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| | SB1869 Engrossed | | LRB098 10019 OMW 40178 b |
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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 Illinois Municipal Code is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 11-110-1 as follows:
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| 6 | | (65 ILCS 5/11-110-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-110-1)
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| 7 | | Sec. 11-110-1.
The corporate authorities of cities and |
| 8 | | villages for
drainage purposes may lay out, establish, |
| 9 | | construct, and maintain drains,
storm sewers, detention |
| 10 | | basins, retention basins and other "green infrastructure" |
| 11 | | facilities, such as green roofs, rain gardens, bioswales, tree |
| 12 | | boxes, porous pavement, porous pipe systems, native plantings, |
| 13 | | constructed wetlands, and cisterns, ditches, levees, dykes, |
| 14 | | pumping works, and machinery, and may acquire the
necessary |
| 15 | | land and machinery therefor, and in this manner may provide for
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| 16 | | draining or otherwise managing the runoff, such as by |
| 17 | | infiltration, evapotranspiration, or collection, on any |
| 18 | | portion of the land within their corporate limits, by special
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| 19 | | assessment upon the property benefited thereby, or by general |
| 20 | | taxation, or
a combination both. No lot, block, tract, or |
| 21 | | parcel of land, however, shall be
assessed more than once in |
| 22 | | any one year by a municipality for maintenance.
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| 23 | | (Source: P.A. 87-1197.)
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