97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
SB0156

 

Introduced 2/8/2011, by Sen. Larry K. Bomke

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
70 ILCS 2405/7  from Ch. 42, par. 306
70 ILCS 2405/35 new

    Amends the Sanitary District Act of 1917. Provides that, beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act, the board of trustees of a sanitary district may not impose or collect a tax on property located within the sanitary district that does not directly receive services from the sanitary district. Defines "services" as including sewage disposal for and water delivery to individual residences located within the sanitary district. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Sanitary District Act of 1917 is amended by
5changing Section 7 and by adding Section 35 as follows:
 
6    (70 ILCS 2405/7)  (from Ch. 42, par. 306)
7    Sec. 7. Sewage disposal; penalties. The board of trustees
8of any sanitary district organized under this Act shall have
9power to provide for the disposal of the sewage thereof
10including the sewage and drainage of any incorporated city,
11town or village within the boundaries of such district and to
12save and preserve the water supplied to the inhabitants of such
13district from contamination and for that purpose may construct
14and maintain an enclosed conduit or conduits, main pipe or
15pipes, wholly or partially submerged, buried or otherwise, and
16by means of pumps or otherwise cause such sewage to flow or to
17be forced through such conduit or conduits, pipe or pipes to
18and into any ditch or canal constructed and operated by any
19other sanitary district, after having first acquired the right
20so to do, or such board may provide for the drainage of such
21district by laying out, establishing, constructing and
22maintaining one or more channels, drains, ditches and outlets,
23for carrying off and disposing of the drainage (including the

 

 

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1sewage) of such district together with such adjuncts and
2additions thereto as may be necessary or proper to cause such
3channels or outlets to accomplish the end for which they are
4designed, in a satisfactory manner, including pumps and pumping
5stations and the operation of the same. Such board may also
6treat and purify such sewage so that when the same shall flow
7into any lake or other water-course, it will not injuriously
8contaminate the waters thereof, and may adopt any other
9feasible method to accomplish the object for which such
10sanitary district may be created, and may also provide means
11whereby the sanitary district may reach and procure supplies of
12water for diluting and flushing purposes; provided, however,
13that nothing herein contained shall be construed to empower or
14authorize such board of trustees to operate a system of
15waterworks for the purposes of furnishing or delivering water
16to any such municipality or to the inhabitants thereof. Nothing
17in this Act shall require a sanitary district to extend service
18to any individual residence or other building within the
19district, and it is the intent of the Illinois General Assembly
20that any construction contemplated by this Section shall be
21restricted to construction of works and main or interceptor
22sewers, conduits, channels and similar facilities, but not
23individual service lines. Nothing in this Act contained shall
24authorize the trustees to flow the sewage of such district into
25Lake Michigan.
26    Every such sanitary district shall proceed as rapidly as is

 

 

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1reasonably possible to provide sewers and a plant or plants for
2the treatment and purification of its sewage, which plant or
3plants shall be of suitable kind and sufficient capacity to
4properly treat and purify such sewage so as to conduce to the
5preservation of the public health, comfort and convenience and
6to render the sewage harmless, insofar as is reasonably
7possible, to animal, fish and plant life. Any violation of this
8proviso and any failure to observe and follow same, by any
9sanitary district organized under this Act, shall be held, and
10is hereby declared, to be a business offense and fined on the
11part of the sanitary district not less than $1,000 nor more
12than $10,000, and the trustees thereof may be ousted from
13office as trustees of the district by an order of the court
14before whom the cause is heard. Upon the complaint of the
15Environmental Protection Agency it shall be the duty of the
16Pollution Control Board to cause the foregoing provisions to be
17enforced in accordance with Section 31 of the "Environmental
18Protection Act". Nothing in this Act contained shall be
19construed as superseding or in any manner limiting the
20provisions of the "Environmental Protection Act".
21    In providing works for the disposal of industrial sewage,
22commonly called industrial wastes, in the manner above provided
23whether the industrial sewage is disposed of in combination
24with municipal sewage or independently, the Sanitary District
25shall have power to apportion and collect therefor, from the
26producer thereof, fair additional construction, maintenance

 

 

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1and operating costs over and above those covered by normal
2taxes, and in case of dispute as to the fairness of such
3additional construction, maintenance and operating costs, then
4the same shall be determined by a board of three engineers, one
5appointed by the sanitary district, one appointed by such
6producer or producers or their legal representatives, and the
7third to be appointed by the two engineers selected as above
8described. In the event the two engineers so selected shall
9fail to agree upon a third engineer then upon the petition of
10either of the parties the circuit judge shall appoint such
11third engineer. A decision of a majority of the board shall be
12binding on both parties and the cost of the services of the
13board shall be shared by both parties equally.
14    In providing works, including the main pipes referred to
15above, for the disposal of raw sewage, in the manner above
16provided, whether such sewage is disposed of in combination
17with municipal sewage or independently, the Sanitary District
18shall have power to collect a fair and reasonable charge for
19connection to its system in addition to those charges covered
20by normal taxes, for the construction, expansion and extension
21of the works of the system, the charge to be assessed against
22new or additional users of the system and to be known as a
23connection charge. Such construction, expansion and extension
24of the works of the system shall include proposed or existing
25collector systems and may, at the discretion of such District,
26include connections by individual properties. The charge for

 

 

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1connection shall be determined by the District and may equal or
2exceed the actual cost to the District of the construction,
3expansion or extension of the works of the system required by
4the connection. The funds thus collected shall be used by the
5Sanitary District for its general corporate purposes with
6primary application thereof being made by the necessary
7expansion of the works of the system to meet the requirements
8of the new users thereof.
9(Source: P.A. 85-1209.)
 
10    (70 ILCS 2405/35 new)
11    Sec. 35. Power to tax; required services. Notwithstanding
12any provision of law to the contrary, beginning on the
13effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General
14Assembly, the board of trustees of a sanitary district may not
15impose or collect a tax on property located within the sanitary
16district that does not directly receive services from the
17sanitary district. For the purposes of this Section, "services"
18include sewage disposal for and water delivery to individual
19residences located within the sanitary district.
 
20    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
21becoming law.