(70 ILCS 2805/68) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.32)
Sec. 68.
Validity of special tax for accepted
work and new ordinance. No special assessment or special
tax shall be held invalid because levied for work already
done if it appears that the work was done under a contract
which has been duly let and entered into pursuant to an
ordinance providing that such an improvement should be
constructed and paid for by special assessment or special
tax and that the work was done under the direction of the
committee of local improvements and has been accepted by that committee.
It shall not be a valid objection to the confirmation of this new
assessment that the original ordinance has been declared
invalid or that the improvement as actually constructed does
not conform to the description thereof as set forth in the
original special assessment ordinance if the improvement so
constructed is accepted by the committee. The provisions of
this Section shall apply whenever the prior ordinance is
held insufficient or otherwise defective, invalid or void so
that the collection of the special assessment or special tax
therein provided for becomes impossible. In every such case
when such an improvement has been so constructed and
accepted and the proceedings for the confirmation and
collection of the special assessment or special tax are thus
rendered unavailing, the board shall pass a new ordinance
for the making and collection of a new special assessment or
special tax, and this new ordinance need not be initiated by
the committee.
(Source: P.A. 85-1137.)
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