(65 ILCS 5/11-66-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-66-11)
Sec. 11-66-11.
All municipal coliseums established and maintained under "An
Act to enable cities and villages having a population not to exceed five
hundred thousand (500,000), to establish and maintain public and municipal
coliseums," approved June 27, 1913, as amended, which were in existence
immediately prior to January 1, 1942, shall be treated as properly
established under this Division 66 and may be continued to be maintained
under this Division 66. All cities and villages whose electors have
approved the levy of an annual tax for a public municipal coliseum under
that Act may continue to levy the tax under this Division 66 without
submitting the question of its levy to the electors for approval.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 67 heading) DIVISION 67.
COLISEUMS IN MUNICIPALITIES OF
75,000 OR LESS
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(65 ILCS 5/11-67-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-67-1)
Sec. 11-67-1.
Subject to a referendum vote, any municipality having a
population of 75,000 or less, may acquire, construct, manage, control,
maintain, and operate within its corporate limits a municipal coliseum with
all necessary adjuncts thereto.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-67-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-67-2)
Sec. 11-67-2.
Whenever, in a specified municipality not less than 5%
of the electors voting at the last preceding general municipal election
petition the municipal clerk for the submission to a referendum vote the
proposition of establishing and maintaining a municipal coliseum, the municipal
clerk shall certify the proposition for submission at an election in accordance
with the general election law. The proposition shall be substantially in the
following form:
Shall the city (or village or YES incorporated town) of .... establish
and maintain a municipal coliseum? NO
If a majority of the votes cast upon the proposition are in favor thereof,
a municipal coliseum shall be established and maintained in that municipality.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489 .)
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