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90_SB0254

      70 ILCS 2105/21           from Ch. 42, par. 404
          Amends the River Conservancy  Districts  Act  to  require
      that  a  public  hearing  be held before special service area
      taxation may be imposed.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the River Conservancy  Districts  Act  by
 2    changing Section 21.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.   The  River  Conservancy  Districts  Act  is
 6    amended by changing Section 21 as follows:
 7        (70 ILCS 2105/21) (from Ch. 42, par. 404)
 8        Sec. 21. (a) The board of  trustees  of  any  conservancy
 9    district  incorporated under this Act shall have the power to
10    build and construct and to defray the costs and  expenses  of
11    the construction of drains, sewers, or laterals, septic tanks
12    and  other  works  for  the  disposal of sewage, water pipes,
13    streets and roads, or local shore improvements, together with
14    other necessary adjuncts thereto, including pumps and pumping
15    stations and also may construct dams, deepen or  improve  the
16    channel, bed, banks or shore or shores or any part thereof of
17    any  stream,  water  course  or  other  body of water in such
18    district, and acquire both real and personal property, in the
19    execution or in furtherance of the  powers  granted  to  such
20    conservancy  district,  by  special  assessment or by general
21    taxation, or by special service area taxation  if  authorized
22    as  provided  under  this Section, as they by ordinance shall
23    prescribe. The board of trustees of any conservancy  district
24    shall  have  power to contract with any sanitary district now
25    or hereafter organized or with any municipality having sewage
26    disposal works for the disposal  of  any  sewage  within  the
27    conservancy district. It shall constitute no objection to any
28    special assessment that the improvement for which the same is
29    levied  is  partly  outside  the  limits  of such conservancy
30    district, but no special assessments  shall  be  levied  upon
31    property  situated  outside of such conservancy district, and
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 1    in no case shall any property be assessed more than  it  will
 2    be  benefited  by the improvement for which the assessment is
 3    levied.
 4        (b)  The proceedings for making, levying, collecting  and
 5    enforcing  of  any  special  assessment levied hereunder, the
 6    letting of contracts, performance of the work and  all  other
 7    matters  pertaining  to  the  construction  and making of the
 8    improvement shall be the same as  nearly  as  may  be  as  is
 9    prescribed  in  Article  5  of  the "Illinois Drainage Code",
10    approved June 29, 1955, as heretofore and hereafter  amended.
11    Whenever  in  said  Article the word "Commissioner" is  used,
12    the same shall apply to the board of trustees constituted  by
13    this Act.
14        (c)  The  proceedings for making, levying, collecting and
15    enforcement of  any  special  service  area  taxation  levied
16    hereunder  shall  be  the  same  as  nearly  as  may be as is
17    prescribed in "An Act to provide the  manner  of  levying  or
18    imposing taxes for the provision of special services to areas
19    with  the  boundaries  of  home  rule units and non-home rule
20    municipalities and counties", approved September 21, 1973, as
21    now or hereafter amended.  Whenever in  such  Act  the  words
22    "municipality"  or  "county"  or "municipal clerk" or "county
23    clerk" are used, with the  exception  of  the  provisions  of
24    Section  10  providing  for  the  extension of the tax by the
25    county clerk, the same shall be construed in relation to  the
26    board  of  trustees  constituted  by  this Act, and the words
27    applying to the municipality or county in that Act  shall  be
28    held  to apply to the district created under this Act and its
29    officers, and the words "municipal clerk" or  "county  clerk"
30    shall  be  held  to  apply  to  the secretary of the district
31    created under this Act.
32        However,  no  special  service  area  taxation  shall  be
33    imposed hereunder unless a petition has been filed  with  the
34    board  of  trustees by either the owners of a majority of the
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 1    acreage or a majority of the owners of  the  acreage  of  the
 2    conservancy  district  which  lies  in  the  proposed special
 3    service  area.  The  petition  shall  be  accompanied  by   a
 4    description   of   the  proposed  special  service  area,  an
 5    explanation of the proposed program, and a  notation  of  the
 6    proposed  tax  rate.   A hearing, open to the general public,
 7    shall be held on the special assessment  before  any  special
 8    assessment  is imposed. The board of trustees of the district
 9    shall publish the petition and certify the results.
10    (Source: P.A. 81-862.)

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