PARKS 



for deferred payments and interest thereon, with mort- 

 gages or deed of trust on the land purchased, or with 

 or by means of an instrument in writing retaining title 

 thereto in the vendor, or enter into any other con- 

 tractual arrangement whereby provision is made that 

 such note or notes, claim or claims, or other instruments 

 for deferred payments and interest thereon, and all 

 lawful charges, shall not be a charge or charges against 

 the general credit of the city or be a general liability 

 thereof, but that the liability shall only extend to and 

 be a charge against the land so purchased or acquired. 

 Such method of acquisition provided for in this section 

 shall not be considered or deemed exclusive, but cumu- 

 lative and in addition to all other methods of acquisi- 

 tion of lands or interests therein for public purposes 

 heretofore, hereafter or by other provisions in this Act 

 provided. 



Section 5. Any such city may, by and through its 

 park and recreation board, join or cooperate with one 

 or more other municipalities having like powers, or 

 with boards of education, in providing, establishing and 

 conducting parks, playgrounds, recreation centers, and 

 other recreational facilities and activities. 



Section 6. That there shall be within sixty days 

 from the approval of this Act, in all cities now having 

 a population of one hundred thousand or more accord- 

 ing to the last Federal census, established and con- 

 stituted in accordance with the terms of this section, 

 a permanent "park and recreation board" for such 

 city, and within sixty days after any other city reaches 

 the class described in Section i of this Act and which is 

 not now within said class, there shall be established 

 and constituted in accordance with the terms of this 

 section a park and recreation board for such city. The 

 planning of a park system, administration, improve- 

 ment, development, conduct and supervision of the 

 parks, park areas, park boulevards, playgrounds, recrea- 

 tional centers and other recreational activities of each 

 such city shall be vested in the park and recreation 

 board of such city, which shall be composed of five 

 members, who shall be residents of such city, and four 

 of whom shall not be members of the city council or 

 commission or other governing body of the city. The 

 members of said board shall serve without compensa- 

 tion and shall be chosen solely because of their character 

 and fitness. One member of the governing body of any 

 such city selected by the governing body of such city 

 shall at all times be a member of said park and recrea- 

 tion board, provided that if there be in such city a 

 member of the governing body whose department of 

 the city government has the supervision of the parks 

 of the city, such member shall by virtue of his office 

 be a member of the park and recreation board. Each 

 of the other four members of the park and recreation 

 board first selected shall be chosen by the governing 

 body of such city. The term of office of each member 

 of said board other than the one who is a member thereof 



by virtue of his membership in the governing body of 

 said city shall be four years, except that the member 

 of such first chosen by the governing body of such 

 city shall be appointed for such terms as that the term 

 of one member shall expire annually after the date of 

 appointment, and the governing body of the city shall, 

 in making such appointment designate the term for 

 which each such member of said board is appointed, 

 and which shall be shown in the minutes of the meeting 

 at which the appointments are made. Thereafter as 

 vacancies occur in the membership of said board by 

 reason of the .expiration of the terms of either of said 

 four members, or for any other reason, such vacancies 

 shall be filled by nomination upon a majority vote of 

 the governing body of such cities, which nomination 

 shall be certified to the park and recreation board and 

 the remaining members of the park and recreation board 

 shall, by majority vote of such board within ten days 

 of the receipt of the certification of nomination, appoint 

 or decline to appoint the nominee of the governing body 

 of such city to fill the vacancy in the park and recrea- 

 tion board which will exist by reason of the expiring 

 term or otherwise. If the park and recreation board of 

 the city declines to appoint the nominee of the govern- 

 ing body of such city it shall forthwith certify or cause 

 to be certified to the governing body of such city such 

 fact, and the governing body of such city forthwith 

 in like manner shall make and certify another nomina- 

 tion at the park and recreation board of such city, and 

 in like manner shall continue to make and certify a 

 nomination to the park and recreation board of such 

 city until the park and recreation board of the city 

 appoint a nominee of the governing body of the city to 

 fill the vacancy, and it shall be the duty of the park and 

 recreation board to act promptly on each nomination of 

 the governing body of the city and appoint or refuse to 

 appoint the nominee as a member of the park and 

 recreation board, and each time the park and recreation 

 board refuses to appoint a nominee of the governing 

 body of the city as a member of the park and recreation 

 board, that fact must be certified to the governing body 

 as required in the first instance. 



Section 7. The members of the park and recreation 

 board, when such board is constituted in accordance 

 with Section 6 of this Act, shall immediately meet and 

 organize by electing one of the members thereof as 

 president and such other officers as may be necessary. 

 The governing body of any such city may, in addition 

 to the powers directly vested in such board by this Act, 

 confer upon and delegate to the park and recreation 

 board of such city, when established and constituted, 

 any other power or authority conferred upon such city 

 by the terms of this Act or conferred upon such city 

 by any other provision of law, with respect to or in con- 

 nection with the establishment, conduct, development, 

 improvement, equipment, and maintenance of parks, 

 park areas, park boulevards, playgrounds, recreational 



