Full Text of SB3507 98th General Assembly
SB3507 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
| | 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 |
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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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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning local government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Township Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 205-140 as follows:
| 6 | | (60 ILCS 1/205-140)
| 7 | | Sec. 205-140.
Initiating proceedings for particular | 8 | | locality; rates
and charges; lien.
| 9 | | (a) A township board may initiate proceedings under | 10 | | Sections 205-130 through
205-150 in the manner provided by | 11 | | Section 205-20.
| 12 | | (b) The township board may establish the rate or charge to | 13 | | each
user of the waterworks system or sewerage system, or | 14 | | combined waterworks
and sewerage system, or improvement or | 15 | | extension at a rate that will be
sufficient to pay the | 16 | | principal and interest of any bonds issued to pay
the cost of | 17 | | the system, improvement, or extension and the maintenance and
| 18 | | operation of the system, improvement, or extension and may | 19 | | provide an adequate
depreciation fund for the bonds. Charges or | 20 | | rates shall be established,
revised, and maintained by | 21 | | ordinance and become payable as the township board
determines | 22 | | by ordinance.
| 23 | | (b-5) The township board of a township that operates a |
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| 1 | | waterworks system or sewerage system, or combined waterworks | 2 | | and sewerage system, has the power by ordinance to collect a | 3 | | fair and reasonable charge for connection to any such system in | 4 | | addition to those charges imposed under subsection (b) of this | 5 | | Section, for the construction, expansion and extension of the | 6 | | works of the system, the charge to be assessed against new or | 7 | | additional users of the system and to be known as a connection | 8 | | charge, except that no connection or water usage charge shall | 9 | | exceed 1/6 of the estimated annual charges of the user, | 10 | | computed at the net rate for that class of service. The funds | 11 | | thus collected shall be used by the township for its general | 12 | | township purposes with primary application thereof being made | 13 | | by the necessary expansion of the works of the system to meet | 14 | | the requirements of the new users thereof. | 15 | | (c) The charges or rates are liens upon the real estate | 16 | | upon or for which
sewerage service is supplied whenever the | 17 | | charges or rates become delinquent as
provided by the ordinance | 18 | | of the board fixing a delinquency date.
| 19 | | (Source: P.A. 82-783; 88-62.)
| 20 | | Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | 21 | | changing 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 | 24 | | municipality operating a
waterworks, sewerage or combined |
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| 1 | | waterworks and sewerage system have the
power by ordinance to | 2 | | collect a fair and reasonable charge for connection
to any such | 3 | | system in addition to those charges covered by normal taxes,
| 4 | | for the construction, expansion and extension of the works of | 5 | | the system,
the charge to be assessed against new or additional | 6 | | users of the system and
to be known as a connection charge, | 7 | | except that no connection or water
usage charge shall exceed | 8 | | 1/6 of the estimated annual charges to the new or additional | 9 | | users of the system, computed at the net rate for that class of | 10 | | service the actual cost required for the installation or
usage | 11 | | of an automatic sprinkler system . The funds thus collected | 12 | | shall be used
by the municipality for its general corporate | 13 | | purposes with primary
application thereof being made by the | 14 | | necessary expansion of the works of
the system to meet the | 15 | | requirements of the new users thereof.
| 16 | | (Source: P.A. 85-784.)
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