election, to give notice also that a vote will be taken at said election on the question, "Shall bonds for road purposes be issued to the amount of $.... ?" such clerk shall, when giving notice of the time and place for holding the next annual town or road district election, also give notice that a vote will be taken at said election on said question, "Shall bonds for road purposes be issued to the amount of $..... If in any such petition a special election shall be requested for such purpose, it shall be called as follows: Upon the filing of such petition the town or district clerk shall call such special town or district election, by posting up in ten of the most public places in said town or district, at least ten days prior to the day fixed for said special town or district election, notices of such special town or district election, which notices shall state the filing of said petition, the time and place of said special election, and that a vote will be taken at said election on the question, "Shall bonds for road purposes be issued to the amount of $... Such special election shall be held at the place of the last annual town or district election and shall be conducted and returns thereof be made in the same manner as regular annual town or road district elections. The vote at such regular or special election shall invariably be by a separate ballot and shall be in substantially the following form: Shall bonds for road purposes be issued to Yes the amount of $..... ? Νο And if it shall appear that a majority of the legal voters voting at said election on said question voted in favor of said proposition, the commissioners of highways and the town or district clerk, as the case may be, shall issue (from time to time as the work progresses) a sufficient amount, in the aggregate, of the bonds of said town or district for the purpose of building or maintaining roads, or for the purpose of constructing or repairing any bridge or bridges, or for the purpose of constructing or repairing any other distinctive work on the road, as the case may be, in accordance with the prayer of said petition. Said bonds shall be of such denominations, upon such time and bear such rate of interest, not exceeding five per cent, and be disposed of, as the necessities and convenience of said town or district may require: Provided, that said bonds shall not be sold nor disposed of, either by sale or by payment to contractors for labor or materials, for less than their par value, and that such bonds shall be issued in not more than ten annual series, the first series of which shall mature not more than five years from the date thereof, and each succeding series in succeeding years thereafter. A register of all issues of said bonds shall be kept in the office of the county clerk of the county in which said town or district is located, showing the date, amount, rate of interest, maturity, and the purpose for which said bonds were issued, which information shall be furnished to the county clerk, in writing, by the town or district clerk, and it shall be the duty of such county clerk to extend annually against the property in said town or road district, a tax sufficient to pay the interest of said bonds in each year prior to the maturity of such first series, and thereafter he shall extend a tax in each year sufficient to pay each series as it matures, together with interest thereon and with the interest upon the unmatured bonds outstanding. Such bonds may be lithographed and the interst for each year evidenced by interest coupons thereto attached, which coupons shall be signed with original or fac-simile signatures by the same officers who executed the bonds: Provided, however, that the amount, including the principal and interest to be voted upon, shall not exceed the amount which can be raised during a period of five years by a levy of one dollar per year on each one hundred dollars of taxable property, as taken for assessment purposes in such town or district; the proceeds of said bonds to be paid to the treasurer of such funds and to be disbursed by him upon the order of the commissioners of highways. § 126. The several county boards of counties in this State are hereby vested with the same powers for constructing, repairing and maintaining roads in their respective counties, as the commissioners of highways, acting severally or together, or with the several county superintendents of highways, according to the provisions of this Act. The county board of any county may also assist any town or road district in such county in the construction of roads, under the provisions of this Act, to the extent of twenty-five per cent of the cost thereof: Provided, however, that the question of raising a special road tax or of issuing bonds for the purposes set forth in this Act shall first be submitted to the legal voters of the county, at any regular election for county officers, or at a special election which the county board is hereby authorized to call for such purpose, on the petition of one hundred land owners who are legal voters in said county, to the county clerk, previous to time for posting the notices of a regular or of a special election; said petition and notices, if for a special road tax, shall designate the road or roads to be improved, or the town or towns or the road district or road districts to be assisted, the annual rate per cent not exceeding fifty cents on each one hundred dollars assessed value, the number of years, not exceeding five, for which such tax shall be levied, and said petition and notices, if for the issue of bonds, shall designate the amount of bonds. to be issued, the rate of interest thereon and the number of annual series thereof not less than five nor more than twenty from the date of issue. All elections hereunder shall be called and held and returns made in substantially the manner provided for under the general election laws of this State. § 127. The ballots to be used at elections provided for in the preceing section, if for a special road tax, shall be in substantially the following form: Yes Shall a special tax for road purposes be levied? No And if for the issue of bonds the ballots shall be in substantially the following form: Shall county bonds for road purposes be issued ? Yes Νο If a majority of all ballots cast on the first proposition mentioned in this section at any such election shall be in favor of such proposition, it shall be the duty of the county board to direct the county clerk to extend such tax against all the taxable property, including railroads, in said county, in accordance with the prayer of the petition therefor; if a majority of all ballots cast on the second proposition mentioned in this section at any such election shall be in favor of such proposition, it shall be the duty of the county board to issue the amount of bonds voted for; and then in either case it shall be the duty of such county board to carry out the purposes for which said tax or bonds were voted, in the same manner as provided for the guidance of commissioners of highways in their respective towns or districts. APPROVED June 27, 1917. STATE AID. § 1. Amends section 15d of IV, Act of 1913. § 15d. When county desires to advance entire cost of constructing State aid roads more rapidly than allotment of State aid money referendum. (HOUSE BILL No. 344. APPROVED JUNE 27, 1917.) AN ACT to amend section 15d, approved June 28, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, of Article IV. of an Act entitled, 'An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27. 1913, in force July 1, 1913, and all amendments thereto. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois. represented in the General Assembly: That section 15d, approved June 28, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, of Article IV. of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, and all amendments thereto, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows, to-wit: § 15d. If any county desires, more rapidly than its allotments of State aid road moneys will permit, to construct a State aid road along any one or more of its highways that have been selected and designated, under the provisions of this Act, as State aid roads, such county is hereby authorized to advance, out of county funds available from any source, or which may become available from any source, for such purpose, the entire cost of constructing such State aid roads and to make such improvement at any time: Provided, also, that any such county may accept, receive and use as county funds for such purpose any money turned over to such county by any town or road district in such county, and the commissioners of highways of any such town or road district are hereby authorized to turn over to such county money from the permanent road fund or other available fund of the town or road district, to be used by such county, upon terms and conditions prescribed by the State Highway Commission, to construct a State aid road in such town or road district. Such county shall, in such case, have the right to use any allotment of money made to it by the State Highway Commission, to defray one-half the cost of constructing new State aid roads, in the county, under the provisions of this Act, or to apply the money on the payment of any bonds or other obligations which have been or may be issued by such county, under any law of this State, to meet the cost of the construction of any State aid road or roads constructed by such county at its own expense: Provided, however, that the allotments made by the State shall not be used to cover more than one-half the cost of the construction of such State aid roads: And, provided, also, that such State aid roads shall have been constructed under, and in accordance with, plans, specifications, estimates of cost and contracts approved by the State Highway Commission and which roads shall have been found. upon inspection of the State Highway Engineer, to have been completed as provided for in said contracts. All highways constructed or improved in any county under the provisions of this section shall be known as State aid roads and shall thereafter be repaired and maintained under, and in accordance with, the provisions of section 32 of this Act, and any amendments thereto. If any county desires so to advance money for the purpose of the construction or improvement of its State aid roads, its county board is hereby vested with full power and authority to take all necessary steps in such case and such county board may, out of any funds in the county treasury, not required for other purposes, appropriate therefrom sufficient moneys to meet the cost of constructing or improving such State aid roads, and may also, in any manner provided by law for issuing county bonds, issue bonds of the county for the purpose of constructing or improving such State aid roads: Provided, that the question of issuing such county bonds shall first be submitted to the legal voters of such county at any general election or at a special election which the county board is hereby authorized to call for such purpose: And, provided, also, that the county board of such county shall, before adopting a resolution to submit such question to a vote, adopt a resolution specifying the particular roads to be improved, the type of improvement to be made on each section of such roads, the proposed widths of the paved and graded roadway, together with an estimate of the cost of such improvement, all of which shall have been approved by the State Highway Commission: And, provided, also, that such bonds shall be issued to mature in not less than ten nor more than twenty annual series, the last series to mature not more than twenty years from date of issue. If the question of an issue of such bonds is submitted to the people, notice of election shall be given and the election shall be held and returns made, all in the manner now provided by the general election laws of this State, and the ballots shall be in substantially the following form: Shall county bonds for roads be issued to the amount of $.. ? Yes No If a majority of the voters voting on such question vote in favor of the proposition the county board shall at once issue the bonds and take the necessary steps to construct or improve the State aid roads provided for. This section shall not be construed to repeal any other law on the subject of issuing county bonds, except in so far as such other law is in direct conflict herewith. If it shall be deemed necessary to submit to a vote of the people at the same election (whether a general election or special election) the question of issuing bonds and the raising of an additional tax, the same may be included in one proceeding and in that case the ballot shall be in substantially the following form: (SENATE BILL No. 31. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, “An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, as subsequently amended by amending section 9 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 revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," as subsequently amended |