(70 ILCS 2305/12) (from Ch. 42, par. 288)
Sec. 12.
The board of trustees may levy and collect other taxes for
corporate
purposes upon property within the territorial limits of the sanitary
district, the aggregate amount of which for each year may not exceed
.083% of value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, except
that if a higher rate has been established by
referendum before August 2, 1965, it shall continue. If the board
desires to levy such taxes at a rate in excess of .083% but not in
excess of .35% of the value of all taxable property within the district
as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue,
they shall order the question to be submitted at an election to be held
within the district. The certification and submission of the question and
the election shall be governed by the general election law. Upon the filing
of a petition signed by 10% of the registered voters
of the district, the right to levy an additional tax, or any portion
thereof, authorized by the legal voters, may at any time after one or
more tax levies thereunder, be terminated by a majority vote of the
electors of the district at a referendum. The trustees of the district shall
certify
the proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit
the proposition at an election in accordance with the general election law.
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 cost 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.
The board shall cause the amount required to be raised by taxation in
each year to be certified to the county clerk as provided in Section 8-15 of the Property Tax Code. 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 General Revenue Law of Illinois.
The treasurer shall, when the moneys of the district are deposited
with any bank or savings and loan association,
require that bank or savings and loan association
to pay the same rates of interest for the moneys deposited as the bank
or savings and loan association is accustomed to
pay to depositors under like
circumstances, in the usual course of its business. All interest so paid
shall be placed in the general funds of the district, to be used as
other moneys belonging to the district raised by general taxation or
sale of water.
No bank or savings and loan association shall receive public funds as
permitted by this Section, unless it has complied with the requirements
established pursuant to Section 6 of "An Act relating to certain investments
of public funds by public agencies", approved July 23, 1943, as now or hereafter
amended.
In addition to the foregoing, the Board of Trustees shall have all of
the powers set forth in Division 7 of Article 8 of the Illinois Municipal
Code until September 10, 1986.
(Source: P.A. 96-49, eff. 1-1-10.)
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