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70 ILCS 3405/16

(70 ILCS 3405/16) (from Ch. 42, par. 463)

Sec. 16.

The board of trustees of any surface water protection district has
the power: to adopt and enforce ordinances for the necessary protection
from surface water damage; to acquire real and personal property, rights of
way and privileges either within or without its corporate limits that may
be required for its corporate purposes; and to acquire or construct
structures necessary to exercise the powers herein conferred and to dispose
of such property and structures when no longer needed.

In acquiring any property, right of way or privilege therein, the board
of trustees may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided
in the Eminent Domain Act.

When, in making any improvement, it is necessary to enter upon any
public property or property held for public use, the board of trustees may
acquire the necessary right of way over or through such property in the
manner herein provided for the acquisition of private property, but the
public use of such property shall not be unnecessarily interrupted or
interfered with and it shall be restored to its former usefulness as soon
as possible.

(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)