(70 ILCS 2805/4) (from Ch. 42, par. 415)
Sec. 4.
The trustees shall constitute a board of trustees for the sanitary
district. The board of trustees is the corporate authority of the
sanitary district, and may exercise all the powers and manage and
control all the affairs and property of the district. The board of
trustees at the beginning of each new term of office shall meet and
elect one of their number as president, one of their number as
vice-president, and from or outside of their membership a clerk and an
assistant clerk. In case of the death, resignation, absence from the
state, or other disability of the president, the powers, duties and
emoluments of the office of the president shall devolve upon the
vice-president, until such disability is removed or until a successor to
the president is appointed and chosen in the manner provided in this
Act. The board may select a treasurer, engineer and attorney for the
district, who shall hold their respective offices during the pleasure of
the board, and give such bond as may be required by the board.
The board may appoint such other officers and hire such employees to
manage and control the operations of the district as it deems necessary.
The board may prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of all the
officers and employees of the sanitary district. However, no member of the
board of trustees shall receive more than $6,000 per year. The
board of
trustees has full power to pass all necessary ordinances, rules and
regulations for the proper management and conduct of the business of the
board and the sanitary district, and for carrying into effect the
collection and disposal of sewage and the purposes for which the sanitary
district was formed. Such
ordinances may provide for a fine for each offense of not less than $100
or more than $1,000. Each day's continuance of such violation shall be a
separate offense. Fines pursuant to this Section are recoverable by the
sanitary district in a civil action. The sanitary district is authorized
to apply to the circuit court for injunctive relief or mandamus when, in
the opinion of the chief administrative officer, such relief is necessary
to protect the sewerage system of the sanitary district. The board of
trustees has the sole and exclusive authority for regulation and inspection
of drainage lines to determine their adequacy and suitability for
connection to the sewage system of the district.
(Source: P.A. 92-219, eff. 1-1-02.)
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