Public Act 90-0690
SB1612 Enrolled LRB9011558EGfgA
AN ACT in relation to the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
District.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
Act is amended by changing Sections 8 and 9.8 and adding
Section 9.6c as follows:
(70 ILCS 2605/8) (from Ch. 42, par. 327)
(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 90-568)
Sec. 8. Except as otherwise in this Act provided, the
sanitary district may acquire by lease, purchase or otherwise
within or without its corporate limits, or by condemnation
within its corporate limits, any and all real and personal
property, right of way and privilege that may be required for
its corporate purposes. All moneys for the purchase and
condemnation of any property must be paid before possession
is taken, or any work done on the premises. In case of an
appeal from the Court in which the condemnation proceedings
are pending, taken by either party, whereby the amount of
damages is not finally determined, the amount of the judgment
in the court shall be deposited with the county treasurer of
the county in which the judgment is rendered, subject to the
payment of damages on orders signed by the judge whenever the
amount of damages is finally determined.
Upon recommendation of the general superintendent and
upon the approval of the board of trustees when any real or
personal property, right of way or privilege or any interest
therein, or any part thereof of such sanitary district is no
longer required for the corporate purposes of the sanitary
district it may be sold, vacated or released. Such sales,
vacations, or releases may be made subject to such conditions
and the retention of such interest therein as may be deemed
for the best interest of such sanitary district as
recommended by the general superintendent and approved by the
board of trustees.
However, the sanitary district may enter into a lease of
a building or a part thereof, or acquire title to a building
already constructed or to be constructed, for the purpose of
securing office space for its administrative corporate
functions, the period of such lease not to exceed 15 years
except as authorized by the provisions of Section 8b of this
Act. In the event of the purchase of such property for
administrative corporate functions, the sanitary district may
execute a mortgage or other documents of indebtedness as may
be required for the unpaid balance, to be paid in not more
than 15 annual installments. Annual installments on the
mortgage or annual payment on the lease shall be considered a
current corporate expense of the year in which they are to be
paid, and the amount of such annual installment or payment
shall be included in the Annual Appropriation and Corporate
Tax Levy Ordinances. Such expense may be incurred,
notwithstanding the provisions, if any applicable, contained
in any other Sections of this Act.
The sanitary district may dedicate to the public for
highway purposes any of its real property and the dedications
may be made subject to such conditions and the retention of
such interests therein as considered in the best interests of
the sanitary district by the board of trustees upon
recommendation of the general superintendent.
The sanitary district may lease to others for any period
of time, not to exceed 99 years, upon the terms as its board
of trustees upon recommendation of the general superintendent
may determine, any such real property, right-of-way or
privilege, or any interest therein or any part thereof, which
is in the opinion of the board of trustees and general
superintendent of the sanitary district no longer required
for its corporate purposes or which may not be immediately
needed for such purposes. The leases may contain such
conditions and retain such interests therein as considered in
the best interests of the sanitary district by the board of
trustees upon recommendation of the general superintendent.
Negotiations and execution of such leases and preparatory
activities in connection therewith must comply with Section
8c of this Act. The sanitary district may grant easements and
permits for the use of any such real property, right-of-way,
or privilege, which will not in the opinion of the board of
trustees and general superintendent of the sanitary district
interfere with the use thereof by the sanitary district for
its corporate purposes. Such easements and permits may
contain such conditions and retain such interests therein as
considered in the best interests of the sanitary district by
the board of trustees upon recommendation of the general
superintendent.
No sales, vacations, dedications for highway purposes, or
leases for periods in excess of 5 years, of the following
described real estate, may be made or granted by the sanitary
district without the approval in writing of the Director of
Natural Resources of the State of Illinois:
All the right-of-way of the Calumet-Sag Channel of the
sanitary district extending from the Little Calumet River
near Blue Island, Illinois, to the right-of-way of the main
channel of the sanitary district near Sag, Illinois.
Lots 1, 3, 5, 21, 30, 31, 32, 33, 46, 48, 50, 52, 88, 89,
89a, 90, 91, 130, 132, 133, those parts of Lots 134 and 139
lying northeasterly of a tract of land leased to the Corn
Products Manufacturing Company from January 1, 1908, to
December 31, 2006; 1000 feet of Lot 141 lying southwesterly
of and adjoining the above mentioned leased tract measured
parallel with the main channel of the sanitary district; Lots
166, 168, 207, 208, and part of Lot 211 lying northeasterly
of a line 1500 feet southwesterly of the center line of
Stephen Street, Lemont, Illinois, and parallel with said
street measured parallel with said main channel; and Lot 212
of the Sanitary District Trustees Subdivision of right-of-way
from the north and south center line of Section 30, Township
39 North, Range 14 East of the Third Principal Meridian, to
Will County line.
That part of the right-of-way of the main channel of the
sanitary district in Section 14, Township 37 North, Range 11
East of the Third Principal Meridian, lying southerly of said
main channel, northerly of the Northerly Reserve Line of the
Illinois and Michigan Canal, and westerly of the Center line
of the old channel of the Des Plaines River.
That part of said main channel right-of-way in Section
35, Township 37 North, Range 10 East of the Third Principal
Meridian, lying east of said main channel and south of a line
1,319.1 feet north of and parallel with the south line of
said Section 35.
That part of said main channel right-of-way in the
northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 2,
Township 36 North, Range 10 East of the Third Principal
Meridian, lying east of said main channel.
That part of said main channel right-of-way lying south
of Ninth Street in Lockport, Illinois.
The sanitary district may sell real estate that (i) is
not necessary for the functions of the district and (ii) has
been declared surplus by the district's governing body. The
proceeds from the sale of the surplus real estate may be
deposited into a revolving fund that shall be known as the
Local Improvement Revolving Loan Fund. The sanitary district
shall establish a Local Improvement Loan Program to make
loans from the Local Improvement Revolving Loan Fund to
municipalities to rehabilitate the local sewerage systems
within their boundaries. The sanitary district shall
establish reasonable rules to administer the program,
including without limitation criteria for the eligibility for
a loan and the interest rate. The interest rate established
by the district must be lower than the market rate.
Notwithstanding any other law, if any surplus real estate
is located in an unincorporated territory and if that real
estate is contiguous to only one municipality, 60 days before
the sale of that real estate, the sanitary district shall
notify in writing the contiguous municipality of the proposed
sale. Prior to the sale of the real estate, the municipality
shall notify in writing the sanitary district that the
municipality will or will not annex the surplus real estate.
If the contiguous municipality will annex such surplus real
estate, then coincident with the completion of the sale of
that real estate by the sanitary district, that real estate
shall be automatically annexed to the contiguous
municipality.
All sales of real estate by the such sanitary district
must be for cash, to the highest bidder upon open competitive
bids, and the proceeds of the sales, except the proceeds from
the sale of surplus real estate, may be used only for the
construction and equipment of sewage disposal plants, pumping
stations and intercepting sewers and appurtenances thereto,
and the acquisition of sites and easements therefor, and the
financing of the Local Government Assistance Program
established under Section 9.6c.
However, the sanitary district may:
(a) Remise, release, quit claim and convey, without the
approval of the Department of Natural Resources of the State
of Illinois acting by and through its Director, to the United
States of America without any consideration to be paid
therefor, in aid of the widening of the Calumet-Sag Channel
of the sanitary district by the United States of America, all
those certain lands, tenements and hereditaments of every
kind and nature of that portion of the established
right-of-way of the Calumet-Sag Channel lying east of the
east line of Ashland Avenue, in Blue Island, Illinois, and
south of the center line of the channel except such portion
thereof as is needed for the operation and maintenance of and
access to the controlling works lock of the sanitary
district;
(b) Without the approval of the Department of Natural
Resources of the State of Illinois acting by and through its
Director, give and grant to the United States of America
without any consideration to be paid therefor the right,
privilege and authority to widen the Calumet-Sag Channel and
for that purpose to enter upon and use in the work of such
widening and for the disposal of spoil therefrom all that
part of the right-of-way of the Calumet-Sag Channel owned by
the sanitary district lying south of the center line of the
Calumet-Sag Channel from its connection with the main channel
of the sanitary district to the east line of Ashland Avenue
in Blue Island, Illinois;
(c) Make alterations to any structure made necessary by
such widening and to construct, reconstruct or otherwise
alter the existing highway bridges of the sanitary district
across the Calumet-Sag Channel;
(d) Give and grant to the United States of America
without any consideration to be paid therefor the right to
maintain the widened Calumet-Sag Channel without the
occupation or use of or jurisdiction over any property of the
sanitary district adjoining and adjacent to such widened
channel;
(e) Acquire by lease, purchase, condemnation or
otherwise, whatever land, easements or rights of way, not
presently owned by it, that may be required by the United
States of America in constructing the Calumet-Sag Navigation
Project, as approved in Public Law 525, 79th Congress, Second
Session as described in House Document No. 677 for widening
and dredging the Calumet-Sag Channel, in improving the Little
Calumet River between the eastern end of the Sag Channel and
Turning Basin No. 5, and in improving the Calumet River
between Calumet Harbor and Lake Calumet;
(f) Furnish free of cost to the United States all lands,
easements, rights-of-way and soil disposal areas necessary
for the new work and for subsequent maintenance by the United
States;
(g) Provide for the necessary relocations of all
utilities.
Whatever land acquired by the sanitary district may
thereafter be determined by the Board of Trustees upon
recommendation of the general superintendent as not being
needed by the United States for the purposes of constructing
and maintaining the Calumet-Sag Navigation Project as above
described, shall be retained by the sanitary district for its
corporate purposes, or be sold, with all convenient speed,
vacated or released (but not leased) as its Board of Trustees
upon recommendation of the general superintendent may
determine: All sales of such real estate must be for cash, to
the highest bidder upon open, competitive bids, and the
proceeds of the sales may be used only for the purpose of
paying principal and interest upon the bonds authorized by
this Act, and if no bonds are then outstanding, for the
purpose of paying principal and interest upon any general
obligation bonds of the sanitary district, and for corporate
purposes of the sanitary district. When the proceeds are
used to pay bonds and interest, proper abatement shall be
made in the taxes next extended for such bonds and interest.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96; 89-502, eff. 6-28-96.)
(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 90-568)
Sec. 8. Except as otherwise in this Act provided, the
sanitary district may acquire by lease, purchase or otherwise
within or without its corporate limits, or by condemnation
within its corporate limits, any and all real and personal
property, right of way and privilege that may be required for
its corporate purposes. All moneys for the purchase and
condemnation of any property must be paid before possession
is taken, or any work done on the premises. In case of an
appeal from the Court in which the condemnation proceedings
are pending, taken by either party, whereby the amount of
damages is not finally determined, the amount of the judgment
in the court shall be deposited with the county treasurer of
the county in which the judgment is rendered, subject to the
payment of damages on orders signed by the judge whenever the
amount of damages is finally determined.
Upon recommendation of the general superintendent and
upon the approval of the board of trustees when any real or
personal property, right of way or privilege or any interest
therein, or any part thereof of such sanitary district is no
longer required for the corporate purposes of the sanitary
district it may be sold, vacated or released. Such sales,
vacations, or releases may be made subject to such conditions
and the retention of such interest therein as may be deemed
for the best interest of such sanitary district as
recommended by the general superintendent and approved by the
board of trustees.
However, the sanitary district may enter into a lease of
a building or a part thereof, or acquire title to a building
already constructed or to be constructed, for the purpose of
securing office space for its administrative corporate
functions, the period of such lease not to exceed 15 years
except as authorized by the provisions of Section 8b of this
Act. In the event of the purchase of such property for
administrative corporate functions, the sanitary district may
execute a mortgage or other documents of indebtedness as may
be required for the unpaid balance, to be paid in not more
than 15 annual installments. Annual installments on the
mortgage or annual payment on the lease shall be considered a
current corporate expense of the year in which they are to be
paid, and the amount of such annual installment or payment
shall be included in the Annual Appropriation and Corporate
Tax Levy Ordinances. Such expense may be incurred,
notwithstanding the provisions, if any applicable, contained
in any other Sections of this Act.
The sanitary district may dedicate to the public for
highway purposes any of its real property and the dedications
may be made subject to such conditions and the retention of
such interests therein as considered in the best interests of
the sanitary district by the board of trustees upon
recommendation of the general superintendent.
The sanitary district may lease to others for any period
of time, not to exceed 99 years, upon the terms as its board
of trustees upon recommendation of the general superintendent
may determine, any such real property, right-of-way or
privilege, or any interest therein or any part thereof, which
is in the opinion of the board of trustees and general
superintendent of the sanitary district no longer required
for its corporate purposes or which may not be immediately
needed for such purposes. The leases may contain such
conditions and retain such interests therein as considered in
the best interests of the sanitary district by the board of
trustees upon recommendation of the general superintendent.
Negotiations and execution of such leases and preparatory
activities in connection therewith must comply with Section
8c of this Act. The sanitary district may grant easements and
permits for the use of any such real property, right-of-way,
or privilege, which will not in the opinion of the board of
trustees and general superintendent of the sanitary district
interfere with the use thereof by the sanitary district for
its corporate purposes. Such easements and permits may
contain such conditions and retain such interests therein as
considered in the best interests of the sanitary district by
the board of trustees upon recommendation of the general
superintendent.
No sales, vacations, dedications for highway purposes, or
leases for periods in excess of 5 years, of the following
described real estate, may be made or granted by the sanitary
district without the approval in writing of the Director of
Natural Resources of the State of Illinois:
All the right-of-way of the Calumet-Sag Channel of the
sanitary district extending from the Little Calumet River
near Blue Island, Illinois, to the right-of-way of the main
channel of the sanitary district near Sag, Illinois.
Lots 1, 3, 5, 21, 30, 31, 32, 33, 46, 48, 50, 52, 88, 89,
89a, 90, 91, 130, 132, 133, those parts of Lots 134 and 139
lying northeasterly of a tract of land leased to the Corn
Products Manufacturing Company from January 1, 1908, to
December 31, 2006; 1000 feet of Lot 141 lying southwesterly
of and adjoining the above mentioned leased tract measured
parallel with the main channel of the sanitary district; Lots
166, 168, 207, 208, and part of Lot 211 lying northeasterly
of a line 1500 feet southwesterly of the center line of
Stephen Street, Lemont, Illinois, and parallel with said
street measured parallel with said main channel; and Lot 212
of the Sanitary District Trustees Subdivision of right-of-way
from the north and south center line of Section 30, Township
39 North, Range 14 East of the Third Principal Meridian, to
Will County line.
That part of the right-of-way of the main channel of the
sanitary district in Section 14, Township 37 North, Range 11
East of the Third Principal Meridian, lying southerly of said
main channel, northerly of the Northerly Reserve Line of the
Illinois and Michigan Canal, and westerly of the Center line
of the old channel of the Des Plaines River.
That part of said main channel right-of-way in Section
35, Township 37 North, Range 10 East of the Third Principal
Meridian, lying east of said main channel and south of a line
1,319.1 feet north of and parallel with the south line of
said Section 35.
That part of said main channel right-of-way in the
northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 2,
Township 36 North, Range 10 East of the Third Principal
Meridian, lying east of said main channel.
That part of said main channel right-of-way lying south
of Ninth Street in Lockport, Illinois.
The sanitary district may sell real estate that (i) is
not necessary for the functions of the district and (ii) has
been declared surplus by the district's governing body. The
proceeds from the sale of the surplus real estate may be
deposited into a revolving fund that shall be known as the
Local Improvement Revolving Loan Fund. The sanitary district
shall have the authority to deposit additional surplus funds
into the Local Improvement Revolving Loan Fund. The sanitary
district shall establish a Local Improvement Loan Program to
make loans from the Local Improvement Revolving Loan Fund to
municipalities and other units of local government to
rehabilitate the local sewerage systems within their
boundaries. The sanitary district shall establish reasonable
rules to administer the program, including without limitation
criteria for the eligibility for a loan and the interest
rate. The interest rate established by the district must be
lower than the market rate.
Notwithstanding any other law, if any surplus real estate
is located in an unincorporated territory and if that real
estate is contiguous to only one municipality, 60 days before
the sale of that real estate, the sanitary district shall
notify in writing the contiguous municipality of the proposed
sale. Prior to the sale of the real estate, the municipality
shall notify in writing the sanitary district that the
municipality will or will not annex the surplus real estate.
If the contiguous municipality will annex such surplus real
estate, then coincident with the completion of the sale of
that real estate by the sanitary district, that real estate
shall be automatically annexed to the contiguous
municipality.
All sales of real estate by the such sanitary district
must be for cash, to the highest bidder upon open competitive
bids, and the proceeds of the sales, except the proceeds from
the sale of surplus real estate, may be used only for the
construction and equipment of sewage disposal plants, pumping
stations and intercepting sewers and appurtenances thereto,
and the acquisition of sites and easements therefor, and the
financing of the Local Government Assistance Program
established under Section 9.6c.
However, the sanitary district may:
(a) Remise, release, quit claim and convey, without the
approval of the Department of Natural Resources of the State
of Illinois acting by and through its Director, to the United
States of America without any consideration to be paid
therefor, in aid of the widening of the Calumet-Sag Channel
of the sanitary district by the United States of America, all
those certain lands, tenements and hereditaments of every
kind and nature of that portion of the established
right-of-way of the Calumet-Sag Channel lying east of the
east line of Ashland Avenue, in Blue Island, Illinois, and
south of the center line of the channel except such portion
thereof as is needed for the operation and maintenance of and
access to the controlling works lock of the sanitary
district;
(b) Without the approval of the Department of Natural
Resources of the State of Illinois acting by and through its
Director, give and grant to the United States of America
without any consideration to be paid therefor the right,
privilege and authority to widen the Calumet-Sag Channel and
for that purpose to enter upon and use in the work of such
widening and for the disposal of spoil therefrom all that
part of the right-of-way of the Calumet-Sag Channel owned by
the sanitary district lying south of the center line of the
Calumet-Sag Channel from its connection with the main channel
of the sanitary district to the east line of Ashland Avenue
in Blue Island, Illinois;
(c) Make alterations to any structure made necessary by
such widening and to construct, reconstruct or otherwise
alter the existing highway bridges of the sanitary district
across the Calumet-Sag Channel;
(d) Give and grant to the United States of America
without any consideration to be paid therefor the right to
maintain the widened Calumet-Sag Channel without the
occupation or use of or jurisdiction over any property of the
sanitary district adjoining and adjacent to such widened
channel;
(e) Acquire by lease, purchase, condemnation or
otherwise, whatever land, easements or rights of way, not
presently owned by it, that may be required by the United
States of America in constructing the Calumet-Sag Navigation
Project, as approved in Public Law 525, 79th Congress, Second
Session as described in House Document No. 677 for widening
and dredging the Calumet-Sag Channel, in improving the Little
Calumet River between the eastern end of the Sag Channel and
Turning Basin No. 5, and in improving the Calumet River
between Calumet Harbor and Lake Calumet;
(f) Furnish free of cost to the United States all lands,
easements, rights-of-way and soil disposal areas necessary
for the new work and for subsequent maintenance by the United
States;
(g) Provide for the necessary relocations of all
utilities.
Whatever land acquired by the sanitary district may
thereafter be determined by the Board of Trustees upon
recommendation of the general superintendent as not being
needed by the United States for the purposes of constructing
and maintaining the Calumet-Sag Navigation Project as above
described, shall be retained by the sanitary district for its
corporate purposes, or be sold, with all convenient speed,
vacated or released (but not leased) as its Board of Trustees
upon recommendation of the general superintendent may
determine: All sales of such real estate must be for cash, to
the highest bidder upon open, competitive bids, and the
proceeds of the sales may be used only for the purpose of
paying principal and interest upon the bonds authorized by
this Act, and if no bonds are then outstanding, for the
purpose of paying principal and interest upon any general
obligation bonds of the sanitary district, and for corporate
purposes of the sanitary district. When the proceeds are
used to pay bonds and interest, proper abatement shall be
made in the taxes next extended for such bonds and interest.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96; 89-502, eff. 6-28-96;
90-568, eff. 1-1-99.)
(70 ILCS 2605/9.6c new)
Sec. 9.6c. Local Government Assistance Program; bonds.
(a) The General Assembly finds that governmental units
located within the boundaries of the district require
assistance in financing the cost of repair, replacement,
reconstruction, and rehabilitation of local sewer collection
systems to reduce certain excessive sanitary sewer
groundwater inflows; that such inflows ultimately result in
increased need for treatment and storage facilities of the
district; and that the district, in the discretion of its
commissioners, advantageously may provide loan funds for such
purposes.
(b) For purposes of this Section, the following terms
shall have the meanings set forth, as follows:
The following terms shall have the meanings given to
them in the Local Government Debt Reform Act: (A)
"alternate bonds"; (B) "applicable law"; (C) "bonds"; (D)
"general obligation bonds"; (E) "governmental unit"; (F)
"ordinance"; and (G) "revenue source".
"Assistance bonds" means the bonds to be issued by
the district to provide funds for the program as
authorized in subsection (f) of this Section.
"Assistance program" means the program authorized in
this Section by which the district may make loans to
local governmental units for any one or more of the
following undertaken with respect to the repair,
replacement, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of local
sewer collection systems: preliminary planning,
engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal or economic
investigations or studies, surveys, designs, plans,
working drawings, specifications, procedures or other
necessary actions, erection, building acquisition,
alteration, remodeling, or improvement of such collection
systems, or the inspection or supervision of any of the
foregoing.
"Loan" means a loan made by the district to a local
governmental unit under the assistance program.
"Local governmental unit" means a governmental unit
within the boundaries of the district.
"Reconstruction" shall include the construction of
totally new lines or systems if reasonably designed to
replace obsolete lines or systems.
(c) The commissioners may establish an assistance
program.
(d) The commissioners are authorized to do any one or
more of the following with respect to the assistance program:
(1) Establish the assistance program as a use or
appropriation within the corporate fund of the district.
(2) Accept grants, borrow funds, and appropriate
lawfully available funds for the purpose of funding the
assistance program.
(3) Make the loans as provided in subsection (e).
(4) Enforce loans with all available remedies as
any governmental unit or private person might have with
respect to such loans.
(e) The district shall have the power to make loans and
local governmental units shall have the power to obtain loans
from the district, but only if authorized to borrow under
such powers as may be granted to such local governmental
units under other applicable law. This Section does not
grant local governmental units separate borrowing power. If
authorized to issue bonds under such applicable law, however,
the form of the borrowing may be such as the district and the
local governmental unit may agree, including, without
limitation, a loan agreement made between the district and
local governmental unit to evidence the bond. Any such loan
agreement shall state the statutory authority under
applicable law for the bond it represents but otherwise need
not be in any specific form. The district shall have all
rights and remedies available to the holder of a bond
otherwise issued in the form provided for same under
applicable law and also such rights and remedies as may be
additionally available under subsection (d)(4) of this
Section. The loans may be made upon such terms and at such
rates, including expressly below market rates, representing a
subsidy of funds from the district to the local governmental
units, as the district may specify in the loan agreements.
(f) The district may borrow money and issue its
assistance bonds under this Section 9.6c for the purpose of
funding the assistance program, which bonds shall be revenue
bonds payable from any lawfully available revenue source,
including without limitation receipts from the loans.
Assistance bonds shall not be subject to any referendum
requirement and shall not be treated as indebtedness under
any applicable provision of law setting forth a limitation
upon or requirement with respect to the legal indebtedness of
the district.
(70 ILCS 2605/9.8) (from Ch. 42, par. 328.8)
Sec. 9.8. Except as is otherwise provided by Sections 9,
9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.5, 9.6, 9.6a, 9.6c, and 9b, and 9c of this
Act, whenever the corporate authorities of the Sanitary
District desire to issue bonds for any of its corporate
purposes, they shall by ordinance direct that the ordinance
or ordinances for the issuance of such bonds be submitted to
the legal voters of such sanitary district at any election.
The clerk of such sanitary district shall certify the
ordinance and the question to the proper election officials
who shall submit the question at an election in accordance
with the general election law. The question shall be in
substantially the following form:
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Shall bonds for the purpose of YES
(State purpose) in the sum of.... be --------------------
issued by the Sanitary District of....? NO
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It shall not be necessary to print in full on the ballot
any such ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds.
The result of the referendum on the question shall be
entered upon the records of the district.
(Source: P.A. 83-333.)
Section 95. No acceleration or delay. Where this Act
makes changes in a statute that is represented in this Act by
text that is not yet or no longer in effect (for example, a
Section represented by multiple versions), the use of that
text does not accelerate or delay the taking effect of (i)
the changes made by this Act or (ii) provisions derived from
any other Public Act.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.