Sen. Don Harmon
Filed: 4/19/2021
 
 

 

 

 
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1
AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 740 




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 740 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
4    "Section 5. The Park Commissioners Land Sale Act is 
5amended  by changing Section 1 as follows:
 



6    (70 ILCS 1235/1)  (from Ch. 105, par. 113)



7    Sec. 1. 
Any board of park commissioners having the
control 
8or supervision of any land, or part thereof, used for a public 
9park, golf course, banquet facility, boulevard, or driveway or 
10highway,
and having any piece or parcel of land not exceeding 3 
11acres in area,
which shall no longer be needed or deemed 
12necessary or useful for the
purpose of said park, golf course, 
13banquet facility, boulevard, or driveway or highway, may apply 
14to the
Circuit Court of the county in which such piece or 
15parcel of land is
situated, by petition in writing for leave to 
16sell all or any part of the same. Notice of such
application 
 
 
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1shall be given by said board of park commissioners in some

2newspaper published in said county at least ten days before 
3the day of the hearing on such application named
therein. All 
4persons interested may
appear before said Circuit Court either 
5in person or by attorney at the hearing on such
application and 
6object to the granting thereof. After
hearing all persons 
7interested, if said court shall deem the granting of
said 
8application to be for the public interest, it shall direct 
9that the
property mentioned in said application, or any part 
10thereof, be sold and
conveyed by the said board of park 
11commissioners for the use of said park, golf course, banquet 
12facility,
boulevard, or driveway or highway, upon such terms 
13and conditions as the said
court may think proper.

14(Source: P.A. 99-53, eff. 7-16-15.)".