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91_HB0845

 
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Sanitary District Act of 1936 by
 2    changing Sections 4.1, 5, 7, 14, 32a.4, and 32a.4a.

 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 Sections 4.1, 5, 7,  14,  32a.4,  and  32a.4a  as
 7    follows:

 8        (70 ILCS 2805/4.1) (from Ch. 42, par. 415.1)
 9        Sec. 4.1.  The board of trustees of any sanitary district
10    may   arrange  to  provide  for  the  benefit  of  employees,
11    appointed officers, and trustees  of  the  sanitary  district
12    group life, health, accident, hospital and medical insurance,
13    or  any  one  or  any combination of such types of insurance.
14    Such insurance may include provision for employees, appointed
15    officers, and trustees who rely on  treatment  by  prayer  or
16    spiritual  means  alone  for  healing  in accordance with the
17    tenets  and  practice  of   a   well   recognized   religious
18    denomination.   The board of trustees may provide for payment
19    by the sanitary district of the premium or  charge  for  such
20    insurance.
21        If  the  board  of  trustees  do  not  provide for a plan
22    pursuant to which the sanitary district pays the  premium  or
23    charge  for  any  group insurance plan, the board of trustees
24    may provide  for  the  withholding  and  deducting  from  the
25    compensation  of  such  of the employees, appointed officers,
26    and trustees as consent thereto the premium or charge for any
27    group life, health, accident, hospital and medical insurance.
28        The board of trustees may exercise the powers granted  in
29    this  Section  only  if the kinds of such group insurance are
30    obtained from any insurance company authorized to do business
31    in the State of Illinois or any other organization or service
 
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 1    offering similar coverage.  The board of trustees  may  enact
 2    an  ordinance  prescribing  the  method of operations of such
 3    insurance program.
 4    (Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)

 5        (70 ILCS 2805/5) (from Ch. 42, par. 416)
 6        Sec. 5. All ordinances imposing any penalty or making any
 7    appropriations shall, within one month after they are passed,
 8    be published at least once in a  daily  or  weekly  newspaper
 9    published  or  in general circulation in such district, or if
10    no such newspaper is  published  or  circulated  therein,  by
11    posting  copies  of  the same in 3 three public places in the
12    district; and no such ordinance shall take  effect  until  10
13    ten  days  after  it  is  so published. All other ordinances,
14    orders and resolutions, shall  take  effect  from  and  after
15    their passage unless otherwise provided therein.
16    (Source: Laws 1935-36, Fourth Sp. Sess., p. 16.)

17        (70 ILCS 2805/7) (from Ch. 42, par. 418)
18        Sec.  7.  The  board of trustees of any sanitary district
19    organized under this Act shall have power to provide for  the
20    collection  and  disposal  of  the  sewage  thereof  and  the
21    drainage  of such district and to save and preserve the water
22    supplied  to  the   inhabitants   of   such   district   from
23    contamination.  For  that  purpose  they  may  construct  and
24    maintain an enclosed conduit or conduits, main pipe or pipes,
25    wholly  or  partially  submerged, buried or otherwise, and by
26    means of pumps or otherwise, cause such sewage to flow or  to
27    be  forced through such conduit or conduits, pipe or pipes to
28    and into any ditch or canal constructed and operated  by  any
29    other   sanitary  district,  city,  village,  county,  public
30    utility or incorporated town, after having first acquired the
31    right so to do. Such board of trustees  may  co-operate  with
32    and  enter  into  contracts with any other sanitary district,
 
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 1    city, village, county, public utility  or  incorporated  town
 2    for  the  collection  and disposal in whole or in part of the
 3    sewage and drainage (or  either  thereof)  of  such  sanitary
 4    district  organized under this Act and may enter into any and
 5    all  joint  enterprises  and  arrangements  with  such  other
 6    sanitary district, city, village, county, public  utility  or
 7    incorporated  town  for  the joint collection and disposal of
 8    the sewage and drainage of such contracting parties. A  city,
 9    village,  or  incorporated  town  located  partly  or  wholly
10    outside  of the corporate limits of the sanitary district may
11    not  supply  sanitary  sewer  services  within  the  sanitary
12    district  without  the  written  agreement  of  the  sanitary
13    district.  Such  board  of  trustees  may  provide  for   the
14    collection  and  disposal  of sewage and the drainage of such
15    district  by  laying  out,  establishing,  constructing   and
16    maintaining   one  or  more  channels,  drains,  ditches  and
17    outlets, for carrying off and disposing  of  the  sewage  and
18    drainage  of  such  district  together with such adjuncts and
19    additions thereto as may be necessary or proper to cause such
20    channels or outlets to accomplish the end for which they  are
21    designed,  in  a  satisfactory  manner,  including  pumps and
22    pumping stations and the operation of the same. Such board of
23    trustees may also treat and purify such sewage so  that  when
24    the  same  shall  flow  into  any  lake, river or other water
25    course,  it  will  not  injuriously  contaminate  the  waters
26    thereof,  and  may  adopt  any  other  feasible   method   to
27    accomplish the object for which such sanitary district may be
28    created, and may also provide means whereby the said sanitary
29    district may reach and procure supplies of water for diluting
30    and  flushing  purposes.  Nothing in this Act shall require a
31    sanitary  district  to  extend  services  to  any  individual
32    residence or other building within the district,  and  it  is
33    the   intent  of  the  Illinois  General  Assembly  that  any
34    construction contemplated by this Section shall be restricted
 
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 1    to construction of works  and  main  or  interceptor  sewers,
 2    conduits, channels and similar facilities, but not individual
 3    service lines.  Nothing in this Act contained shall authorize
 4    said  trustees  to flow the sewage of such district into Lake
 5    Michigan.
 6    (Source: P.A. 85-480; 85-782.)

 7        (70 ILCS 2805/14) (from Ch. 42, par. 425)
 8        Sec. 14.  Except as otherwise provided in  this  Section,
 9    all   contracts  for  purchases  or  sales  by  the  sanitary
10    district, the expense of which will exceed $10,000, shall  be
11    let  to  the lowest responsible bidder therefor upon not less
12    than 14 days' public notice of the terms and conditions  upon
13    which  the  contract  is  to  be  let,  having  been given by
14    publication in a daily or weekly newspaper  published  or  in
15    general circulation in the district, and the board may reject
16    any  and all bids, and readvertise. Contracts for services in
17    excess of $10,000 may, subject  to  the  provisions  of  this
18    Section  be  let  by competitive bidding at the discretion of
19    the district board of trustees.  All contracts for  purchases
20    or  sales  of  $10,000 or less may be made in the open market
21    without publication in a newspaper  as  above  provided,  but
22    whenever  practical  shall be based on at least 3 competitive
23    bids.
24        Contracts which by their nature are not adapted to  award
25    by   competitive   bidding,  including,  without  limitation,
26    contracts for the services of individuals,  groups  or  firms
27    possessing  a  high  degree  of  professional skill where the
28    ability or fitness of the individual or organization plays an
29    important part, contracts for financial  management  services
30    undertaken  pursuant  to  the Public Funds Investment Act "An
31    Act relating to certain investments of public funds by public
32    agencies", approved  July  23,  1943,  as  now  or  hereafter
33    amended,  contracts  for  the  purchase or sale of utilities,
 
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 1    contracts for materials economically procurable only  from  a
 2    single source of supply and leases of real property where the
 3    sanitary  district  is the lessee shall not be subject to the
 4    competitive bidding requirements of this Section.
 5        Where the board of trustees declares, by a  2/3  vote  of
 6    all  members  of  the  board,  that there exists an emergency
 7    affecting the public health or safety, contracts totaling not
 8    more than $40,000 may be  let  to  the  extent  necessary  to
 9    resolve   such  emergency  without  public  advertisement  or
10    competitive bidding. The ordinance  or  resolution  embodying
11    the  emergency  declaration shall contain the date upon which
12    such emergency will terminate.  The  board  of  trustees  may
13    extend   the   termination   date  if  in  its  judgment  the
14    circumstances so require.  A  full  written  account  of  the
15    emergency,  together  with  a  requisition for the materials,
16    supplies, labor  or  equipment  required  therefor  shall  be
17    submitted  immediately  upon  completion and shall be open to
18    public  inspection  for  a  period  of  at  least  one   year
19    subsequent to the date of such emergency purchase.
20    (Source: P.A. 85-1136.)

21        (70 ILCS 2805/32a.4) (from Ch. 42, par. 443a.4)
22        Sec. 32a.4. Any sanitary district may annex any territory
23    which  is  not  within  the  corporate limits of the sanitary
24    district but which is contiguous to it and is served  by  the
25    sanitary  district  or by a municipality with sanitary sewers
26    that are connected and served by the sanitary district or  by
27    any other sewer system that is connected to and served by the
28    sanitary  district  by  the  passage  of an ordinance to that
29    effect by the board of trustees, describing the territory  to
30    be  annexed.  A copy of the ordinance with an accurate map of
31    the annexed territory, certified as correct by the  clerk  of
32    the  district  shall  be  filed  with the county clerk of the
33    county  in  which  the  annexed  territory  is  located.  For
 
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 1    purposes of this Act, a property  is  served  by  a  sanitary
 2    district  if  a sewer that is part of the sanitary district's
 3    sewer system, part of the sewer system of a municipality that
 4    is connected to the sanitary district, or part of  any  other
 5    sewer  system  that connects to and is served by the sanitary
 6    district has been extended to, across, or along the property,
 7    whether or not the buildings on the property  are  physically
 8    connected to the sewer.
 9    (Source: Laws 1967, p. 944.)

10        (70 ILCS 2805/32a.4a) (from Ch. 42, par. 443a.4a)
11        Sec.  32a.4a.   The corporate authorities of any sanitary
12    district may enter into an agreement with one or more of  the
13    owners  of  record  of  land  in  any  territory which may be
14    annexed to such sanitary district as provided  in  this  Act.
15    Such  agreement  may  provide  for  the  annexation  of  such
16    territory to the sanitary district, subject to the provisions
17    of  this  Act, and any other matter not inconsistent with the
18    provisions of this Act, nor forbidden by law.  Such agreement
19    shall be valid and binding for a period not to exceed  20  10
20    years from the date of execution thereof.
21        Any  action taken by the corporate authorities during the
22    period such agreement is in effect, which, if it  applied  to
23    the  land  which  is the subject of the agreement, would be a
24    breach of such  agreement,  shall  not  apply  to  such  land
25    without an amendment of such agreement.
26        Any  such  agreement executed after the effective date of
27    this Amendatory Act of 1983 and all amendments of  annexation
28    agreements,  shall  be  entered into in the following manner.
29    The corporate authorities shall fix a time  for  and  hold  a
30    public  hearing  upon  the  proposed  annexation agreement or
31    amendment, and shall give notice of the proposed agreement or
32    amendment not more than 30 nor less than 15 days  before  the
33    date  fixed  for the hearing.  This notice shall be published
 
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 1    at  least  once  in  one  or  more  newspapers  published  or
 2    generally circulated within  the  sanitary  district.   After
 3    such  hearing  the  agreement  or  amendment  may be modified
 4    before  execution  thereof.   The  annexation  agreement   or
 5    amendment  shall be executed by the president of the board of
 6    trustees only after such hearing and upon the adoption  of  a
 7    resolution directing such execution, which resolution must be
 8    passed  by  a vote of two-thirds of the corporate authorities
 9    then holding office.
10        Any  annexation  agreement  executed  pursuant  to   this
11    Section  shall be binding upon the successor owners of record
12    of the land which is the subject of the  agreement  and  upon
13    successor  corporate authorities of the sanitary district and
14    successor sanitary districts.  Any party  to  such  agreement
15    may  by  civil  action, mandamus or other proceeding, enforce
16    and compel performance of the agreement.
17        Any annexation agreement executed prior to the  effective
18    date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly 1983
19      which  was  executed  pursuant  to a two-thirds vote of the
20    corporate  authorities  and  which  contains  provisions  not
21    inconsistent with this Section is hereby declared  valid  and
22    enforceable as to such provisions for the effective period of
23    such agreement, or for 20 10 years from the date of execution
24    thereof, whichever is shorter.
25        The  effective  term of any Annexation Agreement executed
26    prior to the effective date of this  amendatory  Act  of  the
27    91st  General Assembly 1983 may be extended at any time prior
28    to the original expiration date to a date which is not  later
29    than  20 ten years from the date of execution of the original
30    Annexation Agreement.
31    (Source: P.A. 83-745.)

32        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
33    becoming law.

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