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MUNICIPALITIES
(65 ILCS 5/) Illinois Municipal Code.

65 ILCS 5/11-139-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-5)
    Sec. 11-139-5. The corporate authorities of any municipality availing itself of the provisions of this Division 139 shall adopt an ordinance describing in a general way the contemplated project. If it is intended to include in the combined waterworks and sewerage system any existing waterworks or any existing sewerage system, the ordinance shall provide for its inclusion in the combined system and shall describe in a general way the existing waterworks or sewerage system to be included in the combined waterworks and sewerage system. If it is intended to acquire or construct a combined waterworks and sewerage system, or to extend and improve such a system, the ordinance shall describe in a general way the system to be acquired or constructed or the extension or improvement to be made or any project authorized by Section 11-139-2. It shall not be necessary that the ordinance refer to plans and specifications nor that there be on file for public inspection prior to the adoption of such ordinance detailed plans and specifications of the project. The ordinance shall set out the estimated cost of the contemplated project, and if any existing waterworks or sewerage system is included in the project, the ordinance shall state the means provided for defraying or refunding any unpaid obligation, payable solely from the revenue or secured by a mortgage of the waterworks or sewerage system, and if any unpaid obligations payable from the revenue of the combined waterworks and sewerage system are outstanding and unpaid the ordinance shall state the means providing for defraying or refunding any unpaid obligation so payable from the revenue of the combined waterworks and sewerage system. The ordinance shall determine the period of usefulness of the contemplated project. The ordinance shall also prescribe the method of defraying the cost of the contemplated project and fix the amount of revenue bonds proposed to be issued, the interest rate, and all other details in connection with the bonds deemed advisable. The ordinance may contain such covenants and restrictions upon the issuance thereafter of additional revenue bonds as may be deemed necessary or advisable for the assurance of the payment of bonds thereby authorized and as may be thereafter issued.
(Source: P.A. 77-2837.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-6)
    Sec. 11-139-6. Within 10 days after the ordinance for any project under this Division 139 has been passed, it shall be published at least once in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality. The publication or posting of the ordinance shall be accompanied by a notice of (1) the specific number of voters required to sign a petition requesting the question of the adoption of the ordinance be submitted to the electors of the municipality; (2) the time in which such petition must be filed; and (3) the date of the prospective referendum. The municipal clerk shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one. If no petition is filed with the municipal clerk, as provided in this section, within 30 days after the publication or posting of the ordinance, it shall be in effect. But if within this 30 day period a petition is filed with the municipal clerk signed by electors of the municipality numbering 10% or more of the number of registered voters in the municipality, asking that the question of acquiring, constructing, extending, or improving the combined waterworks and sewerage system, as provided in the ordinance, and the issuance of revenue bonds therefor be submitted to the electors of the municipality, the municipal clerk shall certify such question for submission at an election in accordance with the general election law. If a majority of the votes cast on the question are in favor thereof, the ordinance shall be in effect. But if a majority of the votes cast on the question are unfavorable, the municipality shall proceed no further and the ordinance shall not take effect.
(Source: P.A. 87-767.)