SB2902sam001 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Julie A. Morrison

Filed: 3/6/2026

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2902

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2902 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The North Shore Water Reclamation District Act is amended by changing Sections 4 and 10 as follows:

(70 ILCS 2305/4) (from Ch. 42, par. 280)

Sec. 4. Board of trustees; powers; compensation. The trustees shall constitute a board of trustees for the district. The board of trustees is the corporate authority of the district, and shall exercise all the powers and manage and control all the affairs and property of the district. The board shall elect a president and vice-president from among their own number. In case of the death, resignation, absence from the state, or other disability of the president, the powers, duties and emoluments of the office of the president shall devolve upon the vice-president, until the disability is removed or until a successor to the president is appointed and chosen in the manner provided in this Act. The board may select a secretary, treasurer, executive director, and attorney, and may provide by ordinance for the employment of other employees as the board may deem necessary for the municipality. The board may appoint such other officers and hire such employees to manage and control the operations of the district as it deems necessary; provided, however, that the board shall not employ an individual as a wastewater operator whose Certificate of Technical Competency is suspended or revoked under rules adopted by the Pollution Control Board under item (4) of subsection (a) of Section 13 of the Environmental Protection Act. All employees selected by the board shall hold their respective offices during the pleasure of the board, and give such bond as may be required by the board. The board may prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of all the officers and employees of the sanitary district. Except as otherwise provided in this Section However, the president of the board shall not receive more than $18,000 per year, and each other member of the board shall not receive more than $15,000 per year. Upon a unanimous vote, the board of trustees may elect to raise compensation to $18,750 per year for board members and $21,750 per year for the president of the board. The board of trustees has full power to pass all necessary ordinances, rules, and regulations for the proper management and conduct of the business of the board and of the corporation, and for carrying into effect the objects for which the sanitary district was formed. The ordinances may provide for a fine for each offense of not less than $100 or more than $1,000. Each day's continuance of a violation shall be a separate offense. Fines under this Section are recoverable by the sanitary district in a civil action. The sanitary district is authorized to apply to the circuit court for injunctive relief or mandamus when, in the opinion of the chief administrative officer, the relief is necessary to protect the sewerage system of the sanitary district.

The board of trustees shall have the authority to change the name of the District, by ordinance, to the North Shore Water Reclamation District. Any such name change shall not impair the legal status of any act by the sanitary district. If an ordinance is passed pursuant to this paragraph, all provisions of this Act shall apply to the newly renamed district. No rights, duties, or privilege of such sanitary district or of any person existing before the change of name shall be affected by the change in the name of the sanitary district. All proceedings pending in any court relating to such sanitary district may continue to final consummation under the name in which they were commenced.

(Source: P.A. 101-575, eff. 8-23-19.)

(70 ILCS 2305/10) (from Ch. 42, par. 286)

Sec. 10. At the time or before incurring any indebtedness, the board of trustees shall provide for the collection of revenue a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof as the same shall fall due, and at least within 40 twenty years from the time of contracting the same.

(Source: Laws 1911, p. 299.)".