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1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act | ||||||
5 | is amended by changing Sections 5.2 and 9.6a as follows:
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6 | (70 ILCS 2605/5.2) (from Ch. 42, par. 324L)
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7 | Sec. 5.2. Where used in this law, "budget year" shall mean | ||||||
8 | the fiscal year
for which a budget is made. "Current year" | ||||||
9 | shall mean the fiscal year in
progress, i.e., the fiscal year | ||||||
10 | next preceding the budget year. "Preceding
year" shall mean the | ||||||
11 | fiscal year preceding the current year.
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12 | The "Clerk" shall mean that officer so designated as | ||||||
13 | provided in Section 4.
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14 | "Fund" shall mean a sum of money or other resources set | ||||||
15 | aside for the
purpose of carrying on specific activities or | ||||||
16 | attaining certain objectives
in accordance with special | ||||||
17 | regulations, restrictions, or limitations. A
fund shall be a | ||||||
18 | distinct financial or fiscal entity.
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19 | "Accountant" shall mean a public accountant or certified | ||||||
20 | public
accountant licensed under the laws of this State.
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21 | "Expenditure" shall mean the amount of obligations | ||||||
22 | incurred either
paid or to be paid from the appropriations for | ||||||
23 | the budget year for all
purposes, including current expenses, |
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1 | retirement of debt, and capital outlays.
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2 | "Disbursement" shall mean the actual payment in cash for | ||||||
3 | any purpose.
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4 | "Receipt" shall mean cash actually received and shall | ||||||
5 | include
appropriable cash on hand at the beginning of any | ||||||
6 | specified year.
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7 | "Estimated receipt" shall mean cash estimated to be | ||||||
8 | received within
the budget year and shall include the cash | ||||||
9 | surplus estimated to be
appropriable at the beginning of the | ||||||
10 | budget year.
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11 | "Cash basis" shall mean that system of accounting wherein | ||||||
12 | revenues
are accounted for when received in cash and | ||||||
13 | expenditures are accounted
for when paid.
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14 | "Accrual basis" shall mean that system of accounting | ||||||
15 | wherein revenues
are accounted for when earned or due, even | ||||||
16 | though not collected, and
expenditures are accounted for as | ||||||
17 | soon as liabilities are incurred,
whether paid or not.
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18 | "Function" (activity) of expenditure shall mean the | ||||||
19 | particular
purpose or group of services aimed at accomplishing | ||||||
20 | a certain end for
which an expenditure is made.
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21 | "Line Item" or item shall mean a particular type of | ||||||
22 | expenditure
within a class or related group of such | ||||||
23 | expenditures, i. e., testing
service, hospital service, towel | ||||||
24 | and laundry service, within the class
titled "Impersonal | ||||||
25 | Services."
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26 | "Object" of expenditure shall mean specific articles, or |
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1 | classes of
things for which an expenditure is made, i. e., | ||||||
2 | personal services,
impersonal services, materials and | ||||||
3 | supplies, machinery and equipment,
fixed charges and any such | ||||||
4 | other classes of articles or things as may be
desirable.
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5 | "Character" of expenditure shall refer to the relationship | ||||||
6 | of total
expenditures to current, prior, and future fiscal | ||||||
7 | periods, i. e.,
whether the expenditure is a current expense, | ||||||
8 | provision for the
retirement of debt, or a capital outlay.
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9 | "Organization units" shall be the administrative units of | ||||||
10 | the
district, i. e., departments, major sewage treatment | ||||||
11 | plants, and such
other operating units or groups of operating | ||||||
12 | units as may be deemed
desirable by the authorities of the | ||||||
13 | Sanitary District.
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14 | The "committee on finance" shall be any
committee so | ||||||
15 | appointed and so designated by the board of commissioners for
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16 | the purpose of considering financial matters affecting the | ||||||
17 | district.
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18 | "Sinking Fund Requirements" shall mean the amounts that | ||||||
19 | will be
needed to pay interest on and principal of bonds.
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20 | "Construction Fund" shall mean the amounts to be used for | ||||||
21 | paying the
costs incurred for construction purposes.
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22 | "Construction Purposes" shall mean the replacement, | ||||||
23 | remodeling,
completion, alteration, construction, and | ||||||
24 | enlargement, including
alterations, enlargements and | ||||||
25 | replacements which will add appreciably to
the value, utility, | ||||||
26 | or the useful life of sewage treatment works or flood
control |
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1 | facilities or water quality improvement projects , and
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2 | additions therefor, pumping stations, tunnels, conduits and | ||||||
3 | intercepting
sewers connecting therewith, and outlet sewers | ||||||
4 | together with the
equipment and appurtenances necessary | ||||||
5 | thereto, and for the acquisition
of the sites and rights of way | ||||||
6 | necessary thereto, and for engineering
expenses for designing | ||||||
7 | and supervising the construction of the works
above described, | ||||||
8 | and for removal of the rock ledge in the bed of the Des
Plaines | ||||||
9 | River (Illinois Waterway) through the City of Joliet.
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10 | Prior to the commencing of work involved in the removal of | ||||||
11 | the rock ledge
in the bed of the Des Plaines River formal | ||||||
12 | approval shall be obtained for
the design and plans for | ||||||
13 | accomplishing this work from the Corps of Engineers,
U. S. | ||||||
14 | Army, and the State of Illinois Department of Natural | ||||||
15 | Resources.
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16 | The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, its | ||||||
17 | agents, successors
or assigns shall save the State of Illinois | ||||||
18 | harmless from any and all claims
of whatever nature which may | ||||||
19 | arise as a result of or in consequence of any
work which may be | ||||||
20 | performed by the District.
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21 | The rights, powers, and authorities granted in this Act | ||||||
22 | shall be subject
to the provisions of Section 18 of the Rivers, | ||||||
23 | Lakes, and Streams Act.
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24 | It is the intent and purpose of this Act to provide a legal | ||||||
25 | basis which
will authorize and require all Sanitary Districts | ||||||
26 | organized under the
provisions hereof to make and execute the |
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1 | budgets of their Corporate Funds
and Construction Funds in such | ||||||
2 | manner that the budgets may be planned and
balanced with | ||||||
3 | receipts on an actual cash basis and expenditures on an
accrual | ||||||
4 | basis, and all definitions, terms, provisions and procedures | ||||||
5 | set
forth in this Act shall be thus construed as applied to | ||||||
6 | corporate funds and
construction funds.
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7 | (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
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8 | (70 ILCS 2605/9.6a) (from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a)
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9 | Sec. 9.6a. The corporate authorities of a sanitary | ||||||
10 | district, in
order to provide funds required for the replacing, | ||||||
11 | remodeling,
completing, altering, constructing and enlarging | ||||||
12 | of sewage treatment
works , water quality improvement projects, | ||||||
13 | or flood control facilities, and additions therefor, pumping
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14 | stations, tunnels, conduits, intercepting sewers and outlet | ||||||
15 | sewers,
together with the equipment, including air pollution | ||||||
16 | equipment, and
appurtenances thereto, to acquire property, | ||||||
17 | real, personal or mixed,
necessary for said purposes, for costs | ||||||
18 | and expenses for the acquisition
of the sites and rights-of-way | ||||||
19 | necessary thereto, and for engineering
expenses for designing | ||||||
20 | and supervising the construction of such works,
may issue on or | ||||||
21 | before December 31, 2016, in addition to all
other obligations | ||||||
22 | heretofore or herein authorized, bonds, notes or
other | ||||||
23 | evidences of indebtedness for such purposes in an aggregate
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24 | amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed 3.35% of the | ||||||
25 | equalized
assessed valuation of all taxable property within the |
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1 | sanitary district,
to be ascertained by the last assessment for | ||||||
2 | State and local taxes
previous to the issuance of any such | ||||||
3 | obligations. Such obligations shall be
issued without | ||||||
4 | submitting the question of such issuance to the legal voters
of | ||||||
5 | such sanitary district for approval.
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6 | The corporate authorities may sell such obligations at | ||||||
7 | private or
public sale and enter into any contract or agreement | ||||||
8 | necessary, appropriate
or incidental to the exercise of the | ||||||
9 | powers granted by this Act, including,
without limitation, | ||||||
10 | contracts or agreements for the sale and purchase of
such | ||||||
11 | obligations and the payment of costs and expenses incident | ||||||
12 | thereto.
The corporate authorities may pay such costs and | ||||||
13 | expenses, in whole or in
part, from the corporate fund.
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14 | Such obligations shall be issued from time to time only in | ||||||
15 | amounts as may
be required for such purposes but the amount of | ||||||
16 | such obligations issued during
any one budget year shall not | ||||||
17 | exceed $150,000,000 plus
the amount of any obligations | ||||||
18 | authorized by this Act to be issued during the 3
budget years | ||||||
19 | next preceding the year of issuance but which were not issued,
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20 | provided, however, that this limitation shall not be applicable | ||||||
21 | to the issuance
of obligations to refund bonds, notes or other | ||||||
22 | evidences of indebtedness,
nor to obligations issued to provide | ||||||
23 | for the repayment of money received
from the Water Pollution | ||||||
24 | Control Revolving Fund for the construction or
repair of | ||||||
25 | wastewater treatment works. Each ordinance authorizing the
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26 | issuance of the obligations shall state the general purpose or |
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1 | purposes for
which they are to be issued, and the corporate | ||||||
2 | authorities may at any time
thereafter pass supplemental | ||||||
3 | appropriations ordinances appropriating the
proceeds from the | ||||||
4 | sale of such obligations for such purposes.
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5 | The corporate authorities may issue bonds, notes or other | ||||||
6 | evidences of
indebtedness in an amount necessary to provide | ||||||
7 | funds to refund outstanding
obligations issued pursuant to this | ||||||
8 | Section, including interest accrued or
to accrue thereon.
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9 | (Source: P.A. 92-726, eff. 7-25-02; 93-279, eff. 7-22-03.)
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10 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
11 | becoming law.
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