Sen. Kyle McCarter

Filed: 5/7/2015

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 264

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 264 on page 1,
3immediately before line 4, by inserting the following:
 
4    "Section 3. The Township Code is amended by changing
5Section 205-140 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 monthly rate or
13charge to all users each user of the waterworks system or
14sewerage system, or combined waterworks and sewerage system, or
15improvement or extension at a rate that will be sufficient to
16pay for the operation, maintenance, and necessary upgrades or

 

 

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1improvements of the system, the principal and interest of any
2bonds issued to pay the cost of any necessary upgrades or
3improvements to the system, and improvement, or extension and
4the maintenance and operation of the system, improvement, or
5extension and may provide an adequate depreciation fund for the
6bonds. Monthly Charges or rates shall be established, revised,
7and maintained by ordinance and become payable as the township
8board determines by ordinance.
9    For any user outside of the township's geographical
10boundaries and outside the township's facility planning area,
11the township may impose a 25% surcharge above the monthly user
12rates charged to all users within the township or the
13township's facility planning area. For purposes of this
14Section, "facility planning area" has the same meaning as that
15term is defined under subsection (c) of Section 2.08 of the
16Wastewater Land Treatment Site Regulation Act.
17    (b-5) The township board of a township that operates a
18water or sewerage system may by ordinance collect a fair and
19reasonable fee, which shall not include the cost of labor and
20materials, for connection to any such system for the connection
21of a new service line from the new user's building or
22development to the township's main water or sewer line located
23in the adjoining utility easement. The standard used in order
24to determine a fair and reasonable connection fee shall be
25based solely on the size of the water meter to be installed for
26the service of the building or development. The fee shall not

 

 

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1exceed, but may be less than, the connection fee for the
2applicable connection type, as described below. The
3restriction on fees imposed by this subsection shall not limit
4the right of the township to recover the actual cost of field
5labor and materials incurred by the township to connect the new
6user's building or development to the township's main water or
7sewer line in the adjoining utility easement. The actual cost
8of field labor shall not include wages that exceed one and
9one-half times the employees' normal hourly pay rate. The
10actual cost of materials shall not exceed one and one-quarter
11times the township's acquisition cost of materials actually
12used and provided by the township to make the connection. The
13connection fee shall not change the terms of any existing
14recapture agreement between a developer and a township.
 
15Sewer Connection Fees
16Size of water meter                              Amount of fee
17Single family residential..............................$1,000
18Multifamily residential..................$1,000 per residence
19Planned unit multifamily.......Applicable commercial size fee
203/4 inch & smaller commercial..........................$1,000
211 inch commercial......................................$1,669
221 1/2 inch commercial..................................$3,031
232 inch commercial......................................$4,736
243 inch commercial......................................$8,744
254 inch commercial.....................................$14,711

 

 

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16 inch commercial.....................................$28,351
28 inch commercial.....................................$51,368
310 inch commercial....................................$82,655
412 inch & larger commercial..........Set by resolution of the
5 township board
 
6Water Main Connection Fees
7Size of water meter............................Amount of fee
83/4 inch & smaller....................................$1,000
91 inch.................................................$1,600
101 1/2 inch.............................................$2,300
112 inch.................................................$3,900
123 inch.................................................$8,600
134 inch................................................$15,400
146 inch................................................$34,300
158 inch................................................$41,100
1610 inch & larger meters..............................$154,000
17Unmetered & Main Extension.............................$2,000
18Landscaping sprinkler meter............................$1,000
 
19    The plan review fee charged by the township to review the
20building or development plans for the new connection,
21regardless of type, may not exceed $100.
22    The inspection fee charged by the township to inspect the
23new service line connection to the township's main line in the
24adjoining utility easement may not exceed $100.

 

 

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1    The township may not charge a new user an acreage fee as
2part of or in addition to the connection fee.
3    The township may charge a new user outside of the
4township's geographical boundaries or the township's facility
5planning area up to an additional 25% surcharge above the
6connection fees indicated above.
7    As used in this Section, "multifamily residential" means
8the connection fee for a residential building to be constructed
9on an individual platted lot, which has at least 2 and not more
10than 4 separate residential units, and which is not part of a
11multifamily planned unit development.
12    As used in this Section, "multifamily planned unit
13development" means the connection fee for a development using
14one main water meter to service one or more buildings within a
15planned unit development. A multifamily planned unit
16development shall be charged a single connection fee according
17to the above schedules, without regard to the number of
18residential units within the development.
19    (c) The charges or rates are liens upon the real estate
20upon or for which sewerage service is supplied whenever the
21charges or rates become delinquent as provided by the ordinance
22of the board fixing a delinquency date.
23(Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)".