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COUNTIES (55 ILCS 5/) Counties Code. 55 ILCS 5/5-15004
(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.)
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55 ILCS 5/5-15005
(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.)
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55 ILCS 5/5-15006
(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.)
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55 ILCS 5/5-15007
(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.)
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