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70 ILCS 2105/21

(70 ILCS 2105/21) (from Ch. 42, par. 404)

Sec. 21.

(a) The board of trustees of any conservancy district
incorporated under this Act shall have the power to build and construct
and to defray the costs and expenses of the construction of drains,
sewers, or laterals, septic tanks and other works for the disposal of
sewage, water pipes, streets and roads, or local shore improvements,
together with other necessary adjuncts thereto, including pumps and
pumping stations and also may construct dams, deepen or improve the
channel, bed, banks or shore or shores or any part thereof of any stream,
water course or other body of water in such district, and acquire both real
and personal property, in the
execution or in furtherance of the powers granted to such conservancy
district, by special assessment or by general taxation, or by special service
area taxation if authorized as provided under this Section, as they by
ordinance shall prescribe. The board of trustees of any conservancy
district shall have power to contract with any sanitary district now or
hereafter organized or with any municipality having sewage disposal
works for the disposal of any sewage within the conservancy district. It
shall constitute no objection to any special assessment that the
improvement for which the same is levied is partly outside the limits of
such conservancy district, but no special assessments shall be levied
upon property situated outside of such conservancy district, and in no
case shall any property be assessed more than it will be benefited by
the improvement for which the assessment is levied.

(b) The proceedings for
making, levying, collecting and enforcing of any special assessment
levied hereunder, the letting of contracts, performance of the work and
all other matters pertaining to the construction and making of the
improvement shall be the same as nearly as may be as is prescribed in Article
5 of the "Illinois Drainage Code", approved June 29, 1955, as heretofore and
hereafter amended. Whenever in said Article the word "Commissioner" is
used, the same shall apply to the board of trustees constituted by this Act.

(c) The proceedings for making, levying, collecting and enforcement of
any special service area taxation levied hereunder shall be the same as
nearly as may be as is prescribed in "An Act to provide the manner of
levying or imposing taxes for the provision of special services to areas
with the boundaries of home rule units and non-home rule municipalities
and counties", approved September 21, 1973, as now or hereafter amended.
Whenever in such Act the words "municipality" or "county" or "municipal
clerk" or "county clerk" are used, with the exception of the provisions
of Section 10 providing for the extension of the tax by the county clerk,
the same shall be construed in relation to the board of trustees
constituted by this Act, and the words applying to the municipality or county
in that Act shall be held to apply to the district created under this Act
and its officers, and the words "municipal clerk" or "county clerk" shall
be held to apply to the secretary of the district created under this Act.

However, no special service area taxation shall be imposed hereunder unless
a petition has been filed with the board of trustees by either the owners
of a majority of the acreage or a majority of the owners of the acreage
of the conservancy district which lies in the proposed special service area.
The petition shall be accompanied by a description of the proposed special
service area, an explanation of the proposed program, and a notation of the
proposed tax rate.  The board of trustees of the district shall publish the
petition and certify the results.

(Source: P.A. 81-862.)