(70 ILCS 840/0.01) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6600)
Sec. 0.01.
Short title.
This Act may be cited as the
Forest Preserve District Tax Levy Validation (1963) Act.
(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
(70 ILCS 840/1) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6601)
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 1961 and 1962, 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 said
board of Forest Preserve District commissioners had adopted tax levy
ordinances based upon the appropriation ordinances for said fiscal years,
for corporate, zoological, 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, 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: Laws 1963, p. 956.)