§ 2. WHEREAS, an emergency exists, as the terms of office of certain police magistrates are about to expire in cities having adopted the commission form of municipal government, which would make necessary special elections in such cities at a large expense to the taxpayers, therefore this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED April 2, 1917.

POLICE PENSION FUND IN CITIES OF 5,000 TO 100,000.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a Police Pension Fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns in the State of Illinois, having a population of not less than 9,000 and not more than 50,000 inhabitants," approved June 14, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, as subsequently amended, by amending the title and section one (1) thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled: “An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a Police Pension Fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns in the State of Illinois having a population of not less than 9,000 and not more than 50,000 inhabitants," approved June 14, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, as subsequently amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending the title and section one (1) thereof to read as follows:

§ 1. That in all cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population of not less than 5,000 and not more than 100,000 inhabitants, said population to be determined by the United States Government statistics, there shall be set apart the following moneys to constitute a Police Pension Fund.

First-Three-fourths of all moneys received for licenses upon dogs. Second-Two-per cent of all moneys received from licenses for the keeping of saloons, dramshops and wholesale liquor houses.

Third-All moneys received for special detail of police officers.
Fourth-Ten per cent of all fines collected for violation of city

ordinances.

Fifth-One per cent per month, which shall be paid or deducted from the pension of every police pensioner of such city, village or town. Sixth-All moneys received from fines imposed upon members of the police department of such city, village or town for violation of the rules and regulations of the police department.

Seventh-All rewards given or paid to members of such police force except such as shall be excepted by the board of trustees of the Police Pension Fund: Provided, this provision shall not apply to cities that have not adopted civil service in the police department.

Eighth-One per cent per month, which shall be paid or deducted from the salary of each and every member of the police department of such city, village or incorporated town: Provided, however, the sum so

received shall in no case exceed one dollar ($1.00): Provided, that this provision shall not apply to cities that have not adopted civil service in the police department.

Ninth-Ten per cent of all revenues collected from licenses by such city, village or incorporated town not heretofore mentioned in this bill.

Tenth-All moneys that may have been accumulated by such city, village or town in conformity with any previous legislation establishing a fund for the benefit of disabled or superannuated policemen, and onehalf of all the funds accumulated in any such city, village or town for the benefit of disabled or superannuated police or firemen by virtue of any previous legislation; Provided, however, there shall not be collected in any city, village or incorporated town in any year more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) and should it be necessary to reduce the collections as above provided, the reduction shall be made from the amount collected from dramshop licenses.

Eleventh-The city council or board of trustees of any such city, village or incorporated town shall levy a tax for a period of three (3) years, beginning with the year 1918, not to exceed three-tenths of a mill on the dollar on all taxable property of such city, village or incorporated town. Such tax shall be levied and collected in like manner with the general taxes of such city, village or incorporated town and shall be in addition to all other taxes which such city, village or incorporated town is now or hereafter may be authorized to levy upon the aggregate valuation of all property within such city, village or incorporated town. The county clerk in reducing the tax levies under the provisions of section 2 of an Act entitled: "An Act concerning the levy and extension of taxes," approved May 9, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as subsequently amended, shall not consider the tax herein authorized as a part of the general taxes levied for city, village or incorporated town purposes and shall not include the same in the limitation of three per cent of the assessed valuation upon which taxes are required to be extended. Said tax, when collected, shall be paid in to the police pension fund as a part thereof.

§ 2. The title of said Act shall be amended to read as follows: "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns in the State of Illinois, having a population of not less than 5,000 and not more than 100,000 inhabitants..

FILED June 26, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-sixth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

POWERS AND DUTIES.

§ 23. Council

powers and duties-departments.

§ 1. Amends sections 22 and 23 of, Act of 1872.

§ 22. Council-quorum-voting
-mayor to preside.

(HOUSE BILL No. 486. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend and revise sections twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) of an Act entitled, "An Act to amend an Act entitled, ‘An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages,' approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and all Acts amendatory thereto by adding thereto Article XIII," approved March 9, 1910, in force July 1, 1910.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) of an Act entitled, "An Act to amend an Act entitled, 'An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages,' approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and all Acts amendatory thereto by adding thereto Article XIII," approved March 9, 1910, in force July 1, 1910, be amended and revised so that said section shall read as follows:

§ 22. COUNCIL QUORUM VOTING MAYOR TO PRESIDE.] Every such city or village shall be governed by a council, consisting of the mayor and four commissioners, as provided in this Act, each of whom shall have the right to vote on all questions coming before the council. Three members of the council shall constitute a quorum, and the affirmative vote of three members shall be necessary to adopt any motion, resolution or ordinance, or pass any measure, unless a greater number is provided for by this Act.

Upon every vote the "yeas" and "nays" shall be called and recorded, and every motion, resolution or ordinance shall be reduced to writing and read before a vote is taken thereon, and all the commissioners, including the mayor, present at any meeting shall vote thereon.

The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the council. He shall have no power to veto any measure, motion, resolution or ordinance, but every resolution, ordinance, measure or warrant adopted, passed or ordered by the council must be signed by the mayor, or by two commissioners, and all ordinances and resolutions recorded, before the same shall be in full force.

§ 23. COUNCIL, POWERS AND DUTIES-FIVE DEPARTMENTS.] The council shall have and possess, and the council and its members shall exercise all executive and legislative powers and duties now had, possessed and exercised by the mayor, city council, president and board of trustees of villages, board of library trustees, city clerk, city attorney, city engineer, city treasurer, city comptroller and other executive, legislative and administrative officers in cities or villages now or hereinafter organized and incorporated under the General Incorporation Law of the State of Illinois for the incorporation of cities and villages, and the council shall have and possess, and the council and its members shall exercise all executive and legislative powers and duties now had,

possessed and exercised by the board of local improvements, provided for, in and by an Act entitled, 'An Act concerning local improvements,' approved June 14, 1897, in force July 1, 1897, and all Acts amendatory thereto and in all such cities and villages that shall hereafter adopt this Act, or that shall have heretofore adopted this Act, in enforcing said Act, concerning local improvements, herein set out, the person who spreads assessments shall be selected in each case by a majority vote of said council and its members, and all local improvements, contracts and bonds or warrants issued in pursuance thereof, or either of them, may and shall be signed by the mayor or by any three members of the council, provided, however, that nothing contained in this Act shall in any way extend or pertain to or affect any public school law in operation in any municipality which may adopt this Act, anything in this present Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

The executive and administrative powers, authority and duties in such cities and villages shall be distributed into and among five departments, as follows:

1. Department of public affairs.

2. Department of accounts and finances.

3. Department of public health and safety.

4. Department of streets and public improvements.
5. Department of public property.

The council shall, by ordinance, determine the powers and duties of, and to be performed by, each department and assign them to the appropriate departments; shall prescribe the powers and duties of officers and employees and may assign to one or more of the departments; may require an officer or employee to perform duties in two or more departments, and may make such other rules and regulations as may be necessary or proper for the efficient and economical conduct of the business of the city or village.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

SANITARY DISTRICT OF CHICAGO ENLARGED.

§ 1. Extends limits of district to em- § 2. Submission of question of adoption brace bonds described. of Act to voters.

(HOUSE BILL No. 140. APPROVED MAY 5, 1917.)

AN ACT to enlarge the corporate limits of the sanitary district of Chicago.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the corporate limits of the sanitary district of Chicago are hereby extended so as to embrace and include within the same, the territory and tracts of land situated in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, hereinafter described as follows:

All that part of fractional sections fourteen (14) [,] twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) in township thirty-six (36) north, range thirteen (13) east of the third principal meridian lying north of the Indian boundary line in the township of Bremen, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois.

§ 2. If within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the passage of this Act a petition, signed by not less than ten (10) per cent of the legal voters within the above described territory, praying that the question of the adoption of this Act shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of said territory, shall be filed with the clerk of said sanitary district, then and in such case the question of the adoption of this Act shall be submitted to a vote of the said electors, as in said petition prayed, at any general or municipal election held after the adoption of this Act, and in such case, this Act shall not be in force unless a majority of the votes cast at said election, upon the question of the adoption of this Act, shall be in favor of the adoption thereof.

It shall be the duty of the election officers having charge of the preparation of the ballots and the giving of the notices of election and of the counting and canvassing and making returns of the ballots, to take all necessary steps and do all necessary acts to cause the said question of the adoption of this Act to be submitted to a vote as hereinbefore provided, and to cause the result of such election to be canvassed and certified, as provided by law in other similar cases.

APPROVED May 5, 1917.

TOWN OFFICERS-CITIES OF 25,000 AND OVER.

§ 1. Assessor, collector and supervisorelection-vacancy.

(HOUSE BILL No. 181.

§ 2. Repeal.

APPROVED JUNE 14, 1917.)

AN ACT in relation to the offices of assessor, collector and supervisor, in incorporated towns having a population of 25,000 and over by the last school census.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That at the regular election to be held in the year 1920 for the municipal offices in every incorporated town, having a population of 25,000 and over by the last school census and not before, and every four (4) years thereafter, at such municipal election, there shall be elected an assessor, collector and supervisor of said incorporated town, to hold office for the term of four (4) years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of assessor, collector or supervisor, elected hereunder, during the first year hereof, such vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the term at the next annual election in such municipality, and during the period from any time a vacancy occurs, until any assessor, collector or supervisor is elected and qualified, such vacancy may be filled by appointment by the president and board of trustees of such incorporated town.

§ 2. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed.

APPROVED June 14, 1917.