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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 Water Commission Act of 1985 is amended by
5changing Section 2.1 as follows:
 
6    (70 ILCS 3720/2.1)
7    Sec. 2.1. Cessation of commission organization.
8    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a
9majority vote of the water commission is in favor of the
10proposition to annex the commission to another commission whose
11boundaries are contiguous, or consolidate the commission into a
12municipality with which the commission is coterminous or
13substantially coterminous, or consolidate the commission into
14the county in which the commission sits, and if the governing
15authorities of the governmental unit assuming the functions of
16the former commission agree by resolution to accept the
17functions (and jurisdiction over the territory, if applicable)
18of the consolidated or annexed commission, then the commission
19shall cease. On the effective date of the annexation or
20consolidation, all the rights, powers, duties, assets,
21property, liabilities, indebtedness, obligations, bonding
22authority, taxing authority, and responsibilities of the
23commission shall vest in and be assumed by the governmental

 

 

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1unit assuming the functions of the former commission.
2    The employees of the former commission shall be transferred
3to the governmental unit assuming the functions of the former
4commission. The governmental unit assuming the functions of the
5former commission shall exercise the rights and
6responsibilities of the former commission with respect to those
7employees. The status and rights of the employees of the former
8commission under any applicable contracts or collective
9bargaining agreements, historical representation rights under
10the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, or under any pension,
11retirement, or annuity plan shall not be affected by this
12amendatory Act.
13    (b) This Section shall not apply to any water commission
14organized in DuPage County.
15(Source: P.A. 98-1002, eff. 8-18-14.)
 
16    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
17becoming law.