(55 ILCS 5/5-15004) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-15004)

Sec. 5-15004. Review by Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission. Whenever any project contemplated under this Division involves territory within the jurisdiction of the Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission the plans for such project shall be submitted to such Commission and to the regional planning commission of the county in which located for their review and recommendations as to its compliance with the plans of the respective planning agencies.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(55 ILCS 5/5-15005) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-15005)

Sec. 5-15005. Tax levy. In order to effectuate the purposes of this Division, any such county may levy annually, in excess of any other limit prescribed by law, a tax of not to exceed .02% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, on all taxable property in such county, such tax to be levied and collected in like manner with the general taxes of such county, and when collected shall be paid into a special fund in the county treasury.

This tax shall not be levied in any county until the question of its adoption is submitted to the electors thereof and approved by a majority of those voting on the question. This question may be submitted at any election held in the county after the adoption of a resolution by the county board providing for the submission of the question of the adoption hereof to the electors of the county. The county board shall certify the resolution and proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law. If a majority of the votes cast on the question is in favor of the levy of such tax, it may thereafter be levied in such county for each succeeding year.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(55 ILCS 5/5-15006) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-15006)

Sec. 5-15006. Exercise of powers. The powers granted in this Division relative to waterworks systems and sewerage systems shall be exercised only in areas which do not have available similar services provided by another governmental unit, unless requested by such governmental unit pursuant to an ordinance or a resolution passed by its governing body. After such ordinance or resolution has been adopted it shall be published at least once in a newspaper having a general circulation in such governmental unit. The publication of the ordinance or resolution shall be accompanied by a notice of the (1) specific number of voters required to sign a petition requesting the question of the exercise of such powers by the county within such governmental unit to be submitted to the electors; (2) the time in which such petition must be filed; and (3) the date of the prospective referendum. The clerk of the governmental unit shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one.

If no petition is filed with the clerk of such governmental unit, as hereinafter provided in this section, within 15 days after the publication of the ordinance or resolution, the ordinance or resolution shall be in effect after the expiration of that 15-day period, but if within that 15-day period a petition is filed with the clerk of the governmental unit, signed by 300 legal voters or by one fifth of all the legal voters residing within the limits of the governmental unit, whichever is less, asking that the question of the exercise of such powers by the county within such governmental unit, as provided in the ordinance or resolution, be submitted to the legal voters of the governmental unit, the governing body of the governmental unit, by ordinance, shall provide for a referendum within such governmental unit on the question of the exercise of such powers therein by the county. The clerk shall certify the ordinance or resolution and the question to the proper election officials who shall submit the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law. However, an incidental duplication of functions shall not impair or prevent the primary exercise of the powers herein conferred.

Any county exercising the powers granted by this Division relative to waste management, shall do so only after adopting a solid waste management plan as that term is described in the Local Solid Waste Disposal Act, as now or hereafter amended. All powers, other than those relative to water works systems and sewerage systems granted by this Division, may be exercised throughout the county, without exception; provided that a municipality which is located in 2 or more counties, one of which is a home rule county, may, by ordinance, sever itself from county jurisdiction relative to waste management if the municipality is a member of a Municipal Joint Action Agency formed prior to June 15, 1988 pursuant to Section 3.2 of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)

(55 ILCS 5/5-15007) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-15007)

Sec. 5-15007. General powers of county board. In order to effect the protection, reclamation or irrigation of the land and other property in the county, and to protect the quality of the environment and the quality of life from the adverse effects caused by the improper storage, treatment or disposal of waste, and to accomplish all other purposes of the county, the county board is authorized and empowered to clean out, straighten, widen, alter, deepen or change the course or terminus of any ditch, drain, sewer, river, water course, pond, lake, creek or natural stream in the county; to fill up any abandoned or altered ditch, drain, sewer, river, water course, pond, lake, creek or natural stream, and to concentrate, divert or divide the flow of water in the county; to construct and maintain main and lateral ditches, sewers, canals, levees, dikes, dams, sluices, revetments, reservoirs, holding basins, floodways, pumping stations and siphons, and any other works and improvement deemed necessary to construct, preserve, operate or maintain the works or the waste management systems in the county; to construct or enlarge or cause to be constructed or enlarged any and all bridges that may be needed in the county, to construct or elevate roadways and streets; to construct any and all of said works and improvements across, through or over any public highway, canal, railroad right of way, track, grade, fill or cut, in the county; to remove or change the location of any fence, building, railroad, canal, or other improvements in the county; and shall have the right to hold, encumber, control, to acquire by donation, purchase or condemnation, to construct, own, lease, use and sell real and personal property, and any easement, riparian right, railroad right of way, canal, cemetery, sluice, reservoir, holding basin, mill dam, water power, wharf or franchise in the county for right of way, holding basin or for any necessary purpose, or for material to be used in constructing and maintaining said works and improvements, to replat or subdivide land, open new roads, streets and alleys, or change the course of an existing one.

The board shall have the power to produce, pump and sell waters so collected and impounded to public or private users and may use such means as are reasonably necessary in connection with such service.

The board shall also have the power to produce and sell any product resulting from the storage, treatment and disposal of waste including but not limited to the generation of steam, hot water, and electricity by combustion, refuse-derived fuel (RDF), and any recycled or reused materials withdrawn from a wastestream by the activities of the county.

(Source: P.A. 86-962.)