Sen. Steven M. Landek
Filed: 3/7/2013
 
 

 

 

 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1869 




2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1869 by replacing 
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
 
4    "Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended  by 
5changing Section 11-110-1 as follows:
 



6    (65 ILCS 5/11-110-1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-110-1)



7    Sec. 11-110-1. 
The corporate authorities of cities and 
8villages for
drainage purposes may lay out, establish, 
9construct, and maintain drains,
storm sewers, detention 
10basins, retention basins and other "green infrastructure" 
11facilities, such as green roofs, rain gardens, bioswales, tree 
12boxes, porous pavement, porous pipe systems, native plantings, 
13constructed wetlands, and cisterns, ditches, levees, dykes, 
14pumping works, and machinery, and may acquire the
necessary 
15land and machinery therefor, and in this manner may provide for

16draining or otherwise managing the runoff, such as by 
 
 
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1infiltration, evapotranspiration, or collection, on any 
2portion of the land within their corporate limits, by special

3assessment upon the property benefited thereby, or by general 
4taxation, or
a combination both. No lot, block, tract, or 
5parcel of land, however, shall be
assessed more than once in 
6any one year by a municipality for maintenance.

7(Source: P.A. 87-1197.)".