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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.)