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90_HB2893
70 ILCS 2605/11.17 from Ch. 42, par. 331.17
Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act.
Provides that the purchasing agent may trade in, sell,
donate, or dispose of (now trade in, sell, or dispose of) any
materials, supplies, or equipment that may become surplus,
obsolete, or unusable. Provides that materials, supplies,
and equipment may be donated only to not-for-profit
institutions.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Water Reclamation District Act by
2 changing Section 11.17.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
6 Act is amended by changing Section 11.17 as follows:
7 (70 ILCS 2605/11.17) (from Ch. 42, par. 331.17)
8 Sec. 11.17. Powers of purchasing agent. The purchasing
9 agent shall: (a) adopt, promulgate and from time to time
10 revise rules and regulations for the proper conduct of his
11 office; (b) constitute the agent of the sanitary district in
12 contracting for labor, materials, services, or work, the
13 purchase, lease or sale of personal property, materials,
14 equipment or supplies in conformity with this Act; (c) open
15 all sealed bids; (d) determine the lowest or highest
16 responsible bidder, as the case may be; (e) enforce written
17 specifications describing standards established pursuant to
18 this Act; (f) operate or require such physical, chemical or
19 other tests as may be necessary to insure conformity to such
20 specifications with respect to quality of materials; (g)
21 exercise or require such control as may be necessary to
22 insure conformity to contract provisions with respect to
23 quantity; (h) distribute or cause to be distributed, to the
24 various requisitioning agencies of such sanitary district
25 such supplies, materials or equipment, as may be purchased by
26 him; (i) transfer materials, supplies, and equipment to or
27 between the various requisitioning agencies and to trade in,
28 sell, donate, or dispose of any such materials, supplies, or
29 equipment that as may become surplus, obsolete, or unusable;
30 except that materials, supplies, and equipment may be donated
31 only to not-for-profit institutions; (j) control and maintain
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1 adequate inventories and inventory records of all stocks of
2 materials, supplies and equipment of common usage contained
3 in any central or principal storeroom, stockyard or warehouse
4 of the sanitary district; (k) assume such related activities
5 as may be assigned to him from time to time by the board of
6 trustees; and (m) submit to the board of trustees an annual
7 report describing the activities of his office. The report
8 shall be placed upon the official records of the sanitary
9 district or given comparable public distribution.
10 (Source: Laws 1963, p. 2498.)