(70 ILCS 2105/20) (from Ch. 42, par. 403)
Sec. 20.
The board of trustees of any such conservancy district shall have
power and authority and it shall be their legal obligation and duty to
prevent the pollution of any waters from which a water supply may be
obtained by any city, incorporated town, individual or village within said
district, provided that the authority of the Pollution Control Board of the
State of Illinois or its successor as may be fixed by law shall not be
superseded and said board of trustees shall have the right and power to
appoint and support a sufficient police force, the members of which may
have and exercise police powers for the purposes of this Act only over the
territory within such conservancy district, and over the territory outside
of said district included within a radius of fifteen miles from the intake
of any such water supply in any such waters, for the purpose of preventing
the pollution of said waters and any interference with any of the property
of such conservancy district; but such police officers when acting within
the limits of any such city, town or village, shall act in aid of the
regular police force thereof, and shall then be subject to the direction of
its chief of police, city or village marshals, or other head thereof;
provided, that in so doing, they shall not be prevented or hindered from
executing the orders and authority of said board of trustees of such
conservancy district.
(Source: P.A. 76-2439.)
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