99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
SB1815

 

Introduced 2/20/2015, by Sen. Kyle McCarter

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
60 ILCS 1/205-140
65 ILCS 5/11-150-1  from Ch. 24, par. 11-150-1

    Amends the Township Code. Makes various changes to provisions authorizing a township board to establish the monthly rate charged for the use of a waterworks system or sewerage system or a combined waterworks and sewerage system. Authorizes a township board to impose, upon a user who is outside of the township's geographical boundaries or the township's facility planning area, a 25% surcharge above the monthly user rates charged to users who are within the township and the township's facility planning area. Authorizes a township board to impose fees for connection to a sewerage system in amounts based on the size of the water meter to be installed. Contains provisions regarding: plan review fees, inspection fees, and acreage fees, and connection fees for a user who is outside of the township's geographical boundaries or the township's facility planning area. Amends the Illinois Municipal Code to make similar changes regarding fees charged by the corporate authorities of a municipality operating a waterworks or sewerage system. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY
HOME RULE NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

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 Township Code is amended by changing Section
5205-140 as follows:
 
6    (60 ILCS 1/205-140)
7    Sec. 205-140. Initiating proceedings for particular
8locality; rates and charges; lien.
9    (a) A township board may initiate proceedings under
10Sections 205-130 through 205-150 in the manner provided by
11Section 205-20.
12    (b) The township board may establish the monthly rate or
13charge to all users each user of the waterworks system or
14sewerage system, or combined waterworks and sewerage system, or
15improvement or extension at a rate that will be sufficient to
16pay for the operation, maintenance, and necessary upgrades or
17improvements of the system, the principal and interest of any
18bonds issued to pay the cost of any necessary upgrades or
19improvements to the system, and improvement, or extension and
20the maintenance and operation of the system, improvement, or
21extension and may provide an adequate depreciation fund for the
22bonds. Monthly Charges or rates shall be established, revised,
23and maintained by ordinance and become payable as the township

 

 

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1board determines by ordinance.
2    For any user outside of the township's geographical
3boundaries and outside the township's facility planning area,
4the township may impose a 25% surcharge above the monthly user
5rates charged to all users within the township or the
6township's facility planning area. For purposes of this
7Section, "facility planning area" has the same meaning as that
8term is defined under subsection (c) of Section 2.08 of the
9Wastewater Land Treatment Site Regulation Act.
10    (b-5) The township board of a township that operates a
11water or sewerage system may by ordinance collect a fair and
12reasonable fee, which shall not include the cost of labor and
13materials, for connection to any such system for the connection
14of a new service line from the new user's building or
15development to the township's main water or sewer line located
16in the adjoining utility easement. The standard used in order
17to determine a fair and reasonable connection fee shall be
18based solely on the size of the water meter to be installed for
19the service of the building or development. The fee shall not
20exceed, but may be less than, the connection fee for the
21applicable connection type, as described below. The
22restriction on fees imposed by this subsection shall not limit
23the right of the township to recover the actual cost of labor
24and materials incurred by the township to connect the new
25user's building or development to the township's main water or
26sewer line in the adjoining utility easement. The connection

 

 

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1fee shall not change the terms of any existing recapture
2agreement between a developer and a township.
 
3Sewer Connection Fees
4Size of water meter                              Amount of fee
5Single family residential..............................$1,000
6Multifamily residential..................$1,000 per residence
7Planned unit multifamily.......Applicable commercial size fee
83/4 inch & smaller commercial..........................$1,000
91 inch commercial......................................$1,669
101 1/2 inch commercial..................................$3,031
112 inch commercial......................................$4,736
123 inch commercial......................................$8,744
134 inch commercial.....................................$14,711
146 inch commercial.....................................$28,351
158 inch commercial.....................................$51,368
1610 inch commercial....................................$82,655
1712 inch & larger commercial..........Set by resolution of the
18 township board
 
19Water Main Connection Fees
20Size of water meter............................Amount of fee
213/4 inch & smaller....................................$1,000
221 inch.................................................$1,600
231 1/2 inch.............................................$2,300
242 inch.................................................$3,900

 

 

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13 inch.................................................$8,600
24 inch................................................$15,400
36 inch................................................$34,300
48 inch................................................$41,100
510 inch & larger meters..............................$154,000
6Unmetered & Main Extension.............................$2,000
7Landscaping sprinkler meter............................$1,000
 
8    The plan review fee charged by the township to review the
9building or development plans for the new connection,
10regardless of type, may not exceed $100.
11    The inspection fee charged by the township to inspect the
12new service line connection to the township's main line in the
13adjoining utility easement may not exceed $100.
14    The township may not charge a new user an acreage fee as
15part of or in addition to the connection fee.
16    The township may charge a new user outside of the
17township's geographical boundaries or the township's facility
18planning area up to an additional 25% surcharge above the
19connection fees indicated above.
20    As used in this Section, "multifamily residential" means
21the connection fee for a residential building to be constructed
22on an individual platted lot, which has at least 2 and not more
23than 4 separate residential units, and which is not part of a
24multifamily planned unit development.
25    As used in this Section, "multifamily planned unit

 

 

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1development" means the connection fee for a development using
2one main water meter to service one or more buildings within a
3planned unit development. A multifamily planned unit
4development shall be charged a single connection fee according
5to the above schedules, without regard to the number of
6residential units within the development.
7    (c) The charges or rates are liens upon the real estate
8upon or for which sewerage service is supplied whenever the
9charges or rates become delinquent as provided by the ordinance
10of the board fixing a delinquency date.
11(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
12    Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
13changing Section 11-150-1 as follows:
 
14    (65 ILCS 5/11-150-1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-150-1)
15    Sec. 11-150-1. Rates and fees.
16    (a) The corporate authorities of any municipality may
17establish the monthly rate to all users of the waterworks
18system or sewerage system, or combined waterworks and sewerage
19system, at a rate that will be sufficient to pay for the
20operation, maintenance, and necessary upgrades or improvements
21of the system, the principal and interest of any bonds issued
22to pay the cost of any necessary upgrades or improvements to
23the system, and provide an adequate depreciation fund for the
24bonds. Monthly rates shall be established, revised, and

 

 

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1maintained by ordinance and become payable as the corporate
2authorities determine by ordinance.
3    For any user outside of the municipality's geographical
4boundaries and outside the municipality's facility planning
5area, the municipality may impose a 25% surcharge above the
6monthly user rates charged to all users within the municipality
7or the municipality's facility planning area. For purposes of
8this Section, "facility planning area" has the same meaning as
9that term is defined under subsection (c) of Section 2.08 of
10the Wastewater Land Treatment Site Regulation Act.
11    (b) The corporate authorities of a municipality that
12operates a water or sewerage system may by ordinance collect a
13fair and reasonable fee, which shall not include the cost of
14labor and materials, for connection to any such system for the
15connection of a new service line from the new user's building
16or development to the municipality's main water or sewer line
17located in the adjoining utility easement. The standard used in
18order to determine a fair and reasonable connection fee shall
19be based solely on the size of the water meter to be installed
20for the service of the building or development. The fee shall
21not exceed, but may be less than, the connection fee for the
22applicable connection type, as described below. The
23restriction on fees imposed by this subsection shall not limit
24the right of the municipality to recover the actual cost of
25labor and materials incurred by the municipality to connect the
26new user's building or development to the municipality's main

 

 

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1water or sewer line in the adjoining utility easement. The
2connection fee shall not change the terms of any existing
3recapture agreement between a developer and a municipality.
 
4Sewer Connection Fees
5Size of water meter                              Amount of fee
6Single family residential..............................$1,000
7Multifamily residential..................$1,000 per residence
8Planned unit multifamily.......Applicable commercial size fee
93/4 inch & smaller commercial..........................$1,000
101 inch commercial......................................$1,669
111 1/2 inch commercial..................................$3,031
122 inch commercial......................................$4,736
133 inch commercial......................................$8,744
144 inch commercial.....................................$14,711
156 inch commercial.....................................$28,351
168 inch commercial.....................................$51,368
1710 inch commercial....................................$82,655
1812 inch & larger commercial..........Set by resolution by the
19 corporate authorities
20                                        of the municipality
 
21Water Main Connection Fees
22Size of water meter............................Amount of fee
233/4 inch & smaller....................................$1,000
241 inch.................................................$1,600

 

 

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11 1/2 inch.............................................$2,300
22 inch.................................................$3,900
33 inch.................................................$8,600
44 inch................................................$15,400
56 inch................................................$34,300
68 inch................................................$41,100
710 inch & larger meters..............................$154,000
8Unmetered & Main Extension.............................$2,000
9Landscaping sprinkler meter............................$1,000
 
10    The plan review fee charged by the municipality to review
11the building or development plans for the new connection,
12regardless of type, may not exceed $100.
13    The inspection fee charged by the municipality to inspect
14the new service line connection to the municipality's main line
15in the adjoining utility easement may not exceed $100.
16    The municipality may not charge a new user an acreage fee
17as part of or in addition to the connection fee.
18    The municipality may charge a new user outside of the
19municipality's geographical boundaries or the municipality's
20facility planning area up to an additional 25% surcharge above
21the connection fees indicated above, as well as a fair and
22reasonable impact fee.
23    As used in this Section, "multifamily residential" means
24the connection fee for a residential building to be constructed
25on an individual platted lot, which has at least 2 and not more

 

 

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1than 4 separate residential units, and which is not part of a
2multifamily planned unit development.
3    As used in this Section, "multifamily planned unit
4development" means the connection fee for a development using
5one main water meter to service one or more buildings within a
6planned unit development. A multifamily planned unit
7development shall be charged a single connection fee according
8to the above schedules, without regard to the number of
9residential units within the development.
10    (c) A home rule unit in a county with a population of under
113,000,000 may not regulate in a manner inconsistent with this
12Act. This Act is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6
13of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent
14exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised
15by the State. The corporate authorities of any municipality
16operating a waterworks, sewerage or combined waterworks and
17sewerage system have the power by ordinance to collect a fair
18and reasonable charge for connection to any such system in
19addition to those charges covered by normal taxes, for the
20construction, expansion and extension of the works of the
21system, the charge to be assessed against new or additional
22users of the system and to be known as a connection charge,
23except that no connection or water usage charge shall exceed
24the actual cost required for the installation or usage of an
25automatic sprinkler system. The funds thus collected shall be
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1with primary application thereof being made by the necessary
2expansion of the works of the system to meet the requirements
3of the new users thereof.
4(Source: P.A. 85-784.)
 
5    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
6becoming law.