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Public Act 098-0330 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning local government.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | ||||
changing Section 11-110-1 as follows:
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(65 ILCS 5/11-110-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-110-1)
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Sec. 11-110-1.
The corporate authorities of cities and | ||||
villages for
drainage purposes may lay out, establish, | ||||
construct, and maintain drains,
storm sewers, detention | ||||
basins, retention basins and other "green infrastructure" | ||||
facilities, such as green roofs, rain gardens, bioswales, tree | ||||
boxes, porous pavement, porous pipe systems, native plantings, | ||||
constructed wetlands, and cisterns, ditches, levees, dykes, | ||||
pumping works, and machinery, and may acquire the
necessary | ||||
land and machinery therefor, and in this manner may provide for
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draining or otherwise managing the runoff, such as by | ||||
infiltration, evapotranspiration, or collection, on any | ||||
portion of the land within their corporate limits, by special
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assessment upon the property benefited thereby, or by general | ||||
taxation, or
a combination both . No lot, block, tract, or | ||||
parcel of land, however, shall be
assessed more than once in | ||||
any one year by a municipality for maintenance.
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(Source: P.A. 87-1197.)
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