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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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| 20 | | Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by |
| 21 | | changing Section 11-150-1 as follows:
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| 22 | | (65 ILCS 5/11-150-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-150-1)
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| 23 | | Sec. 11-150-1.
The corporate authorities of any |
| 24 | | municipality operating a
waterworks, sewerage or combined |
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| 1 | | waterworks and sewerage system have the
power by ordinance to |
| 2 | | collect a fair and reasonable charge for connection
to any such |
| 3 | | system in addition to those charges covered by normal taxes,
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| 4 | | for the construction, expansion and extension of the works of |
| 5 | | the system,
the charge to be assessed against new or additional |
| 6 | | users of the system and
to be known as a connection charge, |
| 7 | | except that no connection or water
usage charge shall exceed |
| 8 | | 1/6 of the estimated annual charges to the new or additional |
| 9 | | users of the system, computed at the net rate for that class of |
| 10 | | service the actual cost required for the installation or
usage |
| 11 | | of an automatic sprinkler system. The funds thus collected |
| 12 | | shall be used
by the municipality for its general corporate |
| 13 | | purposes with primary
application thereof being made by the |
| 14 | | necessary expansion of the works of
the system to meet the |
| 15 | | requirements of the new users thereof.
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| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 85-784.)
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