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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Township Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 5 | 205-140 as follows:
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| 6 | (60 ILCS 1/205-140)
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| 7 | Sec. 205-140.
Initiating proceedings for particular | ||||||
| 8 | locality; rates
and charges; lien.
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| 9 | (a) A township board may initiate proceedings under | ||||||
| 10 | Sections 205-130 through
205-150 in the manner provided by | ||||||
| 11 | Section 205-20.
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| 12 | (b) The township board may establish the rate or charge to | ||||||
| 13 | each
user of the waterworks system or sewerage system, or | ||||||
| 14 | combined waterworks
and sewerage system, or improvement or | ||||||
| 15 | extension at a rate that will be
sufficient to pay the | ||||||
| 16 | principal and interest of any bonds issued to pay
the cost of | ||||||
| 17 | the system, improvement, or extension and the maintenance and
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| 18 | operation of the system, improvement, or extension and may | ||||||
| 19 | provide an adequate
depreciation fund for the bonds. Charges or | ||||||
| 20 | rates shall be established,
revised, and maintained by | ||||||
| 21 | ordinance and become payable as the township board
determines | ||||||
| 22 | by ordinance.
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| 23 | (b-5) The township board of a township that operates a | ||||||
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| 1 | waterworks system or sewerage system, or combined waterworks | ||||||
| 2 | and sewerage system, has the power by ordinance to collect a | ||||||
| 3 | fair and reasonable charge for connection to any such system in | ||||||
| 4 | addition to those charges imposed under subsection (b) of this | ||||||
| 5 | Section, for the construction, expansion and extension of the | ||||||
| 6 | works of the system, the charge to be assessed against new or | ||||||
| 7 | additional users of the system and to be known as a connection | ||||||
| 8 | charge, except that no connection or water usage charge shall | ||||||
| 9 | exceed 1/6 of the estimated annual charges of the user, | ||||||
| 10 | computed at the net rate for that class of service. The funds | ||||||
| 11 | thus collected shall be used by the township for its general | ||||||
| 12 | township purposes with primary application thereof being made | ||||||
| 13 | by the necessary expansion of the works of the system to meet | ||||||
| 14 | the requirements of the new users thereof. | ||||||
| 15 | (c) The charges or rates are liens upon the real estate | ||||||
| 16 | upon or for which
sewerage service is supplied whenever the | ||||||
| 17 | charges or rates become delinquent as
provided by the ordinance | ||||||
| 18 | of the board fixing a delinquency date.
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| 19 | (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
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