Full Text of HB0679 95th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning local government.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act | 5 |
| is amended by changing Sections 5.2 and 9.6a as follows:
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| (70 ILCS 2605/5.2) (from Ch. 42, par. 324L)
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| Sec. 5.2. Where used in this law, "budget year" shall mean | 8 |
| the fiscal year
for which a budget is made. "Current year" | 9 |
| shall mean the fiscal year in
progress, i.e., the fiscal year | 10 |
| next preceding the budget year. "Preceding
year" shall mean the | 11 |
| fiscal year preceding the current year.
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| The "Clerk" shall mean that officer so designated as | 13 |
| provided in Section 4.
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| "Fund" shall mean a sum of money or other resources set | 15 |
| aside for the
purpose of carrying on specific activities or | 16 |
| attaining certain objectives
in accordance with special | 17 |
| regulations, restrictions, or limitations. A
fund shall be a | 18 |
| distinct financial or fiscal entity.
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| "Accountant" shall mean a public accountant or certified | 20 |
| public
accountant licensed under the laws of this State.
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| "Expenditure" shall mean the amount of obligations | 22 |
| incurred either
paid or to be paid from the appropriations for | 23 |
| the budget year for all
purposes, including current expenses, |
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| retirement of debt, and capital outlays.
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| "Disbursement" shall mean the actual payment in cash for | 3 |
| any purpose.
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| "Receipt" shall mean cash actually received and shall | 5 |
| include
appropriable cash on hand at the beginning of any | 6 |
| specified year.
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| "Estimated receipt" shall mean cash estimated to be | 8 |
| received within
the budget year and shall include the cash | 9 |
| surplus estimated to be
appropriable at the beginning of the | 10 |
| budget year.
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| "Cash basis" shall mean that system of accounting wherein | 12 |
| revenues
are accounted for when received in cash and | 13 |
| expenditures are accounted
for when paid.
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| "Accrual basis" shall mean that system of accounting | 15 |
| wherein revenues
are accounted for when earned or due, even | 16 |
| though not collected, and
expenditures are accounted for as | 17 |
| soon as liabilities are incurred,
whether paid or not.
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| "Function" (activity) of expenditure shall mean the | 19 |
| particular
purpose or group of services aimed at accomplishing | 20 |
| a certain end for
which an expenditure is made.
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| "Line Item" or item shall mean a particular type of | 22 |
| expenditure
within a class or related group of such | 23 |
| expenditures, i. e., testing
service, hospital service, towel | 24 |
| and laundry service, within the class
titled "Impersonal | 25 |
| Services."
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| "Object" of expenditure shall mean specific articles, or |
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| classes of
things for which an expenditure is made, i. e., | 2 |
| personal services,
impersonal services, materials and | 3 |
| supplies, machinery and equipment,
fixed charges and any such | 4 |
| other classes of articles or things as may be
desirable.
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| "Character" of expenditure shall refer to the relationship | 6 |
| of total
expenditures to current, prior, and future fiscal | 7 |
| periods, i. e.,
whether the expenditure is a current expense, | 8 |
| provision for the
retirement of debt, or a capital outlay.
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| "Organization units" shall be the administrative units of | 10 |
| the
district, i. e., departments, major sewage treatment | 11 |
| plants, and such
other operating units or groups of operating | 12 |
| units as may be deemed
desirable by the authorities of the | 13 |
| Sanitary District.
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| The "committee on finance" shall be any
committee so | 15 |
| appointed and so designated by the board of commissioners for
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| the purpose of considering financial matters affecting the | 17 |
| district.
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| "Sinking Fund Requirements" shall mean the amounts that | 19 |
| will be
needed to pay interest on and principal of bonds.
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| "Construction Fund" shall mean the amounts to be used for | 21 |
| paying the
costs incurred for construction purposes.
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| "Construction Purposes" shall mean the replacement, | 23 |
| remodeling,
completion, alteration, construction, and | 24 |
| enlargement, including
alterations, enlargements and | 25 |
| replacements which will add appreciably to
the value, utility, | 26 |
| or the useful life of sewage treatment works or flood
control |
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| facilities or water quality improvement projects , and
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| additions therefor, pumping stations, tunnels, conduits and | 3 |
| intercepting
sewers connecting therewith, and outlet sewers | 4 |
| together with the
equipment and appurtenances necessary | 5 |
| thereto, and for the acquisition
of the sites and rights of way | 6 |
| necessary thereto, and for engineering
expenses for designing | 7 |
| and supervising the construction of the works
above described, | 8 |
| and for removal of the rock ledge in the bed of the Des
Plaines | 9 |
| River (Illinois Waterway) through the City of Joliet.
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| Prior to the commencing of work involved in the removal of | 11 |
| the rock ledge
in the bed of the Des Plaines River formal | 12 |
| approval shall be obtained for
the design and plans for | 13 |
| accomplishing this work from the Corps of Engineers,
U. S. | 14 |
| Army, and the State of Illinois Department of Natural | 15 |
| Resources.
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| The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, its | 17 |
| agents, successors
or assigns shall save the State of Illinois | 18 |
| harmless from any and all claims
of whatever nature which may | 19 |
| arise as a result of or in consequence of any
work which may be | 20 |
| performed by the District.
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| The rights, powers, and authorities granted in this Act | 22 |
| shall be subject
to the provisions of Section 18 of the Rivers, | 23 |
| Lakes, and Streams Act.
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| It is the intent and purpose of this Act to provide a legal | 25 |
| basis which
will authorize and require all Sanitary Districts | 26 |
| organized under the
provisions hereof to make and execute the |
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| budgets of their Corporate Funds
and Construction Funds in such | 2 |
| manner that the budgets may be planned and
balanced with | 3 |
| receipts on an actual cash basis and expenditures on an
accrual | 4 |
| basis, and all definitions, terms, provisions and procedures | 5 |
| set
forth in this Act shall be thus construed as applied to | 6 |
| corporate funds and
construction funds.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
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| (70 ILCS 2605/9.6a) (from Ch. 42, par. 328.6a)
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| Sec. 9.6a. The corporate authorities of a sanitary | 10 |
| district, in
order to provide funds required for the replacing, | 11 |
| remodeling,
completing, altering, constructing and enlarging | 12 |
| of sewage treatment
works , water quality improvement projects, | 13 |
| or flood control facilities, and additions therefor, pumping
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| stations, tunnels, conduits, intercepting sewers and outlet | 15 |
| sewers,
together with the equipment, including air pollution | 16 |
| equipment, and
appurtenances thereto, to acquire property, | 17 |
| real, personal or mixed,
necessary for said purposes, for costs | 18 |
| and expenses for the acquisition
of the sites and rights-of-way | 19 |
| necessary thereto, and for engineering
expenses for designing | 20 |
| and supervising the construction of such works,
may issue on or | 21 |
| before December 31, 2016, in addition to all
other obligations | 22 |
| heretofore or herein authorized, bonds, notes or
other | 23 |
| evidences of indebtedness for such purposes in an aggregate
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| amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed 3.35% of the | 25 |
| equalized
assessed valuation of all taxable property within the |
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| sanitary district,
to be ascertained by the last assessment for | 2 |
| State and local taxes
previous to the issuance of any such | 3 |
| obligations. Such obligations shall be
issued without | 4 |
| submitting the question of such issuance to the legal voters
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| such sanitary district for approval.
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| The corporate authorities may sell such obligations at | 7 |
| private or
public sale and enter into any contract or agreement | 8 |
| necessary, appropriate
or incidental to the exercise of the | 9 |
| powers granted by this Act, including,
without limitation, | 10 |
| contracts or agreements for the sale and purchase of
such | 11 |
| obligations and the payment of costs and expenses incident | 12 |
| thereto.
The corporate authorities may pay such costs and | 13 |
| expenses, in whole or in
part, from the corporate fund.
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| Such obligations shall be issued from time to time only in | 15 |
| amounts as may
be required for such purposes but the amount of | 16 |
| such obligations issued during
any one budget year shall not | 17 |
| exceed $150,000,000 plus
the amount of any obligations | 18 |
| authorized by this Act to be issued during the 3
budget years | 19 |
| next preceding the year of issuance but which were not issued,
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| provided, however, that this limitation shall not be applicable | 21 |
| to the issuance
of obligations to refund bonds, notes or other | 22 |
| evidences of indebtedness,
nor to obligations issued to provide | 23 |
| for the repayment of money received
from the Water Pollution | 24 |
| Control Revolving Fund for the construction or
repair of | 25 |
| wastewater treatment works. Each ordinance authorizing the
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| issuance of the obligations shall state the general purpose or |
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| purposes for
which they are to be issued, and the corporate | 2 |
| authorities may at any time
thereafter pass supplemental | 3 |
| appropriations ordinances appropriating the
proceeds from the | 4 |
| sale of such obligations for such purposes.
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| The corporate authorities may issue bonds, notes or other | 6 |
| evidences of
indebtedness in an amount necessary to provide | 7 |
| funds to refund outstanding
obligations issued pursuant to this | 8 |
| Section, including interest accrued or
to accrue thereon.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-726, eff. 7-25-02; 93-279, eff. 7-22-03.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 11 |
| becoming law.
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