HB3309eng 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB3309 Engrossed LRB099 11105 AWJ 31521 b

AN ACT concerning local government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Township Code is amended by changing Section 205-140 as follows:

(60 ILCS 1/205-140)

Sec. 205-140. Initiating proceedings for particular locality; rates and charges; lien.

(a) A township board may initiate proceedings under Sections 205-130 through 205-150 in the manner provided by Section 205-20.

(b) The township board may establish the rate or charge to each user of the waterworks system or sewerage system, or combined waterworks and sewerage system, or improvement or extension at a rate that will be sufficient to pay the principal and interest of any bonds issued to pay the cost of the system, improvement, or extension and the maintenance and operation of the system, improvement, or extension and may provide an adequate depreciation fund for the bonds. Charges or rates shall be established, revised, and maintained by ordinance and become payable as the township board determines by ordinance.

(b-5) The township board of a township that operates a waterworks system or sewerage system, or combined waterworks and sewerage system, has the power by ordinance to collect a fair and reasonable charge for connection to any such system in addition to those charges imposed under subsection (b) of this Section, for the construction, expansion and extension of the works of the system, the charge to be assessed against new or additional users of the system and to be known as a connection charge, except that no connection or water usage charge shall exceed 1/6 of the estimated annual charges of the user, computed at the net rate for that class of service. The funds thus collected shall be used by the township for its general township purposes with primary application thereof being made by the necessary expansion of the works of the system to meet the requirements of the new users thereof.

(c) The charges or rates are liens upon the real estate upon or for which sewerage service is supplied whenever the charges or rates become delinquent as provided by the ordinance of the board fixing a delinquency date.

(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)