(70 ILCS 605/8-2) (from Ch. 42, par. 8-2)

Sec. 8-2. Annexation-Right of outside lands to use district drains. Any owner of land which lies outside of a district, subdistrict or minor subdistrict but within the same natural drainage area, or involved in the same system of drainage as the lands within the district, subdistrict or minor subdistrict, may connect his land to any open ditch of the district, subdistrict or minor subdistrict, or, with the prior consent of the commissioners, to any covered drain of the district, subdistrict or minor subdistrict. Any connection so made shall be subject to the conditions of Section 12-1. When any such connection is made, the landowner involved shall be deemed to have consented to the annexation of such land to the district, subdistrict or minor subdistrict.

(Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)