(70 ILCS 2205/17) (from Ch. 42, par. 263)
Sec. 17.
The board of trustees may levy and collect taxes for corporate
purposes. Such taxes shall be levied by ordinance specifying the
purposes for which the same are required, and a certified copy of such
ordinance shall be filed with the county clerk of the county in which
the district was organized, on or before the second Tuesday in August,
as provided in Section 14-10 of the Property Tax Code. After the assessment for the current year has been equalized by
the Department of Revenue, the board of trustees shall, as soon as may be,
ascertain and certify to such county clerk the total value of all taxable
property lying within the corporate limits of such districts in each of the
counties in which the district is situated, if the district is situated in more
than one county, as the same is assessed and equalized for State and county
purposes for the current year. The county clerk shall ascertain the rate per
cent which, upon the total valuation of all such property, ascertained as above
stated, would produce a net amount not less than the amount so directed to be
levied; and the clerk shall, without delay, certify under his signature and
seal of office to the county clerk of such other county, in which a portion of
the district is situated such rate per cent; and it shall be the duty of each
of the county clerks to extend such tax in a separate column upon the books of
the collector or collectors of the State and county taxes for the counties,
against all property in their respective counties, within the limits of the
district. All taxes so levied and certified shall be collected and enforced in
the same manner, and by the same officers as State and county taxes, and shall
be paid over by the officers collecting the same, to the treasurer of the
sanitary district, in the manner and at the time provided by the Property Tax
Code. The aggregate amount of taxes levied for any
one year, exclusive of the amount levied for the payment of bonded indebtedness
and interest thereon, shall not exceed the rate of .20%, or the rate limitation
in effect on July 1, 1967, whichever is greater, of value, as equalized or
assessed by the Department of Revenue. The foregoing limitations upon tax rates
may be increased or decreased under the referendum provisions of the Property
Tax Code.
In addition to the other taxes authorized by this Section, the board
of trustees may levy and collect, without referendum, a tax for the
purpose of paying the costs of operation of the chlorination of sewage,
or other means of disinfection or additional treatment as may be
required by water quality standards approved or adopted by the Pollution
Control Board or by the court, which tax is not subject to the rate
limitations imposed by this Section but may be extended at a rate not to
exceed .03% of the value of all taxable property within the district as
equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue.
Such tax may be extended at a rate in excess of .03% but not to
exceed .05%, providing the question of levying such increase has first
been submitted to the voters of such district at any regular
election held in such district in accordance with the general election law
and has been approved by a majority of such voters voting thereon.
(Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
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