(SENATE BILL No. 217. APPROVED MAY 26, 1911.)

AN ACT to amend section fifty (50) of article IX of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended by subsequent Acts.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section fifty (50) of article IX of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended by subsequent Acts, be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 50. Any work or other public improvement, except any work or public improvement to be paid for in whole or in part by a special assessment shall, when the expense thereof shall exceed $500, either be constructed by contract let to the lowest responsible bidder in the manner prescribed by ordinance: Provided, however, any such contract may be entered into by the proper officers without advertising for bids, by a vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen or trustees elected; or such work or other public improvement shall be constructed in the following manner, by a vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen or trustees elected, to-wit:

The commissioner of public works or other proper officers to be designated by ordinance, shall superintend and cause to be carried out the construction of such work or other public improvement and shall employ for the performance of all manual labor thereon, exclusively laborers and artisans whom the city or village shall pay by the day or hour, and all material of the value of $500 and upward using in the construction of such work or other public improvement, shall be purchased by contract let to the lowest responsible bidder in the manner to be prescribed by ordinance.

In every city which has adopted an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the civil service of cities," approved and in force March 20, 1895, every such laborer and artisan shall be certified by the civil service commission to the commissioner of public works or other proper officer, in accordance with the requirements of said Act entitled. "An Act to regulate the civil service of cities."

APPROVED May 26, 1911.

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STREET AND BRIDGE TAX IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES. Authorizes additional tax for street and bridge purposes-proviso-not included in limitation of three per cent.

AN ACT to authorize cities and villages, which include wholly within their corporate limits, a town or towns, to levy for street purposes a tax in addition to the tax of one and two-tenths (1 2-10) per centum upon the aggregate valuation of all property within such city, village or incorporated town, as now prescribed by law.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the city council of each city and board of trustees of each village or incorporated town, whether organized under the general law or special charter, which include wholly within their corporate limits a town or towns, shall have power and may annually levy a tax for street and bridge purposes of not to exceed thirty-six (.36) cents on each one hundred dollars on all the taxable property in any township, lying wholly within the limits of such city, village or incorporated town: Provided, that if in the opinion of threefourths of the members elected to the city council or board of trustees of such city, village or incorporated town, a greater levy for bridge and street purposes is needed in view of some contingency, an additional levy may be made of any sum not exceeding twenty-five (25c) cents on the one hundred dollars of such taxable property. Said street and bridge tax authorized by this Act shall be in addition to any tax any such city, village or incorporated town is now authorized to levy for street or bridge purposes and shall be in addition to the tax of one and two-tenths (12/10) per cent per annum that such city, village or incorporated town is now authorized to levy upon the aggregate valuation of all property within such city, village or incorporated town, and the county clerk, in reducing tax levies under the provisions of section two (2) of an Act entitled, "An Act to amend section two (2) of an Act entitled, 'An Act concerning the levy and extension of taxes,' approved May 9, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as amended by an Act approved March 29, 1905, in force July 1, 1905," approved June 14, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, shall consider said street and bridge tax, authorized by this Act as a road and bridge tax, and not to be included in the limitation of three (3) per cent of the assessed valuation upon which taxes are required to be extended.

APPROVED May 29, 1911.

(HOUSE BILL No. 588. APPROVED JUNE 7, 1911.)

AN ACT to provide for the voluntary dissolution of villages, and to provide for the means of closing up the affairs of said village. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That any village in this State, incorporated, either under any general law for the incorporation of villages, and acts amendatory thereof, or under any special Act for the incorporation of such, may be dissolved in the manner following: Whenever a majority of the legal voters in such village, based upon the total votes at the last preceding village election, shall petition the corporate authorities of such village, to submit the question whether such village shall become voluntarily dissolved as such village, it shall be the duty of such corporate authorities to submit such question to the legal voters of such village; and it shall be the duty of such village authorities to fix the time and place of holding such election, and to give notice of such time and place of holding such election, and to appoint the judges to hold such election: Provided, that notice of the time and place of holding such election shall be given, stating the question to be submitted, by posting at least five (5) of such notices in five (5) public places in such village, for not less than fifteen (15) days before the date of such election.

§ 2. The ballot to be voted at such election shall read substantially as follows:

"Shall the village organization of the village of......

be dissolved?"

Yes.

No.

and the legal voters shall mark their ballots with a cross (X) opposite the words "yes" or "no," and such votes shall be counted and canvassed in accordance with such markings.

3. If a majority of the ballots cast at such election shall be marked "yes," then the village officers shall proceed to close up the business affairs of such village in compliance with the provisions of this Act; and should the majority of the ballots cast at such election be marked "no," then the said proposition shall be declared defeated, and the officers of said village shall proceed with the affairs of such village as though said election had never been called: Provided, however, that should said proposition be submitted to the voters of a village and be defeated, such proposition shall not be again submitted for a period of two years.

§ 4. In the event the canvass of the votes at said election shall show that the majority of the voters of said village voting at such election have voted for the voluntary dissolution of the said village, then there shall be no further elections held in the territory of which said village was composed, for the election of village officers; but the then acting officers shall proceed to close up the business affairs of such village, and do and perform all of the acts required of them prior to that time, in order to so close up the affairs of such village; and said village officers shall have power to make levy of taxes for the purpose of paying any outstanding debts or obligations of any such village, but shall have no power to do anything or act creating any new obligation on said village.

§ 5. It shall be the duty of the village clerk and the president of the board of trustees of said village, under their hands and official seals, to give to the Secretary of State of this State, within ten days of such election, notice of the result of such election if the election should result in the dissolution of such village, and to file in the office of the county clerk of the county in which such village is situated, a statement showing the result of the election to dissolve such village organization, said notice to be filed within ten days of said election. Should the result of the election be against such dissolution, then no such notices shall be required.

§ 6. When the acting village officers of the said villages where the election has resulted in a vote favoring dissolution, have paid all of the debts and obligations of the said village, and shall have closed up all of the business pertaining to said village organization, then the said village clerk, and the president of the board of village trustees shall file with the county clerk of the county in which said village is located, a statement, verified by their affidavits, showing that all of the debts and charges against said village, and all obligations of said village have been fully paid and discharged. And when the said statement shall have been so filed, then the said village organization shall be dissolved, and all officers of such village, whether the term or terms for which they have been elected shall have expired or not, shall cease to have any power or authority, and the territory of which said village had been composed shall not be regarded as being in any incorporated village. APPROVED June 7, 1911.

(HOUSE BILL No. 649. APPROVED MAY 22, 1911.)

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, by adding to article 3 a new section to be known as section 2a.

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 incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, be amended by adding to article 3 thereof a new section to be known as section 2a, to read as follows:

2a. Whenever it is shown by any national, State, school or city. census, when the same is officially published, that any city organized under the provisions of this Act is divided into a greater number of wards and has elected a greater number of aldermen than are authorized by section 2 of this article of this Act, the said divisions into wards and the election of said aldermen shall, nevertheless, be valid and binding, and the said aldermen shall be deemed to legally hold their said offices for, during and until the next annual city election for city officers to be thereafter held in accordance with law; and all Acts of the city council of such city, and all ordinances by it passed, during the said period, if in other respects in compliance with law, are hereby declared legal and valid. In all cases when any such city is by such census found to contain more wards than it is entitled to by law, it shall be the duty of the city council of such city by ordinance to redistrict such city into as many wards only as the same is entitled to, not less than sixty days before the time fixed by law for the holding of the next succeeding general election for city officers, and at said election there shall be elected only such number of aldermen as, with the aldermen theretofore elected, and whose term of office shall not expire with such election, as that the number of aldermen of the said city shall not exceed the number of aldermen which the said city is by law entitled to. If, in such redistricting of such city into wards, the terms of two aldermen, who reside in any such new ward, shall not expire with such succeeding election, no election for aldermen shall be held in such ward, at such election, but such holdover aldermen shall, until the next succeeding general election for city officers to be held thereafter, be held and deemed in law to be and constitute the aldermen for such new ward. At such next succeeding election two aldermen shall be elected in such new ward, one for the term of one year and one for the term of two years: Provided, that in all cases, contemplated by this Act, if a census shall be taken pursuant to law and the