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90_HB2472
70 ILCS 2805/4 from Ch. 42, par. 415
Amends the Sanitary District Act of 1936. Increases the
amount of compensation the members of the board of trustees
may receive to $6,000 (now $3,000) per year.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Sanitary District Act of 1936 by
2 changing Section 4.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Sanitary District Act of 1936 is amended
6 by changing Section 4 as follows:
7 (70 ILCS 2805/4) (from Ch. 42, par. 415)
8 Sec. 4. The trustees shall constitute a board of
9 trustees for the sanitary district. The board of trustees is
10 the corporate authority of the sanitary district, and may
11 exercise all the powers and manage and control all the
12 affairs and property of the district. The board of trustees
13 at the beginning of each new term of office shall meet and
14 elect one of their number as president, one of their number
15 as vice-president, and from or outside of their membership a
16 clerk and an assistant clerk. In case of the death,
17 resignation, absence from the state, or other disability of
18 the president, the powers, duties and emoluments of the
19 office of the president shall devolve upon the
20 vice-president, until such disability is removed or until a
21 successor to the president is appointed and chosen in the
22 manner provided in this Act. The board may select a
23 treasurer, engineer and attorney for the district, who shall
24 hold their respective offices during the pleasure of the
25 board, and give such bond as may be required by the board.
26 The board may appoint such other officers and hire such
27 employees to manage and control the operations of the
28 district as it deems necessary. The board may prescribe the
29 duties and fix the compensation of all the officers and
30 employees of the sanitary district. However, no member of the
31 board of trustees shall receive more than $6,000 $3,000 per
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1 year. The board of trustees has full power to pass all
2 necessary ordinances, rules and regulations for the proper
3 management and conduct of the business of the board and the
4 sanitary district, and for carrying into effect the
5 collection and disposal of sewage and the purposes for which
6 the sanitary district was formed. Such ordinances may
7 provide for a fine for each offense of not less than $100 or
8 more than $1,000. Each day's continuance of such violation
9 shall be a separate offense. Fines pursuant to this Section
10 are recoverable by the sanitary district in a civil action.
11 The sanitary district is authorized to apply to the circuit
12 court for injunctive relief or mandamus when, in the opinion
13 of the chief administrative officer, such relief is necessary
14 to protect the sewerage system of the sanitary district. The
15 board of trustees has the sole and exclusive authority for
16 regulation and inspection of drainage lines to determine
17 their adequacy and suitability for connection to the sewage
18 system of the district.
19 (Source: P.A. 85-1136.)