HB1190enr 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB1190 Enrolled LRB100 02350 AWJ 12355 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 Sanitary District Act of 1936 is amended by adding Section 4.3 as follows:

(70 ILCS 2805/4.3 new)

Sec. 4.3. Combined waterworks and sewerage system. A sanitary district may, by ordinance, combine and jointly operate the district's waterworks and sewerage systems. A sanitary district operating a combined waterworks and sewerage system may: (i) improve and extend that system; (ii) impose rates and collect charges for the use of that system; and (iii) issue obligations and bonds under the same terms and conditions that it may issue obligations or bonds for a waterworks system or for a sewerage system and may pledge revenues from the combined waterworks and sewerage system in payment of the obligations or bonds.