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Tit. XIII, Ch. 12-A. MUNICIPAL BANDS. §! 3669-3729-al.
6 used for the sole and only purpose of grading, road building, building
7 retaining walls, or riprap along watercourses and otherwise perma-
8 nently improving by the construction of buildings in public parks any
9 and all lands theretofore acquired for park purposes or improving any
10 driveway or boulevard connecting one park with another.
[S., '13, § 850-c; 37 G. A., ch. 384, § 1 ; 38 G. A., ch. 46, § 1 ;
38 G. A., ch. 312, § 1 ; 39 G. A., ch. 125, § 1.]
SEC. 3669. Additional tax levy in certain cities—election required.
1 In cities having a population of over twenty-five hundred, said
2 board is further authorized to submit to the electors of any such city,
3 voting at a city or special election, called for that purpose, the ques-
4 tion of the levy of a further additional tax for park purposes, not to
5 exceed five mills on the dollar on all taxable property of the city over
6 any term of years not exceeding thirty, to be used for the sole and
7 only purpose of purchasing and paying for real estate and permanently
8 improving the same for park purposes.
[C, '97, § 852; S., '13, § 850-c; 38 G. A., ch. 812, § 1 ; 39 G. A.,
ch. 162, § 1.]
SEC. 8684. Meandered lake—tax to improve.
1 . Where any city has, prior to July first, eighteen hundred eighty,
2 received a grant of the title from the United States to a meandered
3 lake within its corporate limits, to be held and used for public uses,
4 recreation and park purposes, and where such city has for more than
5 twenty years devoted the same to the public use, recreation and park
6 purposes, its board of park commissioners is authorized in the discre-
7 tion of said board to certify to the county auditor and cause to be col-
8 lected an additional tax of not exceeding one mill each year for
9 the years nineteen hundred sixteen, nineteen hundred seventeen, nine-
10 teen hundred eighteen, nineteen hundred nineteen, nineteen hun-
11 dred twenty, nineteen hundred twenty-one, nineteen hundred twenty-
12 two, nineteen hundred twenty-three, nineteen hundred twenty-four
13 and nineteen hundred twenty-five, to be used for the sole and only
14 purpose of improving such lake by dredging or otherwise deepening
15 the same, constructing dikes and levees for the protection of the same
16 and for changing the form and size thereof and for the regulation,
17 control and improvement of the water supply and for the improve-
18 ment and beautifying of such lake, the park land surrounding the
19 same and for the furnishing of suitable equipment thereof for public
20 use and pleasure.
[S. S., '15, § 850-p ; 38 G. A., ch. 58, § 1 ; 39 G. A., ch. 26, § 1].
CHAPTER 12-A.
MUNICIPAL BANDS.
SECTION 3729-al. Levy authorized.
1 Cities having a population of not over forty thousand and towns
2 may, when authorized as hereinafter provided, levy each year a tax of
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