(65 ILCS 5/11-126-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-126-4)
Sec. 11-126-4.
The corporate authorities of each municipality may make and
enforce all needful rules and regulations in the construction and
management of such a system of waterworks, and for the use of the water
supplied thereby.
The corporate authorities of each municipality also may make and enforce
all needful rules, regulations, and enact ordinances for the improvement,
care, and protection from pollution or other injury of any impounding
reservoir or artificial lake constructed or maintained by the municipality
for water supply purposes and any adjacent zone of land which the
municipality may acquire or control. If the leasing of portions of such
adjacent zone of land will, in the discretion of the corporate authorities,
aid in the protection from pollution or other injury of the impounding
reservoir or artificial lake by promoting forestation, development or care
of other suitable vegetation, and the improvement, care and maintenance of
the premises, the corporate authorities may lease those portions of that
land jointly or severally to custodians of good reputation and character
for periods not to exceed 60 years, and permit those custodians to
construct, maintain, use, and occupy dwelling houses and other structures
thereon for such rental and on such other terms and conditions and subject
to such rules and regulations and with such powers and duties as may be
determined by the corporate authorities.
The corporate authorities of each municipality have the power to fix and
collect from the inhabitants thereof the rent or rates for the use and
benefit of water used or supplied to them by such a system of waterworks,
as the corporate authorities shall deem just and expedient. These rents or
rates shall be paid and collected in such manner as the corporate
authorities by ordinance shall provide. Such charges, rents, or rates are
liens upon the real estate upon or for which water service is supplied
whenever the charges, rents, or rates become delinquent as provided by the
ordinance of the municipality fixing a delinquency date. However, the
municipality has no preference over the rights of any purchaser, mortgagee,
judgment creditor, or other lien holder arising prior to the filing of the
notice of such a lien in the office of the recorder of the county
in which such real estate is located, or in the office of the registrar of
titles of such county if the property affected is registered under "An
Act concerning land titles", approved May 1, 1897, as amended. This notice
shall consist of a sworn statement setting out
(1) a description of such real estate sufficient for the identification
thereof, (2) the amount of money due for such water service, and (3) the
date when such amount became delinquent. The municipality may foreclose
this lien in the same manner and with the same effect as in the foreclosure
of mortgages on real estate.
(Source: P.A. 97-813, eff. 7-13-12.)
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