97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB0248

 

Introduced 01/25/11, by Rep. Karen May

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
70 ILCS 2305/3  from Ch. 42, par. 279
70 ILCS 2305/7  from Ch. 42, par. 283
70 ILCS 2305/7.2  from Ch. 42, par. 283.2
70 ILCS 2305/28  from Ch. 42, par. 296.8
70 ILCS 2305/30 new

    Amends the North Shore Sanitary District Act. Provides that trustees of a sanitary district elected in 2012 or thereafter shall assume office on the second Wednesday in December following the general election. Authorizes the board of trustees of a sanitary district to enter into an agreement to sell, convey, or disburse treated wastewater with any public or private entity located within or outside of the boundaries of the sanitary district. Provides that no claim for compensation shall be made or action for damages filed against a sanitary district on account of any damage to property occurring on or after January 1, 2012, unless notice in writing is filed with the secretary of the sanitary district's board of trustees within 6 months after the occurrence of the damage setting forth specified information. In provisions concerning tributary sewer systems, provides that a municipality or county shall not issue any occupancy permit for a building or facility until the building or facility receives from the sanitary district the authorization to connect to the sanitary sewer. Makes other changes. Preempts the concurrent exercise of home rule powers. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

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 North Shore Sanitary District Act is amended
5by changing Sections 3, 7, 7.2, and 28 and by adding Section 30
6as follows:
 
7    (70 ILCS 2305/3)  (from Ch. 42, par. 279)
8    Sec. 3. Election of trustees; terms. The corporate
9authority of the North Shore Sanitary District shall consist of
105 trustees.
11    Within 20 days after the adoption of the Act, as provided
12in Section 1, the county governing body shall proceed to divide
13the sanitary district into 5 wards for the purpose of electing
14trustees. One trustee shall be elected for each ward on the
15date of the next regular county election. In each sanitary
16district organized pursuant to the provisions of this Act prior
17to the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1975, one
18trustee shall be elected for each ward on the date of the
19regular county election in the year 1976. However, the
20population in no one ward shall be less than 1/6 of the
21population of the whole district and the territory in each of
22the wards shall be composed of contiguous territory in as
23compact form as practicable. A portion of each ward shall abut

 

 

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1the west shore of Lake Michigan and the boundaries of the
2respective wards shall coincide with precinct boundaries and
3the boundaries of existing municipalities as nearly as
4practicable. In the year 1981, and every 10 years thereafter,
5the sanitary district board of trustees shall reapportion the
6district, so that the respective wards shall conform as nearly
7as practicable with the above requirements as to population,
8shape and territory.
9    The trustees shall hold office respectively for 4 years
10from the first Monday of May after their election and until
11their successors are appointed and qualified, except that the
12term of office of 2 of the trustees first elected shall be for
132 years. Which of the trustees first elected shall serve a term
14of 2 years shall be determined by lot at their first meeting.
15Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, all
16    All trustees elected from in 1994 through 2011 or
17thereafter shall assume office on the first Monday in December
18following the general election instead of the first Monday in
19May of the following year. All trustees elected in 2012 or
20thereafter shall assume office on the second Wednesday in
21December following the general election.
22    In the year 1982, and every 10 years thereafter, following
23each decennial Federal census, all 5 trustees shall be elected.
24Immediately following each decennial redistricting, the
25sanitary district board of trustees shall divide the wards into
262 groups, one of which shall consist of 3 wards and the other

 

 

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1shall consist of 2 wards. Trustees from one group shall serve
2terms of 4 years, 4 years and 2 years; and trustees from the
3other group shall serve terms of 2 years, 4 years and 4 years.
4    Each of the trustees, upon entering the duties of their
5respective offices, shall execute a bond with security, in the
6amount and form to be approved by the corporate authorities,
7payable to the district, in the penal sum of not less than
8$10,000.00, as directed by resolution or ordinance,
9conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of the
10office. Each bond shall be filed with and preserved by the
11board secretary.
12    When a vacancy exists in the office of trustees of any
13sanitary district organized under the provisions of this Act,
14the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the president of
15the sanitary district board of trustees, with the advice and
16consent of the sanitary district board of trustees, until the
17next regular election at which trustees of the sanitary
18district are elected, and shall be made a matter of record in
19the office of the county clerk in the county in which the
20district is located.
21    A majority of the board of trustees shall constitute a
22quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day. No
23trustee or employee of the district shall be directly or
24indirectly interested in any contract, work or business of the
25district, or the sale of any article, the expense, price or
26consideration of which is paid by the district; nor in the

 

 

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1purchase of any real estate or other property belonging to the
2district, or which shall be sold for taxes or assessments, or
3by virtue of legal process at the suit of the district. The
4trustees have the power to provide and adopt a corporate seal
5for the district.
6(Source: P.A. 95-607, eff. 9-11-07.)
 
7    (70 ILCS 2305/7)  (from Ch. 42, par. 283)
8    Sec. 7. Powers of the board of trustees. The board of
9trustees of any sanitary district organized under this Act may
10provide for the disposal of the sewage thereof and save and
11preserve the water supplied to the inhabitants of such district
12from contamination. For that purpose the board may construct
13and maintain an enclosed conduit or conduits, main pipes,
14wholly or partially submerged, buried or otherwise, and by
15means of pumps or otherwise cause such sewage to flow or to be
16forced through such conduit or conduits, pipe or pipes to and
17into any ditch or canal constructed and operated by any other
18sanitary district, after having first acquired the right so to
19do. Such board may provide for the drainage of such district by
20laying out, establishing, constructing and maintaining one or
21more channels, drains, ditches and outlets for carrying off and
22disposing of the drainage (including the sewage) of such
23district, together with such adjuncts and additions thereto as
24may be necessary or proper to cause such channels or outlets to
25accomplish the end for which they are designed, in a

 

 

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1satisfactory manner, including pumps and pumping stations and
2the operation of the same. Such board shall provide suitable
3and modernly equipped sewage disposal works or plants for the
4separation and disposal of all solids and deleterious matter
5from the liquids, and shall treat and purify the residue of
6such sewage so that when it flows into any lake, it will not
7injuriously contaminate the waters thereof. The board shall
8adopt any feasible method to accomplish the object for which
9such sanitary district may be created, and may also provide
10means whereby the sanitary district may reach and procure
11supplies of water for diluting and flushing purposes. The board
12of trustees of any sanitary district formed under this Act may
13also enter into an agreement to sell, convey, or disburse
14treated wastewater to any public or private entity located
15within or outside of the boundaries of the sanitary district.
16The agreement may not exceed 20 years.
17    Nothing set forth in this Section However, nothing herein
18contained may be construed to empower, authorize or require
19such board of trustees to operate a system of water works for
20the purpose of furnishing or delivering water to any such
21municipality or to the inhabitants thereof without payment
22therefor at such rates as the board may determine. Nothing in
23this Act shall require a sanitary district to extend service to
24any individual residence or other building within the district,
25and it is the intent of the Illinois General Assembly that any
26construction contemplated by this Section shall be restricted

 

 

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1to construction of works and main or interceptor sewers,
2conduits, channels and similar facilities, but not individual
3service lines. Nothing in this Act contained authorizes the
4trustees to flow the sewage of such district into Lake
5Michigan. Any such plan for sewage disposal by any sanitary
6district organized hereunder is prohibited, unless such sewage
7has been treated and purified as provided in this Section, all
8laws of the Federal government relating to the pollution of
9navigable waters have been complied with, the approval of plans
10and constructions of outlets and connection with any of the
11streams or navigable bodies of water within or bordering upon
12the State has been obtained from the Department of Natural
13Resources of the State. The discharge of any sewage from any
14such district into any of the streams or navigable bodies of
15water within or bordering upon the State is subject to the
16orders of the Pollution Control Board. Nothing in this Act
17contained may be construed as superseding or in any manner
18limiting the provisions of the Environmental Protection Act.
19    After the construction of such sewage disposal plant, if
20the board finds that it will promote the prevention of
21pollution of waters of the State, such board of trustees may
22adopt ordinances or rules and regulations, prohibiting or
23regulating the discharge to sewers of inadmissible wastes or
24substances toxic to biological wastewater treatment processes.
25Inadmissible wastes include those which create a fire or
26explosion hazard in the sewer or treatment works; those which

 

 

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1will impair the hydraulic capacity of sewer systems; and those
2which in any quantity, create a hazard to people, sewer
3systems, treatment processes, or receiving waters. Substances
4that may be toxic to wastewater treatment processes include
5copper, chromium, lead, zinc, arsenic and nickel and any
6poisonous compounds such as cyanide or radioactive wastes which
7pass through wastewater treatment plants in hazardous
8concentrations and menace users of the receiving waters. Such
9ordinances or rules and regulations shall be effective
10throughout the sanitary district, in the incorporated areas as
11well as the unincorporated areas and all public sewers therein.
12(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
 
13    (70 ILCS 2305/7.2)  (from Ch. 42, par. 283.2)
14    Sec. 7.2. Tributary sewer systems; control.
15    (a) Where any sewer system under the jurisdiction of a
16municipality or county city, village or incorporated town is
17tributary to a sanitary district sewer system, and the board of
18trustees of such sanitary district finds that it will conduce
19to the public health, comfort, or convenience, the board shall
20have the power and authority to regulate, limit, extend, deny,
21or otherwise control any connection to such sewer tributary to
22the sanitary district sewer system by any person, county, or
23municipal corporation regardless of whether the sewer into
24which the connection is made is directly under the jurisdiction
25of the district or not.

 

 

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1    (b) No municipality or county shall issue a permit, or any
2other form of permission, to any person or entity for the
3construction, reconstruction, remodeling, or other work for
4any building or facility required to be served or served by a
5sanitary sewer which is tributary to a sanitary sewer system
6that is served by a sanitary district formed under this Act
7unless the sanitary district, which serves the tributary
8sanitary sewer system, has authorized the connection to the
9tributary sewer system in accordance with its ordinances. Any
10municipality or county that issues a permit or any other
11permission, restricted under this Section, shall, upon notice
12and demand by the sanitary district, prohibit further work upon
13any building or facility described under this Section,
14including, but not limited to, the issuance of a stop work
15order. A municipality or county shall not issue any occupancy
16permit for a building or facility until the building or
17facility receives from the sanitary district the authorization
18to connect to the sanitary sewer. No municipality or county
19shall provide potable water to any building or other facility
20that has been constructed and is connected to a sanitary sewer
21which is tributary to a sanitary system served by the sanitary
22district if the connection to the sanitary sewer was made
23without the authorization of the sanitary district.
24    A municipality or county may not issue a permit or provide
25potable water in a manner that is inconsistent with this
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1subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois
2Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of
3powers and functions exercised by the State.
4    (c) No action, in law or equity, may be brought against a
5sanitary district, municipality, or county which denied,
6revoked, or caused to be denied or revoked an occupancy permit
7or a permit for construction, reconstruction, remodeling, or
8other work or which denied, revoked, or caused to be denied or
9revoked the provision of potable water by any municipality or
10county, if the person or entity connected to a sanitary sewer
11that is a tributary to a sanitary sewer and served by a
12sanitary district formed under this Act and did not receive
13authorization to connect from the appropriate sanitary
14district.
15(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2893.)
 
16    (70 ILCS 2305/28)  (from Ch. 42, par. 296.8)
17    Sec. 28. Annexation of contiguous territory. The board of
18trustees of any sanitary district may annex any territory which
19is not within the corporate limits of the sanitary district,
20provided:
21        (a) The territory is contiguous to the annexing
22    sanitary district; and
23        (b) The territory is served by the sanitary district or
24    by a municipality with sanitary sewers that are connected
25    and served by the sanitary district.

 

 

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1    The annexation shall be accomplished only by ordinance and
2the ordinance shall include a description of the annexed
3territory. A copy of the ordinance and a map of the annexed
4territory certified as true and accurate by the clerk of the
5annexing sanitary district shall be filed with the county clerk
6of the county in which the annexed territory is located. The
7new boundary shall extend to the far side of any adjacent
8highway and shall include all of every highway within the area
9annexed. These highways shall be considered to be annexed even
10though not included in the legal description set forth in the
11annexation ordinance.
12    The territory to be annexed to the sanitary district shall
13be considered to be contiguous to the sanitary district
14notwithstanding that the territory to be annexed is divided by,
15or that the territory to be annexed is separated from the
16sanitary district by, one or more railroad rights-of-ways,
17public easements, or properties owned by a public utility, a
18forest preserve district, a public agency, or a not-for-profit
19corporation.
20(Source: P.A. 86-1191.)
 
21    (70 ILCS 2305/30 new)
22    Sec. 30. Claims for compensation. No claim for compensation
23shall be made or action for damages filed against a sanitary
24district formed under this Act on account of any damage to
25property occurring on or after January 1, 2012, unless notice

 

 

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1in writing is filed with the secretary of the sanitary
2district's board of trustees within 6 months after the
3occurrence of the damage setting forth the following
4information: (i) the name and residence address of the owner of
5the property damaged, (ii) the property's location, and (iii)
6the probable extent of the damage sustained.
 
7    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
8becoming law.