65 ILCS 5/ Illinois Municipal Code.

(65 ILCS 5/11-109-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-109-1)

Sec. 11-109-1. The corporate authorities of each municipality may construct, repair, and regulate the use of culverts, drains, sewers, and cesspools.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art 11 prec Div 110 heading)

FLOOD CONTROL AND DRAINAGE

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 110 heading) DIVISION 110. DRAINAGE BY SPECIAL ASSESSMENT

(65 ILCS 5/11-110-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-110-1)

Sec. 11-110-1. The corporate authorities of cities and villages for drainage purposes may lay out, establish, construct, and maintain drains, storm sewers, detention basins, retention basins and other "green infrastructure" facilities, such as green roofs, rain gardens, bioswales, tree boxes, porous pavement, porous pipe systems, native plantings, constructed wetlands, and cisterns, ditches, levees, dykes, pumping works, and machinery, and may acquire the necessary land and machinery therefor, and in this manner may provide for draining or otherwise managing the runoff, such as by infiltration, evapotranspiration, or collection, on any portion of the land within their corporate limits, by special assessment upon the property benefited thereby, or by general taxation, or a combination. No lot, block, tract, or parcel of land, however, shall be assessed more than once in any one year by a municipality for maintenance.

(Source: P.A. 98-330, eff. 1-1-14.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-110-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-110-2)

Sec. 11-110-2. The corporate authorities of cities and villages may pass ordinances providing for the making of any improvements specified in Section 11-110-1, and for the nature, character, locality, and description thereof. Upon the passage of such an ordinance all proceedings thereafter had for the making of the improvements, and for the maintenance and repair thereof, and for the levy and collection of special assessments to defray the cost thereof, shall be in accordance with the provisions of Article 9.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-110-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-110-3)

Sec. 11-110-3. Whenever, in the judgment of the corporate authorities of a city or village, it becomes necessary or advantageous for the proper construction of improvements specified in Section 11-110-1 to enlarge, construct, or improve a natural or artificial drain outside the corporate limits of the city or village to obtain a proper outlet, the corporate authorities have the power to acquire the right of way therefor under the provisions of the statutes relating to the exercise of the right of eminent domain. Upon the establishment of this improvement, by the confirmation of the assessment therefor, the corporate authorities have the power to contract with all persons owning or interested in property or drains, outside the corporate limits of the city or village, who will be benefited by the improvement, for payment to the city or village of such an amount as the improvement will benefit those persons. In case of a failure to agree on the amount to be paid for these benefits the corporate authorities of the city or village have the power to sue for and recover the amount in a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction in this state. The amount recovered or realized by such an agreement or proceeding shall become a part of the money raised to pay for the improvement, and may be refunded in accordance with the provisions of Section 9-2-74.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 111 heading) DIVISION 111. DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS

(65 ILCS 5/11-111-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-111-1)

Sec. 11-111-1. Every city or village, whether incorporated under the general law or under a special charter, whose site is wholly or partially subject to overflow and wholly or partially surrounded by levees, dykes, or embankments to prevent overflow: (1) may divide the municipality, or any part thereof, into improvement districts, (2) may fix the grade of the streets, avenues, alleys, or public grounds within the improvement districts, at any height deemed necessary to give a surface drainage from each improvement district to the river or rivers which cause the overflow, and (3) may require low lots, blocks, or parts thereof, within an improvement district to be filled in such manner as to prevent water from standing thereon and thus to prevent them from becoming a nuisance or injurious to the public health, in the judgment of the corporate authorities of the municipality.

The work authorized to be done by Sections 11-111-1 through 11-111-7 shall be done by special assessment or special taxation of contiguous property. Every city or village exercising the power granted by these sections has the same power in relation to special assessments or special taxation as is granted to any city, village, or drainage or improvement district in this state.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

(65 ILCS 5/11-111-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-111-2)

Sec. 11-111-2. When an improvement district has been created by ordinance under Sections 11-111-1 through 11-111-7 the corporate authorities shall have an accurate survey of the work contemplated to be done, made by a competent civil engineer, and shall have that engineer make plats, profiles, and estimates of the work to be done. The estimate shall include the cost of all walls or other structures necessary to be constructed to hold the earth to its proper place, the cost of the work opposite or adjacent to each lot in the district, and the cost of the fill upon each lot within the district necessary to be filled. The survey, plats, profiles, and estimates shall be used in estimating the benefits to be charged against the lot or block, or parts thereof, within the improvement district. In estimating those benefits, the benefit the lot, block, or parts thereof, will receive by reason of being secured from overflow or sipe water may be considered.

(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)