(605 ILCS 5/9-123) (from Ch. 121, par. 9-123)
Sec. 9-123.
No person, firm, corporation, or institution, public or
private, shall discharge or empty any type of sewage, including the
effluent from septic tanks or other sewage treatment devices, or any other
domestic, commercial or industrial waste, or any putrescible liquids, or
cause the same to be discharged or emptied in any manner into open ditches
along any public street or highway, or into any drain or drainage structure
installed solely for street or highway drainage purposes.
Any person, firm, corporation, or institution, public or private, in
violation of this Section, shall be guilty of a petty offense and in
addition shall be fined $25 per day for each day such violation exists.
The highway authority having jurisdiction over the public street or
highway affected by such violation shall enter a complaint in the proper
court against any violator of this Section. Upon the failure of any such
highway authority to so act, any other person, may in the name of the
political division or municipality, enter such complaint.
(Source: P.A. 77-2238.)
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