PARKS 



EXCERPTS FROM THE ORDINANCES OF THE WEST CHICAGO PARK COMMISSIONERS 



RELATIVE TO THE DUTIES OF VARIOUS EXECUTIVE OFFICERS 

 CHAPTER I, SECTIONS 3 TO 14 INCLUSIVE, PUBLISHED BY THE COMMISSIONERS, 1924 



Section 3. Officers. Terms of Office. The following 

 named officers shall be elected by the commissioners: 

 president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, auditor, 

 chief engineer, superintendent, superintendent of em- 

 ployment, captain of police, attorney, and such other 

 officers or heads of departments may be selected and 

 appointed by the commissioners from time to time, con- 

 formable to law, as they deem advisable or necessary. 

 All regular officers shall be elected at the annual meet- 

 ing of the commissioners, hereinafter provided for, and 

 shall hold office, unless their terms be sooner terminated, 

 for one year, and until their successors are elected and 

 have qualified. 



Section 4. The president shall: (a) Be the chief 

 executive officer of the commissioners, (b) When pres- 

 ent, preside at all meetings of the commissioners, (c) 

 Sign all contracts and other documents authorized by 

 the commissioners, (d) See that all ordinances of the 

 commissioners are properly enforced, (e) See that all 

 orders of the commissioners are faithfully executed. 

 (/) Have the general direction of all the other officers of 

 the commissioners, (g) Examine all bids and claims 

 against the commissioners and endorse his written 

 recommendation thereon, (h) Countersign all warrants 

 authorized by ordinance or by vote of the commis- 

 sioners, (i) Return all orders countersigned by him to 

 the secretary within five days next after having received 

 the same, either duly countersigned or accompanied by 

 a statement in writing of his reasons for not counter- 

 signing the same, so that the commissioners may make 

 such order thereon as they deem proper. 



Section 5. The vice-president shall: (a) In the 

 absence or inability of the president to act, perform all 

 the duties which should be performed by the president 

 if he were present, (b) In the event of such absence 

 or inability, be vested with the same powers as the 

 president. 



Section 6. The secretary shall: (a) Keep the cor- 

 porate seal and affix the same to all papers which require 

 it, and attest the same with his signature, (b) Keep all 

 records and papers belonging to the commissioners. 

 (c) Keep a full and accurate record of every proceeding 

 in a journal for that purpose, (d) Record all ordinances, 

 orders, rules and resolutions passed by the commis- 

 sioners in a book to be kept for that special purpose, 

 immediately after their passage and before the next 

 regular meeting of the commissioners, (e) Cause due 

 publication to be made of all ordinances or resolutions 

 which require publication, (f) Prepare an estimate each 

 year of the commissioners' probable requirements for 

 the succeeding year, and present the same to the com- 

 missioners for their consideration and action thereon, 

 (g) Purchase all supplies and equipment for the needs of 

 the parks where the amount to be expended does not 



exceed the sum of five hundred dollars ($500); provided, 

 however, requisition for the same has been previously 

 approved by the president or his authorized agent. 

 (h) Be held responsible for the economical purchase of 

 all supplies and material, either made by himself or 

 those authorized by him to do so, and for the obtaining 

 of satisfactory competition in making all purchases, 

 (j) Prepare for the commissioners proper and complete 

 specifications and other necessary data required for 

 bids or proposals for necessary work or supplies. (;') Per- 

 form such other duties as may be required of him by law 

 or imposed upon him by any and all ordinances, orders 

 or resolutions of the commissioners. 



Section 7. The treasurer shall: (a) Collect and 

 receive all moneys payable to, or belonging to, the 

 commissioners, and keep an accurate and correct ac- 

 count thereof, (b) Only pay out such money so received 

 by him upon and for the purposes and to the payee 

 stated in warrants regularly drawn, in the manner pro- 

 vided by ordinances, (c) Hold and safely keep all bonds 

 and other securities belonging to the commissioners, 

 and receive and hold the same for such account and 

 purpose as he may, from time to time, be directed by 

 them to do, and to make such delivery or disposition of 

 the same only as he may be directed by warrant and 

 voucher directed to him by the secretary and signed by 

 the president or vice-president when the latter is acting 

 as president, and by the secretary, which warrant and 

 voucher shall be drawn only upon the order of the 

 commissioners, (d) Collect all interest as it becomes due 

 upon any such bonds and other securities so placed in 

 his custody, and place the same to the credit of the 

 commissioners upon the treasurer's books, (e) Make 

 monthly report of all receipts and disbursements made 

 by him, and submit to the annual meeting of the com- 

 missioners a detailed annual report showing all receipts 

 and disbursements of money during the preceding year, 

 and an inventory of all bonds or other valuable property 

 of the commissioners in his hands. (/) Give a bond in a 

 penal sum to be fixed by the commissioners, with suffi- 

 cient sureties acceptable to the commissioners, provided, 

 however, that the amount of such bond may be increased 

 or diminished from time to time by resolution and order 

 of the commissioners. 



Section 8. The superintendent. (For duties of the 

 superintendent, see page 538.) 



Section 9. The attorney shall: (a) Have charge of 

 all legal matters and all litigation to which the commis- 

 sioners shall be a party, except as they may, in the 

 exercise of a sound official discretion, otherwise direct. 

 (b) Draft all instruments requested by the commis- 

 sioners, (c) Give opinions on all questions referred to 

 him by the commissioners or any committee thereof, or 

 by the park civil service board. 



