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MUNICIPALITIES
(65 ILCS 5/) Illinois Municipal Code.

65 ILCS 5/11-136-8

    (65 ILCS 5/11-136-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-8)
    Sec. 11-136-8. Such commission shall have the right to supply water or sewer facilities to any municipality, political subdivision, private person or corporation, in addition to the municipalities which have formed the commission, upon such payment, terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon, provided the water is delivered to such party or parties at the corporate limits of the municipalities which have created such commission or from such water works properties of the commission located outside such municipalities that have been constructed or acquired as necessary and incidental to the furnishing of water to the municipalities which formed the commission.
    Such commission shall have the power to contract with any person, corporation or political subdivision or any municipal corporation or other agency for a sewer system or for a supply of water, or to supply water to such person, corporation, municipal corporation or political subdivision. Any such contract entered into to supply water or sewer service to a municipal corporation or political subdivision shall provide that the payments to be made thereunder shall be solely from the revenues to be derived by such municipality or political subdivision from the operation of the waterworks system or sewer system of such municipality or political subdivision, and said contract shall be a continuing, valid and binding obligation of the municipality or political subdivision, payable from such revenues for such period of years, not to exceed 40, as may be provided in such contract. Any such contract shall not be a debt within the meaning of any statutory or constitutional limitations.
    No prior appropriation shall be required before entering into such contract, and no appropriation shall be required to authorize payments to be made under the terms of any such contract, notwithstanding any provision of this Code to the contrary.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-136-9

    (65 ILCS 5/11-136-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-9)
    Sec. 11-136-9. All powers and duties of the commission heretofore set forth in this Division 136 may be exercised within the municipalities constituting the commission and in contiguous territory not more than 3 miles beyond the corporate limits of such municipalities and in the territory necessary to interconnect any of the municipalities constituting the commission. The commission shall keep proper accounting records which records shall be kept so as to show the book value, reserve for depreciation, revenue and expenses broken down as to type of utility and by all municipalities making up the commission.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 137

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 137 heading)
DIVISION 137. CONTRACT FOR, PURCHASE OR LEASE
OF WATER AND SEWERAGE SYSTEMS

65 ILCS 5/11-137-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-137-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-1)
    Sec. 11-137-1. To enable municipalities to promote and procure the construction and installation of waterworks and sewerage systems when it becomes necessary for public health and welfare or for better sanitary conditions of a municipality, each municipality may contract with any person for a supply of water for public use, and for sewerage for drainage and sanitary purposes of the municipality, for a period not exceeding 30 years. Any contract that is entered into by a municipality and pledged to secure the bonds issued to construct any waterworks or sewerage system shall enure at all times and under all conditions to the benefit of the holders of any of the bonds so issued and for the payment of those bonds.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-137-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-137-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-2)
    Sec. 11-137-2. In all municipalities where any person has constructed a waterworks or sewerage system, or both, the municipality may purchase or lease that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, from the owners thereof, subject to the provisions of this Division 137.
    Before such a lease or purchase is binding upon the municipality, the corporate authorities shall pass an ordinance authorizing the municipality to lease or purchase that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, and shall include in the ordinance the terms, as near as practicable, upon which the lease or purchase shall be made. The ordinance shall be published at least once, within 10 days after passage, in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality.
    The publication or posting of the ordinance shall be accompanied by a notice of (1) the specific number of voters required to sign a petition requesting the question of authorizing the lease or purchase of a waterworks or sewerage system 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 municipal clerk shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one.
    If no petition is presented to the corporate authorities as hereinafter provided, within 30 days after the ordinance is so published and posted, the corporate authorities may consummate the lease or purchase of that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, as provided in the ordinance. If within 30 days after the first publication of the ordinance a petition is filed with the municipal clerk signed by electors of the municipality numbering 10% or more of the number of registered voters in the municipality, asking that the question of leasing or purchasing that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, as provided in the ordinance, be submitted to a vote, the clerk shall certify the proposition and the corporate authorities shall designate an election at which the question shall be submitted. If a majority of the votes cast on the question are in favor thereof, the corporate authorities may complete the lease or purchase, but if a majority of the votes cast on the question are unfavorable, no further action shall be taken by the municipality for a period of not less than 6 months. Thereafter, the same or another question may be submitted as before.
(Source: P.A. 87-767.)