98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
SB3507

 

Introduced 2/14/2014, by Sen. Kyle McCarter

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
60 ILCS 1/205-140
65 ILCS 5/11-150-1  from Ch. 24, par. 11-150-1

    Amends the Township Code. Provides that a township board may by ordinance establish and collect a charge for connection to a waterworks system or sewerage system, or combined waterworks and sewerage system, to new users. Prohibits the charge from exceeding 1/6 of the user's estimated annual charges for that class of service. Makes similar changes in the Illinois Municipal Code.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Township Code is amended by changing Section
5205-140 as follows:
 
6    (60 ILCS 1/205-140)
7    Sec. 205-140. Initiating proceedings for particular
8locality; rates and charges; lien.
9    (a) A township board may initiate proceedings under
10Sections 205-130 through 205-150 in the manner provided by
11Section 205-20.
12    (b) The township board may establish the rate or charge to
13each user of the waterworks system or sewerage system, or
14combined waterworks and sewerage system, or improvement or
15extension at a rate that will be sufficient to pay the
16principal and interest of any bonds issued to pay the cost of
17the system, improvement, or extension and the maintenance and
18operation of the system, improvement, or extension and may
19provide an adequate depreciation fund for the bonds. Charges or
20rates shall be established, revised, and maintained by
21ordinance and become payable as the township board determines
22by ordinance.
23    (b-5) The township board of a township that operates a

 

 

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1waterworks system or sewerage system, or combined waterworks
2and sewerage system, has the power by ordinance to collect a
3fair and reasonable charge for connection to any such system in
4addition to those charges imposed under subsection (b) of this
5Section, for the construction, expansion and extension of the
6works of the system, the charge to be assessed against new or
7additional users of the system and to be known as a connection
8charge, except that no connection or water usage charge shall
9exceed 1/6 of the estimated annual charges of the user,
10computed at the net rate for that class of service. The funds
11thus collected shall be used by the township for its general
12township purposes with primary application thereof being made
13by the necessary expansion of the works of the system to meet
14the requirements of the new users thereof.
15    (c) The charges or rates are liens upon the real estate
16upon or for which sewerage service is supplied whenever the
17charges or rates become delinquent as provided by the ordinance
18of the board fixing a delinquency date.
19(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
 
20    Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
21changing Section 11-150-1 as follows:
 
22    (65 ILCS 5/11-150-1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 11-150-1)
23    Sec. 11-150-1. The corporate authorities of any
24municipality operating a waterworks, sewerage or combined

 

 

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1waterworks and sewerage system have the power by ordinance to
2collect a fair and reasonable charge for connection to any such
3system in addition to those charges covered by normal taxes,
4for the construction, expansion and extension of the works of
5the system, the charge to be assessed against new or additional
6users of the system and to be known as a connection charge,
7except that no connection or water usage charge shall exceed
81/6 of the estimated annual charges to the new or additional
9users of the system, computed at the net rate for that class of
10service the actual cost required for the installation or usage
11of an automatic sprinkler system. The funds thus collected
12shall be used by the municipality for its general corporate
13purposes with primary application thereof being made by the
14necessary expansion of the works of the system to meet the
15requirements of the new users thereof.
16(Source: P.A. 85-784.)