Sec. 2. In all cases when any such street or streets or part or parts thereof, taken as aforesaid by any board of park commissioners or park authorities shall lie in th.
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Sec. 2. In all cases when any such street or streets or part or parts thereof, taken as aforesaid by any board of park commissioners or park authorities shall lie in the city, town or village, the territory of which is not taxed for the maintenance of said board of park commissioners or park authorities, the said board of park commissioners or park authorities shall certify to the board of local improvements or other local municipal authorities of said city, town or village, the kind, character, quality and description of such improvement of such street or streets or part or parts thereof as such board of park commissioners or authorities propose to make on said street or streets or part or parts thereof under their control and which said board or authorities desire to have made on the said street or streets or part or parts thereof in said city, town or village, the territory of which is not taxed for the maintenance of said park commissioners or authorities, and thereupon said board of local improvements, or such other municipal authorities aforesaid, shall proceed under the local improvement act or otherwise with the construction of said proposed improvement according to law.
It shall be the duty of the board of park commissioners or park authorities after the improvement of said street or streets, or parts thereof, taken as aforesaid from such city, town or village, to make an estimate of the amount of money required during the succeeding year for the maintenance, repair, up-keep and government of said street or streets or parts thereof in each city, town or village through which the said street or streets, or part or parts thereof, may extend that does not lie within the territory taxed for the maintenance of the board of park commissioners or park authorities taking said street or streets, or part or parts thereof, which estimate shall be made and certified to the local authorities of such city, town or village on or before the first day of September in each year.
And it shall be the duty of the corporate authorities of said city, town or village to meet on the first Wednesday of October in each year and fix upon the amount of tax so certified to them by said board of park commissioners, for the purpose aforesaid, and immediately to certify to the county clerk in the county in which said taxing body is located the amount to be raised by taxation for the purpose aforesaid, in the respective city, town or village, and the county clerk shall compute and extend the same as other general taxes, but such tax shall be placed in a separate column headed "Driveway Maintenance Tax.
" The taxes so levied and collected shall be paid to the said board of park commissioners or park authorities upon their sole receipt to be expended by them with the district for which the taxes are levied for the purpose of such maintenance, repair, up-keep and government, and for none other.
The tax herein authorized to be levied shall not be subject to the scaling process required by the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act concerning the levy and extension of taxes," approved May 9, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, and amendments thereto; and the "Driveway Maintenance Tax" shall be in addition to the maximum of taxes permitted under Section 8-3-1 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as heretofore and hereafter amended, and exclusive of all other taxes such municipality may levy or collect.