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90_SB1868
70 ILCS 2605/26 from Ch. 42, par. 348
Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act.
Prohibits any city, village or incorporated town from
refusing to sell water to another city, village or
incorporated town if such water is obtained from a lake under
this section. The municipality may charge a rate sufficient
to cover the costs of financing, constructing, operating, and
maintaining its waterworks facilities. If such rate cannot
be agreed upon, such rate shall be fixed by the Circuit Court
of Cook County.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
2 District Act by changing Section 26.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
6 Act is amended by changing Section 26 as follows:
7 (70 ILCS 2605/26) (from Ch. 42, par. 348)
8 Sec. 26. Any city, village or incorporated town located
9 in any such sanitary district which owns a system of
10 waterworks and procures its supply of water from a lake or
11 other source which will be saved from sewage pollution by the
12 construction of the sewage facilities provided by this Act
13 shall furnish water to any city, village, township,
14 incorporated town or other municipal corporation within or
15 outside the boundaries of any such sanitary district in such
16 quantities as may be required to supply consumers within or
17 outside said territory at no greater price or charge than
18 said city, village or incorporated town charges and collects
19 of consumers within its limits through meters for like large
20 quantities; provided, however, that any such city, village,
21 township, incorporated town or other municipal corporation
22 making application for the sale of water to it shall be
23 required to build or cause to be built suitable and
24 sufficient water mains to the corporate limits of such city,
25 incorporated town or village so owning a system of waterworks
26 and supplying water as aforesaid to connect with the water
27 mains and receive the water from such city, incorporated town
28 or village.
29 However, where such a city, village or incorporated town
30 constructs and operates waterworks facilities such as supply
31 mains, pumping stations, reservoirs and other facilities
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1 outside of its corporate limits and within 35 miles of the
2 limits thereof, for the purpose of supplying improved water
3 service to municipalities, townships and water system
4 authorities which request such service, such city, village or
5 incorporated town may enter into contracts with such
6 municipalities, townships and water system authorities at a
7 higher water rate than the existing metered rate for like
8 consumers within such city, village or incorporated town to
9 allow such city, village or incorporated town to obtain a
10 fair return to cover the costs of financing, constructing,
11 operating and maintaining the said improved facilities, and
12 in the event that thereafter such rates are not agreed upon
13 by the parties or are not otherwise provided for by contract,
14 such rates shall be fixed and determined by the Circuit Court
15 of Cook County upon petition filed therein; provided that the
16 right of any municipal corporation within or outside the
17 sanitary district to obtain water from such a city, village
18 or incorporated town at its corporate limits at the existing
19 metered rate for like consumers within the corporate limits
20 of such city, village or incorporated town shall remain
21 unimpaired.
22 No city, village or incorporated town which obtains water
23 indirectly from any city, village or incorporated town which
24 procures its supply of water from a lake or other source of
25 water which will be saved from pollution by this Act as
26 described hereinabove shall refuse to furnish water to any
27 city, village, township, incorporated town or other municipal
28 corporation within or outside the boundaries of any such
29 sanitary district, provided that any city, village or
30 incorporated town which obtains water indirectly may charge a
31 rate sufficient to cover the costs of financing,
32 constructing, operating and maintaining its waterworks
33 facilities used to provide water service to any city,
34 village, township, incorporated town or other municipal
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1 corporation and in the event that thereafter such rate is not
2 agreed upon by the parties or is not otherwise provided for
3 by contract, such rate shall be fixed and determined by the
4 Circuit Court of Cook County upon petition filed therein.
5 (Source: P.A. 83-835.)