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MUNICIPALITIES
(65 ILCS 5/) Illinois Municipal Code.

65 ILCS 5/11-138-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-138-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-138-1)
    Sec. 11-138-1. Any water company organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of supplying any municipality or the inhabitants thereof with water, may locate its source of supply at, or change its source of supply to, a point not more than 20 miles beyond the corporate limits of the municipality. Such company may enter upon any land and take and damage private property beyond those corporate limits, (1) for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a line or lines of water-pipe to the source of supply, (2) for the necessary pumping stations, reservoirs, and other appurtenances, and (3) for the protection of all reservoirs, submerged land, and source of supply from contamination, pollution, or damage from any cause whatsoever.
    Such a company may construct, maintain, and operate beyond those corporate limits such a line or lines of water-pipe across or under any railroad right-of-way, and in and under any public or private road, highway, street, alley, or public ground, or across or under any of the waters within this state, subject, however, to these conditions: (1) such a line or lines of water-pipe shall not interfere with any railroad, or with any sewer, gas pipes, water-pipes, or other conduit, already laid in or under any public or private road, highway, street, alley, or public ground by public authority; (2) such a company, in the construction and repair of such a line or lines of water-pipe, shall restore any public or private road, highway, street, alley, or public ground that is damaged to the same condition as before, and shall not unnecessarily interfere with the public use of the navigation of any of the specified waters; and (3) the laying of the water-pipes and construction of the other works shall be done under such reasonable regulations as the corporate authorities of any township or municipality wherein that work is done may prescribe.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-138-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-138-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-138-2)
    Sec. 11-138-2. Whenever it is necessary for the construction, maintenance, and operation of such a line or lines of water-pipe, pumping stations, reservoirs, other appurtenances, or for the protection of reservoirs, submerged land, and the source of supply from contamination, pollution, or damage from any cause, to take or damage private property adjacent to these improvements, that property may be taken or damaged, and the compensation therefor may be ascertained and paid in the manner which may be then provided by law for the exercise of the right of eminent domain.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-138-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-138-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-138-3)
    Sec. 11-138-3. Any person who unlawfully and intentionally molests or destroys any part of such a line of water-pipe, pumping station, reservoir, or other appurtenance, or the material or property belonging to a specified water company, or who in any manner interferes with the construction, maintenance, or operation of the property specified in this section is guilty of a petty offense. But a prosecution under the provisions of this section shall not in any manner prevent a recovery by the company entitled thereto, of the amount of damages done to its property.
(Source: P.A. 77-2830.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 139

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 139 heading)
DIVISION 139. COMBINED WATERWORKS AND
SEWERAGE SYSTEMS

65 ILCS 5/11-139-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-1)
    Sec. 11-139-1. When used in this Division 139, "waterworks" means and includes a waterworks system in its entirety or any integral part thereof, including mains, hydrants, meters, values, standpipes, storage tanks, pump tanks, intakes, wells, impounding reservoirs, pumps, machinery, purification plants, softening apparatus, and all other elements, useful in connection with a water supply or water distribution system.
    "Sewerage system" means and includes any or all of the following: a sewerage treatment plant or plants, collecting, intercepting and outlet sewers, lateral sewers, and drains, including combined and separate storm water and sanitary drains, force mains, conduits, pumping stations, ejector stations and all other appurtenances, extensions and improvements necessary, useful, or convenient for the collection, treatment, and disposal in a sanitary manner of sewage and industrial wastes.
    "Combined waterworks and sewerage system" means and includes a waterworks and sewerage system, which the municipality determines by ordinance to operate in combination.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2433.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-2)
    Sec. 11-139-2. Any municipality may acquire, or construct, and maintain and operate a combined waterworks and sewerage system either within or without the corporate limits thereof. A municipality owning and operating a waterworks or sewerage system may provide for the inclusion of that waterworks or sewerage system or the combination of the 2 in a combined waterworks and sewerage system under this Division 139, and in connection therewith may provide for paying or refunding any unpaid obligations which are payable solely from the revenue of or which are secured by a mortgage of that waterworks or sewerage system, or any part thereof included in the combined waterworks and sewerage system. Any municipality owning and operating a combined waterworks and sewerage system may also provide for paying or refunding any unpaid obligations which are payable solely from the revenue of the combined waterworks and sewerage system. A municipality owning, acquiring, or constructing and providing for the operation of a combined waterworks and sewerage system may improve and extend that system, and may impose and collect charges or rates for the use of that system as provided in this Division 139. A municipality may also, when determined by its corporate authorities to be in the public interest and necessary for the protection of the public health or in the best interests of the municipality and its environs, enter into and perform contracts, whether long-term or short-term, with any other municipality within a radius of 25 miles of its corporate limits and construct water mains to such municipality and supply water to such municipalities on the request of any such municipality; provided, that such water mains be constructed and that such municipality purchase water on a long term basis at rates sufficient to amortize the cost of the construction of such water mains and pay the cost of maintenance and operation thereof, as hereinafter provided in this Division 139, and also with any industrial establishment for the provision and operation by the municipality of sewerage facilities, either within or without the corporate limits of such municipality, to abate or reduce the pollution of waters caused by discharges of industrial wastes by the industrial establishment and the payment periodically by such municipality or municipalities or the industrial establishment to the municipality of amounts at least sufficient, in the determination of such corporate authorities, to compensate the municipality for the cost of providing (including payment of principal and interest charges, if any) and of operating and maintaining any such facilities. This amendatory Act is not a prohibition upon the contractual and associational powers granted by Article VII, Section 10 of the Constitution.
(Source: P.A. 77-2837.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-3)
    Sec. 11-139-3. For the purpose of defraying the cost of acquiring, constructing, extending, or improving a combined waterworks and sewerage system or any part thereof, any municipality (1) may apply money received therefor from the federal government or available therefor from any source, and (2) may issue and sell revenue bonds of the municipality payable solely from revenue derived from the operation of the combined waterworks and sewerage system. These bonds may be issued in such amounts as may be necessary to provide sufficient funds to pay all the costs of the acquisition, construction, extension, or improvement of the combined waterworks and sewerage system as authorized by Section 11-139-2, including engineering, legal, and other expenses, together with interest to the estimated date of completion of the combined waterworks and sewerage system or of the project to be constructed. The bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable semi-annually and shall mature within the period of usefulness of the project involved, to be determined by the corporate authorities and in any event not more than 40 years. The bonds shall be sold in such manner as the corporate authorities shall determine and if issued to bear interest at the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, shall be sold for not less than par and accrued interest. If any of these bonds are issued to bear interest at a rate of less than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, the minimum price at which they may be sold shall be such that the interest cost to the municipality of the proceeds of the bonds shall not exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, computed to maturity. In case any officer whose signature appears on the bonds or coupons attached thereto ceases to hold that office before the delivery of the bonds to the purchaser, the signature nevertheless shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes, with the same effect as if he had remained in office until the delivery of the bonds. The bonds shall have all the qualities of negotiable instruments under the law of this state.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
    This amendatory Act of 1971 is not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
    This amendatory Act of 1972 is not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)