(70 ILCS 850/1) (from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 6351)
Sec. 1.
In all cases where a board of forest preserve commissioners
of any forest preserve district having a population of less than 3,000,000
has heretofore during 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, and
1990 within the time required by law adopted annual appropriation ordinances
for fiscal years beginning in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989,
1990, and 1991, thereafter same were published in a newspaper as provided by
law, and subsequently in such year, within the time required by law the board
of forest preserve 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, or any
other proper purpose, 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, or any other
proper purpose, 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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