Public Act 097-1000
 
HB5319 EnrolledLRB097 16313 KMW 61467 b

    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Sanitary District Act of 1917 is amended by
changing Section 7 as follows:
 
    (70 ILCS 2405/7)  (from Ch. 42, par. 306)
    Sec. 7. The board of trustees of any sanitary district
organized under this Act shall have power to provide for the
disposal of the sewage thereof including the sewage and
drainage of any incorporated city, town or village within the
boundaries of such district and to save and preserve the water
supplied to the inhabitants of such district from contamination
and for that purpose may construct and maintain an enclosed
conduit or conduits, main pipe or pipes, wholly or partially
submerged, buried or otherwise, and by means of pumps or
otherwise cause such sewage to flow or to be forced through
such conduit or conduits, pipe or pipes to and into any ditch
or canal constructed and operated by any other sanitary
district, after having first acquired the right so to do, or
such board may provide for the drainage of such district by
laying out, establishing, constructing and maintaining one or
more channels, drains, ditches and outlets, for carrying off
and disposing of the drainage (including the sewage) of such
district together with such adjuncts and additions thereto as
may be necessary or proper to cause such channels or outlets to
accomplish the end for which they are designed, in a
satisfactory manner, including pumps and pumping stations and
the operation of the same. Such board may also treat and purify
such sewage so that when the same shall flow into any lake or
other water-course, it will not injuriously contaminate the
waters thereof, and may adopt any other feasible method to
accomplish the object for which such sanitary district may be
created, and may also provide means whereby the sanitary
district may reach and procure supplies of water for diluting
and flushing purposes; provided, however, that nothing herein
contained shall be construed to empower or authorize such board
of trustees to operate a system of waterworks for the purposes
of furnishing or delivering water to any such municipality or
to the inhabitants thereof. Nothing in this Act shall require a
sanitary district to extend service to any individual residence
or other building within the district, and it is the intent of
the Illinois General Assembly that any construction
contemplated by this Section shall be restricted to
construction of works and main or interceptor sewers, conduits,
channels and similar facilities, but not individual service
lines. Nothing in this Act contained shall authorize the
trustees to flow the sewage of such district into Lake
Michigan.
    Every such sanitary district shall proceed as rapidly as is
reasonably possible to provide sewers and a plant or plants for
the treatment and purification of its sewage, which plant or
plants shall be of suitable kind and sufficient capacity to
properly treat and purify such sewage so as to conduce to the
preservation of the public health, comfort and convenience and
to render the sewage harmless, insofar as is reasonably
possible, to animal, fish and plant life. Any violation of this
proviso and any failure to observe and follow same, by any
sanitary district organized under this Act, shall be held, and
is hereby declared, to be a business offense and fined on the
part of the sanitary district not less than $1,000 nor more
than $10,000, and the trustees thereof may be ousted from
office as trustees of the district by an order of the court
before whom the cause is heard. Upon the complaint of the
Environmental Protection Agency it shall be the duty of the
Pollution Control Board to cause the foregoing provisions to be
enforced in accordance with Section 31 of the "Environmental
Protection Act". Nothing in this Act contained shall be
construed as superseding or in any manner limiting the
provisions of the "Environmental Protection Act".
    The board of trustees of any sanitary district formed under
this Act may also enter into an agreement to sell, convey, or
disburse treated wastewater to any public or private entity
located within or outside of the boundaries of the sanitary
district. Any use of treated wastewater by any public or
private entity shall be subject to the orders of the Pollution
Control Board. The agreement may not exceed 20 years.
    In providing works for the disposal of industrial sewage,
commonly called industrial wastes, in the manner above provided
whether the industrial sewage is disposed of in combination
with municipal sewage or independently, the Sanitary District
shall have power to apportion and collect therefor, from the
producer thereof, fair additional construction, maintenance
and operating costs over and above those covered by normal
taxes, and in case of dispute as to the fairness of such
additional construction, maintenance and operating costs, then
the same shall be determined by a board of three engineers, one
appointed by the sanitary district, one appointed by such
producer or producers or their legal representatives, and the
third to be appointed by the two engineers selected as above
described. In the event the two engineers so selected shall
fail to agree upon a third engineer then upon the petition of
either of the parties the circuit judge shall appoint such
third engineer. A decision of a majority of the board shall be
binding on both parties and the cost of the services of the
board shall be shared by both parties equally.
    In providing works, including the main pipes referred to
above, for the disposal of raw sewage, in the manner above
provided, whether such sewage is disposed of in combination
with municipal sewage or independently, the Sanitary District
shall have power to collect a fair and reasonable charge for
connection to its system in addition to those charges covered
by normal taxes, for the construction, expansion and extension
of the works of the system, the charge to be assessed against
new or additional users of the system and to be known as a
connection charge. Such construction, expansion and extension
of the works of the system shall include proposed or existing
collector systems and may, at the discretion of such District,
include connections by individual properties. The charge for
connection shall be determined by the District and may equal or
exceed the actual cost to the District of the construction,
expansion or extension of the works of the system required by
the connection. The funds thus collected shall be used by the
Sanitary District for its general corporate purposes with
primary application thereof being made by the necessary
expansion of the works of the system to meet the requirements
of the new users thereof.
(Source: P.A. 85-1209.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.

Effective Date: 8/17/2012