Full Text of HB3370 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act | 5 | | is amended by changing Section 12 as follows:
| 6 | | (70 ILCS 2605/12) (from Ch. 42, par. 332)
| 7 | | Sec. 12. Power to levy taxes. The board of commissioners | 8 | | annually may levy taxes for
corporate purposes upon property | 9 | | within the territorial limits of such
sanitary district, the | 10 | | aggregate amount of which, exclusive of the
amount levied for | 11 | | (a) the payment of bonded indebtedness and the
interest on | 12 | | bonded indebtedness (b) employees' annuity and benefit
| 13 | | purposes (c) construction purposes, and (d) for the purpose of
| 14 | | establishing and maintaining a reserve fund for the payment of | 15 | | claims,
awards, losses, judgments , or liabilities , | 16 | | settlements, or demands and associated attorney's fees and | 17 | | costs that which might be imposed on or incurred by such
| 18 | | sanitary district in matters including, but not limited to, | 19 | | under the Workers' Compensation Act or the Workers'
| 20 | | Occupational Diseases Act, and any claim in tort, including but | 21 | | not
limited to, any claim imposed upon such sanitary district | 22 | | under the
Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort | 23 | | Immunity Act, any claim of deprivation of any constitutional or |
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| 1 | | statutory right or protection, for all expenses, fees, and | 2 | | costs, both direct and in support of and for
all costs related | 3 | | to the repair or replacement of any property owned by such | 4 | | sanitary
district which is damaged by fire, flood, explosion, | 5 | | vandalism or any
other peril, natural or manmade, shall not | 6 | | exceed the sum produced by
extending the rate of
.46% for each | 7 | | of the years 1979 through 2004 and by extending the rate of | 8 | | 0.41% for the year 2005 and each year thereafter, upon the | 9 | | assessed
valuation of all taxable property within the sanitary | 10 | | district as
equalized and determined for State and local taxes. | 11 | | In addition, for stormwater management purposes, including | 12 | | but not limited to those provided in subsection (f) of Section | 13 | | 7(h), the board of commissioners may levy taxes for the year | 14 | | 2005 and each year thereafter at a rate not to exceed 0.05% of | 15 | | the assessed valuation of all taxable property within the | 16 | | District as equalized and determined for State and local taxes.
| 17 | | And in addition
thereto, for construction purposes as | 18 | | defined in Section 5.2 of this
Act, the board of commissioners | 19 | | may levy taxes for the year 1985 and
each year thereafter which | 20 | | shall be at a rate not to exceed .10%
of the assessed valuation | 21 | | of all taxable property within the sanitary
district as | 22 | | equalized and determined for State and local taxes. Amounts
| 23 | | realized from taxes so levied for construction purposes shall | 24 | | be limited
for use to such purposes and shall not be
available | 25 | | for appropriation or used to defray the cost of repairs to or
| 26 | | expense of maintaining or operating existing or future |
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| 1 | | facilities, but
such restrictions, however, shall not apply to | 2 | | additions, alterations,
enlargements, and replacements which | 3 | | will add appreciably to the value,
utility, or the useful life | 4 | | of said facilities. Such rates shall be
extended against the | 5 | | assessed valuation of the taxable property within
the corporate | 6 | | limits as the same shall be assessed and equalized for the
| 7 | | county taxes for the year in which the levy is made and said | 8 | | board
shall cause the amount to be raised by taxation in each | 9 | | year to be
certified to the county clerk on or before the | 10 | | thirtieth day of March;
provided, however, that if during the | 11 | | budget year the General Assembly
authorizes an increase in such | 12 | | rates, the board of commissioners may
adopt a supplemental levy | 13 | | and shall make such certification to the
County Clerk on or | 14 | | before the thirtieth day of December.
| 15 | | For the purpose of establishing and maintaining a reserve | 16 | | fund for
the payment of claims, awards, losses, judgments , or | 17 | | liabilities , settlements, or demands and associated attorney's | 18 | | fees and costs that which
might be imposed on or incurred by | 19 | | such sanitary district in matters including, but not limited | 20 | | to, under the Workers'
Compensation Act or the Workers' | 21 | | Occupational Diseases Act, and any
claim in tort, including but | 22 | | not limited to, any claim imposed upon such
sanitary district | 23 | | under the Local Governmental and Governmental
Employees Tort | 24 | | Immunity Act, any claim of deprivation of any constitutional or | 25 | | statutory right or protection, for all expenses, fees, and | 26 | | costs, both direct and in support and for all costs related to |
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| 1 | | the repair or replacement, where
the cost thereof exceeds the | 2 | | sum of $10,000, of any property owned by
such sanitary district | 3 | | which is damaged by fire, flood, explosion,
vandalism or any | 4 | | other peril, natural or man-made, such sanitary
district may | 5 | | also levy annually upon all taxable property within its
| 6 | | territorial limits a tax not to exceed .005% of the assessed | 7 | | valuation
of said taxable property as equalized and determined | 8 | | for State and local
taxes; provided, however, the aggregate | 9 | | amount which may be accumulated
in such reserve fund shall not | 10 | | exceed .05% of such assessed valuation.
| 11 | | All taxes so levied and certified shall be collected and | 12 | | enforced in
the same manner and by the same officers as State | 13 | | and county taxes, and
shall be paid over by the officer | 14 | | collecting the same to the treasurer
of the sanitary district, | 15 | | in the manner and at the time provided by the
general revenue | 16 | | law. No part of the taxes hereby authorized shall be
used by | 17 | | such sanitary district for the construction of permanent, | 18 | | fixed,
immovable bridges across any channel constructed under | 19 | | the provisions of
this Act. All bridges built across such | 20 | | channel shall not necessarily
interfere with or obstruct the | 21 | | navigation of such channel, when the same
becomes a navigable | 22 | | stream, as provided in Section 24 of this Act, but
such bridges | 23 | | shall be so constructed that they can be raised, swung or
moved | 24 | | out of the way of vessels, tugs, boats or other water craft
| 25 | | navigating such channel. Nothing in this Act shall be so | 26 | | construed as to
compel said district to maintain or operate |
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| 1 | | said bridges, as movable
bridges, for a period of 9 years from | 2 | | and after the time when the water
has been turned into said | 3 | | channel pursuant to law, unless the needs of
general navigation | 4 | | of the Des Plaines and Illinois Rivers, when
connected by said | 5 | | channel, sooner require it. In levying taxes the board
of | 6 | | commissioners, in order to produce the net amount required by | 7 | | the
levies for payment of bonds and interest thereon, shall | 8 | | include an
amount or rate estimated to be sufficient to cover | 9 | | losses in collection
of taxes, the cost of collecting taxes, | 10 | | abatements in the amount of such
taxes as extended on the | 11 | | collector's books and the amount of such taxes
collection of | 12 | | which will be deferred; the amount so added for the
purpose of | 13 | | producing the net amount required shall not exceed any
| 14 | | applicable maximum tax rate or amount.
| 15 | | (Source: P.A. 96-164, eff. 8-10-09.)
| 16 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 17 | | becoming law.
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