98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB1869

 

Introduced 2/15/2013, by Sen. Steven M. Landek

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
65 ILCS 5/11-110-1  from Ch. 24, par. 11-110-1

    Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of cities and villages must also maintain storm sewers, detention basins, and retention basins for drainage purposes.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5changing Section 11-110-1 as follows:
 
6    (65 ILCS 5/11-110-1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-110-1)
7    Sec. 11-110-1. The corporate authorities of cities and
8villages for drainage purposes may lay out, establish,
9construct, and maintain drains, storm sewers, detention
10basins, retention basins, ditches, levees, dykes, pumping
11works, and machinery, and may acquire the necessary land and
12machinery therefor, and in this manner may provide for draining
13any portion of the land within their corporate limits, by
14special assessment upon the property benefited thereby, or by
15general taxation, or both. No lot, block, tract, or parcel of
16land, however, shall be assessed more than once in any one year
17by a municipality for maintenance.
18(Source: P.A. 87-1197.)