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Statutes > Illinois > Chapter65 > 802 > 006500050HArt_11_Div_78 (65 ILCS 5/11‑78‑1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑78‑1) Sec. 11‑78‑1. Any city or village, whether incorporated under a general or special law, which holds any real or personal estate which has been conveyed to it for school or academy purposes by ordinance or resolution of the corporate authorities may convey that real or personal estate to the school officers, authorized to hold it, for the use of the school district in which the real or personal estate is situated, by proper deeds of conveyance executed by the proper officers of the municipality, under the corporate seal thereof. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.) |
(65 ILCS 5/11‑78‑2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑78‑2) Sec. 11‑78‑2. If any real estate conveyed by virtue of Section 11‑78‑1 ceases at any time to be used for school purposes for a period of 3 years, the school officers, holding the title to the real estate, shall convey the real estate back to the grantor municipality to be by it thereafterwards held, enjoyed, and disposed of as other corporate property. A provision expressing this condition shall be inserted in every deed made by a municipality under Section 11‑78‑1. Such a reconveyance may be compelled and enforced by any taxpayer of the grantor municipality by proper proceedings to be instituted by him for that purpose. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.) |
(65 ILCS 5/11‑78‑3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑78‑3) Sec. 11‑78‑3. If real or personal estate is under the control of trustees, appointed or elected by virtue of any general or special law of this state, when it is conveyed as specified in Section 11‑78‑1, the duties of those trustees in relation thereto shall cease, and they shall immediately settle and adjust all matters relating to the trust estate and make a report to the proper authority of their acts. Upon the approval of this report the trustees shall be released and discharged from the further performance of duty in that behalf. All money which may remain in the municipal treasury to the credit of any fund connected with the use of such real or personal estate, while so held by the municipality, shall be used by the municipality for any lawful corporate purpose. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.) |
(65 ILCS 5/11‑78‑4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑78‑4) Sec. 11‑78‑4. When authorized by ordinance, any municipality incorporated under a special charter, holding title to or having an interest in any real estate, may sell and convey the real estate, or the municipality's interest therein, to the trustee of the schools of the township or other county board of school trustees as the case may be in which the real estate is situated, to be used as a school site for the school district in which the real estate is situated. The conveyance shall be made by a proper deed or conveyance, executed by the corporate authorities of the municipality. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.) |
