SB1869 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB1869

Introduced 2/15/2013, by Sen. Steven M. Landek

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

65 ILCS 5/11-110-1

from Ch. 24, par. 11-110-1

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of cities and villages must also maintain storm sewers, detention basins, and retention basins for drainage purposes.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

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

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

Sec. 11-110-1. The corporate authorities of cities and villages for drainage purposes may lay out, establish, construct, and maintain drains, storm sewers, detention basins, retention basins, ditches, levees, dykes, pumping works, and machinery, and may acquire the necessary land and machinery therefor, and in this manner may provide for draining any portion of the land within their corporate limits, by special assessment upon the property benefited thereby, or by general taxation, or both. No lot, block, tract, or parcel of land, however, shall be assessed more than once in any one year by a municipality for maintenance.

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