93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4485

 

Introduced 02/03/04, by Charles E. Jefferson

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
55 ILCS 5/5-1048   from Ch. 34, par. 5-1048

    Amends the Counties Code. Provides that, in counties that wish to offer waste collection or disposal in the unincorporated areas of the county, the county board may, by ordinance, require that the contracted provider be the exclusive provider for residences in the unincorporated areas of the county. The county board may also provide in the contract for waste disposal service, that users of the service pay the cost of the service directly to the service provider.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning counties.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing Section
5 5-1048 as follows:
 
6     (55 ILCS 5/5-1048)  (from Ch. 34, par. 5-1048)
7     Sec. 5-1048. Contracts for garbage disposal or recycling. A
8 county board may contract with any city, village, incorporated
9 town, or any person, corporation, or other county, or any
10 agency created by intergovernmental agreement, for a period of
11 not less than one and not more than 30 years, in relation to
12 the collection and final disposition or to the collection alone
13 or final disposition alone of garbage, waste refuse, and ashes.
14 The county board may also contract with an organization or
15 institution organized and conducted on a not-for-profit basis
16 for the purpose of recycling garbage and refuse. The governing
17 body shall authorize the execution of the contract by
18 resolution, and shall appoint a committee of no more than three
19 of its own members to serve with committees from the other
20 contracting parties as a joint subcommittee on garbage and
21 refuse disposal, or collection, or collection and disposal, as
22 the case may be. If the contract is with a non-profit entity,
23 the governing body shall appoint a committee of not more than
24 three of its own members to oversee fulfillment of the
25 contract. In counties that wish to offer waste collection or
26 disposal in the unincorporated areas of the county, the county
27 board may, by ordinance, require that the contracted provider
28 be the exclusive provider for residences in the unincorporated
29 area of the county. The county board may also provide in the
30 contract that the users of the service pay the cost of the
31 service directly to the service provider.
32 (Source: P.A. 86-962; 86-1028.)