(70 ILCS 2605/8a) (from Ch. 42, par. 327a)
Sec. 8a.
The Sanitary District, in addition to the other powers vested in
it,
is empowered, with the approval of the Department of Natural Resources as
successor to the Department of Transportation and the
Department of Purchases and Construction of the State of Illinois, through its
Director, to remise, release, quit claim, grant, convey and
transfer all its right, title and interest in and to any and all lands,
tenements and hereditaments and in and to any and all property, including
structures, of every kind and nature or rights to or in, under, over and
adjoining the Main Channel, Main Channel Extension, Calumet-Sag Channel and the
North Shore Channel of the Sanitary District
and for improvements made by the Sanitary District in, under, over and
adjoining the Chicago River, the Calumet River, the Des Plaines River and
tributaries thereto, and any and all other land, property or structures
of the Sanitary District, to the United States of America, the State of
Illinois, the County of Cook or/and any Municipal Corporation, upon such
terms as may be mutually agreed upon by the Sanitary District and the
United States of America, the State of Illinois, the County of Cook or/and
any Municipal Corporation; and the Board of Trustees of the Sanitary
District is empowered to and may authorize the doing of all
things and acts, and the execution of such documents and instruments and
adopt such resolutions and ordinances in connection therewith that may
be required, and the provisions of this Section 8a shall constitute
complete authority for the performance of all acts herein provided
without reference to other laws and shall be construed as conferring
powers in addition to, but not limiting, powers granted under other
existing laws.
The proceeds derived from any such sale or transfer to
the United States of America shall, unless Congress shall otherwise
provide, be used only for paying the costs of controlling works in the
Chicago River, the completion, construction and enlargement of sewage
treatment works, and additions therefor, pumping stations, tunnels,
conduits and intercepting sewers connecting therewith, and outlet
sewers, together with the equipment and appurtenances necessary thereto,
and for the acquisition of the sites and rights of way necessary
thereto, and for engineering expenses for designing and supervising the
construction of the works above described, which works are made necessary
by the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States in the
consolidated cases entitled "Wisconsin et al. v. The State of Illinois
and The Sanitary District of Chicago", numbers 7, 11 and 12 original. Any
excess of the proceeds, not required for the
cost of construction of the works made necessary by the decree, may be used for
the construction of sewage disposal plants and equipment thereof, pumping
stations, and intercepting sewers and appurtenances thereto, the acquisition of
sites and easements therefor and the expense of design and supervision of
the construction thereof.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)
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