(55 ILCS 5/5-15007) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-15007)
Sec. 5-15007.
General powers of county board.
In order to effect
the protection, reclamation or irrigation of the land and other property in
the county, and to protect the quality of the
environment and the quality of life from the adverse effects caused by the
improper storage, treatment or disposal of waste, and to accomplish all
other purposes of the county, the county board is authorized and empowered
to clean out, straighten, widen, alter, deepen or change the course or
terminus of any ditch, drain, sewer, river, water course, pond, lake, creek
or natural stream in the county; to fill up any abandoned or altered ditch,
drain, sewer, river, water course, pond, lake, creek or natural stream, and
to concentrate, divert or divide the flow of water in the county; to
construct and maintain main and lateral ditches, sewers, canals, levees,
dikes, dams, sluices, revetments, reservoirs, holding basins, floodways,
pumping stations and siphons, and any other works and improvement deemed
necessary to construct, preserve, operate or maintain the works or the
waste management systems in the county; to
construct or enlarge or cause to be constructed or enlarged any and all
bridges that may be needed in the county, to construct or elevate roadways
and streets; to construct any and all of said works and improvements
across, through or over any public highway, canal, railroad right of way,
track, grade, fill or cut, in the county; to remove or change the location
of any fence, building, railroad, canal, or other improvements in the
county; and shall have the right to hold, encumber, control, to acquire by
donation, purchase or condemnation, to construct, own, lease, use and sell
real and personal property, and any easement, riparian right, railroad
right of way, canal, cemetery, sluice, reservoir, holding basin, mill dam,
water power, wharf or franchise in the county for right of way, holding
basin or for any necessary purpose, or for material to be used in
constructing and maintaining said works and improvements, to replat or
subdivide land, open new roads, streets and alleys, or change the course of
an existing one.
The board shall have the power to produce, pump and sell waters so
collected and impounded to public or private users and may use such means
as are reasonably necessary in connection with such service.
The board shall also have the power to produce and sell any product
resulting from the storage, treatment and disposal of waste including but
not limited to the generation of steam, hot water, and electricity by
combustion, refuse-derived fuel (RDF), and any recycled or reused materials
withdrawn from a wastestream by the activities of the county.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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