99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB3309
 
Introduced , by Rep. Dwight Kay
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 

 
  
60 ILCS 1/205-140

     Amends the Township Code. Provides that a township board may by ordinance establish and collect a charge for connection to a waterworks system or sewerage system, or combined waterworks and sewerage system, to new users. Prohibits the charge from exceeding 1/6 of the user's estimated annual charges for that class of service.
  


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A BILL FOR
 

  
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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
  
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:
  
 
 
4    Section 5. The Township Code is amended  by changing Section 
5205-140 as follows:
 



6    (60 ILCS 1/205-140)



7    Sec. 205-140. 
Initiating proceedings for particular 
8locality; rates
and charges; lien.

9    (a) A township board may initiate proceedings under 
10Sections 205-130 through
205-150 in the  manner provided by 
11Section 205-20.

12    (b) The township board may establish the rate or charge to 
13each
user of the waterworks system or sewerage system, or 
14combined waterworks
and sewerage system, or improvement or 
15extension at a rate that will be
sufficient to pay the 
16principal and interest of any bonds issued to pay
the cost of 
17the system, improvement, or extension and the maintenance and

18operation of the system, improvement, or extension and may 
19provide an adequate
depreciation fund for the bonds. Charges or 
20rates shall be established,
revised, and maintained by 
21ordinance and become payable as the township board
determines 
22by ordinance.

23    (b-5) The township board of a township that operates a 
 
 
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1waterworks system or sewerage system, or combined waterworks 
2and sewerage system, has the power by ordinance to collect a 
3fair and reasonable charge for connection to any such system in 
4addition to those charges imposed under subsection (b) of this 
5Section, for the construction, expansion and extension of the 
6works of the system, the charge to be assessed against new or 
7additional users of the system and to be known as a connection 
8charge, except that no connection or water usage charge shall 
9exceed 1/6 of the estimated annual charges of the user, 
10computed at the net rate for that class of service. The funds 
11thus collected shall be used by the township for its general 
12township purposes with primary application thereof being made 
13by the necessary expansion of the works of the system to meet 
14the requirements of the new users thereof. 
15    (c) The charges or rates are liens upon the real estate 
16upon or for which
sewerage service is supplied whenever the 
17charges or rates become delinquent as
provided by the ordinance 
18of the board fixing a delinquency date.

19(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)