Public Act 90-0780 of the 90th General Assembly
Public Act 90-0780
SB1306 Enrolled LRB9009062PTsb
AN ACT to amend the Metropolitan Water Reclamation
District Act by changing Section 11-17 and adding Section
273.
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 Section 11-17 and adding Section
273 as follows:
(70 ILCS 2605/11.17) (from Ch. 42, par. 331.17)
Sec. 11.17. Powers of purchasing agent. The purchasing
agent shall: (a) adopt, promulgate and from time to time
revise rules and regulations for the proper conduct of his
office; (b) constitute the agent of the sanitary district in
contracting for labor, materials, services, or work, the
purchase, lease or sale of personal property, materials,
equipment or supplies in conformity with this Act; (c) open
all sealed bids; (d) determine the lowest or highest
responsible bidder, as the case may be; (e) enforce written
specifications describing standards established pursuant to
this Act; (f) operate or require such physical, chemical or
other tests as may be necessary to insure conformity to such
specifications with respect to quality of materials; (g)
exercise or require such control as may be necessary to
insure conformity to contract provisions with respect to
quantity; (h) distribute or cause to be distributed, to the
various requisitioning agencies of such sanitary district
such supplies, materials or equipment, as may be purchased by
him; (i) transfer materials, supplies, and equipment to or
between the various requisitioning agencies and to trade in,
sell, donate, or dispose of any such materials, supplies, or
equipment that as may become surplus, obsolete, or unusable;
except that materials, supplies, and equipment may be donated
only to not-for-profit institutions; (j) control and maintain
adequate inventories and inventory records of all stocks of
materials, supplies and equipment of common usage contained
in any central or principal storeroom, stockyard or warehouse
of the sanitary district; (k) assume such related activities
as may be assigned to him from time to time by the board of
trustees; and (m) submit to the board of trustees an annual
report describing the activities of his office. The report
shall be placed upon the official records of the sanitary
district or given comparable public distribution.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2498.)
(70 ILCS 2605/273 new)
Sec. 273. District enlarged. Upon the effective date of
this amendatory Act of 1998, the corporate limits of the
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District are extended to
include within those limits the following described tracts of
land that are annexed to the District:
THE SOUTH HALF OF SECTION 30, TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 13
EAST OF THE THIRD PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY,
ILLINOIS;
AND
SECTION 31, TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 13 EAST OF THE THIRD
PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, IN COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.