(70 ILCS 3405/1) (from Ch. 42, par. 448)
Sec. 1.
It is declared as a matter of legislative determination that in
order to promote and protect the health, safety, welfare and convenience of
the public, it is necessary in the public interest to provide for the
creation of municipal corporations known as surface water protection
districts and to confer upon and vest in the surface water protection
districts all powers necessary or appropriate in order that they may engage
in the acquisition, establishment, maintenance and operation of ditches,
channels, flumes or similar waterways, trunk sewers, lateral sewers,
manholes, street inlets, roadway culverts, outlet structures, junction
chambers, pumping stations, retention basins, dams, levees, gate
structures, spillways, control works, or any other types of construction
necessary for the collection of surface waters within the district
boundaries, and the subsequent conveyance and disposal of such waters at
suitable points of discharge, and provide as nearly adequate protection
from property loss and damage to lives and property within the district as
possible; and that the powers herein conferred upon such surface water
protection districts are public objects and governmental functions in the
public interest.
(Source: Laws 1953, p. 1510.)
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