65 ILCS 5/ Illinois Municipal Code.

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65 ILCS 5/11-137-2

(65 ILCS 5/11-137-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-2)

Sec. 11-137-2.

In all municipalities where any person has constructed
a waterworks or sewerage system, or both, the municipality may purchase
or lease that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, from the owners
thereof, subject to the provisions of this Division 137.

Before such a lease or purchase is binding upon the municipality, the
corporate authorities shall pass an ordinance authorizing the
municipality to lease or purchase that waterworks or sewerage system, or
both, and shall include in the ordinance the terms, as near as
practicable, upon which the lease or purchase shall be made. The
ordinance shall be published at least once, within 10 days after
passage, in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if
no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a
general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less
than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may
instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the
municipality.

The publication or posting of the ordinance shall be accompanied by a
notice of (1) the specific number of voters required to sign a petition
requesting the question of authorizing the lease or purchase of a waterworks
or sewerage system to be submitted to the electors; (2) the time in which
such petition must be filed; and (3) the date of the prospective referendum.
The municipal clerk shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one.

If no petition is presented to the corporate authorities as
hereinafter provided, within 30 days after the ordinance is so published
and posted, the corporate authorities may consummate the lease or
purchase of that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, as provided in
the ordinance. If within 30 days after the first publication of the
ordinance a petition is filed with the municipal clerk signed by electors
of the municipality numbering 10% or more of the number of registered
voters in the municipality, asking that the question of leasing or
purchasing that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, as provided in the
ordinance, be submitted to a vote, the clerk shall certify the proposition
and the corporate authorities shall designate an election at which the
question shall be submitted. If a majority of the votes cast on the
question are in favor thereof, the corporate authorities may complete the
lease or purchase, but if a majority of the votes cast on the question are
unfavorable, no further action shall be taken by the municipality for a
period of not less than 6 months. Thereafter, the same or another question
may be submitted as before.

(Source: P.A. 87-767.)

65 ILCS 5/11-137-3

(65 ILCS 5/11-137-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-3)

Sec. 11-137-3.

If any municipality is authorized to purchase a waterworks
or sewerage system, or both, as provided in Section 11-137-2, and if the
system is pledged to secure the payment of bonds, or other written
evidences of indebtedness, by a mortgage or trust deed, the corporate
authorities of the municipality may direct the municipal clerk or
treasurer, by a motion or resolution, to enter the bonds, or the other
written evidences of indebtedness on the records of the municipality as an
indebtedness against the waterworks or sewerage system only. The corporate
authorities shall have all the revenue derived from the operation of the
system, and all rents due and payable to the former owners for use of the
water and sewerage facilities, and pledged for the payment of the
indebtedness, set apart in a separate fund for the payment of the
indebtedness as it becomes due and payable, provided the system can be
operated and maintained from the current funds of the municipality
appropriated therefor.

Nothing contained in this Division 137 affects any lien or renders void
any bond, mortgage, or trust deed securing any indebtedness upon the
system, or any franchise under which the system is operated, or any
contract executed by any person as owner for the construction and
installation of the waterworks or sewerage system, or both, prior to the
transfer of the system to the municipality as provided in this Division
137. If the municipality neglects or fails to pay the indebtedness as it
falls due and if any mortgage or trust deed is foreclosed at the instance
of bona fide holders of unpaid bonds or other written evidences of
indebtedness, the mortgagee or trustee for those bona fide holders shall be
re-invested with all former rights which existed in their behalf by virtue
of the franchise and contract which were granted by the municipality, and
which were pledged.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)