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90_HB2375
65 ILCS 5/11-138-1 from Ch. 24, par. 11-138-1
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Authorizes a
municipality or water company (now a water company) to locate
or change the source of a water supply to a point not more
than 80 (now 20) miles beyond the municipality's corporate
limits.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Illinois Municipal Code by changing
2 Section 11-138-1.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
6 changing Section 11-138-1 as follows:
7 (65 ILCS 5/11-138-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-138-1)
8 Sec. 11-138-1. Power to locate water supply. Any
9 municipality or any public or private water company organized
10 under the laws of this State for the purpose, in whole or in
11 part, of supplying the any municipality or its the
12 inhabitants thereof with all or a portion of its water
13 supply, may locate one or more of the sources of its water
14 source of supply at, or change one or more of its sources
15 source of water supply to, a point not more than 80 20 miles
16 beyond the corporate limits of the municipality. Such
17 municipality or company may enter upon any land and take and
18 damage private property beyond those corporate limits, (1)
19 for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a line or
20 lines of water-pipe to the source of supply, (2) for the
21 necessary pumping stations, reservoirs, and other
22 appurtenances, and (3) for the protection of all reservoirs,
23 submerged land, and source of supply from contamination,
24 pollution, or damage from any cause whatsoever.
25 Such municipality or a company may construct, maintain,
26 and operate beyond those corporate limits such a line or
27 lines of water-pipe across or under any railroad
28 right-of-way, and in and under any public or private road,
29 highway, street, alley, or public ground, or across or under
30 any of the waters within this State, subject, however, to
31 these conditions: (1) such a line or lines of water-pipe
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1 shall not interfere with any railroad, or with any sewer, gas
2 pipes, water-pipes, or other conduit, already laid in or
3 under any public or private road, highway, street, alley, or
4 public ground by public authority; (2) such municipality or a
5 company, in the construction and repair of such a line or
6 lines of water-pipe, shall restore any public or private
7 road, highway, street, alley, or public ground that is
8 damaged to the same condition as before, and shall not
9 unnecessarily interfere with the public use of the navigation
10 of any of the specified waters; and (3) the laying of the
11 water-pipes and construction of the other works shall be done
12 under such reasonable regulations as the corporate
13 authorities of any township or municipality wherein that work
14 is done may prescribe.
15 (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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