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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2822
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 2822  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN ACT in relation to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
 5    District."; and
 6    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 7    following:
 8        "Section 5.  The Metropolitan Water Reclamation  District
 9    Act  is  amended  by  changing  Sections 8 and 9.8 and adding
10    Section 9.6c as follows:
11        (70 ILCS 2605/8) (from Ch. 42, par. 327)
12        (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 90-568)
13        Sec. 8. Except as otherwise in  this  Act  provided,  the
14    sanitary district may acquire by lease, purchase or otherwise
15    within  or  without  its corporate limits, or by condemnation
16    within its corporate limits, any and all  real  and  personal
17    property, right of way and privilege that may be required for
18    its  corporate  purposes.  All  moneys  for  the purchase and
19    condemnation of any property must be paid  before  possession
20    is  taken,  or  any  work done on the premises. In case of an
21    appeal from the Court in which the  condemnation  proceedings
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 1    are  pending,  taken  by  either party, whereby the amount of
 2    damages is not finally determined, the amount of the judgment
 3    in the court shall be deposited with the county treasurer  of
 4    the  county in which the judgment is rendered, subject to the
 5    payment of damages on orders signed by the judge whenever the
 6    amount of damages is finally determined.
 7        Upon recommendation of  the  general  superintendent  and
 8    upon  the  approval of the board of trustees when any real or
 9    personal property, right of way or privilege or any  interest
10    therein,  or any part thereof of such sanitary district is no
11    longer required for the corporate purposes  of  the  sanitary
12    district  it  may  be  sold, vacated or released. Such sales,
13    vacations, or releases may be made subject to such conditions
14    and the retention of such interest therein as may  be  deemed
15    for   the   best   interest  of  such  sanitary  district  as
16    recommended by the general superintendent and approved by the
17    board of trustees.
18        However, the sanitary district may enter into a lease  of
19    a  building or a part thereof, or acquire title to a building
20    already constructed or to be constructed, for the purpose  of
21    securing   office  space  for  its  administrative  corporate
22    functions, the period of such lease not to  exceed  15  years
23    except  as authorized by the provisions of Section 8b of this
24    Act.  In the event of  the  purchase  of  such  property  for
25    administrative corporate functions, the sanitary district may
26    execute  a mortgage or other documents of indebtedness as may
27    be required for the unpaid balance, to be paid  in  not  more
28    than  15  annual  installments.  Annual  installments  on the
29    mortgage or annual payment on the lease shall be considered a
30    current corporate expense of the year in which they are to be
31    paid, and the amount of such annual  installment  or  payment
32    shall  be  included in the Annual Appropriation and Corporate
33    Tax  Levy  Ordinances.  Such   expense   may   be   incurred,
34    notwithstanding  the provisions, if any applicable, contained
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 1    in any other Sections of this Act.
 2        The sanitary district may  dedicate  to  the  public  for
 3    highway purposes any of its real property and the dedications
 4    may  be  made subject to such conditions and the retention of
 5    such interests therein as considered in the best interests of
 6    the  sanitary  district  by  the  board  of   trustees   upon
 7    recommendation of the general superintendent.
 8        The  sanitary district may lease to others for any period
 9    of time, not to exceed 99 years, upon the terms as its  board
10    of trustees upon recommendation of the general superintendent
11    may  determine,  any  such  real  property,  right-of-way  or
12    privilege, or any interest therein or any part thereof, which
13    is  in  the  opinion  of  the  board  of trustees and general
14    superintendent of the sanitary district  no  longer  required
15    for  its  corporate  purposes or which may not be immediately
16    needed  for  such  purposes.  The  leases  may  contain  such
17    conditions and retain such interests therein as considered in
18    the best interests of the sanitary district by the  board  of
19    trustees  upon  recommendation of the general superintendent.
20    Negotiations and execution of  such  leases  and  preparatory
21    activities  in  connection therewith must comply with Section
22    8c of this Act. The sanitary district may grant easements and
23    permits for the use of any such real property,  right-of-way,
24    or  privilege,  which will not in the opinion of the board of
25    trustees and general superintendent of the sanitary  district
26    interfere  with  the use thereof by the sanitary district for
27    its  corporate  purposes.  Such  easements  and  permits  may
28    contain such conditions and retain such interests therein  as
29    considered  in the best interests of the sanitary district by
30    the board of trustees  upon  recommendation  of  the  general
31    superintendent.
32        No sales, vacations, dedications for highway purposes, or
33    leases  for  periods  in  excess of 5 years, of the following
34    described real estate, may be made or granted by the sanitary
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 1    district without the approval in writing of the  Director  of
 2    Natural Resources of the State of Illinois:
 3        All  the  right-of-way  of the Calumet-Sag Channel of the
 4    sanitary district extending from  the  Little  Calumet  River
 5    near  Blue  Island, Illinois, to the right-of-way of the main
 6    channel of the sanitary district near Sag, Illinois.
 7        Lots 1, 3, 5, 21, 30, 31, 32, 33, 46, 48, 50, 52, 88, 89,
 8    89a, 90, 91, 130, 132, 133, those parts of Lots 134  and  139
 9    lying  northeasterly  of  a  tract of land leased to the Corn
10    Products Manufacturing  Company  from  January  1,  1908,  to
11    December  31,  2006; 1000 feet of Lot 141 lying southwesterly
12    of and adjoining the above mentioned  leased  tract  measured
13    parallel with the main channel of the sanitary district; Lots
14    166,  168,  207, 208, and part of Lot 211 lying northeasterly
15    of a line 1500 feet  southwesterly  of  the  center  line  of
16    Stephen  Street,  Lemont,  Illinois,  and  parallel with said
17    street measured parallel with said main channel; and Lot  212
18    of the Sanitary District Trustees Subdivision of right-of-way
19    from  the north and south center line of Section 30, Township
20    39 North, Range 14 East of the Third Principal  Meridian,  to
21    Will County line.
22        That  part of the right-of-way of the main channel of the
23    sanitary district in Section 14, Township 37 North, Range  11
24    East of the Third Principal Meridian, lying southerly of said
25    main  channel, northerly of the Northerly Reserve Line of the
26    Illinois and Michigan Canal, and westerly of the Center  line
27    of the old channel of the Des Plaines River.
28        That  part  of  said main channel right-of-way in Section
29    35, Township 37 North, Range 10 East of the  Third  Principal
30    Meridian, lying east of said main channel and south of a line
31    1,319.1  feet  north  of  and parallel with the south line of
32    said Section 35.
33        That part  of  said  main  channel  right-of-way  in  the
34    northeast  quarter  of  the  northwest  quarter of Section 2,
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 1    Township 36 North, Range  10  East  of  the  Third  Principal
 2    Meridian, lying east of said main channel.
 3        That  part  of said main channel right-of-way lying south
 4    of Ninth Street in Lockport, Illinois.
 5        The sanitary district may sell real estate  that  (i)  is
 6    not  necessary for the functions of the district and (ii) has
 7    been declared surplus by the district's governing body.   The
 8    proceeds  from  the  sale  of  the surplus real estate may be
 9    deposited into a revolving fund that shall be  known  as  the
10    Local Improvement Revolving Loan Fund.  The sanitary district
11    shall  establish  a  Local  Improvement  Loan Program to make
12    loans from the  Local  Improvement  Revolving  Loan  Fund  to
13    municipalities  to  rehabilitate  the  local sewerage systems
14    within  their  boundaries.   The  sanitary   district   shall
15    establish   reasonable   rules  to  administer  the  program,
16    including without limitation criteria for the eligibility for
17    a loan and the interest rate.  The interest rate  established
18    by the district must be lower than the market rate.
19        Notwithstanding any other law, if any surplus real estate
20    is  located  in  an unincorporated territory and if that real
21    estate is contiguous to only one municipality, 60 days before
22    the sale of that real estate,  the  sanitary  district  shall
23    notify in writing the contiguous municipality of the proposed
24    sale.  Prior to the sale of the real estate, the municipality
25    shall  notify  in  writing  the  sanitary  district  that the
26    municipality will or will not annex the surplus real  estate.
27    If  the  contiguous municipality will annex such surplus real
28    estate, then coincident with the completion of  the  sale  of
29    that  real  estate by the sanitary district, that real estate
30    shall   be   automatically   annexed   to   the    contiguous
31    municipality.
32        All  sales  of  real estate by the such sanitary district
33    must be for cash, to the highest bidder upon open competitive
34    bids, and the proceeds of the sales, except the proceeds from
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 1    the sale of surplus real estate, may be  used  only  for  the
 2    construction and equipment of sewage disposal plants, pumping
 3    stations  and  intercepting sewers and appurtenances thereto,
 4    and the acquisition of sites and easements therefor, and  the
 5    financing   of   the   Local  Government  Assistance  Program
 6    established under Section 9.6c.
 7        However, the sanitary district may:
 8        (a)  Remise, release, quit claim and convey, without  the
 9    approval  of the Department of Natural Resources of the State
10    of Illinois acting by and through its Director, to the United
11    States of  America  without  any  consideration  to  be  paid
12    therefor,  in  aid of the widening of the Calumet-Sag Channel
13    of the sanitary district by the United States of America, all
14    those certain lands, tenements  and  hereditaments  of  every
15    kind   and   nature   of  that  portion  of  the  established
16    right-of-way of the Calumet-Sag Channel  lying  east  of  the
17    east  line  of  Ashland Avenue, in Blue Island, Illinois, and
18    south of the center line of the channel except  such  portion
19    thereof as is needed for the operation and maintenance of and
20    access   to  the  controlling  works  lock  of  the  sanitary
21    district;
22        (b)  Without the approval of the  Department  of  Natural
23    Resources  of the State of Illinois acting by and through its
24    Director, give and grant to  the  United  States  of  America
25    without  any  consideration  to  be  paid therefor the right,
26    privilege and authority to widen the Calumet-Sag Channel  and
27    for  that  purpose  to enter upon and use in the work of such
28    widening and for the disposal of  spoil  therefrom  all  that
29    part  of the right-of-way of the Calumet-Sag Channel owned by
30    the sanitary district lying south of the center line  of  the
31    Calumet-Sag Channel from its connection with the main channel
32    of  the  sanitary district to the east line of Ashland Avenue
33    in Blue Island, Illinois;
34        (c)  Make alterations to any structure made necessary  by
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 1    such  widening  and  to  construct,  reconstruct or otherwise
 2    alter the existing highway bridges of the  sanitary  district
 3    across the Calumet-Sag Channel;
 4        (d)  Give  and  grant  to  the  United  States of America
 5    without any consideration to be paid therefor  the  right  to
 6    maintain   the   widened   Calumet-Sag  Channel  without  the
 7    occupation or use of or jurisdiction over any property of the
 8    sanitary district adjoining  and  adjacent  to  such  widened
 9    channel;
10        (e)  Acquire   by   lease,   purchase,   condemnation  or
11    otherwise, whatever land, easements or  rights  of  way,  not
12    presently  owned  by  it,  that may be required by the United
13    States of America in constructing the Calumet-Sag  Navigation
14    Project, as approved in Public Law 525, 79th Congress, Second
15    Session  as  described in House Document No. 677 for widening
16    and dredging the Calumet-Sag Channel, in improving the Little
17    Calumet River between the eastern end of the Sag Channel  and
18    Turning  Basin  No.  5,  and  in  improving the Calumet River
19    between Calumet Harbor and Lake Calumet;
20        (f)  Furnish free of cost to the United States all lands,
21    easements, rights-of-way and soil  disposal  areas  necessary
22    for the new work and for subsequent maintenance by the United
23    States;
24        (g)  Provide   for   the  necessary  relocations  of  all
25    utilities.
26        Whatever land  acquired  by  the  sanitary  district  may
27    thereafter  be  determined  by  the  Board  of  Trustees upon
28    recommendation of the general  superintendent  as  not  being
29    needed  by the United States for the purposes of constructing
30    and maintaining the Calumet-Sag Navigation Project  as  above
31    described, shall be retained by the sanitary district for its
32    corporate  purposes,  or  be sold, with all convenient speed,
33    vacated or released (but not leased) as its Board of Trustees
34    upon  recommendation  of  the  general   superintendent   may
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 1    determine: All sales of such real estate must be for cash, to
 2    the  highest  bidder  upon  open,  competitive  bids, and the
 3    proceeds of the sales may be used only  for  the  purpose  of
 4    paying  principal  and  interest upon the bonds authorized by
 5    this Act, and if no  bonds  are  then  outstanding,  for  the
 6    purpose  of  paying  principal  and interest upon any general
 7    obligation bonds of the sanitary district, and for  corporate
 8    purposes  of  the  sanitary  district.  When the proceeds are
 9    used to pay bonds and interest,  proper  abatement  shall  be
10    made in the taxes next extended for such bonds and interest.
11    (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96; 89-502, eff. 6-28-96.)
12        (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 90-568)
13        Sec.  8.  Except  as  otherwise in this Act provided, the
14    sanitary district may acquire by lease, purchase or otherwise
15    within or without its corporate limits,  or  by  condemnation
16    within  its  corporate  limits, any and all real and personal
17    property, right of way and privilege that may be required for
18    its corporate purposes.  All  moneys  for  the  purchase  and
19    condemnation  of  any property must be paid before possession
20    is taken, or any work done on the premises.  In  case  of  an
21    appeal  from  the Court in which the condemnation proceedings
22    are pending, taken by either party,  whereby  the  amount  of
23    damages is not finally determined, the amount of the judgment
24    in  the court shall be deposited with the county treasurer of
25    the county in which the judgment is rendered, subject to  the
26    payment of damages on orders signed by the judge whenever the
27    amount of damages is finally determined.
28        Upon  recommendation  of  the  general superintendent and
29    upon the approval of the board of trustees when any  real  or
30    personal  property, right of way or privilege or any interest
31    therein, or any part thereof of such sanitary district is  no
32    longer  required  for  the corporate purposes of the sanitary
33    district it may be sold, vacated  or  released.  Such  sales,
34    vacations, or releases may be made subject to such conditions
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 1    and  the  retention of such interest therein as may be deemed
 2    for  the  best  interest  of  such   sanitary   district   as
 3    recommended by the general superintendent and approved by the
 4    board of trustees.
 5        However,  the sanitary district may enter into a lease of
 6    a building or a part thereof, or acquire title to a  building
 7    already  constructed or to be constructed, for the purpose of
 8    securing  office  space  for  its  administrative   corporate
 9    functions,  the  period  of such lease not to exceed 15 years
10    except as authorized by the provisions of Section 8b of  this
11    Act.   In  the  event  of  the  purchase of such property for
12    administrative corporate functions, the sanitary district may
13    execute a mortgage or other documents of indebtedness as  may
14    be  required  for  the unpaid balance, to be paid in not more
15    than 15  annual  installments.  Annual  installments  on  the
16    mortgage or annual payment on the lease shall be considered a
17    current corporate expense of the year in which they are to be
18    paid,  and  the  amount of such annual installment or payment
19    shall be included in the Annual Appropriation  and  Corporate
20    Tax   Levy   Ordinances.   Such   expense  may  be  incurred,
21    notwithstanding the provisions, if any applicable,  contained
22    in any other Sections of this Act.
23        The  sanitary  district  may  dedicate  to the public for
24    highway purposes any of its real property and the dedications
25    may be made subject to such conditions and the  retention  of
26    such interests therein as considered in the best interests of
27    the   sanitary   district  by  the  board  of  trustees  upon
28    recommendation of the general superintendent.
29        The sanitary district may lease to others for any  period
30    of  time, not to exceed 99 years, upon the terms as its board
31    of trustees upon recommendation of the general superintendent
32    may  determine,  any  such  real  property,  right-of-way  or
33    privilege, or any interest therein or any part thereof, which
34    is in the opinion  of  the  board  of  trustees  and  general
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 1    superintendent  of  the  sanitary district no longer required
 2    for its corporate purposes or which may  not  be  immediately
 3    needed  for  such  purposes.  The  leases  may  contain  such
 4    conditions and retain such interests therein as considered in
 5    the  best  interests of the sanitary district by the board of
 6    trustees upon recommendation of the  general  superintendent.
 7    Negotiations  and  execution  of  such leases and preparatory
 8    activities in connection therewith must comply  with  Section
 9    8c of this Act. The sanitary district may grant easements and
10    permits  for the use of any such real property, right-of-way,
11    or privilege, which will not in the opinion of the  board  of
12    trustees  and general superintendent of the sanitary district
13    interfere with the use thereof by the sanitary  district  for
14    its  corporate  purposes.  Such  easements  and  permits  may
15    contain  such conditions and retain such interests therein as
16    considered in the best interests of the sanitary district  by
17    the  board  of  trustees  upon  recommendation of the general
18    superintendent.
19        No sales, vacations, dedications for highway purposes, or
20    leases for periods in excess of 5  years,  of  the  following
21    described real estate, may be made or granted by the sanitary
22    district  without  the approval in writing of the Director of
23    Natural Resources of the State of Illinois:
24        All the right-of-way of the Calumet-Sag  Channel  of  the
25    sanitary  district  extending  from  the Little Calumet River
26    near Blue Island, Illinois, to the right-of-way of  the  main
27    channel of the sanitary district near Sag, Illinois.
28        Lots 1, 3, 5, 21, 30, 31, 32, 33, 46, 48, 50, 52, 88, 89,
29    89a,  90,  91, 130, 132, 133, those parts of Lots 134 and 139
30    lying northeasterly of a tract of land  leased  to  the  Corn
31    Products  Manufacturing  Company  from  January  1,  1908, to
32    December 31, 2006; 1000 feet of Lot 141  lying  southwesterly
33    of  and  adjoining  the above mentioned leased tract measured
34    parallel with the main channel of the sanitary district; Lots
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 1    166, 168, 207, 208, and part of Lot 211  lying  northeasterly
 2    of  a  line  1500  feet  southwesterly  of the center line of
 3    Stephen Street, Lemont,  Illinois,  and  parallel  with  said
 4    street  measured parallel with said main channel; and Lot 212
 5    of the Sanitary District Trustees Subdivision of right-of-way
 6    from the north and south center line of Section 30,  Township
 7    39  North,  Range 14 East of the Third Principal Meridian, to
 8    Will County line.
 9        That part of the right-of-way of the main channel of  the
10    sanitary  district in Section 14, Township 37 North, Range 11
11    East of the Third Principal Meridian, lying southerly of said
12    main channel, northerly of the Northerly Reserve Line of  the
13    Illinois  and Michigan Canal, and westerly of the Center line
14    of the old channel of the Des Plaines River.
15        That part of said main channel  right-of-way  in  Section
16    35,  Township  37 North, Range 10 East of the Third Principal
17    Meridian, lying east of said main channel and south of a line
18    1,319.1 feet north of and parallel with  the  south  line  of
19    said Section 35.
20        That  part  of  said  main  channel  right-of-way  in the
21    northeast quarter of the  northwest  quarter  of  Section  2,
22    Township  36  North,  Range  10  East  of the Third Principal
23    Meridian, lying east of said main channel.
24        That part of said main channel right-of-way  lying  south
25    of Ninth Street in Lockport, Illinois.
26        The  sanitary  district  may sell real estate that (i) is
27    not necessary for the functions of the district and (ii)  has
28    been  declared surplus by the district's governing body.  The
29    proceeds from the sale of the  surplus  real  estate  may  be
30    deposited  into  a  revolving fund that shall be known as the
31    Local Improvement Revolving Loan Fund.  The sanitary district
32    shall have the authority to deposit additional surplus  funds
33    into the Local Improvement Revolving Loan Fund.  The sanitary
34    district  shall establish a Local Improvement Loan Program to
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 1    make loans from the Local Improvement Revolving Loan Fund  to
 2    municipalities   and  other  units  of  local  government  to
 3    rehabilitate  the  local  sewerage   systems   within   their
 4    boundaries.  The sanitary district shall establish reasonable
 5    rules to administer the program, including without limitation
 6    criteria  for  the  eligibility  for  a loan and the interest
 7    rate.  The interest rate established by the district must  be
 8    lower than the market rate.
 9        Notwithstanding any other law, if any surplus real estate
10    is  located  in  an unincorporated territory and if that real
11    estate is contiguous to only one municipality, 60 days before
12    the sale of that real estate,  the  sanitary  district  shall
13    notify in writing the contiguous municipality of the proposed
14    sale.  Prior to the sale of the real estate, the municipality
15    shall  notify  in  writing  the  sanitary  district  that the
16    municipality will or will not annex the surplus real  estate.
17    If  the  contiguous municipality will annex such surplus real
18    estate, then coincident with the completion of  the  sale  of
19    that  real  estate by the sanitary district, that real estate
20    shall   be   automatically   annexed   to   the    contiguous
21    municipality.
22        All  sales  of  real estate by the such sanitary district
23    must be for cash, to the highest bidder upon open competitive
24    bids, and the proceeds of the sales, except the proceeds from
25    the sale of surplus real estate, may be  used  only  for  the
26    construction and equipment of sewage disposal plants, pumping
27    stations  and  intercepting sewers and appurtenances thereto,
28    and the acquisition of sites and easements therefor, and  the
29    financing   of   the   Local  Government  Assistance  Program
30    established under Section 9.6c.
31        However, the sanitary district may:
32        (a)  Remise, release, quit claim and convey, without  the
33    approval  of the Department of Natural Resources of the State
34    of Illinois acting by and through its Director, to the United
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 1    States of  America  without  any  consideration  to  be  paid
 2    therefor,  in  aid of the widening of the Calumet-Sag Channel
 3    of the sanitary district by the United States of America, all
 4    those certain lands, tenements  and  hereditaments  of  every
 5    kind   and   nature   of  that  portion  of  the  established
 6    right-of-way of the Calumet-Sag Channel  lying  east  of  the
 7    east  line  of  Ashland Avenue, in Blue Island, Illinois, and
 8    south of the center line of the channel except  such  portion
 9    thereof as is needed for the operation and maintenance of and
10    access   to  the  controlling  works  lock  of  the  sanitary
11    district;
12        (b)  Without the approval of the  Department  of  Natural
13    Resources  of the State of Illinois acting by and through its
14    Director, give and grant to  the  United  States  of  America
15    without  any  consideration  to  be  paid therefor the right,
16    privilege and authority to widen the Calumet-Sag Channel  and
17    for  that  purpose  to enter upon and use in the work of such
18    widening and for the disposal of  spoil  therefrom  all  that
19    part  of the right-of-way of the Calumet-Sag Channel owned by
20    the sanitary district lying south of the center line  of  the
21    Calumet-Sag Channel from its connection with the main channel
22    of  the  sanitary district to the east line of Ashland Avenue
23    in Blue Island, Illinois;
24        (c)  Make alterations to any structure made necessary  by
25    such  widening  and  to  construct,  reconstruct or otherwise
26    alter the existing highway bridges of the  sanitary  district
27    across the Calumet-Sag Channel;
28        (d)  Give  and  grant  to  the  United  States of America
29    without any consideration to be paid therefor  the  right  to
30    maintain   the   widened   Calumet-Sag  Channel  without  the
31    occupation or use of or jurisdiction over any property of the
32    sanitary district adjoining  and  adjacent  to  such  widened
33    channel;
34        (e)  Acquire   by   lease,   purchase,   condemnation  or
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 1    otherwise, whatever land, easements or  rights  of  way,  not
 2    presently  owned  by  it,  that may be required by the United
 3    States of America in constructing the Calumet-Sag  Navigation
 4    Project, as approved in Public Law 525, 79th Congress, Second
 5    Session  as  described in House Document No. 677 for widening
 6    and dredging the Calumet-Sag Channel, in improving the Little
 7    Calumet River between the eastern end of the Sag Channel  and
 8    Turning  Basin  No.  5,  and  in  improving the Calumet River
 9    between Calumet Harbor and Lake Calumet;
10        (f)  Furnish free of cost to the United States all lands,
11    easements, rights-of-way and soil  disposal  areas  necessary
12    for the new work and for subsequent maintenance by the United
13    States;
14        (g)  Provide   for   the  necessary  relocations  of  all
15    utilities.
16        Whatever land  acquired  by  the  sanitary  district  may
17    thereafter  be  determined  by  the  Board  of  Trustees upon
18    recommendation of the general  superintendent  as  not  being
19    needed  by the United States for the purposes of constructing
20    and maintaining the Calumet-Sag Navigation Project  as  above
21    described, shall be retained by the sanitary district for its
22    corporate  purposes,  or  be sold, with all convenient speed,
23    vacated or released (but not leased) as its Board of Trustees
24    upon  recommendation  of  the  general   superintendent   may
25    determine: All sales of such real estate must be for cash, to
26    the  highest  bidder  upon  open,  competitive  bids, and the
27    proceeds of the sales may be used only  for  the  purpose  of
28    paying  principal  and  interest upon the bonds authorized by
29    this Act, and if no  bonds  are  then  outstanding,  for  the
30    purpose  of  paying  principal  and interest upon any general
31    obligation bonds of the sanitary district, and for  corporate
32    purposes  of  the  sanitary  district.  When the proceeds are
33    used to pay bonds and interest,  proper  abatement  shall  be
34    made in the taxes next extended for such bonds and interest.
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 1    (Source:  P.A.  89-445,  eff.  2-7-96;  89-502, eff. 6-28-96;
 2    90-568, eff. 1-1-99.)
 3        (70 ILCS 2605/9.6c new)
 4        Sec. 9.6c. Local Government Assistance Program; bonds.
 5        (a)  The General Assembly finds that  governmental  units
 6    located   within  the  boundaries  of  the  district  require
 7    assistance in financing  the  cost  of  repair,  replacement,
 8    reconstruction,  and rehabilitation of local sewer collection
 9    systems to reduce certain  excessive  sanitary  sewer  ground
10    water   inflows;  that  such  inflows  ultimately  result  in
11    increased need for treatment and storage  facilities  of  the
12    district;  and  that  the  district, in the discretion of its
13    commissioners, advantageously may provide loan funds for such
14    purposes.
15        (b)  For purposes of this Section,  the  following  terms
16    shall have the meanings set forth, as follows:
17             The following terms shall have the meanings given to
18        them  in  the  Local  Government  Debt  Reform  Act:  (A)
19        "alternate bonds"; (B) "applicable law"; (C) "bonds"; (D)
20        "general obligation bonds"; (E) "governmental unit";  (F)
21        "ordinance"; and (G) "revenue source".
22             "Assistance  bonds"  means the bonds to be issued by
23        the  district  to  provide  funds  for  the  program   as
24        authorized in subsection (f) of this Section.
25             "Assistance program" means the program authorized in
26        this  Section  by  which  the  district may make loans to
27        local governmental units for  any  one  or  more  of  the
28        following   undertaken   with   respect  to  the  repair,
29        replacement, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of  local
30        sewer    collection    systems:   preliminary   planning,
31        engineering, architectural,  legal,  fiscal  or  economic
32        investigations   or  studies,  surveys,  designs,  plans,
33        working drawings,  specifications,  procedures  or  other
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 1        necessary   actions,   erection,   building  acquisition,
 2        alteration, remodeling, or improvement of such collection
 3        systems, or the inspection or supervision of any  of  the
 4        foregoing.
 5             "Loan"  means a loan made by the district to a local
 6        governmental unit under the assistance program.
 7             "Local governmental unit" means a governmental  unit
 8        within the boundaries of the district.
 9             "Reconstruction"  shall  include the construction of
10        totally new lines or systems if  reasonably  designed  to
11        replace obsolete lines or systems.
12        (c)  The   commissioners   may  establish  an  assistance
13    program.
14        (d)  The commissioners are authorized to do  any  one  or
15    more of the following with respect to the assistance program:
16             (1)  Establish  the  assistance  program as a use or
17        appropriation within the corporate fund of the district.
18             (2)  Accept grants, borrow  funds,  and  appropriate
19        lawfully  available  funds for the purpose of funding the
20        assistance program.
21             (3)  Make the loans as provided in subsection (e).
22             (4)  Enforce loans with all  available  remedies  as
23        any  governmental  unit or private person might have with
24        respect to such loans.
25        (e)  The district shall have the power to make loans  and
26    local governmental units shall have the power to obtain loans
27    from  the  district,  but  only if authorized to borrow under
28    such powers as may be  granted  to  such  local  governmental
29    units  under  other  applicable  law.   This Section does not
30    grant local governmental units separate borrowing power.   If
31    authorized to issue bonds under such applicable law, however,
32    the form of the borrowing may be such as the district and the
33    local   governmental   unit  may  agree,  including,  without
34    limitation, a loan agreement made between  the  district  and
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 1    local  governmental unit to evidence the bond.  Any such loan
 2    agreement  shall  state   the   statutory   authority   under
 3    applicable  law for the bond it represents but otherwise need
 4    not be in any specific form.  The  district  shall  have  all
 5    rights  and  remedies  available  to  the  holder  of  a bond
 6    otherwise  issued  in  the  form  provided  for  same   under
 7    applicable  law  and  also such rights and remedies as may be
 8    additionally  available  under  subsection  (d)(4)  of   this
 9    Section.    The loans may be made upon such terms and at such
10    rates, including expressly below market rates, representing a
11    subsidy of funds from the district to the local  governmental
12    units, as the district may specify in the loan agreements.
13        (f)  The   district   may  borrow  money  and  issue  its
14    assistance bonds under this Section 9.6c for the  purpose  of
15    funding  the assistance program, which bonds shall be revenue
16    bonds payable from any  lawfully  available  revenue  source,
17    including   without   limitation  receipts  from  the  loans.
18    Assistance bonds shall  not  be  subject  to  any  referendum
19    requirement  and  shall  not be treated as indebtedness under
20    any applicable provision of law setting  forth  a  limitation
21    upon or requirement with respect to the legal indebtedness of
22    the district.
23        (70 ILCS 2605/9.8) (from Ch. 42, par. 328.8)
24        Sec. 9.8.  Except as is otherwise provided by Sections 9,
25    9.1,  9.2,  9.3, 9.5, 9.6, 9.6a, 9.6c, and 9b, and 9c of this
26    Act, whenever  the  corporate  authorities  of  the  Sanitary
27    District  desire  to  issue  bonds  for  any of its corporate
28    purposes, they shall by ordinance direct that  the  ordinance
29    or  ordinances for the issuance of such bonds be submitted to
30    the legal voters of such sanitary district at  any  election.
31    The  clerk  of  such  sanitary  district  shall  certify  the
32    ordinance  and  the question to the proper election officials
33    who shall submit the question at an  election  in  accordance
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 1    with  the  general  election  law.  The  question shall be in
 2    substantially the following form:
 3    -------------------------------------------------------------
 4        Shall bonds for the purpose of             YES
 5    (State purpose) in the sum of.... be     --------------------
 6    issued by the Sanitary District of....?       NO
 7    -------------------------------------------------------------
 8        It shall not be necessary to print in full on the  ballot
 9    any such ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds.
10        The  result  of  the  referendum on the question shall be
11    entered upon the records of the district.
12    (Source: P.A. 83-333.)
13        Section 95.  No acceleration or delay.   Where  this  Act
14    makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by
15    text  that  is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a
16    Section represented by multiple versions), the  use  of  that
17    text  does  not  accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i)
18    the changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived  from
19    any other Public Act.
20        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
21    becoming law.".

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