Division 97 - Pleasure Driveways - Illinois Statutes

      (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 97 heading)DIVISION 97. PLEASURE DRIVEWAYS

(65 ILCS 5/11‑97‑1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑97‑1)     Sec. 11‑97‑1. The corporate authorities of any municipality, whether incorporated under the general law or a special charter, may designate by ordinance the whole or any part of not to exceed 2 streets, roads, avenues, boulevards, or highways, under their jurisdiction, as public driveways, to be used for pleasure driving only, and to improve and maintain the same, and also to lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave, or otherwise improve and maintain not more than 2 roads, streets, or avenues, and designate them as pleasure driveways to be used for pleasure driving only. But these powers can only be exercised when the corporate authorities are petitioned to do so by the owners of more than two‑thirds of the frontage of land fronting upon a proposed pleasure driveway. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

    (65 ILCS 5/11‑97‑2)(from Ch. 24, par. 11‑97‑2)
    Sec. 11‑97‑2. The corporate authorities of any municipality, whether incorporated under the general law or a special charter, may lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave, or otherwise improve and maintain one or more driveways from the corporate limits of the municipality to parks owned by the municipality outside its corporate limits. The cost of these driveways may be paid out of any fund in the municipal treasury, acquired under the authority of law for park purposes. The corporate authorities may acquire the land necessary for this purpose by purchase, legacy or gift, or in case the land cannot be so acquired, they may acquire it by condemnation in the manner provided for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act.
(Source: P.A. 94‑1055, eff. 1‑1‑07.)

(65 ILCS 5/11‑97‑3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑97‑3)     Sec. 11‑97‑3. Pleasure driveways specified in Section 11‑97‑1 may be laid out, extended, and improved under the provisions of Article 9. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11‑97‑4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑97‑4)     Sec. 11‑97‑4. The corporate authorities, by ordinance, may regulate, restrain, and control the speed of travel upon these pleasure driveways, may prescribe the kind of vehicles that shall be allowed thereon, and in all things may regulate, restrain, and control the use of these pleasure driveways. The corporate authorities may exclude therefrom funeral processions, hearses, and traffic teams and vehicles, so as to free these pleasure driveways from all business traffic or objectionable travel and make them pleasure driveways for pleasure driving only. They may prescribe in that ordinance such fines or penalties for the violation thereof as they are allowed by law to prescribe for the violation of other ordinances. (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)