Part III - General Provisions
(315 ILCS 30/24) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.124) Sec. 24. In addition to the powers and authorities granted in this Act to municipalities, acting through a Department of Urban Renewal, municipalities creating a Department of Urban Renewal pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall have the following powers and authority: (a) To acquire by gift, purchase or exercise of the right of eminent domain the fee simple title to real property, or such lesser estate as may serve the purposes of this Act, and to hold, improve, mortgage, manage, sell, lease or exchange the same, in accordance with the provisions of this Act and for any of the purposes of this Act. (b) To issue bonds from time to time in its discretion to procure funds for any of the purposes of this Act; to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring or in exchange for bonds previously issued by it or by a land clearance commission which is to be dissolved by reason of the creation of a Department. "Bonds" shall mean any bonds (including refunding bonds), notes, interim certificates, debentures, or other obligations issued by a municipality pursuant to this Act, and the words "Bondholder" or "Bondholders" shall mean the holder or holders of any such bonds. (c) To borrow money, to apply for and accept advances, loans, grants, contributions, gifts, services, or other financial assistance, from the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, the State, County, Municipality or other public body or from any sources, public or private, for or in aid of any of the purposes of this Act, including advances for surveys and plans for redevelopment projects or conservation areas, and to secure the payment of any loans or advances by the issuance of bonds or notes, and by the pledge of any loan, grant or contribution, or parts thereof, or the contracts therefor, to be received from the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, and to enter into and carry out contracts in connection therewith; to redeem its bonds or notes at the redemption price established therein or to purchase them at less than the redemption price, all bonds or notes so redeemed or purchased to be cancelled. Any ordinance providing for the issuance of such bonds shall be effective without submitting the proposition to the electors of the municipality in accordance with the requirements of Sections 8‑4‑1 and 8‑4‑2 of the "Illinois Municipal Code", approved May 29, 1961, as heretofore and hereafter amended. A municipality, notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, may include in any contract for financial assistance with the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof for a redevelopment project or a conservation area, such conditions imposed pursuant to Federal law as the municipality may deem reasonable and appropriate and which are not inconsistent with the purposes of this Act or with the foregoing proviso. (d) To incur indebtedness and issue general obligation bonds, as provided in Section 28 hereof, in such amount or amounts as the governing body of the municipality deems necessary for the purpose of raising funds to be used by a Department of Urban Renewal whose area of operation includes that municipality, in aid of the eradication and elimination of slum and blighted areas and the acquisition, development or redevelopment of any other areas which may constitute a redevelopment project within that municipality or in aid of a conservation area. (e) To appropriate and pay for the use of the Department whose area of operation includes that municipality, available funds for and in aid of redevelopment projects and conservation areas in that municipality in the manner provided in this Act. (f) To appropriate and pay for the use of the Department of Urban Renewal under Part I of this Act, the proceeds of bonds issued in exercise of the powers specified in Section 11‑11‑1 of the "Illinois Municipal Code", approved May 29, 1961, as heretofore and hereafter amended. (g) To use for any of the purposes of this Act any of the funds arising from the use or sale of any property acquired under the provisions of this Act and not pledged for the payment of revenue bonds. (h) The Department, subject to the approval of the Budget Director of the municipality, shall prescribe methods and forms for keeping its accounts, records and books; prescribe accounts to which particular outlays and receipts shall be entered, charged, or credited; file periodical reports covering its operations and activities in a form prescribed by such Budget Director. Copies of all such reports shall be submitted to the presiding officer of the municipality. (i) To succeed, by assignment, novation, conveyance, substitution or other appropriate mode of transfer, to the assets, liabilities, rights, privileges, powers and duties of a land clearance commission which exists in the area of operation of its Department of Urban Renewal, including but not limited to rights of such land clearance commission in real property, rights and obligations under contracts, options or agreements of any kind or nature, including rights and obligations under contracts with the government for loans and grants, and rights and obligations as party to any pending action. (j) To assign or loan any of its employees to a Department in aid of the performance of the work of the Department, and provide necessary office space, equipment or other facilities for the Department. (k) In case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena issued to any person, the Circuit Court of the county in which such person resides or has his principal place of business upon application by the Department, shall have jurisdiction to issue to such person an order requiring such person to appear before the Department or before any member, employee or agent thereof designated to conduct such hearing there to produce evidence, if so desired, or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation and any failure to obey such order of the Court may be punished by the Court as a contempt thereof. The officials of any city, village or town and the members of any zoning commission shall, when requested so to do by any member of the Department, make available for inspection by the Department or by any committee, employee or agent of the Department, any and all records and data which they may have pertaining to an area which is then being investigated. (l) For the purpose of aiding in the planning, undertaking or carrying out of a redevelopment project or a conservation plan for a conservation area, the governing body of the municipality, after public hearing, may direct the Department to enter into cooperation and conveyance agreements with any hospital or educational institution of higher learning, both public and private, or any private corporation acting on behalf of such institutions, respecting the redevelopment or renewal or conservation of slum or blighted or conservation areas embracing, adjacent to, or in the immediate vicinity of such hospital, educational institution or a major branch thereof and may, in addition to its other powers and upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine, perform such cooperation and conveyance agreements and do and perform any or all of the actions or things necessary or desirable to assure that the municipality obtains credit as a local grant‑in‑aid for the aggregate amount of expenditures made by any such hospital, educational institution, or private corporation acting on behalf of such institutions, which would be eligible as such under Title I of the Federal Housing Act of 1949, as amended. (m) Have and exercise all of the powers and functions vested in the municipality by virtue of any statute as shall be necessary to effectuate the purposes of this Act. (Source: P.A. 81‑282.) |
(315 ILCS 30/25) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.125) Sec. 25. (a) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating with Departments in accomplishing the objectives of this Act, any state public body (city, village, incorporated town, county, municipal corporation, commission, district, authority, or other subdivision or public body of the State) may, upon such terms, with or without consideration, as it may determine: (1) dedicate, sell, convey or lease any of its interest in any property or grant easements, licenses or other rights or privileges therein to a Department as agent for a municipality; (2) incur the entire expense of any public improvements made by such public body in exercising the powers granted in this section; (3) do any and all things necessary to aid or cooperate in the planning or carrying out of a redevelopment project or conservation plan; (4) lend, grant or contribute funds to a Department as agent for a municipality; (5) enter into agreements (which may extend over any period, notwithstanding any provision or rule of law to the contrary) with a municipality or other public body respecting action to be taken pursuant to any of the powers granted by this Act, including the furnishing of funds or other assistance in connection with a redevelopment project or a conservation area; (6) cause parks, playgrounds, water, sewer or drainage facilities to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with a redevelopment project or conservation area, and (7) cause public buildings and public facilities, including recreational, community, or educational facilities, or any other works which it is otherwise empowered to undertake to be furnished; and cause administrative and other services to be furnished to a Department as agent for the municipality. (b) Any sale, conveyance, lease or agreement provided for in this section may be made by a public body without appraisal, public notice, advertisement or public bidding. (c) For the purpose of aiding in the planning, undertaking or carrying out of a redevelopment project or a conservation area, a municipality may (in addition to its other powers and upon such terms with or without consideration, as it may determine) do and perform any or all of the actions or things which, by the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, a public body is authorized to do or perform, including the furnishing of financial and other assistance. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 3308.) |
(315 ILCS 30/26) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.126) Sec. 26. The sale of any real property by a Department where required to be made for a monetary consideration except public sales of real property not sold within the 5‑year period as provided in Section 18, shall be subject to the approval of the governing body of the municipality in which the real property is located; provided, however, that no new or additional approval of a sale by the governing body shall be required in any case where a sale by a land clearance commission has heretofore been approved by the State Housing Board and the governing body pursuant to the "Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947," approved July 2, 1947, as amended. The disposition of real property acquired pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall be exempt from the requirements of Sections 11‑76‑1 and 11‑76‑2 of the "Illinois Municipal Code", approved May 29, 1961, as heretofore and hereafter amended. All deeds of conveyances of real property shall be executed as provided in Section 11‑76‑3 of said Illinois Municipal Code. Any deed of conveyance may provide such restrictions as are required by the plan for development or conservation plan and the building and zoning ordinances, but no deed of conveyance or lease either by the municipality or any subsequent owner shall contain a covenant running with the land or other provisions prohibiting occupancy of the premises by any person because of race, creed, color, religion, handicap, national origin or sex. (Source: P.A. 80‑342.) |
(315 ILCS 30/27) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.127) Sec. 27. Revenue bonds may be issued by a municipality and such bonds shall contain a provision that the principal thereof and interest thereon shall be payable exclusively from the proceeds and revenues of any redevelopment project or conservation area which is financed in whole or in part with the proceeds of such bonds, together with that amount of the funds of the municipality from whatever source derived as is necessary to constitute the local cash grant‑in‑aid for the redevelopment project or conservation area within the meaning of applicable federal law; provided, however that any such bonds may be additionally secured by a pledge of any loan, grant or contribution, or parts thereof, thereafter to be received from the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or by the contracts therefor. (a) Neither the members of a Department of Urban Renewal, nor any officers, agents or employees of the municipality, nor any other persons executing such bonds shall be liable personally thereof by reason of the issuance thereof. Such bonds (and the same shall so state on their face) shall not be a debt of any city, village, incorporated town, county, the State or any political subdivision thereof and neither the city, village, incorporated town or the county, nor the State or any political subdivision thereof, shall be liable thereon, nor in any event shall such bonds be payable out of any funds or properties of a municipality other than those enumerated in this Section. Such bonds shall not constitute an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory debt limitation or restriction and such bonds are declared to be issued for an essential public and governmental purpose. (b) Bonds issued hereunder may be issued in one or more series and shall bear such date or dates, shall mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates, not exceeding the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, for bonds issued before January 1, 1972 and not exceeding the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, for bonds issued after January 1, 1972, be in such denomination or denominations, be in such form either coupon or registered, carry registration privileges, have such priority, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places and be subject to such terms of redemption (with or without premium) as the ordinance, any trust indenture relating thereto, and the bonds issued may provide. Any ordinance providing for the issuance of such bonds shall be effective without submitting the proposition to the electors of the municipality in accordance with the requirements of Sections 8‑4‑1 and 8‑4‑2 of the "Illinois Municipal Code", approved May 29, 1961, as heretofore and hereafter amended. (c) The bonds shall be sold at not less than par and accrued interest. (d) In case any of the members of the Department of Urban Renewal or officers of the municipality whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons shall cease to be such members or officers before the delivery of such bonds, such signatures shall, nevertheless, be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such members or officers had remained in office until such delivery. Any provision of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds issued pursuant to this Act shall be fully negotiable. (e) In any action or proceedings involving the validity or enforceability of any such bond or the security therefor, any such bond reciting in substance that it has been issued by the municipality, to aid in financing any redevelopment project or conservation area pursuant to this Act and for any purposes authorized by this Act shall be conclusively deemed to have been issued for such redevelopment project or conservation area and other purposes and such redevelopment project or conservation area shall be conclusively deemed to have been planned, located and carried out in accordance with the purposes and provisions of this Act. (f) In connection with the issuance of bonds and in order to secure the payment of such bonds, a municipality, in addition to its other powers, shall have power in the bond ordinance, subject to the limitations, terms and provisions in this Act contained: (1) To pledge all or any part of its revenues (as hereinafter defined) to which its right then exists or may thereafter come into existence. (2) To covenant against pledging all or any part of its revenues (as hereinafter defined) or against permitting or allowing any lien on its revenues (as hereinafter defined) or property; and to covenant as to what other, or additional debts or obligations may be incurred by it. (3) To covenant as to the bonds to be issued and as to the issuance of such bonds in escrow or otherwise, and as to the use and disposition of the proceeds thereof; to provide for the replacement of lost, destroyed or mutilated bonds; and to covenant for their redemption and to provide the terms and conditions thereof. (4) To covenant as to the use and disposition to be made of all or any part of its revenues (as hereinafter defined); and to create or to authorize the creation of special funds for moneys held for operating costs, debt service, reserves, or other purposes, and to covenant as to the use and disposition of the moneys held in such funds. (5) To prescribe the procedure, if any, by which the terms of any contract with bondholders may be amended or abrogated, the amount of bonds the holders of which must consent thereto and the manner in which such consent may be given. (6) To covenant as to the rights, liabilities, powers and duties arising upon the breach by it of any covenant, condition, or obligations; and to covenant and prescribe as to the events of default and terms and conditions upon which any or all of its bonds shall become or may be declared due before maturity, and as to the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived. (7) To vest in a trustee or trustees or the holders of bonds or any specified proportion of them the right to enforce the payment of the bonds or any covenants securing or relating to the bonds; and to enforce collection of the proceeds and revenues (as hereinafter defined) arising from any redevelopment project or conservation area which have been pledged to secure such bonds and to dispose of such moneys in accordance with the agreement of the municipality with such trustee or trustees, or obligee or obligees; to provide for the powers and duties of such trustee or trustees and obligee or obligees and to limit the liabilities thereof; and to provide the terms and conditions upon which such trustee or trustees, or obligee or obligees may enforce any covenant or rights securing or relating to the bonds. (8) To exercise all or any part or combination of the powers herein granted; to make covenants other than in addition to the covenants herein expressly authorized, of like or different character; to make such covenants and to do any and all such acts and things as may be necessary or convenient or desirable in order to secure its bonds, or, in the absolute discretion of said municipality, as will tend to make the bonds more marketable notwithstanding that such covenants, acts or things may not be enumerated herein. (9) "Revenue" or "Revenues" shall mean the proceeds and revenues (including, but not in limitation thereof, the proceeds from the sale of real property, moneys received from the operation and management, or demolition, of existing housing or other buildings or improvements located on any real property in a redevelopment project or conservation area) from any redevelopment project or conservation area which is financed in whole or in part with the proceeds of bonds issued hereunder, together with that amount of the funds, from whatever source derived, as is necessary to constitute the local cash grant‑in‑aid for the project within the meaning of applicable Federal law and any loan, grant or contribution, or parts thereof, thereafter to be received from the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or by the contracts therefor. (g) A bondholder or trustee for a bondholder shall have the right in addition to all other rights which may be conferred on such bondholder or trustee, subject to any contractual restrictions binding upon such bondholder or trustee, and to the limitations, terms and provisions in this Act contained: (1) By mandamus, injunction, civil action or proceeding to compel the municipality and the officers, agents, or employees thereof to perform each and every term, provision and covenant contained in the bond resolution and in any contract of said municipality with or for the benefit of such bondholder or trustee, and to require the carrying out of any or all such covenants and agreements of said municipality and the fulfillment of all duties imposed upon said municipality by this Act. (2) By action or proceeding to enjoin any acts or things which may be unlawful, or the violation of any of the rights of such bondholders. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. (Source: P.A. 86‑4.) |
(315 ILCS 30/28) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.128) Sec. 28. Every municipality is authorized and empowered to incur indebtedness and issue bonds in such amount or amounts as the governing body of the municipality deems necessary for the purpose of raising funds for the use of a Department of Urban Renewal whose area of operation includes that municipality in aid of a redevelopment project or conservation area within that municipality. The ordinance authorizing the issuance of such bonds shall specify the total amount of bonds to be issued, the form and denomination of the bonds, the date they are to bear, the place at which they are payable, the date or dates of maturity, which shall not be later than twenty (20) years after the date the bonds bear, the rate of interest which shall not exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, and the dates on which interest is payable. The bonds shall be executed by such officials as may be provided in the ordinance authorizing their issue. They may be made registerable as to principal and may be made callable on any interest payment date at par and accrued interest after notice has been given at the time and in the manner provided in the bond ordinance. The bonds shall remain valid even though one or more of the officers executing the bonds ceases to hold his or their offices before the bonds are delivered. The bonds shall be sold to the highest and best bidder at not less than their par value and accrued interest. The municipality shall, from time to time as bonds are to be sold, advertise for proposals to purchase the bonds. Each such advertisement may be published in such newspapers and journals as the governing body of the municipality may determine but must be published at least once in a newspaper having a general circulation in the municipality at least ten days prior to the date of the opening of the bids. The municipality may reserve the right to reject any and all bids and re‑advertise for bids. The ordinance authorizing the bonds shall prescribe all the details thereof and shall provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property within the municipality sufficient to pay the principal thereof and interest thereon as it matures. This tax shall be in addition to and exclusive of the maximum of all other taxes authorized to be levied by the municipality. Tax limitations provided by other statutes of this State shall not apply to taxes levied for payment of these bonds. A certified copy of the bond ordinance shall be filed with the County Clerk of the county in which the municipality or any portion thereof is situated and shall constitute the authority for the extension and collection of such taxes. If there is no default in payment of the principal or interest upon the bonds, and if after setting aside a sum of money equal to the amount of interest that will accrue on the bonds and a sum of money equal to the amount of principal that will become due thereon within the next six (6) months' period, the treasurer and comptroller, if there is a comptroller, or the municipality shall use the money available from the proceeds of the taxes levied for the payment of the bonds in calling them for payment, if by their terms they are subject to redemption. A municipality may provide in the bond ordinance that whenever the municipality is not in default in payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds and has set aside the sums of money provided in this paragraph for interest accruing and principal maturing within the next six (6) months' period, the money available from the proceeds of taxes levied for the payment of these bonds shall be used first in the purchase of the bonds at the lowest price obtainable, but not to exceed their par value and accrued interest, after sealed tenders for their purchase have been advertised for as may be directed by the corporate authorities thereof. Bonds called for payment and paid or purchased under this Section shall be marked paid and cancelled. Whenever any bonds are purchased or redeemed and cancelled, the taxes thereafter to be extended for payment of the principal of and interest on the remainder of the issue shall be reduced in an amount equal to the principal of and the interest that would have thereafter accrued upon the bonds so cancelled. A resolution shall be adopted by the corporate authorities of the municipality finding these facts. A certified copy of this resolution shall be filed with the County Clerk of the county in which the municipality, or any portion thereof, is situated, whereupon the County Clerk shall reduce and extend such tax levies in accordance therewith. The ordinance may provide for the creation of a sinking fund to consist of the proceeds of taxes levied for the payment of the principal of and interest upon these bonds. This fund shall be faithfully applied to the purchase or payment of the bonds, and interest thereon, issued pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Bonds issued by a municipality for the purposes herein set forth shall not be in excess of any existing statutory limitation on municipal indebtedness, nor shall any municipality by the issuance of the bonds provided for in this Act be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount including existing indebtedness in the aggregate exceeding five per centum (5%) on the value of taxable property therein to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and County taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness. No ordinance providing for the issuance of such bonds shall be effective until it has been submitted to referendum of, and approved by, the electors of that municipality in accordance with the provisions of Section 8‑4‑1 and 8‑4‑2 of the "Illinois Municipal Code", approved May 29, 1961, as heretofore and hereafter amended. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. (Source: P.A. 86‑4.) |
(315 ILCS 30/28.1) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.128.1) Sec. 28.1. Any municipality which as of January 1, 1970, has authorized the issuance and sale of bonds by referendum pursuant to Section 28, but has not sold bonds so authorized, may, until January 1, 1972, issue such bonds at a rate of interest not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, without a further referendum, upon the adoption of an ordinance authorizing a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, provided by this Section. Such bonds shall be otherwise subject to the provisions of Section 28. Bonds may be so issued only up to the amount authorized by the referendum and not previously sold. This Section does not affect any bonds previously issued and sold under Section 28. If the provisions of this Section are held invalid, such invalidity does not affect the provisions of Section 28 which shall remain in full force and effect as if this Section had not become law, and to this end the provisions of this Section are severable from the provisions of Section 28. With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts. (Source: P.A. 86‑4.) |
(315 ILCS 30/29) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.129) Sec. 29. The State and all counties, cities, villages, incorporated towns and other municipal corporations, political subdivisions and public bodies and public officers of any thereof, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all executors, administrators, guardians, trustees and other fiduciaries may legally invest any sinking funds, moneys or other funds belonging to them or within their control in any bonds of a municipality issued in connection with a redevelopment project or conservation area for which the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof, the State, or any political subdivision of the State has extended or provided for or has agreed to extend or provide for financial assistance which prior to the maturity of such bonds will be in an amount which (together with any other monies irrevocably committed to the payment of the principal and interest on such bonds) will suffice to pay the principal of such bonds with interest to maturity thereon and which monies are required to be used for the purpose of paying the principal of and the interest on such bonds at their maturity, it being the purpose of this Section to authorize the investment in such bonds of all sinking, insurance, retirement, compensation, pension and trust funds, whether owned or controlled by private or public persons or officers; provided, however, that nothing contained in this Section may be construed as relieving any person, firm or corporation from any duty of exercising reasonable care in selecting securities. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 3308.) |
(315 ILCS 30/30) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.130) Sec. 30. The provisions of any other statute to the contrary notwithstanding, funds of a land clearance commission dissolved or in the process of dissolution pursuant to this Act which have been derived from grants made by the State of Illinois shall be transferred and paid over to the municipality for use by a Department of Urban Renewal for any of the purposes of Part I of this Act. Any municipality which has issued and sold bonds pursuant to Section 24 of the "Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947," approved July 2, 1947, as amended, for the purpose of raising funds to be paid to a land clearance commission may apply, use and pay the proceeds of such bonds for and in aid of its Department of Urban Renewal and may use such funds for any of the purposes of Part I of this Act. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 3308.) |
(315 ILCS 30/32) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.132) Sec. 32. When a Department of Urban Renewal has been established hereunder, the presiding officer of the municipality shall so notify the Chairman of the conservation board in its area of operation by transmitting to such Chairman a certified copy of the ordinance of the governing board providing for the creation of such Department. Upon receipt of such notice, the conservation board shall promptly prepare a detailed report covering its operations and activities and the status of all of its pending programs, together with all of the pertinent data and information as may be requested by the Department, and copies of such report shall be submitted to the presiding officer and the Department. Upon approval of such report by the presiding officer, all functions and records of the conservation board shall be transferred to the Department and the governing body shall, by ordinance, dissolve such conservation board. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 3308.) |
(315 ILCS 30/33) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.133) Sec. 33. Nothing contained in this Act shall affect or impair the validity of any act or proceeding done or performed by a land clearance commission under the Blighted Areas Redevelopment Act of 1947, as amended, or by a Community Conservation Board under the Urban Community Conservation Act, as amended. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 3308.) |
(315 ILCS 30/34) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.134) Sec. 34. This Act shall be deemed to create an additional and alternative method for the eradication and redevelopment of slum and blighted areas and the development and redevelopment of blighted vacant areas, the conservation of urban residential areas and the prevention of slums. This Act shall not be deemed to alter, amend or repeal any other statute having to do with such matters; and no proceedings, actions or notices shall be required for the doing, or as a condition precedent for the doing, of any of the things herein authorized, except such as are prescribed by this Act. The proceedings herein authorized shall not be subject to the Administrative Review Law, as amended. (Source: P.A. 82‑783.) |
(315 ILCS 30/35) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.135) Sec. 35. This Act being necessary for and intended to secure the public health, safety and welfare, the provisions of this Act shall be liberally construed to effectuate the provisions hereof. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 3308.) |
(315 ILCS 30/36) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 91.136) Sec. 36. If any section, clause, sentence, paragraph, part or provision of this Act shall be held to be invalid by any Court, it shall be conclusively presumed that the remaining portions of this Act would have been passed by the Legislature without such invalid section, clause, sentence, paragraph, part or provision. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 3308.) |