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() 65 ILCS 5/11-136-2
(65 ILCS 5/11-136-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-2)
Sec. 11-136-2.
Upon the adoption of such an ordinance or resolution by the
corporate authorities of any such municipality, the mayor or president,
with the approval of the corporate authorities, shall appoint one
commissioner for each 5,000 population, or part thereof. The commissioners
so appointed by each of such municipalities, together with a like
commissioner appointed by the chairman of the county board of the
county in which the municipality having the
greatest population is
situated, shall constitute a commission and public corporation with the
powers and duties specified in this Division 136. The corporate name of the
commission shall be "(here insert appropriate name indicative of the area)
Water Commission" or "Water and Sewer Commission" and as such the
commission may contract and be contracted with, and sue and be sued.
The commissioners so appointed shall serve for a term of 6 years, or
until their successors have been appointed and have qualified. Each
commissioner shall be an elector of the municipality for which he acts as
commissioner. However, no person shall be eligible for appointment, if he
has held an elective office in the state, county or municipality, until one
year after the expiration of the term for which he was elected. A
commissioner is eligible for reappointment upon the expiration of his term.
A vacancy shall be filled for the balance of the unexpired term in the same
manner as that prescribed for the appointment of the person who has ceased
to hold office. Each commissioner shall receive the same compensation which
shall not be more than $1,000 per year. Each commissioner shall furnish a
bond for the faithful performance of his official duties. This bond shall
not be less than $5,000 and its costs shall be paid by the commission.
Each commissioner may be removed for any cause for which any other
municipal officer may be removed. No commissioner, or employee of the
commission, and no mayor, or president, or other member of the corporate
authorities, or any employee of any of the municipalities, shall be
interested directly or indirectly in any contractor-job of work or
materials, or the profits thereof, or services to be performed for or by
the commission.
A violation of any of the foregoing provisions of this section is a
Class C misdemeanor. A conviction is cause for the removal of a person from
his office or employment. Any member of the commission or any employee
thereof who in any manner contributes money, labor, or other valuable thing
to any person for election purposes in any election for office in any of
the municipalities which are furnished water by the commission is guilty of
a Class C misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A. 84-1308.)
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65 ILCS 5/11-136-3
(65 ILCS 5/11-136-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-3)
Sec. 11-136-3.
Such a commission shall organize by appointing a chairman
from its own members and a clerk and treasurer, who need not be
commissioners. It shall adopt its own rules of procedure and provide for
its meetings. The commission has full and complete supervision, management,
and control of the waterworks system, or sources of supply of water, or
sewer systems, or combination thereof, as provided in the ordinances or
resolutions for acquiring and operating the same, and in their maintenance,
operation, and extension. The commission is authorized to contract with the
municipalities which established the commission or with any other person,
firm or corporation for a supply of water, a sewage treatment plant or any
other facilities useful in conducting a water supply and sewage disposal
system for a period not exceeding 50 years, and the corporate authorities
of those municipalities are authorized to enter into contracts with the
commission. The commission is authorized to purchase from any person, firm
or corporation or municipal corporation including those making up the
commission, any sewer or water properties or sources of supplies and
municipalities are hereby authorized to sell such facilities to the
commission.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/11-136-4
(65 ILCS 5/11-136-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-4)
Sec. 11-136-4.
For the purpose of acquiring such a waterworks system or
sources of supply of water or sewer systems, or any combination thereof or
for making improvements and extensions to such a waterworks system or
sources of supply of water or sewer systems, or any combination thereof,
such a commission is authorized to issue revenue bonds payable solely from
the revenue to be derived pursuant to any contracts with the specified
municipalities or with any person, firm or corporation or by virtue of the
operation of any properties acquired or to be acquired. These bonds shall
not constitute an indebtedness of any of the municipalities represented by
the commission. The bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding
the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the
time of the making of the contract, payable semiannually, and
shall mature within the period of usefulness of the property to be
acquired or constructed from the proceeds thereof. This period shall be
conclusively determined by the commission at or before the time of the
issuance of the bonds, and in no event shall any of the bonds be issued
with a maturity more than 50 years from the date thereof. The bonds
shall be sold in such manner as the commission shall determine, except
that if issued to bear interest at
the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the
time of the making of the contract, the bonds
shall be sold for not less than par and accrued interest, and except
that the selling price of any bond bearing interest at less than
the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the
time of the making of the contract, shall be such that the interest cost
of the money received from that bond shall not exceed
the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the
time of the making of the contract, computed to maturity, according
to standard tables of bond values.
Before the treasurer of the commission is entitled to receive the
proceeds of the sale of such a bond issue, he shall supply a corporate
surety bond in an amount equivalent to the amount of funds to be derived
from the sale of the bonds, and, in addition thereto, he shall supply a
separate corporate surety bond for the faithful accounting of any funds
that may come into his possession in an amount equal to the amount of
funds likely to come into his hands in any one year from the revenue to
be derived from the operation of any of the properties of the
commission. The cost of these surety bonds shall be paid by the
commission.
The revenue bonds shall be issued pursuant to an ordinance or
resolution and shall be in such form and be executed in such manner as
may be prescribed by the ordinance or resolution. It shall not be
necessary that the ordinance or resolution refer to plans and
specifications nor that there be on file for public inspection prior to
the adoption of such ordinance detailed plans and specifications of the
project. This ordinance or resolution may contain such covenants and
restrictions in relation to the operation of the properties under the
control of the commission and the issuance of additional revenue bonds
thereafter as may be deemed necessary or advisable for the assurance of
payment of the bonds thereby authorized and as may be thereafter issued.
It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that it does not
constitute an indebtedness of any municipality represented by the
commission within the meaning of any statutory or constitutional
limitation. Upon the issuance of revenue bonds, the revenue of the
commission derived pursuant to contracts entered into for the sale of
water to the specified municipalities and from the operation of its
properties, shall be accounted for as provided in the ordinance or
resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds. Any commission created
under the provisions of this Division 136 may also issue new bonds for
the purpose of providing funds for the payment of unpaid bonds in
accordance with the procedure prescribed by this Division 136.
With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this
Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory
Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General
Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been
supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the
Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear
to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the
provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary
authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments
issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted
by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of
this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than
those Acts.
The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any
municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)
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