or rights, and all other property required or needed for any such park or boulevard, or for extending, adorning or maintaining same, and located within its territory.

And said park district shall have power to acquire by lease or permit. from any other municipal corporation, the right to occupy and use real

estate, lands and riparian estates, for park and play ground purposes, and to improve, maintain and equip the same as a park or play ground; Provided that no permanent building or structure shall be placed upon land so acquired by lease or permit.

When condemnation proceedings are had they shall conform as nearly as practicable to such proceedings by cities or villages as set out in article 9 of chapter 24 of the Revised Statutes of Illinois and in any amendments thereto.

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AN ACT to provide for the setting apart, formation, administration and disbursement of a park police pension fund.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That whenever any person [persons] have been or may be appointed or otherwise selected as commissioners or officers and constitute a board of park commissioners for any one or more towns, whether said towns have heretofore existed or now exist under and in pursuance of any Act or Acts of the General Assembly of this State, for the purpose of locating, establishing, enclosing, improving or maintaining any public park, boulevard, driveway, highway or other public work or improvement, and such board of park commissioners shall have established a police force or department of police under the employ of such board of park commissioners, there shall be created, maintained and disbursed in the manner prescribed in this Act a pension fund for such policeman.

§ 2. A board, composed of five members, residents of such one or more towns, to be chosen as hereinafter provided, shall be and constitute a board of trustees to provide for the handling and disbursements of said fund or funds and designate the beneficiaries thereof, as herein directed, and shall be known as the board of trustees of the police pension fund of the park board of commissioners of such one or more towns. Three shall be appointed by the president of the board of park commissioners of such one or more towns.

Those members of said board of trustees who were heretofore appointed under and by virtue of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide

for the setting apart, formation, administration and disbursement of a park police pension fund," approved May 23, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, shall serve for the term for which they were respectively appointed or until such time as their successors are appointed and qualified; the successors of any of the foregoing trustees shall serve for a period of three years each or until such time as their successors are appointed and qualified. The said three members shall not hold during their term of membership on such board, any appointive or elective political offices or positions. The remaining two members of said board shall be chosen, one from the active police force of such police department and one from the body of the pensioners under this Act who shall have been members of such police department.

The members to be chosen from the active police force shall be elected by ballot at an annual election, at which election all members of the active police force shall be entitled to vote. The members to be chosen from the body of pensioners under this Act shall be elected by ballot at an annual election, at which election all retired policemen who are pensioners under this Act or the Act aforesaid, and the widows of all deceased pensioners who are pensioners under this Act and the Act aforesaid, shall be entitled to vote. In the event there shall be no widow surviving, then the guardian of any children of such deceased pensioner, where such children are also pensioners, may cast the vote to which such widow would have been entitled had she survived.

Elections shall be held annually on the third Tuesday of July, under the rules and regulations prescribed by the board of trustees, at such place or places in such town or towns and under such regulations as shall be prescribed by the three appointive members of said board: Provided, however, that no person entitled to vote under the provisions of this section shall cast more than one vote at any such election.

The members to be elected from the active police force and from the body of pensioners shall serve for a period of one year or until their successors are elected and qualified.

In the event of the death, resignation or inability to act of any elected member of said board, the successor of such member shall be elected at a special election, which shall be called by said board and shall be conducted in the same manner as are annual elections hereunder. Suitable rooms for offices and meetings of such board shall be assigned and provided by the board of park commissioners of such one or more towns.

§ 3. Whenever any person shall have been or shall hereafter be appointed and sworn, either as a probationary or regular policeman, and shall have served for a period of twenty years or more as such policeman on the police force of such board of park commissioners, and such policeman shall have reached the age of fifty (50) or more years, he may make application to said board for retirement and said board shall order and direct that such policeman, after his service on such police force shall have ceased, shall be paid a yearly pension:

(a) Equal to one-half of the amount of the salary attached to the rank which he may have held in said police force for one year immediately prior to the time of his retirement from the police force:

Provided, however, the maximum of such pension shall not exceed the sum of eleven hundred ($1100.00) dollars, and the minimum be not less than six hundred ($600.00) dollars, per annum; and

(b) After the death of any such policeman, his widow, in case the marriage of such policeman shall have taken place more than one year prior to the time a pension was granted him hereunder, shall receive a pension of fifty ($50.00) dollars per month and an additional sum of ten ($10.00) dollars for each of their children under eighteen (18) years of age. Should any such child cease attending school between the ages of fourteen (14) and eighteen (18) years, the aforesaid sum shall be reduced to five ($5.00) dollars.

Should any policeman pensioned hereunder leave no widow surviving him, or should his widow die before his children arrive at the age of eighteen (18) years, each child shall receive, while regularly attending school, the sum of fifteen ($15.00) dollars per month. Pensions paid to children shall cease as to any such child upon his or her arriving at the age of eighteen (18) years.

Any such member of any such police force who shall have served as aforesaid for a period of twenty (20) years and who has not yet reached the age of fifty (50) years may make application to said board for retirement, and any such policeman may retire forthwith; in case such policeman shall make monthly contributions to the pension fund of a sum equal to twice the amount deducted from his wages under section 8 hereof, the said board shall order and direct that upon said policeman arriving at the age of fifty (50) years he be paid the amount specified aforesaid under the paragraph designated "a." and that upon his death, either before or after his arriving at the age of fifty (50) years, his widow or children be paid the amount specified aforesaid under the paragraph designated "b," subject to the limitations therein contained.

§ 4. Whenever any person who has been appointed and sworn as a regular or probationary member of any such police force shall at any time become physically disabled while in, and in consequence of, the performance of police duty, said board upon his written request. or without such request, upon the recommendation of the commanding officer of police, may retire such policeman from actual service, and order and direct that he be paid from such fund a yearly pension not exceeding one-half of the amount of the salary attached to the rank which he may have held in said police force at the time of his retirement: Provided, however, that the maximum sum of such pension shall not exceed the sum of eleven hundred ($1100.00) dollars per annum, and the minimum not less than six hundred ($600.00) dollars per annum: Provided, however, that whenever such disability shall cease, such pension shall cease, and such person shall thereupon be reinstated in the department in the rank held by him at the time of his retirement. On the death of any person so retired, his widow, provided the marriage of such policeman shall have taken place prior to the date of becoming so disabled, or child or children under the age of eighteen (18) years of such deceased pensioner, shall be paid the pension specified aforesaid

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