Full Text of SB2879 93rd General Assembly
SB2879 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 SB2879
Introduced 2/6/2004, by Edward D. Maloney SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Mosquito Abatement District Act. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, (i) the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District and the South Cook County Mosquito Abatement District are abolished on January 1, 2005, (ii) no new mosquito abatement districts may be organized on or after January 1, 2005 in Cook County, and (iii) the assets, liabilities, rights, powers, duties, and functions, including the taxing authority, of the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District are assumed by the Northwest Mosquito Abatement District; the assets, liabilities, rights, powers, duties, and functions, including the taxing authority, of the South Cook County Mosquito Abatement District are assumed by the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito Abatement District, and the City of Chicago for any part of the District that lies in the City of Chicago. Authorizes the appointment of 2 additional trustees to the Northwest and the Des Plaines Valley mosquito abatement districts and requires the Districts to pay a supplemental stipend of $3,000 per year to each of the trustees. Amends the Township Code to provide that no new mosquito abatement districts may be created under the Code in counties with a population of 3,000,000 or more on or after January 1, 2005. Provides that the board of trustees of any mosquito abatement district shall conduct routine surveillance of mosquitoes to detect the presence of mosquito-borne diseases. Provides that the district must report results of any positive mosquito samples infected with any and all arboviral infections to the director of environmental health of the local certified public health department, or his or her designee, within 24 hours of receiving the result. Provides penalties for failure to comply. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
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| AN ACT concerning mosquito abatement districts.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Mosquito Abatement District Act is amended | 5 |
| by changing
Sections 5 and 8 and adding Sections
0.02, 0.03, | 6 |
| 0.04, 0.05, 0.06, 0.07, 0.08, 0.09, 0.10, 0.11, 0.12, and 5.1 | 7 |
| as
follows:
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| (70 ILCS 1005/0.02 new)
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| Sec. 0.02. Purpose. It is the purpose of this amendatory | 10 |
| Act of the 93rd
General
Assembly to abolish
the North Shore | 11 |
| Mosquito Abatement District and to transfer all its assets,
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| liabilities,
rights, powers, duties, and functions, including | 13 |
| the eradication of the West
Nile Virus, to
the Northwest | 14 |
| Mosquito Abatement District. It is also the purpose of this
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| amendatory
Act of the 93rd General Assembly to abolish the | 16 |
| South Cook County Mosquito
Abatement District and to transfer | 17 |
| to the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito Abatement
District,
or, in
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| the case of
territory lying in the City of Chicago, to the City | 19 |
| of Chicago, all it's
assets,
liabilities, rights,
powers, | 20 |
| duties, and functions,
including the eradication of the West | 21 |
| Nile Virus.
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| (70 ILCS 1005/0.03 new)
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| Sec. 0.03. Districts abolished; assets, liabilities, | 24 |
| rights, powers,
duties, and
functions assumed. Notwithstanding | 25 |
| any other provision of law, including any
other
provision of | 26 |
| this Act,
the North Shore Mosquito Abatement District and the | 27 |
| South Cook County
Mosquito
Abatement District
are abolished on | 28 |
| January 1, 2005. In counties with a population
of 3,000,000 or | 29 |
| more, no new mosquito abatement districts may be organized on
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| or after January 1, 2005.
On January 1, 2005, the Northwest | 31 |
| Mosquito Abatement District shall assume all
assets,
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| liabilities, rights, powers, duties, and functions, including | 2 |
| the eradication
of the West Nile
Virus, of the North Shore | 3 |
| Mosquito Abatement District. On January 1, 2005, the
Des | 4 |
| Plaines
Valley Mosquito Abatement District shall assume all | 5 |
| assets, liabilities,
rights, powers,
duties, and functions, | 6 |
| including the eradication of the West Nile Virus, of the
South | 7 |
| Cook
County Mosquito Abatement District, except with respect to | 8 |
| that the part of the
South
Cook County Mosquito Abatement | 9 |
| District that lies in the City of Chicago, which
shall
be | 10 |
| assumed by the City of Chicago.
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| (70 ILCS 1005/0.04 new)
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| Sec. 0.04. Mosquito abatement districts expanded.
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| Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act to the | 14 |
| contrary,
beginning on January 1, 2005 the territory of the | 15 |
| Northwest Mosquito Abatement
District
shall consist of the | 16 |
| territory of the District as it existed on December 31,
2004
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| plus the territory
of the North Shore Mosquito Abatement | 18 |
| District as it existed on December 31,
2004.
Notwithstanding | 19 |
| any other provision of this Act to the contrary, beginning on
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| January 1, 2005 the territory of the Des Plaines Valley | 21 |
| Mosquito Abatement District shall
consist of
the territory of | 22 |
| the District as it existed on December 31, 2004 plus the
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| territory
of the South
Cook County Mosquito Abatement District | 24 |
| as it existed on December 31, 2004,
except
with
respect to that | 25 |
| the part of the South Cook County Mosquito Abatement District
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| that lies in
the City of Chicago on December 31, 2004, which | 27 |
| shall be assumed by the City of
Chicago.
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| (70 ILCS 1005/0.05 new)
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| Sec. 0.05. Transfer of property.
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| (a) Effective January 1, 2005, all books,
records,
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| documents, property (real and personal), unexpended | 32 |
| appropriations, and pending
business of
the North Shore | 33 |
| Mosquito Abatement District shall be transferred and
delivered | 34 |
| to the
Northwest Mosquito Abatement District. Effective |
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| January 1, 2005, all books,
records,
documents, property (real | 2 |
| and personal), unexpended appropriations, and pending
business | 3 |
| of the South Cook County Mosquito Abatement District shall be
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| transferred and
delivered to the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito | 5 |
| Abatement District, or, in the
case
of any
part of the South | 6 |
| Cook County Mosquito Abatement District that lies in the City
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| of
Chicago, to the City of Chicago.
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| (b) With respect to the assets, liabilities, rights, | 9 |
| powers, duties, and
functions of
the South Cook County Mosquito | 10 |
| Abatement District abolished by this amendatory
Act of the 93rd
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| General
Assembly,
the decision on which books, records, | 12 |
| documents, property
(real and
personal), unexpended | 13 |
| appropriations, and pending business shall be transferred
to | 14 |
| the
Des Plaines Valley Mosquito Abatement District
and which | 15 |
| shall be transferred to the
City of Chicago shall be made by
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| giving
consideration to
the proportionate percentage of | 17 |
| territory transferred to the
Des Plaines Valley Mosquito | 18 |
| Abatement District
and the
proportionate percentage | 19 |
| transferred to the
City of Chicago.
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| (70 ILCS 1005/0.06 new)
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| Sec. 0.06. Tax levies for assumed mosquito abatement | 22 |
| districts.
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| (a) With respect to
the
territory of the North Shore | 24 |
| Mosquito Abatement District
abolished by this amendatory Act of | 25 |
| the 93rd General Assembly, the Northwest
Mosquito Abatement | 26 |
| District shall have the power and
authority to levy and collect | 27 |
| such taxes at such rates as shall have been
previously
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| authorized, levied, and collected by the North Shore Mosquito | 29 |
| Abatement
District
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| (b) With respect to
the
territory of the South Cook County | 31 |
| Mosquito Abatement District
abolished by this amendatory Act of | 32 |
| the 93rd General Assembly and assumed by
the Des Plaines Valley | 33 |
| Mosquito Abatement District, the Des Plaines Valley
Mosquito | 34 |
| Abatement District shall have the power
and
authority to levy | 35 |
| and collect such taxes at such rates as shall have been
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| previously
authorized, levied, and collected by the South Cook | 2 |
| County Mosquito Abatement
District.
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| (70 ILCS 1005/0.07 new)
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| Sec. 0.07. City of Chicago tax levy.
In the case of
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| territory of the South Cook County Mosquito Abatement
District
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| abolished by
this amendatory Act
of the
93rd General Assembly
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| that lies
in the City of Chicago, the City of Chicago shall | 8 |
| have the power and authority
to levy and
collect such taxes at | 9 |
| such rates as shall have been previously authorized,
levied, | 10 |
| and
collected by the South Cook County Mosquito Abatement | 11 |
| District
with respect to that territory
for mosquito abatement | 12 |
| purposes and for other emerging public health
threats.
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| (70 ILCS 1005/0.08 new)
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| Sec. 0.08. Ordinances, orders, and resolutions.
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| (a) On January 1, 2005, the ordinances, orders, and | 16 |
| resolutions of a
mosquito
abatement district abolished by this | 17 |
| amendatory Act of the 93rd General
Assembly that
were in effect | 18 |
| on December 31, 2004 and pertain to the assets, liabilities,
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| rights, powers,
duties, and functions transferred to the
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| Northwest Mosquito Abatement District, the Des Plaines Valley | 21 |
| Mosquito
Abatement
District, or
the City of Chicago under this | 22 |
| amendatory Act of the 93rd
General
Assembly shall become, with | 23 |
| respect to that territory, the ordinances,
orders,
and
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| resolutions of the Northwest Mosquito Abatement District, the | 25 |
| Des Plaines
Valley
Mosquito Abatement District,
or
the
City of | 26 |
| Chicago, as appropriate,
and shall continue in effect until | 27 |
| amended or repealed.
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| (b) Any ordinances, orders, or resolutions pertaining to | 29 |
| the assets,
liabilities,
rights, powers, duties, and functions | 30 |
| transferred to the
Northwest Mosquito Abatement District, the | 31 |
| Des Plaines Valley Mosquito
Abatement
District, or the City of | 32 |
| Chicago under this
amendatory Act of the
93rd General Assembly | 33 |
| that have been proposed by a mosquito abatement district
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| abolished by this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly |
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| but have not
taken effect
or been finally adopted by December | 2 |
| 31, 2004 shall become, with respect to that
territory, the | 3 |
| proposed ordinances, orders, and resolutions of the
Northwest | 4 |
| Mosquito Abatement District, the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito
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| Abatement
District, or
the City of Chicago, as appropriate, on | 6 |
| January 1, 2005, and any procedures
that
have already been | 7 |
| completed by a mosquito abatement district abolished by this
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| amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly for those proposed | 9 |
| ordinances,
orders, or
resolutions need not be repeated.
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| (c) As soon as practical after January 1, 2005, the
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| Northwest Mosquito Abatement District, the Des Plaines Valley | 12 |
| Mosquito
Abatement
District,
and the
City of
Chicago shall | 13 |
| revise and clarify the ordinances, orders, and
resolutions
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| transferred to them under this amendatory Act of the 93rd | 15 |
| General Assembly to
reflect the
reorganization of assets, | 16 |
| liabilities, rights, powers, duties, and functions
effected by | 17 |
| this
amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly.
The
Northwest | 18 |
| Mosquito Abatement District, the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito
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| Abatement
District,
or the City of
Chicago, as appropriate, may | 20 |
| propose and adopt such other ordinances, orders,
or
resolutions | 21 |
| as may be necessary to consolidate and clarify the ordinances,
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| orders, and
resolutions assumed under this amendatory Act of | 23 |
| the 93rd General Assembly.
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| (70 ILCS 1005/0.09 new)
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| Sec. 0.09. Cross references. Beginning on January 1, 2005, | 26 |
| all references
in
other statutes, however phrased, to a | 27 |
| mosquito abatement district abolished
under this
amendatory | 28 |
| Act of the 93rd General Assembly shall be references to the
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| Northwest Mosquito Abatement District, the Des Plaines Valley | 30 |
| Mosquito
Abatement
District,
or the
City of Chicago, as | 31 |
| appropriate, in its capacity as successor to a mosquito
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| abatement
district abolished under this amendatory Act of the | 33 |
| 93rd General Assembly.
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| (70 ILCS 1005/0.10 new)
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| Sec. 0.10. Savings provisions.
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| (a) The assets, liabilities, rights, powers, duties, and | 3 |
| functions
transferred to the
Northwest Mosquito Abatement | 4 |
| District, the Des Plaines Valley
Mosquito Abatement District, | 5 |
| or the City of Chicago by this amendatory Act of
the 93rd | 6 |
| General
Assembly shall be vested in the
Northwest Mosquito | 7 |
| Abatement District, the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito
Abatement
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| District,
or the City of Chicago, as appropriate,
subject to
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| the provisions of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General | 10 |
| Assembly. An act done
by a
mosquito abatement district | 11 |
| abolished by this amendatory Act of the 93rd
General
Assembly | 12 |
| or an officer, employee, or agent of the abolished district | 13 |
| with
respect to the
transferred assets, liabilities, rights, | 14 |
| powers, duties, or functions shall
have the same legal
effect | 15 |
| as if done by the
Northwest Mosquito Abatement District, the | 16 |
| Des Plaines Valley Mosquito
Abatement
District,
or the City of
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| Chicago, as
appropriate, or an officer, employee, or agent of | 18 |
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Northwest Mosquito Abatement District, the Des Plaines | 19 |
| Valley Mosquito
Abatement
District,
or the City of
Chicago, as
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| appropriate.
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| (b) The transfer of assets, liabilities, rights, powers, | 22 |
| duties, and
functions under
this amendatory Act of the 93rd | 23 |
| General Assembly does not invalidate any
previous
action taken | 24 |
| by or in respect to a mosquito abatement district abolished by
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| this
amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly or its | 26 |
| officers, employees, or
agents.
References to an abolished | 27 |
| mosquito abatement district or its officers,
employees, or
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| agents in any document, contract, agreement, or law shall, in | 29 |
| appropriate
contexts, be
deemed to refer to the
Northwest | 30 |
| Mosquito Abatement District, the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito
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| Abatement
District,
or the City of Chicago, as appropriate,
or | 32 |
| its
officers, employees, or agents.
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| (c) The transfer under this amendatory Act of the 93rd | 34 |
| General Assembly of
assets, liabilities, rights, powers, | 35 |
| duties, and functions of a mosquito
abatement district
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| abolished by this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly |
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| does not affect
any
person's rights, obligations, or duties, | 2 |
| including any civil or criminal
penalties applicable
thereto, | 3 |
| arising out of those transferred assets, liabilities, rights, | 4 |
| powers,
duties, and
functions.
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| (d) With respect to matters that pertain to an asset, | 6 |
| liability, right,
power, duty, or
function transferred to the
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| Northwest Mosquito Abatement District, the Des Plaines Valley | 8 |
| Mosquito
Abatement
District,
or the City of Chicago under this | 9 |
| Act:
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| (1) Beginning January 1, 2005, a report or notice that | 11 |
| was previously
required to be made or given by any person | 12 |
| to a mosquito abatement district
abolished by this | 13 |
| amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly or any of its
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| officers, employees, or agents shall be made or given in | 15 |
| the same manner to the
Northwest Mosquito Abatement | 16 |
| District, the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito
Abatement
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| District,
or the City of Chicago, as appropriate, or its | 18 |
| appropriate
officer,
employee, or agent.
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| (2) Beginning January 1, 2005, a document that was | 20 |
| previously required
to be furnished or served by any person | 21 |
| to or upon a mosquito abatement
district
abolished by this | 22 |
| amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly or any of its
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| officers, employees, or agents shall be furnished or served | 24 |
| in the same manner
to
or upon the
Northwest Mosquito | 25 |
| Abatement District, the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito
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| Abatement
District,
or the City of Chicago, as appropriate, | 27 |
| or its
appropriate officer, employee, or agent.
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| (e) This amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly does | 29 |
| not affect any act
done, ratified, or cancelled, any right | 30 |
| occurring or established, or any action
or
proceeding had or | 31 |
| commenced in an administrative, civil, or criminal cause
before
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| January 1, 2005. Any such action or proceeding that pertains to | 33 |
| an asset,
liability, right,
power, duty, or function | 34 |
| transferred to the
Northwest Mosquito Abatement District, the | 35 |
| Des Plaines Valley Mosquito
Abatement
District,
or the City of | 36 |
| Chicago under
this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly |
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| and
that is pending on that date may be prosecuted, defended, | 2 |
| or continued by the
Northwest Mosquito Abatement District, the | 3 |
| Des Plaines Valley Mosquito
Abatement
District,
or the
City of
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| Chicago, as appropriate.
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| (70 ILCS 1005/0.11 new)
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| Sec. 0.11. Disputes. Any disputes that arise as a result of | 7 |
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abolishment of a
mosquito district and the assumption of | 8 |
| the assets, liabilities, rights,
powers, duties, and
functions | 9 |
| of the abolished district shall be resolved by an appropriate | 10 |
| action
commenced in the circuit court.
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| (70 ILCS 1005/0.12 new)
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| Sec. 0.12. Stipend. The Northwest Mosquito Abatement | 13 |
| District
and the Des Plaines Valley Mosquito Abatement District | 14 |
| shall pay each of the
members
of the board of trustees of the | 15 |
| respective district a stipend of
$3,000 per
year as | 16 |
| compensation for the additional duties undertaken as a result | 17 |
| of this
amendatory
Act of the 93rd General Assembly.
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| (70 ILCS 1005/5)
(from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 78)
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| Sec. 5. Within 60 days after the organization of any | 20 |
| mosquito abatement
district
under the provisions of this Act a | 21 |
| board of trustees, consisting of 5
members , except as provided | 22 |
| in Section 5.1 , for the government and control
of the affairs | 23 |
| and business of such
mosquito abatement district shall be | 24 |
| appointed in the following manner:
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| (1) If the district lies wholly within a single township, | 26 |
| the board of
trustees of that township shall appoint the | 27 |
| trustees for the district
but no township official is eligible | 28 |
| for such appointment;
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| (2) If the district is not contained wholly within a single | 30 |
| township,
but is located wholly within a single county, the | 31 |
| trustees for
the district shall be appointed by the presiding | 32 |
| officer of the
county board with the advice and consent of the
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| county board;
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| (3) If the district lies wholly within a municipality, the | 2 |
| governing
body of the municipality shall appoint trustees for | 3 |
| the district;
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| (4) If the district does not conform to any of the | 5 |
| foregoing
classifications, the
trustees for the district shall | 6 |
| be from each county in the district
in numbers proportionate, | 7 |
| as nearly as practicable, to the number
of residents of the | 8 |
| district who reside in each county in
relation to the total | 9 |
| population of the district. Trustees
shall be appointed by the | 10 |
| county board of their respective
counties, or in the case of a | 11 |
| home rule county as defined by
Article VII, Section 6 of the | 12 |
| Illinois Constitution, by the
chief executive officer of that | 13 |
| county with the advice and consent
of the county board.
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| Upon the expiration of the term of a trustee who is in | 15 |
| office
on the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1975 or | 16 |
| at the
time of the publication of each decennial Federal census | 17 |
| of
population, the successor shall be a resident
of whichever | 18 |
| county is entitled to such representation in order
to bring | 19 |
| about the proportional representation required herein,
and he | 20 |
| shall be appointed by the appointing authority of that
county. | 21 |
| Thereafter, each trustee shall be succeeded by a resident
of | 22 |
| the same county who shall be appointed by the same
appointing | 23 |
| authority. Of the trustees thus appointed 3 shall hold office | 24 |
| until
the second Monday in December after the next succeeding | 25 |
| general election
for members of the General Assembly and 2 | 26 |
| shall hold office until the
second Monday in December, 2 years | 27 |
| after the next succeeding general
election for members of the | 28 |
| General Assembly, and until their successors
are appointed and | 29 |
| qualified. Thereafter the trustees of the district shall
be | 30 |
| appointed in every year in which the term of any of the | 31 |
| trustees expires
and shall hold office for 4 years and until | 32 |
| their successors are appointed
and qualified. Each trustee | 33 |
| shall be a legal voter in the district, and
such trustees shall | 34 |
| serve without compensation , except as provided in Section
0.12 .
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| Whenever a vacancy occurs in the board of trustees the | 36 |
| appropriate
appointing authority shall appoint some person to |
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| fill the remainder of the
unexpired term.
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| (Source: P.A. 82-783.)
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| (70 ILCS 1005/5.1 new)
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| Sec. 5.1. Additional trustees. As soon as practical after | 5 |
| January 1, 2005,
the
President of the Cook County Board shall | 6 |
| appoint 2
additional
members to the board of trustees of the | 7 |
| Northwest Mosquito Abatement District
and the
Des Plaines | 8 |
| Valley Mosquito Abatement District, respectively. The trustees
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| appointed
under this Section shall hold office until the second | 10 |
| Monday in December 2006
and until
their successors are | 11 |
| appointed and qualified. Thereafter a trustee shall be
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| appointed
under this Section in every year in which the term of | 13 |
| a trustee appointed under
this
Section expires and shall hold | 14 |
| office for 4 years and until his or her
successor is
appointed | 15 |
| and qualified.
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| If this Section conflicts with any other provision of this | 17 |
| Act, this Section
controls.
Any other provision of this Act | 18 |
| concerning trustees applies to the trustees
appointed
under | 19 |
| this Section if it does not conflict with this Section.
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| (70 ILCS 1005/8)
(from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 81)
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| Sec. 8. The board of trustees of any mosquito abatement | 22 |
| district shall, in
its work, advise and cooperate with the | 23 |
| Department of Public Health of the
State, and the board of | 24 |
| trustees of such district shall submit to such
Department, on | 25 |
| or before January 1st of each year, a report of the work
done | 26 |
| and results obtained by the district during the preceding year.
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| The board of trustees of any mosquito abatement district, | 28 |
| or its designee,
shall conduct routine
surveillance of | 29 |
| mosquitoes to detect the presence
of mosquito-borne
diseases of | 30 |
| public health significance. The surveillance shall be | 31 |
| conducted in
accordance with mosquito
abatement and
control | 32 |
| guidelines as set forth by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control | 33 |
| and
Prevention. Areas reporting
disease in humans shall be | 34 |
| included in the surveillance activities. Mosquito
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| districts
shall report to the local certified public health | 2 |
| department the results of
any positive mosquito
samples | 3 |
| infected with any arboviral infections, including, but not
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| limited
to: West Nile
Virus, St. Louis Encephalitis, and | 5 |
| Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Reports shall
be made to the local
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| certified public health department's director of environmental | 7 |
| health, or a
designee of the department, within 24 hours
after | 8 |
| receiving a positive report. The report shall include the type | 9 |
| of
infection, the number of
mosquitoes collected in the | 10 |
| trapping device, the type of trapping device used,
and
the type | 11 |
| of
laboratory testing used to confirm the infection.
Any | 12 |
| trustee of a mosquito abatement district, or designee of the | 13 |
| board of
trustees of a mosquito abatement district, that fails | 14 |
| to
comply with the
requirements of this Act is guilty of a | 15 |
| Class A Misdemeanor.
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| (Source: Laws 1927, p. 694.)".
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| Section 10. The Township Code is amended by changing | 18 |
| Section 30-170
as follows:
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| (60 ILCS 1/30-170)
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| Sec. 30-170. Mosquito abatement district.
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| (a) The electors may authorize the township board to | 22 |
| contract for the
furnishing of mosquito abatement services in | 23 |
| the unincorporated area of the
township.
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| (a-5) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, as | 25 |
| provided in
Section
0.03 of the Mosquito Abatement District | 26 |
| Act, on January 1, 2005 the North
Shore
Mosquito Abatement | 27 |
| District and the South Cook County Mosquito Abatement
District
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| are abolished. No
new
mosquito abatement districts may be | 29 |
| organized in counties with a population of
3,000,000 or more
on | 30 |
| or after January 1, 2005.
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| (b) The township board may adopt a resolution declaring the | 32 |
| unincorporated
area of the township a mosquito abatement | 33 |
| district for tax purposes. Proof of
the resolution authorizes | 34 |
| the county clerk to extend a tax upon the mosquito
abatement |
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| district in the amount specified in the annual township tax | 2 |
| levy, but
not more than a rate of 0.075% of the value of | 3 |
| taxable property as equalized or
assessed by the Department of | 4 |
| Revenue.
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| (c) Whenever a resolution creating a mosquito abatement | 6 |
| district has
been adopted, the township board shall order the | 7 |
| proposition submitted
to the voters within the territory of the | 8 |
| proposed district at an election.
The clerk shall certify the | 9 |
| proposition to the proper election officials.
Notice shall be | 10 |
| given and the election conducted in accordance with the
general | 11 |
| election law. The proposition shall be in substantially the
| 12 |
| following form:
| 13 |
| Shall a mosquito abatement district be created to serve | 14 |
| the
unincorporated areas of (name of township), and shall a | 15 |
| tax be levied at
a rate of not more than 0.075% of the | 16 |
| value of taxable property in the
district as equalized or | 17 |
| assessed by the Department of Revenue?
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| The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
| 19 |
| (d) If a majority of votes cast on the proposition is in | 20 |
| favor of the
mosquito abatement district, the district shall be | 21 |
| created.
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| (e) Any territory within a mosquito abatement district that | 23 |
| is annexed
to a municipality that provides mosquito abatement | 24 |
| services within its
corporate limits shall be automatically | 25 |
| disconnected from the township
mosquito abatement taxing | 26 |
| district.
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| (Source: P.A. 86-310; 88-62.)
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| Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding | 29 |
| Section 8.28 as
follows:
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| (30 ILCS 805/8.28 new)
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| Sec. 8.28. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6 and 8 | 32 |
| of this
Act, no reimbursement by the State is required for the | 33 |
| implementation of
any mandate created by this amendatory Act of | 34 |
| the 93rd General Assembly.
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Statutes amended in order of appearance
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| 70 ILCS 1005/0.02 new |
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| 70 ILCS 1005/0.03 new |
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| 70 ILCS 1005/0.04 new |
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| 70 ILCS 1005/0.05 new |
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| 70 ILCS 1005/0.06 new |
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| 70 ILCS 1005/0.07 new |
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| 70 ILCS 1005/0.08 new |
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| 70 ILCS 1005/0.09 new |
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| 70 ILCS 1005/0.10 new |
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| 70 ILCS 1005/0.11 new |
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| 70 ILCS 1005/0.12 new |
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| 70 ILCS 1005/5 |
from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 78 |
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| 70 ILCS 1005/5.1 new |
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| 70 ILCS 1005/8 |
from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 81 |
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| 60 ILCS 1/30-170 |
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| 30 ILCS 805/8.28 new |
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