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| AN ACT concerning the Metropolitan Water Reclamation | 2 |
| District.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act | 6 |
| is amended by
changing Section 4 as follows:
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| (70 ILCS 2605/4) (from Ch. 42, par. 323)
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| Sec. 4. The commissioners elected under this Act constitute | 9 |
| a board
of commissioners for the district by which they are | 10 |
| elected, which board
of commissioners is the corporate | 11 |
| authority of the sanitary district,
and, in addition to all | 12 |
| other powers specified in this Act, shall
establish the | 13 |
| policies and goals of the sanitary district. The general
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| superintendent, in addition to all other powers specified in | 15 |
| this Act,
shall manage and control all the affairs and property | 16 |
| of the sanitary
district and shall regularly report to the | 17 |
| Board of Commissioners on the
activities of the sanitary | 18 |
| district in executing the policies and goals
established by the | 19 |
| board. At the regularly scheduled meeting of odd
numbered years | 20 |
| following the induction of new commissioners the board of
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| commissioners shall elect from its own number a president and a
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| vice-president to serve in the absence of the president, and | 23 |
| the
chairman of the committee on finance. The board shall | 24 |
| provide by rule
when a vacancy occurs in the office of the | 25 |
| president, vice-president, or
the chairman of the committee on | 26 |
| finance and the manner of filling such
vacancy.
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| The board shall appoint from outside its own number the | 28 |
| general
superintendent and treasurer for the district.
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| The general superintendent must be a resident of the | 30 |
| sanitary
district and a citizen of the United States. He must | 31 |
| be selected solely
upon his administrative and technical | 32 |
| qualifications and without regard
to his political |
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| affiliations.
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| In the event of illness or other prolonged absence, death | 3 |
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resignation creating a vacancy in the office of the general
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| superintendent, or treasurer, the board of commissioners may | 5 |
| appoint an
acting officer from outside its own number, to | 6 |
| perform the duties and
responsibilities of the office during | 7 |
| the term of the absence or
vacancy.
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| The general superintendent with the advice and consent of | 9 |
| the board
of commissioners, shall appoint the chief engineer, | 10 |
| chief of maintenance
and operations, director of personnel, | 11 |
| purchasing agent, clerk, attorney,
director of research and | 12 |
| development, and director of information technology.
These | 13 |
| constitute the heads of the Department of Engineering, | 14 |
| Maintenance and
Operations, Personnel, Purchasing, Finance, | 15 |
| Law, Research and Development, and
Information Technology, | 16 |
| respectively. No other departments or heads of
departments may | 17 |
| be created without subsequent amendment to this Act. All such
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| department heads are under the direct supervision of the | 19 |
| general
superintendent.
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| The director of personnel must be qualified under Section | 21 |
| 4.2a of
this Act.
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| The purchasing agent must be selected in accordance with | 23 |
| Section
11.16 of this Act.
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| In the event of illness or other prolonged absence, death | 25 |
| or
resignation creating a vacancy in the office of chief | 26 |
| engineer, chief of
maintenance and operations, director of | 27 |
| personnel, purchasing agent,
clerk, attorney, director of | 28 |
| research and development, or director
of information | 29 |
| technology, the general superintendent shall appoint an acting
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| officer to perform the duties and responsibilities of the | 31 |
| office during the
term of the absence or vacancy. Any such | 32 |
| officers appointed in an acting
capacity are under the direct | 33 |
| supervision of the general superintendent.
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| All appointive officers and acting officers shall give bond | 35 |
| as may be
required by the board.
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| The general superintendent, treasurer, acting general |
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| superintendent
and acting treasurer hold their offices at the | 2 |
| pleasure of the board of
commissioners.
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| The acting chief engineer, acting chief of maintenance and
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| operations, acting purchasing agent, acting director of | 5 |
| personnel,
acting clerk, acting attorney, acting director of | 6 |
| research and
development, and acting director of information | 7 |
| technology hold their
offices at the pleasure of the general | 8 |
| superintendent.
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| The chief engineer, chief of maintenance and operations, | 10 |
| director of
personnel, purchasing agent, clerk, attorney, | 11 |
| director of research
and development, and director of | 12 |
| information technology may be removed
from office for cause by | 13 |
| the general superintendent. Prior to removal, such
officers are | 14 |
| entitled to a public hearing before the general superintendent | 15 |
| at
which hearing they may be represented by counsel. Before the | 16 |
| hearing, the
general superintendent shall notify the board of | 17 |
| commissioners of the date,
time, place and nature of the | 18 |
| hearing.
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| In addition to the attorney appointed by the general | 20 |
| superintendent,
the board of commissioners may appoint from | 21 |
| outside its own number an
attorney, or retain counsel, to | 22 |
| advise the board of commissioners with
respect to its powers | 23 |
| and duties and with respect to legal questions and
matters of | 24 |
| policy for which the board of commissioners is responsible.
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| The general superintendent is the chief administrative | 26 |
| officer of the
district, has supervision over and is | 27 |
| responsible for all administrative
and operational matters of | 28 |
| the sanitary district including the duties of
all employees | 29 |
| which are not otherwise designated by law, and is the
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| appointing authority as specified in Section 4.11 of this Act.
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| The board, through the budget process, shall set
fix the
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| compensation of all the officers and employees of the sanitary | 33 |
| district.
Any incumbent of the office of president may appoint | 34 |
| an administrative aide
which appointment remains in force | 35 |
| during his incumbency unless revoked by
the president.
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| Effective upon the election in January, 1985 of the |
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| president and
vice-president of the board of commissioners and | 2 |
| the chairman of the
committee on finance, the annual salary of | 3 |
| the president shall be $37,500
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| $39,500 in January, 1987, $41,500 in January,
1989, $50,000 in | 5 |
| January, 1991, and $60,000 in January, 2001; the annual
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| of the vice-president shall be $35,000 and shall be increased | 7 |
| to
$37,000 in January, 1987, $39,000 in January, 1989, $45,000 | 8 |
| in January,
1991, and $55,000 in January, 2001; the annual | 9 |
| salary of the
chairman of the committee on finance shall be | 10 |
| $32,500 and shall be
increased to $34,500 in January, 1987, | 11 |
| $36,500 in January, 1989,
$45,000 in January, 1991, and $55,000 | 12 |
| in January, 2001.
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| The annual salaries of the other members of the Board shall | 14 |
| be as follows:
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| For the three members elected in November, 1980, $26,500 | 16 |
| per annum
for the first two years of the term; $28,000 per | 17 |
| annum for the next two
years of the term and $30,000 per annum | 18 |
| for the last two years.
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| For the three members elected in November, 1982, $28,000 | 20 |
| per annum
for the first two years of the term and $30,000 per | 21 |
| annum thereafter.
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| For members elected in November, 1984, $30,000 per
annum.
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| For the three members elected in November, 1986, $32,000 | 24 |
| for each of
the first two years of the term, $34,000 for each | 25 |
| of the next two years and
$36,000 for the last two years;
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| For three members elected in November, 1988, $34,000 for | 27 |
| each of the
first two years of the term and $36,000 for each | 28 |
| year thereafter.
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| For members elected in November, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, or | 30 |
| 1998, $40,000.
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| For members elected in November, 2000 and thereafter, | 32 |
| $50,000.
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| Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, the | 34 |
| board,
prior to January 1, 2007 and with a two-thirds vote, may | 35 |
| increase the annual rate of compensation
at a separate flat | 36 |
| amount for each of the following: the president, the |
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| vice-president, the chairman of the committee on finance, and | 2 |
| the other members; the increased annual rate of compensation | 3 |
| shall apply to all such officers and members whose terms as | 4 |
| members of the board commence after the increase in | 5 |
| compensation is adopted by the board.
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| The board of commissioners has full power to pass all | 7 |
| necessary
ordinances, orders, rules, resolutions and | 8 |
| regulations for the proper
management and conduct of the | 9 |
| business of the board of commissioners and
the corporation and | 10 |
| for carrying into effect the object for which the
sanitary | 11 |
| district is formed. All ordinances, orders, rules, resolutions
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| and regulations passed by the board of commissioners must, | 13 |
| before they
take effect, be approved by the president of the | 14 |
| board of commissioners.
If he approves thereof, he shall sign | 15 |
| them, and such as he does not
approve he shall return to the | 16 |
| board of commissioners with his
objections in writing at the | 17 |
| next regular meeting of the board of
commissioners occurring | 18 |
| after the passage thereof. Such veto may extend
to any one or | 19 |
| more items or appropriations contained in any ordinance
making | 20 |
| an appropriation, or to the entire ordinance. If the veto | 21 |
| extends
to a part of such ordinance, the residue takes effect. | 22 |
| If the
president of such board of commissioners fails to return | 23 |
| any ordinance,
order, rule, resolution or regulation with his | 24 |
| objections thereto in the
time required, he is deemed to have | 25 |
| approved it, and it takes effect
accordingly. Upon the return | 26 |
| of any ordinance, order, rule, resolution,
or regulation by the | 27 |
| president, the vote by which it was passed must be
reconsidered | 28 |
| by the board of commissioners, and if upon such
reconsideration | 29 |
| two-thirds of all the members agree by yeas and nays to
pass | 30 |
| it, it takes effect notwithstanding the president's refusal to
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| approve thereof.
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| It is the policy of this State that all powers granted, | 33 |
| either expressly
or by necessary implication, by this Act or | 34 |
| any other Illinois statute to
the District may be exercised by | 35 |
| the District notwithstanding effects on
competition. It is the | 36 |
| intention of the
General Assembly that the "State action |
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| exemption" to the application of
federal antitrust statutes be | 2 |
| fully available to the District to the extent
its activities | 3 |
| are authorized by law as stated herein.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-722, eff. 6-2-00.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 6 |
| becoming law.
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