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MUNICIPALITIES
(65 ILCS 5/) Illinois Municipal Code.

65 ILCS 5/11-123-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-6)
    Sec. 11-123-6. Every city and village may take possession of, use, and occupy any artificially made or reclaimed land (1) which before the artificial making or reclamation thereof constituted a portion of the submerged land under the public waters of the State of Illinois, and (2) which lies within the corporate limits or jurisdiction of or borders on the municipality, and (3) the title to which is in the State of Illinois, when the land is declared by an ordinance of the municipality particularly describing it to be necessary or appropriate for any of the purposes enumerated in this Division 123.
    Every city and village has the power to bring and maintain all necessary suits, actions, or proceedings, in its corporate name, against any person for the recovery of the possession of such artificially made or reclaimed land. This land, when so acquired, shall be held, used, and occupied by the city or village subject to the conditions stated in this Division 123.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-7)
    Sec. 11-123-7. Every city and village may take possession of, use, and occupy any artificially made or reclaimed land specified in Section 11-123-6, when the land is declared by an ordinance of the municipality particularly describing it to be necessary or appropriate for approaches to or connections with a utility.
    Every city and village may establish, widen, extend, grade, pave, and otherwise improve such approaches or connections over and upon such artificially made or reclaimed land and to vacate all or any part of the approaches or connections.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-8

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-8)
    Sec. 11-123-8. Every city and village may acquire the land, whether of natural or artificial formation, property, and property rights, including riparian rights, of any owner or claimant, other than a city or village, on the shores of public waters in, upon, or near which it is proposed to construct any utility.
    Every city and village may also acquire the title of such an owner or claimant to the land lying beneath, adjacent to or adjoining the specified public waters, without other compensation, by agreeing with the owner or claimant upon a boundary line dividing the land, whether of natural or artificial formation, to be acquired by the municipality, and the adjacent, adjoining, submerged, or other land, whether of natural or artificial formation, to be taken and acquired by the owner or claimant. The rights and property to be taken and acquired, respectively, by the city or village and by the owner or claimant, shall be specifically described and set forth in the judgment to be entered by the court as provided in Section 11-123-9.
(Source: P.A. 79-1361.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-9

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-9)
    Sec. 11-123-9. When any city or village and the owner or claimant have agreed upon a boundary line as provided in Section 11-123-8, the city or village shall commence a civil action in the circuit court of the county in which the land is situated, praying that the boundary line be established and confirmed by judgment of the court. All persons interested in the land as owners or otherwise, who appear of record, if known, or if not known, upon stating the fact, shall be made parties defendant. Interested persons whose names are unknown may be made parties defendant by the description of unknown owners, but in all cases an affidavit shall be filed by or on behalf of the municipality, setting forth that the names of these persons are unknown.
    The municipality shall publish notice of the commencement of the action once a week for 3 consecutive weeks, in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality. The notices shall contain the title of the action and the return day at which the defendants are to appear, and the last of the notices shall be published not less than 10 nor more than 20 days before the return day. The defendants who do not enter their appearances shall be served with process and the proceedings in the action shall be conducted in the same manner as provided by the Civil Practice Law, as heretofore and hereafter amended and the Supreme Court Rules, now or hereafter adopted, in relation to that Law, except as otherwise provided in this Division 123.
    If upon a hearing the court finds that the rights and interests of the public have been duly conserved by the agreement, the court shall confirm the agreement and establish the boundary line. Otherwise the court, in its discretion, shall dismiss the suit. If the boundary line agreed upon is so established and confirmed by a court judgment, it shall be the permanent boundary line thereafter and shall not be affected either by accretion or erosion.
    The establishment of such a boundary line operates as a conveyance and release to the municipality of all the right, title, and interest of owners to all land, property, and property rights, including riparian rights, lying upon the outer or water side of the boundary line. The municipality is hereby granted by the State of Illinois the title to all land, property, and property rights, including riparian rights, lying upon the outer or water side of the boundary line when so established. The owners of the shore land are hereby granted by the State of Illinois the title to the adjacent, adjoining, submerged, or other land, whether of natural or artificial formation, as specifically and particularly described in the court judgment, lying upon the inner or land side of the boundary line when so established. These owners may fill in, improve, protect, and use, sell, and convey this land lying upon the inner or land side of the boundary line free from any adverse claim in any way arising out of any question as to where the shore line was at any time in the past, or as to the title to any existing accretions.
(Source: P.A. 82-783.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-10

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-10)
    Sec. 11-123-10. Every city or village may occupy, hold, and use any land acquired by the municipality under this Division 123 or under any act providing for harbor construction. A specified municipality may occupy, hold, and use any submerged land of the State of Illinois filled in or reclaimed by the municipality in connection with or in construction of a utility for the uses and purposes provided for in this Division 123. A specified municipality may lease any of this land for a period not longer than 50 years to any person upon such terms and conditions as are prescribed by ordinance, but the ordinance shall provide that the rental value of the land shall be revalued near the end of each 10 years of the rental period and that the rental for the ensuing 10 years shall be adjusted and fixed in accordance with that evaluation.
    Before such a lease becomes effective, it shall be approved in writing by the Secretary of Transportation of the state, and, in case of approval, it shall be authenticated by the seal of that department.
    All money received by a specified municipality from the lease of land forming a part of any harbor development shall be credited to a fund entitled the harbor fund of that particular harbor development. All money expended by the municipality for any purpose in relation to that land or in relation to the construction and maintenance of any utility, may be charged to the harbor fund, and that fund shall be used for no other purpose.
(Source: P.A. 81-840.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-11

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-11)
    Sec. 11-123-11. Every city or village may levy and collect in each of 4 consecutive years a tax of .0125% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all taxable property therein, for the current year. This tax shall be in addition to all taxes authorized by law to be levied and collected in that municipality. The proceeds of this additional tax shall be used for harbor construction purposes only and shall be credited to the harbor fund for that particular harbor development.
    The foregoing limitation upon tax rate in cities and villages of less than 1,000,000 population may be increased or decreased according to the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-12

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-12)
    Sec. 11-123-12. Any city or village may lease any part or all of any utility owned by it in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in Sections 11-76-1 and 11-76-2.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-13

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-13)
    Sec. 11-123-13. Every city and village may locate and establish dock lines and harbor lines in the public waters or rivers within the limits or jurisdiction of, or bordering on the city or village.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-14

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-14)
    Sec. 11-123-14. Every city and village owning and operating, or owning and leasing any portion of a utility, shall keep the accounts for the utilities separate and distinct from other municipal accounts and in such manner as to show the true and complete financial standing and results of the municipal ownership and operation or of the municipal ownership and leasing, as the case may be. These accounts shall be so kept as to show: (1) the actual cost of the municipality of the utilities owned; (2) all costs of maintenance, extension, and improvement; (3) all operating expenses of every description, in case of municipal operation, whether of the whole or of a part of the utilities; (4) if water or other service is furnished for the use of the utilities without charge, as nearly as possible, the value of that service, and also the value of any service rendered by the utilities to any reasonable allowances for interest, depreciation, and other municipal department without charge; (5) insurance; and (6) estimates of the amount of taxes that would be chargeable against the utilities if owned by a private corporation. The corporate authorities of the municipality shall have printed annually for public distribution, a report showing the financial standing and results, in the form specified in this section, of the municipal ownership and operation, or of municipal ownership and leasing. This report shall be published in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality.
    The accounts of the utilities shall be examined at least once a year by a licensed Certified Public Accountant permitted to perform audits under the Illinois Public Accounting Act, who shall report to the corporate authorities the results of his examination. This accountant shall be selected in such manner as the corporate authorities may direct, and he shall receive for his services such compensation, to be paid out of the revenue from the utilities, as the corporate authorities may prescribe.
(Source: P.A. 94-465, eff. 8-4-05.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-15

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-15)
    Sec. 11-123-15. Every city and village has the power to use any portion of a utility for public recreation purposes if, in the judgment of the corporate authorities of the municipality, the utility can be used for public recreation purposes without interfering with the use of the utility for transportation purposes.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-16

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-16)
    Sec. 11-123-16. In connection with the use of any portion of a utility for recreation purposes, as specified in Section 11-123-15, every city and village has the power to provide, by lease or contract, for the sale in or on the utility of food, non-alcoholic drinks, and merchandise, and for the giving in or on the utility of dances, concerts, exhibitions, and other entertainments, and for check-room privileges incidental thereto. Upon reasonable notice, however, such a lease or contract is terminable by the municipality, either with or without compensation therefor as may be therein stipulated, whenever in the judgment of the corporate authorities of the municipality the transportation necessities make such termination desirable. No such lease or contract shall be entered into for a period exceeding 5 years except in conformity with the provisions of Section 11-123-12.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-17

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-17)
    Sec. 11-123-17. No portion of a utility, except a breakwater, shall be constructed within one-half mile of any intake of water for public consumption, and in constructing such a utility no ashes, cinders, or waste shall be dumped into any public waters within 4 miles of any intake of water for public consumption unless placed behind retaining bulkheads. This section does not apply to any city or village whose water frontage is exclusively on a river.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-18

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-18)
    Sec. 11-123-18. Every city and village by ordinance may authorize any public or municipal corporation, other than a city or village, which is authorized by law to construct or operate a utility, to construct and operate a utility within the corporate limits or jurisdiction of, or bordering on, the city or village, on such terms and conditions as may be determined in the ordinance, and on such terms and conditions as may be provided by law.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-19

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-19) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-19)
    Sec. 11-123-19. Whenever any public or municipal corporation constructs a utility under authority of Section 11-123-18, or any other law of the state, within the corporate limits or jurisdiction of any city or village, or in, over, or upon public waters bordering thereon, the city or village has the power to purchase the utility on such terms and conditions as may be provided by law, and in case no terms and conditions are provided by law, then on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by the city or village and the public or municipal corporation.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-20

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-20) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-20)
    Sec. 11-123-20. Every city and village may cross by roadways or other appropriate means, the ways, drives, boulevards, beaches, wharves, docks, levees, piers, breakwaters, retaining walls, land, or submerged land of any public or municipal corporation, other than a city or village, whenever the crossing is declared by ordinance of the municipality to be necessary or advantageous to the development and use of a utility.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-21

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-21) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-21)
    Sec. 11-123-21. Accretions or artificially made or reclaimed land, which may be formed or added to any utility constructed under this Division 123 by a public or municipal corporation, other than a city or village, shall not become the property of that public or municipal corporation, but shall revert to and become the property of the city or village for the purposes of this Division 123, subject to such disposition as the corporate authorities of the city or village shall direct.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-22

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-22) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-22)
    Sec. 11-123-22. The powers granted by this Division 123 are subject to the provisions of section 18 of "An Act in relation to the regulations of the rivers, lakes and streams of the State of Illinois," approved June 10, 1911, as heretofore and hereafter amended.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-23

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-23) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-23)
    Sec. 11-123-23. Sections 11-123-1 through 11-123-22 shall not be considered as impairing the provisions of "An Act to enable Park Commissioners having control of a park or parks bordering upon public waters in this State, to enlarge and connect the same from time to time by extensions over lands and the bed of such waters, and defining the use which may be made of such extensions, and granting lands for the purpose of such enlargements," approved May 14, 1903, as heretofore and hereafter amended.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-123-24

    (65 ILCS 5/11-123-24) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-123-24)
    Sec. 11-123-24. For the purpose of widening, deepening, or otherwise improving a river or harbor, a city or village may institute proceedings in any court of record to condemn any land or right-of-way needed for that purpose and to pay for the land or right-of-way by special assessment upon the property specially benefited by the widening, deepening, or other improvement of the river or harbor, or upon the public, or both, as the case may be. The proceedings shall be instituted in the manner provided by and in all respects under the provisions of Article 9.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 prec Div 124

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 prec Div 124 heading)
WATER SUPPLY AND SEWAGE SYSTEMS

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 124

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 124 heading)
DIVISION 124. POWER TO CONTRACT FOR WATER SUPPLY

65 ILCS 5/11-124-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-124-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-124-1)
    Sec. 11-124-1. Contracts for supply of water.
    (a) The corporate authorities of each municipality may contract with any person, corporation, municipal corporation, political subdivision, public water district or any other agency for a supply of water. Any such contract entered into by a municipality shall provide that payments to be made thereunder shall be solely from the revenues to be derived from the operation of the waterworks system of the municipality, and the contract shall be a continuing valid and binding obligation of the municipality payable from the revenues derived from the operation of the waterworks system of the municipality for the period of years, not to exceed 40, as may be provided in such contract. Any such contract shall not be a debt within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation. No prior appropriation shall be required before entering into such a contract and no appropriation shall be required to authorize payments to be made under the terms of any such contract notwithstanding any provision in this Code to the contrary.
    (b) Payments to be made under any such contract shall be an operation and maintenance expense of the waterworks system of the municipality. Any such contract made by a municipality for a supply of water may contain provisions whereby the municipality is obligated to pay for such supply of water without setoff or counterclaim and irrespective of whether such supply of water is ever furnished, made available or delivered to the municipality or whether any project for the supply of water contemplated by any such contract is completed, operable or operating and notwithstanding any suspension, interruption, interference, reduction or curtailment of the supply of water from such project. Any such contract may provide that if one or more of the other purchasers of water defaults in the payment of its obligations under such contract or a similar contract made with the supplier of the water, one or more of the remaining purchasers party to such contract or such similar contract shall be required to pay for all or a portion of the obligations of the defaulting purchasers.
    (c) Payments to be made under any such contract with a municipal joint action water agency under the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act shall be an operation and maintenance expense of the waterworks system of the municipality. Any such contract made by a municipality for a supply of water with a municipal joint action water agency under the provisions of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act may contain provisions whereby the municipality is obligated to pay for such supply of water without setoff or counterclaim and irrespective of whether such supply of water is ever furnished, made available or delivered to the municipality or whether any project for the supply of water contemplated by any such contract is completed, operable or operating and notwithstanding any suspension, interruption, interference, reduction or curtailment of the supply of water from such project. Any such contract with a municipal joint action water agency may provide that if one or more of the other purchasers of water defaults in the payment of its obligations under such contract or a similar contract made with the supplier of the water, one or more of the remaining purchasers party to such contract or such similar contract shall be required to pay for all or a portion of the obligations of the defaulting purchasers.
    The changes in this Section made by these amendatory Acts of 1984 are intended to be declarative of existing law.
    (d) A municipality with a water supply contract with a county water commission organized pursuant to the Water Commission Act of 1985 shall provide water to unincorporated areas of that home county in accordance with the terms of this subsection. The provision of water by the municipality shall be in accordance with a mandate of the home county as provided in Section 0.01 of the Water Commission Act of 1985. A home rule unit may not provide water in a manner that is inconsistent with the provisions of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly. This subsection is a limitation under subsection (i) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution on the concurrent exercise by home rule units of powers and functions exercised by the State.
(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)

65 ILCS 5/11-124-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-124-5)
    Sec. 11-124-5. Acquisition of water systems by eminent domain.
    (a) In addition to other provisions providing for the acquisition of water systems or water works, whenever a public utility subject to the Public Utilities Act utilizes public property (including, but not limited to, right-of-way) of a municipality for the installation or maintenance of all or part of its water distribution system, the municipality has the right to exercise eminent domain to acquire all or part of the water system, in accordance with this Section. Unless it complies with the provisions set forth in this Section, a municipality is not permitted to acquire by eminent domain that portion of a system located in another incorporated municipality without agreement of that municipality, but this provision shall not prevent the acquisition of that portion of the water system existing within the acquiring municipality.
    (b) Where a water system that is owned by a public utility (as defined in the Public Utilities Act) provides water to customers located in 2 or more municipalities, the system may be acquired by a majority of the municipalities by eminent domain. If the system is to be acquired by more than one municipality, then there must be an intergovernmental agreement in existence between the acquiring municipalities providing for the acquisition.
    (c) If a water system that is owned by a public utility provides water to customers located in one or more municipalities and also to customers in an unincorporated area and if at least 70% of the customers of the system or portion thereof are located within the municipality or municipalities, then the system, or portion thereof as determined by the corporate authorities, may be acquired, using eminent domain or otherwise, by either a municipality under subsection (a) or an entity created by agreement between municipalities where at least 70% of the customers reside. For the purposes of determining "customers of the system", only retail customers directly billed by the company shall be included in the computation. The number of customers of the system most recently reported to the Illinois Commerce Commission for any calendar year preceding the year a resolution is passed by a municipality or municipalities expressing preliminary intent to purchase the water system or portion thereof shall be presumed to be the total number of customers within the system. The public utility shall provide information relative to the number of customers within each municipality and within the system within 60 days after any such request by a municipality.
    (d) In the case of acquisition by a municipality or municipalities or a public entity created by law to own or operate a water system under this Section, service and water supply must be provided to persons who are customers of the system on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly without discrimination based on whether the customer is located within or outside of the boundaries of the acquiring municipality or municipalities or entity, and a supply contract existing on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly must be honored by an acquiring municipality, municipalities, or entity according to the terms so long as the agreement does not conflict with any other existing agreement.
    (e) For the purposes of this Section, "system" includes all assets reasonably necessary to provide water service to a contiguous or compact geographical service area or to an area served by a common pipeline and include, but are not limited to, interests in real estate, all wells, pipes, treatment plants, pumps and other physical apparatus, data and records of facilities and customers, fire hydrants, equipment, or vehicles and also includes service agreements and obligations derived from use of the assets, whether or not the assets are contiguous to the municipality, municipalities, or entity created for the purpose of owning or operating a water system.
    (f) Before making a good faith offer, a municipality may pass a resolution of intent to study the feasibility of purchasing or exercising its power of eminent domain to acquire any water system or water works, sewer system or sewer works, or combined water and sewer system or works, or part thereof. Upon the passage of such a resolution, the municipality shall have the right to review and inspect all financial and other records, and both corporeal and incorporeal assets of such utility related to the condition and the operation of the system or works, or part thereof, as part of the study and determination of feasibility of the proposed acquisition by purchase or exercise of the power of eminent domain, and the utility shall make knowledgeable persons who have access to all relevant facts and information regarding the subject system or works available to answer inquiries related to the study and determination.
    The right to review and inspect shall be upon reasonable notice to the utility, with reasonable inspection and review time limitations and reasonable response times for production, copying, and answer. In addition, the utility may utilize a reasonable security protocol for personnel on the municipality's physical inspection team.
    In the absence of other agreement, the utility must respond to any notice by the municipality concerning its review and inspection within 21 days after receiving the notice. The review and inspection of the assets of the company shall be over such period of time and carried out in such manner as is reasonable under the circumstances.
    Information requested that is not privileged or protected from discovery under the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure but is reasonably claimed to be proprietary, including, without limitation, information that constitutes trade secrets or information that involves system security concerns, shall be provided, but shall not be considered a public record and shall be kept confidential by the municipality.
    In addition, the municipality must, upon request, reimburse the utility for the actual, reasonable costs and expenses, excluding attorneys' fees, incurred by the utility as a result of the municipality's inspection and requests for information. Upon written request, the utility shall issue a statement itemizing, with reasonable detail, the costs and expenses for which reimbursement is sought by the utility. Where such written request for a statement has been made, no payment shall be required until 30 days after receipt of the statement. Such reimbursement by the municipality shall be considered income for purposes of any rate proceeding or other financial request before the Illinois Commerce Commission by the utility.
    The municipality and the utility shall cooperate to resolve any dispute arising under this subsection. In the event the dispute under this subsection cannot be resolved, either party may request relief from the circuit court in any county in which the water system is located, with the prevailing party to be awarded such relief as the court deems appropriate under the discovery abuse sanctions currently set forth in the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure.
    The municipality's right to inspect physical assets and records in connection with the purpose of this Section shall not be exercised with respect to any system more than one time during a 5-year period, unless a substantial change in the size of the system or condition of the operating assets of the system has occurred since the previous inspection. Rights under franchise agreements and other agreements or statutory or regulatory provisions are not limited by this Section and are preserved.
    The passage of time between an inspection of the utilities and physical assets and the making of a good faith offer or initiation of an eminent domain action because of the limit placed on inspections by this subsection shall not be used as a basis for challenging the good faith of any offer or be used as the basis for attacking any appraisal, expert, argument, or position before a court related to an acquisition by purchase or eminent domain.
    (g) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Illinois Commerce Commission has no approval authority of any eminent domain action brought by any governmental entity or combination of such entities to acquire water systems or water works, except as is provided in subsection (h) of Section 10-5-10 of the Eminent Domain Act.
    (h) The provisions of this Section are severable under Section 1.31 of the Statute on Statutes.
    (i) This Section does not apply to any public utility company that, on January 1, 2006, supplied a total of 70,000 or fewer meter connections in the State unless and until (i) that public utility company receives approval from the Illinois Commerce Commission under Section 7-204 of the Public Utilities Act for the reorganization of the public utility company or (ii) the majority control of the company changes through a stock sale, a sale of assets, a merger (other than an internal reorganization) or otherwise. For the purpose of this Section, "public utility company" means the public utility providing water service and includes any of its corporate parents, subsidiaries, or affiliates possessing a franchised water service in the State.
    (j) Any contractor or subcontractor that performs work on a water system acquired by a municipality or municipalities under this Section shall comply with the requirements of Section 30-22 of the Illinois Procurement Code. The contractor or subcontractor shall submit evidence of compliance with Section 30-22 to the municipality or municipalities.
    (k) The municipality or municipalities acquiring the water system shall offer available employee positions to the qualified employees of the acquired water system.
(Source: P.A. 103-13, eff. 6-9-23.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 125

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 125 heading)
DIVISION 125. CONSTRUCTION OF WELLS AND
WATERWORKS BY CITIES AND VILLAGES

65 ILCS 5/11-125-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-125-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-125-1)
    Sec. 11-125-1. The corporate authorities in each city and village may (1) provide for a supply of water by the boring of artesian wells, or by the digging, construction, or regulation of wells, pumps, cisterns, reservoirs, or waterworks, (2) borrow money therefor, (3) authorize any person to bore, dig, construct, and maintain the same for a period not exceeding 30 years, (4) prevent the unnecessary waste of water, (5) prevent the pollution of water, and (6) prevent injuries to the wells, pumps, cisterns, reservoirs, or waterworks.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-125-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-125-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-125-2)
    Sec. 11-125-2. For the purpose of establishing or supplying waterworks and to purchase, extend, improve and operate waterworks, each city or village may go beyond its corporate limits and acquire and hold property by purchase or otherwise, and also may take and condemn all necessary property therefor, in the manner provided for the taking or damaging of private property for public uses, including any land now used for highway purposes in or near any basin proposed to be flooded by the construction, extension or improvement of any lake by any city or village of this state, for water supply purposes, provided the highway is capable of being rerouted, raised or otherwise revised and maintained in use and that the city or village requiring such reconstruction shall either perform the necessary reconstruction work or pay the full cost thereof to provide a highway of equal value and usefulness to that existing before such work is required, or provided the highway has been vacated by order of the highway authorities having a jurisdiction over said highway. The jurisdiction of the city or village to prevent or punish any pollution or injury to the stream or source of water, or to waterworks, extends 20 miles beyond its corporate limits, or so far as the waterworks may extend.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-125-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-125-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-125-3)
    Sec. 11-125-3. The corporate authorities may make all needful rules and regulations concerning the use of water supplied by the waterworks of the city or village, and may do all acts and make such rules and regulations for the construction, completion, management, or control of the waterworks, and for the fixing and collecting of such water rates or rents as the corporate authorities may deem necessary or expedient. The corporate authorities may levy a general tax for the construction and maintenance of the waterworks, and appropriate money therefor.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-125-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-125-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-125-4)
    Sec. 11-125-4. The corporate authorities of each municipality served by a community water supply well may perform a groundwater protection needs assessment, and may by ordinance adopt a minimum or maximum setback zone around a wellhead pursuant to Sections 14.2, 14.3, 14.4 and 17.1 of the Environmental Protection Act.
(Source: P.A. 85-863.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 126

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 126 heading)
DIVISION 126. JOINT CONSTRUCTION OF WATER
SUPPLY

65 ILCS 5/11-126-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-126-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-126-1)
    Sec. 11-126-1. Each municipality may provide for a supply of water for fire protection and for the use of the inhabitants of the municipality (1) by constructing and maintaining a system of waterworks, or (2) by uniting with any adjacent municipality in constructing and maintaining a system of waterworks for the joint use of those municipalities, or (3) by procuring such a supply of water from any adjacent municipality already having waterworks.
    All contracts for the construction of such a system of waterworks or any part thereof shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, upon not less than 3 weeks' public notice of the terms and conditions upon which the contract is to be let having been given by publication in a newspaper published in the municipality, or if no newspaper is published therein, then in some newspaper published in the county. No member of the corporate authorities shall be directly or indirectly interested in such a contract. In all cases the corporate authorities have the right to reject any and all bids that may not be satisfactory to them.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-126-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-126-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-126-2)
    Sec. 11-126-2. Each municipality may borrow money and levy and collect a general tax, in the same manner as other municipal taxes may be levied and collected, for the construction and maintenance of such a system of waterworks, and may appropriate money for that construction and maintenance.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-126-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-126-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-126-3)
    Sec. 11-126-3. For the purpose of locating, constructing, maintaining, or supplying such a system of waterworks, each municipality may go beyond its corporate limits, and acquire and hold property purchased or otherwise, and also may take, condemn, and hold all necessary property in the manner provided for the taking or damaging of private property for public use. Also each municipality may acquire and hold property and rights necessary for the location, construction and maintenance of such a system of waterworks, by purchase or otherwise. The jurisdiction of the municipality to prevent or punish any pollution or injury to the stream or source of water for the supply of the waterworks extends 10 miles beyond its corporate limits.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-126-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-126-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-126-4)
    Sec. 11-126-4. The corporate authorities of each municipality may make and enforce all needful rules and regulations in the construction and management of such a system of waterworks, and for the use of the water supplied thereby.
    The corporate authorities of each municipality also may make and enforce all needful rules, regulations, and enact ordinances for the improvement, care, and protection from pollution or other injury of any impounding reservoir or artificial lake constructed or maintained by the municipality for water supply purposes and any adjacent zone of land which the municipality may acquire or control. If the leasing of portions of such adjacent zone of land will, in the discretion of the corporate authorities, aid in the protection from pollution or other injury of the impounding reservoir or artificial lake by promoting forestation, development or care of other suitable vegetation, and the improvement, care and maintenance of the premises, the corporate authorities may lease those portions of that land jointly or severally to custodians of good reputation and character for periods not to exceed 60 years, and permit those custodians to construct, maintain, use, and occupy dwelling houses and other structures thereon for such rental and on such other terms and conditions and subject to such rules and regulations and with such powers and duties as may be determined by the corporate authorities.
    The corporate authorities of each municipality have the power to fix and collect from the inhabitants thereof the rent or rates for the use and benefit of water used or supplied to them by such a system of waterworks, as the corporate authorities shall deem just and expedient. These rents or rates shall be paid and collected in such manner as the corporate authorities by ordinance shall provide. Such charges, rents, or rates are liens upon the real estate upon or for which water service is supplied whenever the charges, rents, or rates become delinquent as provided by the ordinance of the municipality fixing a delinquency date. However, the municipality has no preference over the rights of any purchaser, mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lien holder arising prior to the filing of the notice of such a lien in the office of the recorder of the county in which such real estate is located, or in the office of the registrar of titles of such county if the property affected is registered under "An Act concerning land titles", approved May 1, 1897, as amended. This notice shall consist of a sworn statement setting out (1) a description of such real estate sufficient for the identification thereof, (2) the amount of money due for such water service, and (3) the date when such amount became delinquent. The municipality may foreclose this lien in the same manner and with the same effect as in the foreclosure of mortgages on real estate.
(Source: P.A. 97-813, eff. 7-13-12.)

65 ILCS 5/11-126-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-126-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-126-5)
    Sec. 11-126-5. The expense of locating, and constructing reservoirs and hydrants for the purpose of fire protection, and the expense of constructing and laying water main pipes, or such part thereof as may be just and lawful, whenever it is for a local improvement, may be assessed upon and collected from the property specially benefited thereby, if any, in such manner as may be provided for the making of special assessments for other local improvements in the municipality, as provided in Article 9.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-126-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-126-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-126-6)
    Sec. 11-126-6. All the income received by a municipality from such a system of waterworks, from the payment and collection of water rents or rates, shall be kept in a separate fund and shall be applied first in the payment and discharge of the principal of and the interest on bonds or money borrowed and used in the construction of the waterworks and of the operating expenses thereof. Any surplus may be applied in such manner as the corporate authorities may direct.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-126-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-126-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-126-7)
    Sec. 11-126-7. For the purpose of constructing a system of waterworks, storm or sanitary sewer system, each municipality has the power to levy special assessments for said local improvements on property beyond its corporate limits, but within one mile therefrom, that is specially benefited by the improvement.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2637.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 127

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 127 heading)
DIVISION 127. PURCHASE OR LEASE OF WATERWORKS

65 ILCS 5/11-127-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-127-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-127-1)
    Sec. 11-127-1. In all municipalities where waterworks have been constructed, the corporate authorities of the municipality may purchase or lease the waterworks from the owner thereof. However, such a lease or purchase is not binding upon the municipality until the corporate authorities pass an ordinance which includes the terms of the lease or purchase therein. This ordinance shall be published at least once, within 10 days after passage, in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality.
    The publication or posting of the ordinance shall be accompanied by a notice of (1) the specific number of voters required to sign a petition requesting the question of authorizing the purchase or lease of waterworks to be submitted to the electors; (2) the time in which such petition must be filed; and (3) the date of the prospective referendum. The city clerk shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one.
    If no petition is submitted to the corporate authorities, as provided in this section, within 30 days after the ordinance is so published and posted, the corporate authorities may consummate the lease or purchase provided for in the ordinance. But if within this period of 30 days there is presented to the corporate authorities a petition signed by electors of the municipality numbering 10% or more of the number of registered voters in the municipality asking that the question, whether the lease or purchase should be made, be submitted to a vote, the corporate authorities by ordinance shall designate the election at which the electors of the municipality may vote upon that question and the city clerk shall promptly certify the proposition for submission. If a majority of the electors voting upon that question vote in favor of making the lease or purchase, then the corporate authorities shall proceed to complete the lease or purchase. But if a majority of the votes cast on the question are against the lease or purchase, the corporate authorities shall proceed no further with the lease or purchase for the period of 6 months next ensuing.
(Source: P.A. 87-767.)

65 ILCS 5/11-127-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-127-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-127-2)
    Sec. 11-127-2. Municipalities may borrow money, appropriate money, and levy and collect a general tax in the same manner as other municipal taxes may be levied and collected for the purchase and maintenance or the lease and maintenance of such waterworks.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 128

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 128 heading)
DIVISION 128. TAX FOR WATERWORKS PURCHASE,
CONSTRUCTION OR ENLARGEMENT

65 ILCS 5/11-128-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-128-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-128-1)
    Sec. 11-128-1. Subject to the provisions of Section 11-128-3, each city and village may levy, in addition to the taxes now authorized by law and in addition to the amount authorized to be levied for general purposes as provided by Section 8-3-1, a direct annual tax of not more than .1666% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, upon all the property within the corporate limits of the city or village. This tax is payable yearly for a period of not more than 30 years. The proceeds of this tax shall be used solely for the purchase, construction, and enlargement of waterworks.
    The foregoing limitation upon tax rates in municipalities of less than 1,000,000 population may be increased or decreased according to the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)

65 ILCS 5/11-128-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-128-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-128-2)
    Sec. 11-128-2. Whenever any specified municipality desires to avail itself of the provisions of this Division 128, the corporate authorities by ordinance or resolution may contract for the purchase, construction, or enlargement of waterworks for a provisionally certain fixed sum. The contract for purchase, construction, or enlargement, together with a report from the municipal engineer recommending the same, shall be published at least once a week for 3 consecutive weeks in a newspaper with a general circulation in the municipality. The corporate authorities shall also provide in the specified ordinance or resolution for the levying of a direct annual tax as authorized in Section 11-128-1. The total of this tax for the term levied, together with the annual revenue which is estimated to be derived from the waterworks, shall be sufficient to pay the contract price for the waterworks, together with interest thereon. However, the contract for the purchase, construction, or enlargement, and this tax, shall not be valid or binding until confirmed by a vote as provided by Section 11-128-3.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-128-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-128-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-128-3)
    Sec. 11-128-3. Before they shall be valid and binding, the specified contract and tax, after action by the corporate authorities, shall be certified by the clerk and submitted for ratification to the electors of the municipality. The notice shall specify the character of the waterworks proposed to be purchased, constructed, or enlarged and the amount of the tax to be levied. For 3 weeks preceding the election there shall be on file in some public place, convenient of access, a full description of the waterworks and a copy of the contract and of the report of the engineer, for the inspection of the electors. Notice of where the documents are on file shall be included in the notice of the election.
    If 3/4 of all the electors voting on the proposition vote in favor thereof, the contract and tax shall be binding and the tax shall be duly levied. The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:
--------------------------------------------------------------
    Shall the city (or village) of
.... construct, purchase, or enlarge         YES
(as the case may be) waterworks         ----------------------
and levy a tax of .... annually              NO
for .... years?
--------------------------------------------------------------
    Whenever the electors of a city or village have ratified a contract to purchase, construct, or enlarge waterworks and to levy a tax therefor as provided in "An Act to enable cities and villages to provide, construct, or enlarge waterworks and to provide for the management thereof, and giving them authority to levy an annual tax and to pledge the same in payment therefor," approved April 19, 1899, as amended, the city or village may proceed or continue to exercise the power specified in this Division 128 without again submitting the proposition to the electors for approval.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

65 ILCS 5/11-128-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-128-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-128-4)
    Sec. 11-128-4. The corporate authorities have the power to carry into execution the contract for the purchase, construction, or enlargement of waterworks when ratified by the electors, as directed in Section 11-128-3, and to employ a superintendent and such other employees as may be necessary and proper for the operation of the waterworks, for the collection of water rentals, and for the conduct of the business necessary to the operation thereof.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-128-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-128-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-128-5)
    Sec. 11-128-5. The corporate authorities may issue bonds against the taxes levied, but the bonds shall be payable only out of the special tax when collected and out of the net revenue derived from the operation of the waterworks.
    These bonds shall be made to mature in as nearly as possible equal installments of $100, or multiples thereof. The first installment shall be payable one or 2 years from the date of issue, and the last installment within one year after the date of the last tax levy provided by the vote authorizing a levy. The bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable annually or semi-annually. They shall be sold for not less than par, or they may be paid out at not less than par for the construction, purchase, and/or enlargement of the waterworks.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/11-128-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-128-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-128-6)
    Sec. 11-128-6. The specified bonds shall be substantially in the following form:
    The city (or village) of ...., county of ...., State of Illinois, for value received hereby promises to pay the bearer .... hundred dollars, lawful money of the United States of America, on the .... day of .... A.D. ...., together with interest thereon at the rate of ....% annually, payable annually (or semi-annually) on the .... day of ...., ..... Both principal and interest are payable at the .....
    This bond is one of a series of bonds amounting to .... dollars, issued under an ordinance of the city (or village) of .... and is payable solely out of funds derived from a special tax levy and the net revenue of the waterworks of the city (or village) of .... and out of no other funds. The construction, purchase, or enlargement of the waterworks and levy of the tax were authorized at an election legally called and held on the .... day of ...., ..... And it is asserted that all acts, conditions, and things precedent to and in the issuance of this bond have occurred and have been performed in regular and due form as required by law.
    In testimony whereof the corporate authorities have caused this bond to be signed by the mayor (or president) and countersigned by the clerk, and have caused the seal of the city (or village) to be affixed this .... day of ...., ....
.... Mayor
.... Clerk
    Coupons representing the interest shall be attached to the bond, and they may be signed or bear the lithographed signature of the clerk of the city or village.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-128-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-128-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-128-7)
    Sec. 11-128-7. The corporate authorities from time to time shall fix the water rentals or rates to be charged for the furnishing of water. These rentals or rates shall be made sufficient, together with the proceeds of the special tax provided in this Division 128, to pay at maturity the interest and principal of bonds issued under the provisions of this article, and also for the proper maintenance and operation of the waterworks, and for all repairs thereon.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-128-8

    (65 ILCS 5/11-128-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-128-8)
    Sec. 11-128-8. Any 2 or more cities or villages adjacent to each other by an ordinance adopted by each of them may create a water district. This water district shall be governed by a board of trustees jointly composed of the corporate authorities of each of the cities and villages, which created the district. This board of trustees shall have the powers given to the corporate authorities in this article, and the water district shall be a body corporate to carry out the provisions of this Division 128. But notice of any election held by such a water district under this Division 128 shall be given in each city and village combining into the district, and if the proposition does not carry by three-fourths of all electors voting on the proposition in each city or village constituting the district, then the proposed contract and tax have failed of ratification and are void.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 129

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 129 heading)
DIVISION 129. WATERWORKS SYSTEMS IN
MUNICIPALITIES OF LESS THAN 500,000

65 ILCS 5/11-129-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-129-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-129-1)
    Sec. 11-129-1. Any municipality with a population of less than 500,000 is authorized, as provided in this Division 129, to build, or purchase, and to operate a waterworks system or water supply system either within or without the corporate limits thereof, and also to improve or extend that system.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-129-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-129-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-129-2)
    Sec. 11-129-2. A specified municipality is authorized to pay the cost of a purchase, construction, improvement, or extension of a waterworks or water supply system by the issuance and sale of revenue bonds of the municipality, payable solely from the revenue derived from the operation of the waterworks or water supply system. These revenue bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable semi-annually, and shall mature within the period of usefulness of the project, to be determined by the corporate authorities, but in no event more than 40 years from the date of the completion of the project. The bonds shall be sold in such manner as the corporate authorities shall determine except that, if issued to bear interest at the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, the bonds shall be sold for not less than par and accrued interest, and except that the selling price of bonds bearing less than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, shall be such that the interest cost to the municipality of the money received from the bond sale shall not exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, computed to maturity according to standard tables of bond values.
    In case any officer, whose signature appears on these revenue bonds or the coupons attached thereto, ceases to hold that office before the delivery of the bonds to the purchaser, his signature nevertheless shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes, to the same effect as if he had remained in office until the delivery of the bonds. The bonds shall have all the qualities of negotiable instruments under the law merchant and the "Uniform Commercial Code", approved May 28, 1965, as amended.
    However, upon the effective date of the Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973, the maximum interest rate and interest cost on bonds issued under this Section is the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
    The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/11-129-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-129-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-129-3)
    Sec. 11-129-3. The corporate authorities of any municipality availing itself of the provisions of this Division 129 shall adopt an ordinance describing in a general way the contemplated project. If it is intended to purchase an existing waterworks or water supply system, the ordinance shall describe in a general way the system to be purchased. If it is intended to build a waterworks or water supply system or to improve or extend a waterworks or water supply system owned and operated by the municipality, the ordinance shall describe in a general way the waterworks or water supply system to be constructed or the improvements or extensions to be made. It shall not be necessary that the ordinance refer to plans and specifications nor that there be on file for public inspection prior to the adoption of such ordinance detailed plans and specifications of the project. The ordinance shall set out the estimated cost of the project, determine its period of usefulness, and fix the amount and maturities of water revenue bonds proposed to be issued, the interest rate, and all details in respect thereof. The ordinance may contain such covenants and restrictions upon the issuance of additional revenue bonds thereafter as may be deemed necessary or advisable for the assurance of payment of the bonds thereby authorized and as may be thereafter issued.
    Revenue bonds issued under this Division 129 shall be payable solely from the revenue derived from the operation of the waterworks or water supply system on account of which the bonds are issued; provided, that bonds issued under this Division 129 may also be payable from funds pledged by the municipality issuing such bonds pursuant to the Illinois Finance Authority Act. Notwithstanding any such pledge or any other matter, these bonds shall not in any event constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation and it shall be so stated on the face of each bond.
(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

65 ILCS 5/11-129-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-129-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-129-4)
    Sec. 11-129-4. Within 10 days after an ordinance for any project under this Division 129 has been passed, it shall be published at least once in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality.
    If the ordinance authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds for the purpose of purchasing an existing waterworks system and if the revenue thereof (after proper adjustments and elimination of nonrecurring charges under public ownership based upon the average annual receipts and expenditures for the 3 calendar years next preceding the date of the adoption of the ordinance as shown by the annual reports for those years made by the owners to the Illinois Commerce Commission) is sufficient (1) to pay all operating and maintenance expenses, (2) to pay into a depreciation fund a reasonable amount as a depreciation reserve, and (3) to provide for the payment when due of the principal of and interest upon the bonds proposed to be issued to purchase the waterworks system, the ordinance authorizing the issuance of those revenue bonds shall be in effect immediately upon its adoption and publication, or posting, as provided in this section, notwithstanding any provision in this Code or any other law to the contrary.
    If the ordinance authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds for the purpose of extending or improving an existing waterworks system, after its acquisition, or a presently municipally owned and operated waterworks system, and if the ordinance specifies that those extensions or improvements are to be paid for, either in whole or in part, by a loan or grant, or both, from any federal agency, the ordinance authorizing the issuance of those revenue bonds shall be in effect immediately upon its adoption and publication, or posting, as provided in this section, notwithstanding any provision in this Code or any other law to the contrary.
    The fact as to the sufficiency of the revenue in case of the purchase of an existing waterworks system, or of the intention of the corporate authorities to pay the cost of the proposed extensions or improvements to an existing system proposed to be purchased, or to a presently municipally owned system, by a loan or grant, or both, from a federal agency shall be determined by the ordinance authorizing the revenue bonds and that determination when so expressed in that ordinance shall be conclusive.
    In all other cases, if no petition is filed with the municipal clerk, as provided in this section, within 30 days after the publication, or posting, of the ordinance, then, after the expiration of those 30 days, the ordinance shall be in effect. The publication or posting of an ordinance which does not take effect immediately shall be accompanied by a notice of (1) the specific number of voters required to sign a petition requesting the question of authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds for the purpose of building, purchasing, improving or extending the waterworks or water supply system to be submitted to the electors; (2) the time in which such petition must be filed; and (3) the date of the prospective referendum. The municipal clerk shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one. But if within this period of 30 days a petition is filed with the municipal clerk signed by electors of the municipality numbering 10% or more of the number of registered voters in the municipality, asking that the question of building, purchasing, improving, or extending the waterworks or water supply system and the issuance of revenue bonds therefor, as provided in the ordinance, be submitted to the electors of the municipality, the clerk shall certify the proposition for submission at an election in accordance with the general election law.
    If a majority of the votes cast on the question are in favor thereof, the ordinance shall be in effect. But if a majority of the votes cast on the question are unfavorable, the municipality shall proceed no further and the ordinance shall not take effect.
(Source: P.A. 87-767.)

65 ILCS 5/11-129-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-129-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-129-5)
    Sec. 11-129-5. Whenever revenue bonds are issued under this Division 129, sufficient revenue received from the operation of such a waterworks or water-supply system shall be deposited in a separate fund designated as the water fund of the municipality. It shall be used only (1) to pay the cost of operation and maintenance of the system, (2) to provide an adequate depreciation fund, and (3) to pay the principal of and interest upon the revenue bonds of the municipality issued under this Division 129.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-129-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-129-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-129-6)
    Sec. 11-129-6. Rates charged for water by such a municipality shall be sufficient at all times to pay the cost of operation and maintenance, to provide an adequate depreciation fund, and to pay the principal of and interest upon all revenue bonds issued under this Division 129. The holder of such a bond, or of any of its coupons, in any civil action mandamus, injunction or other proceeding, may enforce and compel performance of all duties required by this Division 129 including the making and collecting of sufficient water rates for the specified purposes and the proper application of the income therefrom.
(Source: P.A. 83-345.)

65 ILCS 5/11-129-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-129-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-129-7)
    Sec. 11-129-7. This Division 129 authorizes the issuance of revenue bonds provided for in this Division 129 without submitting the proposition for the approval of the ordinance authorizing the bonds to the electors as provided in Sections 8-4-1 and 8-4-2.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

65 ILCS 5/11-129-8

    (65 ILCS 5/11-129-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-129-8)
    Sec. 11-129-8. Any municipality with a population of less than 500,000 hereafter authorizing the issuance of bonds to pay the cost of acquiring a water works, which bonds are payable solely from the revenue of such water works, may pursuant to ordinance adopted by the governing body of such municipality and as an incident thereto and for the purpose of assuring the holder or holders of such bonds of a continuous, efficient management and operation of such water works, provide for the establishment of a municipal water board consisting of not less than 3 nor more than 7 members to administer the action and function of such municipality in managing, maintaining and operating such water works. The members of the board shall be selected by the city council, board of trustees, or other governing body of such municipality, and shall serve for such terms, receive such compensation and successors shall be selected, as shall be specified by the ordinance providing for the establishment of such board. The board shall approve all contracts for materials and services and shall employ all such persons as the proper and successful operation of such water works system may require, including a superintendent, an engineer and an attorney. No disbursement shall be made of any revenues of such water works system for operation and maintenance expenses or to pay the cost of any additions or improvements thereto, except such as are approved by such board. The holder of any bond issued for the purpose of acquiring any such water works system, or extending or improving the same may compel the board to perform any act in respect to the management, maintenance or operation of the water works system as may be required by the laws of this state or as may have been undertaken in the ordinance or ordinances pursuant to which such board was established or the bonds issued. If the adoption of such ordinance was made a condition to the sale of water revenue bonds issued for the purpose of acquiring such water works system, any such ordinance shall not be repealed or amended prior to the retirement of the bonds without the consent of the holders of two-thirds of the bonds then outstanding.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-129-9

    (65 ILCS 5/11-129-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-129-9)
    Sec. 11-129-9. In addition to other projects authorized by this Division 129, any municipality with a population under 500,000 may construct or acquire a water-supply system to serve a particular locality within or without its corporate limits or to extend or improve an existing water-supply system for the purpose of serving a particular locality within or without the municipality not theretofore served by its existing system, and may pay the cost thereof by the issuance and sale of revenue bonds of the municipality, payable solely from the revenue derived from the operation of the water-supply system constructed or acquired for that particular locality, or from the revenue derived from the operation of the improvements and extensions of an existing system.
    Except insofar as inconsistent with Sections 11-129-9 through 11-129-11, the provisions of Section 11-129-1 through 11-129-8 shall govern all matters connected with projects under this Section. In addition to the requirements of Section 11-129-3, an ordinance for a project under this Section shall contain a description of the particular locality to be served by the system, improvement or extension.
(Source: P.A. 80-1382.)

65 ILCS 5/11-129-10

    (65 ILCS 5/11-129-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-129-10)
    Sec. 11-129-10. After adoption of an ordinance for a project under Section 11-129-9, the corporate authorities may make and enforce all needful rules and regulations in connection with the construction, acquisition, improvement, or extension, and with the management and maintenance of the project to be constructed or acquired. The corporate authorities shall establish rates or charges to each user of the water-supply system, improvement or extension at a rate which will be sufficient at all times to pay the principal and interest of any bonds issued to pay the cost thereof, maintenance, and operation of the system, improvement, or extension and an adequate depreciation fund therefor. Charges or rates shall be established, revised, and maintained by ordinance and become payable as the corporate authorities may determine by ordinance.
(Source: P.A. 80-1382.)

65 ILCS 5/11-129-11

    (65 ILCS 5/11-129-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-129-11)
    Sec. 11-129-11. All revenue derived from the operation of a water-supply system, improvement or extension constructed or acquired under Section 11-129-9 shall be set aside as collected and deposited in a special fund designated as a municipal water fund for the particular locality. The fund shall be used only for the purpose of paying the cost of operating and maintaining the water-supply system, improvement or extension, providing an adequate depreciation fund, and paying the principal and interest on the bonds issued by the municipality under Section 11-129-9 for the purpose of constructing or acquiring the system, improvement or extension.
(Source: P.A. 80-1382.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 130

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 130 heading)
DIVISION 130. CONSTRUCTION AND PURCHASE
OF WATERWORKS

65 ILCS 5/11-130-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-130-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-130-1)
    Sec. 11-130-1. Any municipality may purchase or construct waterworks or construct improvements to its waterworks as provided in this Division 130.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-130-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-130-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-130-2)
    Sec. 11-130-2. The term "waterworks", as used in this Division 130, means and includes a waterworks system in its entirety or any integral part thereof, including mains, hydrants, meters, valves, standpipes, storage tanks, pumping tanks, intakes, wells, impounding reservoirs, or purification plants.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-130-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-130-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-130-3)
    Sec. 11-130-3. Whenever the corporate authorities of any municipality determine to purchase or construct waterworks under the provisions of this Division 130, they shall have an estimate made of the cost thereof and, by ordinance, shall provide for the issuance of revenue bonds under the provisions of this Division 130. The ordinance shall set forth a brief description of the contemplated purchase or construction, the estimated cost thereof, the amount, rate of interest, time and place of payment, and other details in connection with the issuance of the bonds. The bonds shall bear interest at not more than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable semi-annually, and shall be payable at such times and places not exceeding 20 years from their date as shall be prescribed in the ordinance providing for their issuance. This ordinance shall also declare that a statutory mortgage lien exists upon the property so to be purchased or constructed, fix minimum rates for water to be collected prior to the payment of all of the revenue bonds so issued, and shall pledge the revenue derived from the operation of the waterworks for the purpose of paying those bonds and the interest thereon. This pledge shall definitely fix and determine the amount of revenue which must be set apart and applied to the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds and the proportion of the balance of the revenue which is to be set aside as a proper and adequate depreciation account. The remainder of the revenue shall be set aside for the reasonable and proper operation and maintenance of the waterworks. The rates to be charged for the services from the waterworks shall be sufficient to provide for the payment of interest upon all bonds and to create a sinking fund to pay the principal thereof as and when the bonds become due, to provide for the operation and maintenance of the system and to provide an adequate depreciation fund.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
    The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/11-130-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-130-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-130-4)
    Sec. 11-130-4. Within 10 days after such an ordinance has been passed it shall be published at least once, with a notice to all persons concerned stating that the ordinance has been adopted in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality. Such notice shall state that the municipality contemplates the issuance of the bonds described in the ordinance, and that any person interested may appear before the corporate authorities upon a certain date, which shall not be less than 10 days subsequent to the publication or posting of the ordinance and notice, and present protests. At this hearing all objections and suggestions shall be heard, and the corporate authorities shall take such action as they shall deem proper in the premises.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-130-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-130-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-130-5)
    Sec. 11-130-5. Bonds provided for in this Division 130 shall be issued in such amounts as may be necessary to provide sufficient funds to pay all costs of the purchase or construction, including engineering, legal, and other expenses, together with interest to a date 6 months subsequent to the estimated date of completion. Bonds issued under this Division 130 are negotiable instruments. They shall be executed by the mayor, or president and by the municipal clerk and shall be sealed with the corporate seal of the municipality. In case any of the officers whose signatures appear on the bonds, or coupons attached thereto, ceases to hold his office before delivery of the bonds, his signature nevertheless shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if it had remained in office until the delivery of the bonds. The bonds may be sold at not less than 90 cents on the dollar, and the proceeds derived therefrom shall be used exclusively for the purposes for which the bonds were issued. The bonds may be sold at one time or in parcels as funds are needed, but no bond shall be delivered until bids for the construction, or the offer to sell, in the case of a purchase, has been received, or judgment has been entered in the event of a condemnation, and it is apparent that the authorized bonds will pay for the contemplated waterworks.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-130-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-130-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-130-6)
    Sec. 11-130-6. Revenue bonds issued under this Division 130 shall be payable solely from the revenue derived from the operation of the waterworks on account of which the bonds were issued. These bonds shall not in any event constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation. It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that the bond has been issued under this Division 130 and that it does not constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-130-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-130-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-130-7)
    Sec. 11-130-7. There is hereby created a statutory mortgage lien upon the waterworks so purchased or constructed from the proceeds of the bonds authorized to be issued under this Division 130. This lien exists in favor of the holder of each of the bonds, and in favor of the holder of each of the coupons attached to the bonds. The waterworks shall remain subject to this statutory mortgage lien until the principal and interest of the bonds are paid in full. Any holder of bonds issued under this Division 130, or of any coupons representing interest accrued thereon, may, in a civil action, enforce the statutory mortgage lien hereby created, and may compel the performance of the duties of the officials of the issuing municipality set forth in this Division 130.
    If there is a default in the payment of the principal of and/or interest upon any of these bonds, the circuit court in any proper action may appoint a receiver to administer the waterworks on behalf of the municipality with power to charge and collect rates sufficient to provide for the payment of the bonds and interest thereon, and for the payment of the operating expenses and with power to apply the revenue in conformity with this Division 130 and the ordinance providing for the issuance of the bonds.
(Source: P.A. 79-1361.)

65 ILCS 5/11-130-8

    (65 ILCS 5/11-130-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-130-8)
    Sec. 11-130-8. Rates for water fixed precedent to the issuance of bonds shall not be reduced until all of the bonds have been fully paid, and, whenever necessary, may be increased in amounts sufficient to provide for the payment of the bonds, both principal and interest, and to provide proper funds for the depreciation account and operation and maintenance charges.
    If any surplus accumulates in the operating and maintenance fund in excess of the cost of maintaining and operating the waterworks during the remainder of the then current fiscal year, and during the next ensuing fiscal year, that excess may be transferred by the corporate authorities either to the depreciation account or to the bond and interest redemption account as the corporate authorities may designate. If any surplus accumulates in the depreciation account over and above that which the corporate authorities find may be necessary for the probable replacements which may be needed during the remainder of the then present fiscal year and the next ensuing fiscal year, that excess may be transferred to the bond and interest redemption account. If any surplus exists in the bond and interest redemption account that surplus shall be applied insofar as possible in the purchase or retirement of outstanding revenue bonds payable from that account, and for that purpose the corporate authorities are hereby authorized to purchase bonds not due in the open market at not more than the fair market value thereof.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-130-9

    (65 ILCS 5/11-130-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-130-9)
    Sec. 11-130-9. For the purpose of purchasing any waterworks under this Division 130, or for the purpose of purchasing any property necessary therefor, the municipality has the right of eminent domain as provided by the Eminent Domain Act.
(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)

65 ILCS 5/11-130-10

    (65 ILCS 5/11-130-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-130-10)
    Sec. 11-130-10. Whenever a municipality owns and operates a waterworks system, whether purchased or constructed under this Division 130 or not, and desires to construct improvements thereto, it may issue revenue bonds under this Division 130 to pay for that construction. The procedure for that issuance, including the fixing of rates and the computation of the amount thereof, shall be the same as is provided in this Division 130 for the issuance of bonds for the purchase or construction of waterworks by a municipality, except that in the ordinance declaring the intention to issue the bonds and providing details in connection therewith, the corporate authorities shall find and declare, in addition to the other requirements set out in this Division 130, the value of the then existing waterworks and the value of the property proposed to be constructed. The revenue derived from the waterworks when the contemplated improvements are completed shall be divided according to those 2 values. So much of the revenue as is in proportion to the value of the improvements as distinguished from the value of the previously existing waterworks, as so determined, shall be set aside and used solely for the purpose of paying the revenue bonds issued for the improvements, together with the cost of the operation and the depreciation thereof, and that revenue shall be deemed to be income derived exclusively from the improvements.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-130-11

    (65 ILCS 5/11-130-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-130-11)
    Sec. 11-130-11. Any municipality issuing revenue bonds under this Division 130 shall install and maintain a proper system of accounts, showing the amount of revenue received and its application. At least once a year the municipality shall have the accounts properly audited by a competent auditor. The report of that audit shall be open for inspection at all proper times to any taxpayer, water-user, or any holder of bonds issued under this Division 130, or to anyone acting for and on behalf of the taxpayer, water-user, or bondholder.
    The treasurer of the municipality shall be custodian of the funds derived from income received from waterworks purchased or constructed either in whole or in part under the provisions of this Division 130. He shall give proper bond for the faithful discharge of his duties as such custodian, and this bond shall be fixed and approved by the corporate authorities of the municipality.
    All of the funds received as income from waterworks purchased or constructed in whole or in part under the provisions of this Division 130, and all of the funds received from the sale of revenue bonds issued to construct such a waterworks system, shall be kept separate and apart from the other funds of the municipality. The treasurer shall maintain separate accounts in which shall be placed (1) the interest and sinking fund, (2) the depreciation fund and (3) the operating and maintenance fund. He shall also provide for refunding outstanding certificates payable out of water revenue.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-130-12

    (65 ILCS 5/11-130-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-130-12)
    Sec. 11-130-12. Whenever all of the holders of unpaid water revenue certificates of a particular issue, which were issued prior to July 8, 1927, to pay the cost of constructing waterworks and are payable from the revenue thereof, offer in writing to exchange the certificates for refunding revenue bonds to be issued under this Division 130, the corporate authorities shall receive the certificates, and if found to be properly executed, may adopt an ordinance incorporating therein the offer of the certificate holders. This ordinance shall set forth the determined value of the waterworks as it then exists, the value of as much of the waterworks as was paid for by the issue of certificates, the unpaid portion of which are proposed to be refunded, and the details in connection with the issuance of the refunding revenue bonds in the same manner as is provided for in this Division 130. The ordinance also shall fix the minimum rates to be charged for water and pledge that revenue, if and when the refunding revenue bonds are issued, to pay these refunding revenue bonds. The revenue shall be applied as provided in this Division 130 and particularly in Sections 11-130-8 and 11-130-9.
    The amount of the refunding revenue bonds shall not exceed and may be less than the par amount of the certificates to be surrendered and shall not exceed and may be less than the determined value of so much of the waterworks as was paid for by that issue of certificates, less the amount of certificates paid. The ordinance shall be published, or posted, together with a notice of a hearing thereon, and a hearing shall be had thereon, in the same manner as is provided in this Division 130. After such a hearing the refunding revenue bonds specified in the offer may be issued, or a less amount thereof may be issued with the consent of the certificate holders, or the ordinance may be repealed, as the corporate authorities shall determine. If the refunding revenue bonds are issued, the certificates shall be surrendered and cancelled simultaneously therewith. Refunding revenue bonds issued under this Division 130 shall be payable only out of revenue derived from the waterworks as provided in the ordinance and according to the terms of this Division 130. Holders of refunding revenue bonds issued under this Division 130 have rights similar to those of holders of revenue bonds issued under this Division 130, including the power to apply for a receiver to operate the waterworks. The municipality is under the same obligations to the refunding bondholders as it is to holders of revenue bonds issued under this Division 130.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 131

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 131 heading)
DIVISION 131. WATER FUND TAX IN CITIES

65 ILCS 5/11-131-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-131-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-131-1)
    Sec. 11-131-1. The corporate authorities of any municipality, whether incorporated under a special charter or the general law, which now has, or hereafter may have, established or leased a waterworks system for the supply of water to its inhabitants, has the power annually to levy and collect a tax not to exceed .0166% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of the taxable property in the municipality, for the extension of watermains or pipes in the municipality and for the maintenance of its waterworks system, or for the creation of a sinking fund to be applied to the establishment of a waterworks system. However, the board of public works of the municipality, if any, or the head of the municipality's water department, shall first certify to the corporate authorities the amount that will be necessary for the specified purposes, and shall further certify that the revenue from the waterworks system will be insufficient therefor. This tax shall be known as the water fund tax and shall be levied and collected in the same manner as are the other general taxes of the municipality. A two-thirds majority of all the corporate authorities may levy and collect annually, a tax not to exceed .05% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of the taxable property in the municipality, for the specified purposes.
    The corporate authorities of each municipality, with the concurrence of two-thirds of all of the members elected thereto, may levy and collect annually, in addition to all other taxes now authorized by law, a further tax of not to exceed .033% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of the taxable property in the municipality, to be used exclusively for the purpose of supplying water to the municipality.
    Nothing in this Section increases the aggregate amount of tax, as limited in Section 8-3-1, that may be levied in any one year.
(Source: P.A. 81-1550.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 132

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 132 heading)
DIVISION 132. BETTERING SOURCE OF CITY WATER SUPPLY

65 ILCS 5/11-132-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-132-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-132-1)
    Sec. 11-132-1. All cities owning or operating waterworks under any charter granted by an act of any General Assembly of this state, or under the general incorporation laws of this state, whether by boards of water commissioners or by officers appointed for that purpose, have the powers and privileges granted by Section 11-132-2, for the purpose of increasing or bettering the source of supply from which their water is obtained.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-132-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-132-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-132-2)
    Sec. 11-132-2. Whenever, in the judgment of a majority of any board of water commissioners, or if there is no such board, whenever in the judgment of a majority of the city council of any city specified in Section 11-132-1, it is necessary for the public health, or for any other cause, to increase the source of water supply, or to substitute for it such better source as in their judgment the interests of the city may demand, the board of water commissioners or the city council may dig wells, either by boring or excavation, and protect and equip them, or they may lease water privileges from persons owning wells already or hereafter to be dug. Subject to the provisions of Section 11-132-3, the board of water commissioners or the city council may pay for the boring, excavation, or lease, and for the expenses incurred in maintaining and operating the wells, only out of the surplus earnings of the city's waterworks.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-132-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-132-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-132-3)
    Sec. 11-132-3. No money, except the specified surplus earnings, shall be expended under the provisions of Section 11-132-2, for the purposes therein specified, until the question of the expenditure of the money has been certified by the clerk submitted to a vote of the electors of the city, and has received a favorable majority of the votes cast on the question.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 133

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 133 heading)
DIVISION 133. WATERWORKS CERTIFICATES OF
INDEBTEDNESS

65 ILCS 5/11-133-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-133-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-133-1)
    Sec. 11-133-1. Any municipality with a population of 500,000 or more, owning and operating its waterworks system, may pay for improving and extending that system by the issuance and sale of certificates of indebtedness of the municipality. These certificates shall bear interest at a rate of not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable semi-annually, and shall mature within 25 years from the date thereof; provided that any certificate issued and sold subsequent to December 31, 1965, shall mature within 40 years from the date of issuance.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
    This amendatory Act of 1973 is not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/11-133-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-133-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-133-2)
    Sec. 11-133-2. The corporate authorities of any municipality availing itself of the provisions of this Division 133, shall adopt an ordinance describing in a general way the improvements and extensions to be made and refer to the plans and specifications therefor prepared for that purpose. These plans and specifications shall be open to the inspection of the public. This ordinance shall set out the estimated cost of the improvements and extensions and shall fix the amount of certificates proposed to be issued, the maturity, interest rate, and all details in respect thereof. After this ordinance has been adopted and approved, it shall be published once in a newspaper published and having a general circulation in the municipality. This ordinance shall be in effect after the expiration of 10 days from the date of this publication.
    Certificates of indebtedness issued under this Division 133, shall be payable solely from the revenue derived from the waterworks system, and these certificates shall not in any event constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of the constitutional limitation. It shall be plainly stated on the face of each certificate that it has been issued under the provisions of this Division 133, and that it does not constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within any constitutional or statutory limitation. The total amount of these certificates that may be issued during the 8 years' period of 1958 to 1965 both inclusive, shall not exceed $150,000,000, which certificates may be issued from time to time within the 8 years' period. The total amount of these certificates that may be issued during the six year period of 1966 to 1971 both inclusive, shall not exceed $60,000,000 which certificates may be issued from time to time within the six year period. The total amount of these certificates that may be issued in the year 1972 shall not exceed $5,000,000 and in the year of 1973 and each year thereafter shall not exceed $10,000,000.
    This amendatory Act of 1973 is not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 78-211.)

65 ILCS 5/11-133-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-133-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-133-3)
    Sec. 11-133-3. Whenever certificates of indebtedness are issued pursuant to this Division 133, the entire revenue received from the operation of the waterworks system shall be deposited in a separate fund, designated as the water fund of the municipality of ..... This fund shall be used only in paying (1) the cost of maintenance and operation of the waterworks system, (2) obligations of the municipality theretofore issued that are payable by their terms from this revenue, whether in the form of certificates, bonds, or otherwise, and (3) certificates issued pursuant to this Division 133.
    Rates charged for water shall be sufficient to pay the cost of maintenance and operation and to pay the principal of and interest upon all of the specified certificates and bonds. These rates shall not be reduced while any of these certificates or bonds are unpaid.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-133-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-133-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-133-4)
    Sec. 11-133-4. In case any officer whose signature appears on the specified certificates or the coupons attached thereto ceases to hold his office before the delivery of the certificates to the purchaser, his signature nevertheless shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes, to the same effect as if he had remained in office until the delivery of the certificates. The specified certificates shall have all the qualities of negotiable paper under the law merchant and the negotiable instruments law.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 134

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 134 heading)
DIVISION 134. WATER FILTRATION IN CITIES WITH
25,000 TO 500,000 INHABITANTS

65 ILCS 5/11-134-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-134-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-134-1)
    Sec. 11-134-1. Any city with a population of 25,000 or more but less than 500,000 which owns or operates its waterworks system, may contract with any person for the filtration and treatment of its water supply.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-134-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-134-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-134-2)
    Sec. 11-134-2. The city council of any city availing itself of the provisions of this Division 134, shall adopt an ordinance, incorporating therein the contract to be entered into and authorizing the execution thereof on behalf of the city. The contract, among other things, (1) shall describe in a general way the plans and equipment to be constructed for the purpose of such filtration and treatment, (2) shall refer to and make a part thereof the plans and specifications for the plants and equipment, (3) shall provide for the manner, terms, and conditions upon which the water is to be filtered and treated, (4) shall provide for and fix the rate at which the water will be filtered and treated, and (5) may prescribe a method of redetermining that rate in the event such redetermination is provided for by the terms of the contract. The rate so fixed and the method so prescribed for redetermining the rate shall not be modified during the term of the contract without the consent of both the city and the other contracting party.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-134-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-134-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-134-3)
    Sec. 11-134-3. Such a contract may provide that the city has the right, at its option, to acquire the filtration and treatment plants and equipment to be constructed, upon the terms and conditions therein set forth. Filtration and treatment plants and equipment so acquired by any city shall become a part of its waterworks system, and the revenue derived therefrom shall be deposited at all times in the water fund of the city provided for in Section 11-134-5, for the uses and purposes therein specified.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-134-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-134-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-134-4)
    Sec. 11-134-4. At all times during the term of such a contract the city shall establish, maintain, and collect rates for water supplied or delivered to its water consumers sufficient to enable the city to pay for all water filtered and treated under the terms of the contract at the rates therein provided for. But this provision does not relieve the city from any obligation to maintain such other rates as may be imposed upon it under the terms of any other statutory provision or contract.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-134-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-134-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-134-5)
    Sec. 11-134-5. During the term of such a contract, the entire revenue received by the city from the operation of its waterworks system shall be deposited in a separate fund designated as the water fund of the city of ..... This fund shall be used only in paying, first, the cost of maintenance and operation of the waterworks system, and then the obligations, in whatever form, of the city that are payable by their terms from that revenue. All charges or payments required to be paid by the city under such a contract for the filtration and treatment of its water supply shall be deemed to be part of the cost of maintenance and operation of its waterworks system.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-134-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-134-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-134-6)
    Sec. 11-134-6. The performance of the terms and the observance of the provisions of such a contract for the filtration and treatment of the water supply of such a city may be enforced in any civil action, mandamus, injunction or other proceeding.
(Source: P.A. 83-345.)

65 ILCS 5/11-134-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-134-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-134-7)
    Sec. 11-134-7. All charges or payments to be made by any city under such a contract for the filtration and treatment of its water supply shall be made solely out of revenue derived by the city from the operation of its waterworks system. The obligation of the city to make payments under such a contract is limited solely to that revenue and does not constitute an indebtedness to the city within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-134-8

    (65 ILCS 5/11-134-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-134-8)
    Sec. 11-134-8. Sections 11-134-1 through 11-134-7, without reference to any other statutory provisions, authorize any city with a population of 25,000 or more but less than 500,000 to enter into a contract for the purpose declared in those sections without submitting a proposition for the approval of the contract to the electors of the city.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 135

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 135 heading)
DIVISION 135. JOINT ACQUISITION AND OPERATION
OF WATER SUPPLY AND WATERWORKS

65 ILCS 5/11-135-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-1)
    Sec. 11-135-1. Any 2 or more municipalities, except cities of 500,000 or more inhabitants, may acquire either by purchase or construction a waterworks system or a common source of supply of water, or both, and may operate jointly a waterworks system or a common source of supply of water, or both, and improve and extend the same, as provided in this Division 135. The corporate authorities of the specified municipalities desiring to avail themselves of the provisions of this Division 135 shall adopt a resolution or ordinance determining and electing to acquire and operate jointly a waterworks system or a common source of supply of water or both, as the case may be. Such resolution or ordinance may be rescinded at any time prior to the issuance and sale of revenue bonds and after the rescinding municipality has no outstanding obligation to pay a proportionate share of the costs of development, construction or operation.
    Any municipality adopting a resolution or ordinance to acquire and operate jointly a waterworks system or a common source of supply of water, or both, as the case may be, under the provisions of this Division 135, is authorized from time to time to pay, to advance or to obligate itself to the Commission, to bear a proportionate share of the development costs of any project proposed by the Commission including plans, feasibility reports and engineering even though the project is never constructed or water is never supplied by the Commission to such municipality.
    Whenever any municipality determines to pay, to advance or to obligate itself for its proportionate share of development costs as above provided, it shall adopt an ordinance declaring its intention to do so, fix the maximum amount of its share of the cost it proposes to pay, to advance or to obligate itself for, and the period over which it proposes to pay its obligation (not exceeding 5 years) and the maximum amount to be paid annually, if such obligation is to be paid in installments. The time of payment of any such installment obligation may be extended for a period of not exceeding five years from the final maturity date of the original obligation.
    From and after such ordinance becomes effective, it shall be the duty of the municipality to include an amount sufficient to pay the annual installments of its obligation each year in the next succeeding appropriation ordinances. No prior appropriation shall be required for a municipality to authorize the payments, advances or obligations herein provided for.
    Whenever any municipality has obligated itself for development costs as herein provided and after the effective date of the ordinance under which it obligated itself for a specific amount for development costs of a project and after approval of such obligation by the Commission, the Commission is authorized to borrow funds temporarily for payment of such development costs in advance of permanent financing. The Commission may from time to time and pursuant to an appropriate resolution borrow money and issue its interim notes to evidence borrowings for such purpose, including all necessary and incidental expenses in connection therewith.
    Any resolution authorizing the issuance of such notes shall describe the project and the development costs to be undertaken, specify the principal amount, rate of interest as authorized under Section 2 of "An Act to authorize public corporations to issue bonds, other evidences of indebtedness and tax anticipation warrants subject to interest rate limitations set forth therein", approved May 26, 1970, as now or hereafter amended, and the maturity date which shall coincide with the due date of the obligations or the installments thereof incurred by the respective municipalities pursuant to this Section not, however, to exceed 5 years from date.
    Contemporaneously with the issuance as provided by this Division of revenue bonds, all outstanding interim notes issued for development costs of a project though they have not then matured shall be paid, both principal and interest to date of payment, from funds derived from the sale of revenue bonds for the permanent financing of any such project for which interim notes may have been issued and such interim notes shall be surrendered and cancelled.
    Any municipality adopting a resolution or ordinance to acquire and operate jointly a waterworks system or a common source of supply of water, or both, as the case may be, under the provisions of this Division 135 is further authorized from time to time, to pay, to advance or to obligate itself to the Commission to bear, a proportionate share of the construction and operating costs of any project proposed by the Commission.
    Whenever a municipality determines to pay, to advance or to obligate itself for its proportionate share of construction or operating costs as above provided, it shall adopt an ordinance declaring its intention to do so, fix the maximum amount of its share of the cost it proposes to pay, to advance or to obligate itself for, and the period over which it proposes to pay its obligation and the maximum amount to be paid annually, if such obligation is to be paid in installments. From and after such ordinance becomes effective, it shall be the duty of the municipality to include an amount sufficient to pay the annual installments of its obligation each year in the next succeeding appropriation ordinances. No prior appropriation shall be required for a municipality to authorize the payments, advances or obligations herein provided for.
    Whenever any municipality has paid, advanced or obligated itself for development, construction or operating costs as herein provided, the Commission is authorized to contract with such municipality, on such terms as may be agreed, for the repayment to such municipality by the Commission of any payment or advance made by such municipality to the Commission to charge, in addition to all other charges and rates authorized under the provisions of this Division, such rates and charges for water sold by the Commission as shall be necessary to provide for such repayment. In addition, any payment or advance of such costs made by a municipality pursuant to this Section may be repaid by the Commission to the municipality from the proceeds of revenue bonds authorized to be issued by the Commission pursuant to this Division 135.
(Source: P.A. 82-783.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-2)
    Sec. 11-135-2. Upon the adoption of such an ordinance or resolution by the corporate authorities of any such municipality, the mayor or president, with the approval of the corporate authorities, shall appoint a commissioner. If under Section 11-135-3 a water commission meets the participatory requirements, that water commission shall appoint a commissioner. The commissioners so appointed by each of such municipalities and participatory water commissions together with a like commissioner appointed by the presiding officer of the county board with the advice and consent of the county board of the county in which the major part of the works of the water commission are, or are to be, located, shall constitute a commission and public corporation with the powers and duties specified in this Division 135. The corporate name of the commission shall be "(here insert an appropriate name indicative of the area) Water Commission" and as such the Commission may contract and be contracted with, and sue and be sued.
    The commissioners so appointed shall serve for a term of 6 years, or until their successors have been appointed and have qualified in the same manner as the original appointments, except that the commissioners first appointed shall determine by lot at their first meeting the respective commissioners whose terms shall be for 2, 4 and 6 years from the date of that meeting. Each commissioner appointed by a mayor or president shall be an elector or the chief administrator of the municipality for which he acts as commissioner, and the commissioner appointed by the presiding officer of the county board shall be an elector of the county in which the major works of the water commission are, or are to be, located. Any commissioner so appointed may be a member of the governing board or officer or employee of the municipality or county from which the appointment is made. A commissioner is eligible for reappointment upon the expiration of his term. A vacancy shall be filled for the balance of the unexpired term of the person who has ceased to hold office by the mayor, president or county board presiding officer who initially made such appointment in the same manner as the original appointment. Each commissioner shall receive the same compensation, as determined by the appointing authority, which shall not be more than $2,000 per year, except that no commissioner who is a member of the governing board or officer of the municipality or county from which the appointment is made may receive any compensation for serving as commissioner. Each commissioner shall furnish a bond for the faithful performance of his official duties. This bond shall not be less than $5,000 and its costs shall be paid by the commission.
    Each commissioner may be removed for any cause for which any other municipal officer may be removed. No commissioner, or employee of the commission, and no mayor, or president, or other member of the corporate authorities, or any employee of any of the municipalities, shall be interested directly or indirectly in any contract or job of work or materials, or the profits thereof, or services to be performed for or by the commission.
    A violation of any of the foregoing provisions of this section is a Class C misdemeanor. A conviction is cause for the removal of a person from his office or employment.
(Source: P.A. 90-517, eff. 8-22-97; 91-659, eff. 12-22-99.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-3)
    Sec. 11-135-3. Such a commission shall organize by appointing a chairman from its own members and a clerk and treasurer, who need not be commissioners. It shall adopt its own rules of procedure and provide for its meetings. The commission has full and complete supervision, management, and control of the waterworks system, or the common source of supply of water, or both, as provided in the ordinances or resolutions for acquiring and operating the same, and in their maintenance, operation, and extension. The commission is authorized to contract with the municipalities which established the commission for a supply of water to those municipalities, for a period not exceeding 50 years, and the corporate authorities of those municipalities are authorized to enter into contracts with the commission.
    The commission is authorized to develop, promote and provide for recreational facilities on property acquired in and for the operation of its common source of supply of water and to include reasonable charges for such recreational facilities as part of the cost of operation and maintenance of the waterworks system.
    Any 2 or more water commissions organized under this Division 135 may, by resolution adopted by each commission and ratified by the corporate authorities of each of the municipalities comprising each of the water commissions agree to the joint purchase, construction, operation, improvement or extension, or any combination thereof, of either or both a waterworks system and a common source of supply of water for those commissions. When such an agreement has been executed, the water commissions entering into that agreement may jointly issue revenue bonds for the projects subject to the agreement in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as are provided in this Division 135 in the case of an individual water commission.
    Any additional municipality or water commission may join and become a part of the system provided for in this Division 135 in the same manner as if participating at the time of formation if approved by majority vote of the water commissioners and such approval is ratified by resolution of the corporate authorities of a majority of the municipalities or water commissions constituting the commission; except that if a system is composed of two municipalities, only the approval of a majority of the water commissioners is required to accept an additional municipality or water commission to the system. If a municipality or water commission has been a continuous customer of the same water commission for a minimum of 20 years, receives at least 90% of its water from the water commission, and the population of the municipality or water commission exceeds 20% of the population of the then current member municipalities in the water commission, that municipality or water commission shall become a part of the system. In such event the name of the water commission may be changed either to include the joining municipality's or water commission's name or to provide another name that is indicative of the area. The membership of the water commission shall be enlarged to include a member from such joining municipality or water commission.
(Source: P.A. 91-659, eff. 12-22-99.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135-3.5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135-3.5)
    Sec. 11-135-3.5. Additional powers. In addition to any other powers set forth in this Division, a water commission organized under this Division has the following powers:
        (1) The power to enter into intergovernmental police
    
assistance agreements with any municipality or county.
        (2) The power to enter into intergovernmental
    
agreements with any unit of local government in order to carry out the purposes for which the commission was formed.
(Source: P.A. 94-123, eff. 1-1-06.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-4)
    Sec. 11-135-4. A commission may from time to time issue its revenue bonds in such principal amounts as the commission shall deem necessary to provide sufficient funds to carry out any of its corporate purposes and powers, including, without limitation, developing, acquiring, constructing, extending or improving a waterworks system or common source of supply of water, or any combination thereof, the funding or refunding of the principal of, redemption premium, if any, and interest on, any bonds issued by it whether or not such bonds or interest to be funded or refunded have or have not become due, the payment of engineering, legal and other expenses, together with interest to a date one year subsequent to the estimated date of completion of the project, the establishment or increase of reserves to secure or to pay such bonds and interest thereon, the providing of working capital and the payment of all other costs or expenses of the commission incident to and necessary or convenient to carry out its corporate purposes and powers. These bonds shall have all the qualities of negotiable instruments under the laws of this State and shall not constitute indebtedness of any of the municipalities constituting the commission.
    Every issue of bonds of such commission shall be payable out of the revenues to be derived pursuant to contracts with the specified municipalities and participating water commissions or by virtue of the operation of any properties acquired or to be acquired or constructed. A commission may issue such types of bonds as it may determine, including bonds as to which the principal and interest are payable exclusively from the revenues from one or more projects, or from an interest therein or a right to the products and services thereof, or from one or more revenue producing contracts made by the commission, or its revenues generally. Any such bonds may be additionally secured by a pledge of any grant, subsidy, or contribution from the United States, the State of Illinois, or any unit of local government, or any combination thereof.
    Before the treasurer of the commission is entitled to receive the proceeds of the sale of such a bond issue, he shall supply a corporate surety bond in an amount equivalent to the amount of funds to be derived from the sale of the bonds, and, in addition thereto, he shall supply a separate corporate surety bond for the faithful accounting of any funds that may come into his possession in an amount equal to the amount of funds likely to come into his hands in any one year from the revenue to be derived from the operation of any of the properties of the commission. The cost of these surety bonds shall be paid by the commission.
    The revenue bonds shall be issued pursuant to an ordinance or resolution and may be issued in one or more series, and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times within the estimated period of usefulness of the project involved and in any event not more than 50 years from the date thereof, bear interest at such rate or rates as authorized under Section 2 of "An Act to authorize public corporations to issue bonds, other evidences of indebtedness and tax anticipation warrants subject to interest rate limitations set forth therein", approved May 26, 1970, as now or hereafter amended, which rates may be fixed or variable, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such conversion, registration, and exchange privileges, have such rank or priority, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment at such place or places within or without the State of Illinois, be subject to such terms of redemption with or without premium, and contain or be subject to such other terms as the ordinance or resolution may provide, and shall not be restricted by the provisions of any other law limiting the amounts, maturities, interest rates, or other terms of obligations of public agencies or private persons. The bonds shall be sold in such manner as the commission shall determine, at private or public sale. It shall not be necessary that the ordinance or resolution refer to plans and specifications nor that there be on file for public inspection prior to the adoption of such ordinance detailed plans and specifications of the project. This ordinance or resolution may contain such covenants and restrictions in relation to the operation of the properties under the control of the commission and the issuance of additional revenue bonds thereafter as may be deemed necessary or advisable for the assurance of payment of the bonds thereby authorized and as may be thereafter issued. It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that it does not constitute an indebtedness of any municipality represented by the commission within the meaning of any statutory or constitutional limitation. Upon the issuance of revenue bonds, the revenue of the commission derived pursuant to contracts entered into for the sale of water to the specified municipalities and from the operation of its properties, shall be accounted for as provided in the ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds. Any commission created under the provisions of this Division 135 may also issue new bonds for the purpose of providing funds for the payment of unpaid bonds in accordance with the procedure prescribed by this Division 135.
    The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975 and 1981 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 91-659, eff. 12-22-99.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135-4.5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135-4.5)
    Sec. 11-135-4.5. Alternate Bonds. From time to time, a commission may, after meeting all of the conditions set forth in Section 15 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act, issue alternate bonds as authorized under Section 15 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act.
(Source: P.A. 96-907, eff. 6-7-10.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-5)
    Sec. 11-135-5. Whenever bonds are issued under this Division 135 the revenue received from the operation of the properties under the control of the commission shall be set aside as collected and deposited in a separate fund to be used only (1) in paying the cost of the operation and maintenance of those properties, (2) in providing an adequate depreciation fund, (3) in paying the principal of and interest upon the revenue bonds issued by the commission, as provided by this Division 135, (4) to comply with the covenants of the ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, and (5) to carry out the corporate purposes and powers of the commission.
    In case the commission has charge of the operation of a complete waterworks system, including the distribution mains, the commission shall establish rates and charges for water which shall be sufficient at all times to pay the cost of operation and maintenance, to provide an adequate depreciation fund, to pay the principal of and interest upon all revenue bonds issued as provided by this Division 135, to comply with the covenants of the ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, and to carry out the corporate purposes and powers of the commission. Charges and rates shall be established, revised, and maintained by ordinance and become payable as the commission may determine by ordinance.
    In case the commission has charge of the operation of a common source of supply of water, the municipalities represented by the commission shall contract with the commission for water. These municipalities shall establish such charges and rates for water supplied by them to consumers as will be sufficient at all times (1) to pay the cost of operation and maintenance of the respective waterworks systems (or waterworks and sewerage systems, where combined) of the municipalities, (2) to provide an adequate depreciation fund therefor, (3) to pay the principal of and interest on all revenue bonds of the municipalities payable from the revenues of the waterworks system (or combined waterworks and sewerage system), and (4) to pay the charges and rates established by the commission for the sale of water by the commission to those municipalities. The commission shall establish such charges and rates for water supplied to those municipalities as will be sufficient at all times (1) to pay the cost of operation and maintenance of the common source of supply of water, (2) to provide an adequate depreciation fund therefor, (3) to pay the principal of and interest on the revenue bonds issued by the commission, (4) to comply with the covenants of the ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, and (5) to carry out the corporate purposes and powers of the commission, under the provisions of this Division 135. Contracts entered into between the commission and the specified municipalities shall include covenants for the establishment of rates and charges as provided in this section.
    Municipality contributions to the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, by commissions created under this Division 135 which have been included under that Fund, shall be considered a cost of operation and maintenance for the purposes of this Section.
    Any holder of a bond or of any of its coupons, issued under this Division 135, in any civil action, mandamus, or other proceeding, may enforce and compel performance of all duties required by this Division 135 to be performed by such a commission or by any of the municipalities, including the making of rates and charges, the collecting of sufficient revenue, and the application thereof, as provided in this Division 135.
    All contracts for the construction of a waterworks system or of a common source of supply of water, or both, to be let by such a commission, shall be entered into only after advertising for bids, pursuant to a resolution to be adopted for that purpose by the commission. A notice inviting bids shall be published in a newspaper published and having a general circulation in the county or counties in which the municipalities represented by the commission are located, not more than 30 nor less than 15 days in advance of the receipt of the bids. The notice shall be published at least twice. In the resolution directing the advertising for bids the commission also shall establish all requirements necessary for the bidding, for the awarding of contracts, and for the approval of contractors' faithful performance bonds.
(Source: P.A. 82-641.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-6)
    Sec. 11-135-6. Whenever such commission shall pass an ordinance for the construction or acquisition of any waterworks properties, or improvements or extension or mains, pumping stations, reservoirs or other appurtenances thereto, which such commission is authorized to make, the making of which will require that private property be taken or damaged, such commission may cause compensation therefor to be ascertained and may condemn and acquire possession thereof in the same manner as nearly as may be, as provided for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act. However, proceedings to ascertain the compensation to be paid for taking or damaging private property shall in all cases be instituted in the circuit court of the county where the property sought to be taken or damaged is situated.
    In addition, when a Water Commission created under the Water Commission Act of 1985, as amended, requires that public property be taken or damaged for the purposes specified above, such commission may condemn and acquire possession of public property and cause compensation for such public property to be ascertained in the same manner provided for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act, during such time as the Commission has the power to initiate action in the manner provided by Article 20 of the Eminent Domain Act (quick-take procedure).
    In the event a Commission created under the Water Commission Act of 1985 shall determine that negotiations for the acquisition of property or easements for making any improvement which such Commission is authorized to make have proven unsuccessful and the Commission shall have by resolution adopted a schedule or plan of operation for the execution of the project and therein made a finding that it is necessary to take such property or easements immediately or at some specified later date in order to comply with the schedule, the Commission may commence proceedings to acquire such property or easements in the same manner provided in Article 20 of the Eminent Domain Act (quick-take procedure); except that if the property or easement is located in a municipality having more than 2,000,000 inhabitants, the Commission may not commence such proceedings until the acquisition has been approved by ordinance of the corporate authorities of the municipality.
    Any commission has the power to acquire, hold, sell, lease as lessor or lessee, transfer or dispose of real or personal property, or interest therein, as it deems appropriate in the exercise of its powers for its lawful purposes. When, in the opinion of a commission, real estate owned by it, however acquired, is no longer necessary, appropriate, required for the use of, profitable to, or for best interest of the commission, such commission may, by resolution, lease such surplus real estate for a period not to exceed 99 years, or sell such surplus real estate, in accordance with procedures adopted by resolution by such commission.
(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-7)
    Sec. 11-135-7. Such commission may construct, maintain, alter and extend its water mains as a proper use of highways along, upon, under and across any highway, street, alley or public ground in the state, including highways within a municipality, but so as not to inconvenience the public use thereof, and such commission may construct, maintain and operate any conduit or conduits, water pipe or pipes, wholly or partially buried or otherwise in, upon and along any of the lands owned by the State of Illinois and under any of the public waters therein. However, the right, permission and authority hereby created shall be subject to all public rights of commerce and navigation and the authority of the United States in behalf of such public rights and also the laws of the State of Illinois to regulate and control the same. Notice shall be given to the highway authorities of any municipality, county, township, road district or township district in which such highway, street or public way may be situated at least 60 days before any construction or installation work in such highway or street shall commence. All laws and ordinances pertaining to such work for the protection of the public and of public property shall be complied with except that no fee may be charged such commission for the construction or installation of such facilities in such public places.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135-8

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-8)
    Sec. 11-135-8. Such commission shall have the right to supply water to any municipality, political subdivision, private person or corporation, in addition to the municipalities which have formed the commission, and to construct water transmission and distribution lines within a radius of 25 miles outside the corporate limits of member municipalities for the purpose of furnishing water to any additional entities which contract with the commission for a supply of water, upon such payment, terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon. In addition to the foregoing powers, if there is any municipality within a radius of 25 miles of the corporate limits of the commission which desires not to own or operate a waterworks system, and such municipality adopts an ordinance requesting the Commission to supply water for public and domestic use within such municipality, then any such commission may, when determined by the Commissioners to be in the public interest and necessary for the protection of the public health or in the best interest of the Commission or its environs, enter into and perform contracts, whether long term or short term, with any such municipality, to acquire, construct and operate and maintain its waterworks properties within the corporate limits of such municipality for the purpose of supplying water for public and domestic use to the inhabitants thereof.
    Such commission shall have the power to contract with any person, corporation or political subdivision or any municipal corporation or other agency for a supply of water, or to supply water to such person, corporation, municipal corporation or political subdivision. Any such contract made by a commission for a supply of water may contain provisions whereby the commission is obligated to pay for such supply of water without setoff or counterclaim and irrespective of whether such supply of water is ever furnished, made available or delivered to the commission or whether any project for the supply of water contemplated by any such contract is completed, operable or operating and notwithstanding any suspension, interruption, interference, reduction or curtailment of the supply of water from such project. Any such contract may provide that if one or more of the other purchasers defaults in the payment of its obligations under such contract or similar contract made with the supplier of the water, one or more of the remaining purchasers party to such contract or such similar contract shall be required to pay for all or a portion of the obligations of the defaulting purchasers. Any such contract entered into to supply water to a municipal corporation or political subdivision shall provide that the payments to be made thereunder shall be solely from the revenues to be derived by such municipality or political subdivision from the operation of the waterworks system of such municipality or political subdivision, and said contract shall be a continuing, valid and binding obligation of the municipality or political subdivision, payable from such revenues for such period of years, not to exceed 40, as may be provided in such contract. Any such contract shall not be a debt within the meaning of any statutory or constitutional limitations.
    No prior appropriation shall be required before entering into such contract, and no appropriation shall be required to authorize payments to be made under the terms of any such contract, notwithstanding any provision of this Code to the contrary.
    The changes in this Section made by this amendatory Act of 1984 are intended to be declarative of existing law.
(Source: P.A. 83-1123.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135-9

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-9)
    Sec. 11-135-9. Whenever a water commission has been constituted pursuant to this Division 135, was functioning as such on July 21, 1959, and thereafter continued to exercise the powers conferred on it at the time it was so constituted, such commission is a valid public corporation, and all acts performed by or on behalf of such commission, or its officers or employees are valid.
    In all cases where a municipality which has adopted a resolution or ordinance to acquire and operate jointly a waterworks system or a common source of supply of water, or both, as the case may be, under the provisions of this Division 135, thereby becoming a member of a water commission, has heretofore adopted an ordinance repealing the aforesaid resolution or ordinance and declaring the termination of membership and withdrawal of such municipality from said water commission; and the said water commission has not at the time of such ordinance acquired a waterworks system or common source of supply of water, as the case may be; and the said water commission duly adopts a resolution finding that the withdrawal of such municipality will not burden or adversely affect the remaining members of said water commission in their efforts to acquire and operate jointly a waterworks system or a common source of supply of water or both, as the case may be, and consenting to the withdrawal of such municipality, each such resolution is hereby made a legal and valid consent to the withdrawal of such municipality from the said water commission and such withdrawal is hereby declared legal and valid and effective, and such municipality is hereby declared legally and validly withdrawn from the said water commission and no longer a member or a part of the system and all such water commissions are hereby declared legally and validly organized and established water commissions, and valid and existing water commissions and public corporations under the provisions of Division 135, notwithstanding any such withdrawal.
    All actions taken prior to the effective date of this Act by any water commission which has heretofore consented to the withdrawal of one or more of its members in accordance with the procedures described herein, which actions were otherwise valid but for the invalidating effect of the membership or withdrawal from membership of the withdrawing community or communities upon any quorum, voting or other requirement based upon the number of commissioners or commission members, are hereby declared effective, legal and valid, notwithstanding any lack of compliance with any such quorum, voting or other requirement imposed by law or by the rules of the said commission.
(Source: P.A. 82-641.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135-10

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-10)
    Sec. 11-135-10. The provisions of this Division 135 are subject to the terms and provisions of the Water Commission Act of 1985, as now or hereafter amended.
(Source: P.A. 84-1308.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 135.5

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 135.5 heading)
DIVISION 135.5. REGIONAL WATER COMMISSIONS
(Source: P.A. 102-684, eff. 12-16-21.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-1)
    Sec. 11-135.5-1. References to Division. This Division may be referred to as the Regional Water Commissions Act.
(Source: P.A. 102-684, eff. 12-16-21.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-5)
    Sec. 11-135.5-5. Findings. The General Assembly finds that:
        (1) It is necessary and in the public interest to
    
help assure a sufficient and economic supply of a source of water of suitable quality within those areas of this State that are dependent on ground water supply from portions of the Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer as well as shallow aquifers, and where those aquifers are expected not to be able to provide a sufficient supply of water or water of suitable quality to one or more municipalities which may be located in more than a single county, and where, because of economic development and population growth and proximity to large urban centers, the health, safety, and welfare of the residents is threatened by the continuing reduction in the amount of ground water and quality of ground water that can be obtained from the aquifers.
        (2) Because of a need to provide such municipalities
    
a continuing, available, and adequate source and supply of water on an economically viable basis, it is necessary and desirable to establish a different structure for municipalities in the affected region to jointly establish a source of water supply and the necessary waterworks and other supporting facilities as needed to provide a reliable, sustainable, and high-quality source of water on a cost-effective basis.
        (3) It is not the intent of the General Assembly to
    
interfere with the structure and operation of other water commissions and county water commissions already existing around the State on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly or to interfere with the power of municipalities to provide for the retail distribution of water to its residents or the customers of its water systems.
        (4) It is in the State's best interest to provide for
    
a sufficient and economic supply of water to such areas.
(Source: P.A. 102-684, eff. 12-16-21.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-7)
    Sec. 11-135.5-7. Definitions. As used in this Division:
    "Design-build" means a delivery system that provides responsibility within a single contract for the furnishing of architecture, engineering, land surveying, and related services as required and the labor, materials, equipment, and other construction services for the project.
    "Design-build contract" means a contract for a public project under this Division between a commission and a design-build entity to furnish: architecture, engineering, land surveying, public art or interpretive exhibits, and related services, as required; and the labor, materials, equipment, and other construction services for the project.
    "Design-build entity" means any individual, sole proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, corporation, professional corporation, or other entity that proposes to design and construct any public project under this Division.
    "Design professional" means any individual, sole proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, corporation, professional corporation, or other entity that offers services under the Illinois Architecture Practice Act of 1989, the Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989, the Structural Engineering Practice Act of 1989, or the Illinois Professional Land Surveyor Act of 1989.
    "Evaluation criteria" means the requirements for the separate phases of the selection process as defined in this Division and may include the specialized experience, technical qualifications and competence, capacity to perform, past performance, experience with similar projects, assignment of personnel to the project, and other appropriate factors.
    "Proposal" means the offer to enter into a design-build contract as submitted by a design-build entity in accordance with this Division.
    "Request for proposal" means the document used by the commission to solicit proposals for a design-build contract.
    "Scope and performance criteria" means the requirements for the commission project, including, but not limited to, the intended usage, capacity, size, scope, quality and performance standards, life-cycle costs, and other programmatic criteria that are expressed in performance-oriented and quantifiable specifications and drawings that can be reasonably inferred and are suited to allow a design-build entity to develop a proposal.
(Source: P.A. 102-1134, eff. 2-10-23.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-10

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-10)
    Sec. 11-135.5-10. Regional water commissions. Municipalities may enter into joint efforts to acquire, develop, and operate a waterworks system or a common source of supply of water, or both, through intergovernmental cooperation in a regional water commission as provided in this Division.
(Source: P.A. 102-684, eff. 12-16-21.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-15

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-15)
    Sec. 11-135.5-15. Establishment of commission; members; initial costs and funding.
    (a) Establishment of commission. Two or more municipalities, at least one of which is located in whole or in part in the county of Cook, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, or Will and has 140,000 or more inhabitants at the time of establishment of a regional water commission, excluding cities of 500,000 or more inhabitants, may acquire, either by purchase or construction, a waterworks system or a common source of supply of water, or both, and may operate jointly a waterworks system or a common source of supply of water, or both, and improve and extend the same, as provided in this Division. The municipality meeting the requirement to have 140,000 or more inhabitants as required by this paragraph must have attained that population as of December 16, 2021 (the effective date of Public Act 102-684).
    The corporate authorities of the municipalities desiring to avail themselves of the provisions of this Division shall establish a regional water commission by adopting an ordinance determining and electing to acquire and operate jointly a waterworks system or a common source of supply of water, or both, as the case may be, and approving an intergovernmental agreement among the municipalities establishing the regional water commission. This agreement may be amended at any time upon the adoption, by the corporate authorities of all member municipalities, of ordinances approving the amendment to the agreement.
    (b) Addition or withdrawal of members; dissolution. The agreement may provide for additional municipalities to join the commission upon adoption of an ordinance by the corporate authorities of the joining municipality and, upon such consents, conditions, and approvals of the board of commissioners and of existing member municipalities as shall be provided in the agreement. The agreement shall provide the manner and terms on which a municipality may withdraw from membership in the commission and on which the commission may terminate and dissolve in whole or in part.
    (c) Filing of agreement. Promptly upon entering into the agreement or any amendment to it, a copy of such agreement or amendment shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. Promptly upon the addition or withdrawal of a municipality, or, upon the dissolution of the commission, that fact shall be certified by an officer of the commission to the Secretary of State.
    (d) Development costs. A municipality whose corporate authorities adopted an ordinance and approved an intergovernmental agreement to acquire and operate jointly a waterworks system or a common source of supply of water, or both, as the case may be, under the provisions of this Division, may from time to time pay, advance, or obligate itself to the commission to bear a proportionate share of the development costs, including principal and interest, of any project proposed by the commission, including plans, feasibility reports, and engineering, even if the project is never constructed or water is never supplied by the commission to such municipality.
    Whenever the corporate authorities of a municipality determine that the municipality will pay, advance, or be obligated for its proportionate share of development costs as provided in this subsection, they shall adopt an ordinance declaring their intention that the municipality will do so, fix the maximum amount of the municipality's share of the cost the municipality proposes to pay or that the municipality will advance or to obligate the municipality for, and fix the period over which it is proposed to pay the obligation (not exceeding 10 years), if such obligation is to be paid in installments. The time of payment of any such installment obligation may be extended for a period not exceeding 10 years from the final maturity date of the original obligation. On and after the date such ordinance becomes effective, the municipality shall include an amount sufficient to pay the annual installments of its obligation each year in the next succeeding appropriation ordinances. The commission may require that if any such municipality whose corporate authorities determined to pay, to advance, or to obligate the municipality to the commission for development costs defaults in such payments, advances, or obligations, then the remaining municipalities whose corporate authorities have determined to pay, to advance, or to obligate the respective municipalities to the commission for development costs will be required to pay for all or a portion of the payments, advances by, or obligations of the defaulting municipality. No prior appropriation shall be required for the corporate authorities of a municipality to authorize the payments, advances, or obligations herein provided for.
    Whenever the corporate authorities of a municipality have obligated the municipality for development costs as herein provided and after the effective date of the ordinance under which the municipality became obligated for a specific amount for development costs of a project and after approval of such obligation by the commission, the commission is authorized to borrow funds temporarily for payment of such development costs in advance of permanent financing. The commission may from time to time and pursuant to an appropriate ordinance or resolution borrow money and issue its interim notes to evidence borrowings for such purpose, including all necessary and incidental expenses in connection therewith.
    An ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of such notes shall describe the project and the development costs to be undertaken and specify the principal amount, rate of interest as authorized under Section 2 of the Bond Authorization Act, and the maturity date, which shall coincide with the due date of the obligations or the installments thereof incurred by the respective municipalities pursuant to this Section not, however, to exceed 10 years from date.
    Contemporaneously with the issuance of revenue bonds under Section 11-135.5-30, all outstanding interim notes issued for development costs of a project though they have not then matured shall be paid, both principal and interest to date of payment, from funds derived from the sale of revenue bonds for the permanent financing of any such project for which interim notes may have been issued and such interim notes shall be surrendered and cancelled, or, in the alternative, the commission may determine to pay such interim notes out of receipts from other sources available to the commission, including grants and loans.
    Whenever a member municipality has incurred development costs for a project and has advanced funds or otherwise obligated itself for the payment of such costs, the commission is authorized to accept assignment of such debt instruments and the payment obligations thereunder and to thereafter make all necessary payments to meet such obligations out of receipts from other sources available to the commission, including grants and loans, or provide for credits against amounts otherwise due to the commission from the municipality, including interest on the amounts due.
    As used in this subsection, "development costs" means the costs of development of a project, including debt incurred and principal and interest payments, whether incurred by the commission or a member municipality.
    (e) Construction and operating costs. A municipality, the corporate authorities of which adopted an ordinance and approved an intergovernmental agreement to acquire and operate jointly a waterworks system or a common source of supply of water, or both, as the case may be, under the provisions of this Division, may from time to time pay, advance, or obligate itself to the commission to bear a proportionate share of the construction and operating costs of any project proposed by the commission.
    Whenever the corporate authorities of a municipality determine that the municipality will pay, advance, or be obligated for its proportionate share of construction or operating costs as above provided, they shall adopt an ordinance declaring their intention to do so, fix the maximum amount of the municipality's share of the cost it proposes to pay, to advance, or to obligate itself for, and fix the period over which it is proposed to pay the obligation, if such obligation is to be paid in installments. On and after the date such ordinance becomes effective, the municipality shall include an amount sufficient to pay the annual installments of its obligation each year in the next succeeding appropriation ordinances. The commission may require that if any such municipality whose corporate authorities determined that the municipality will pay, advance, or be obligated to the commission for construction or operating costs defaults in such payments, advances, or obligations, then the remaining municipalities whose corporate authorities have determined that the municipality will pay, advance, or be obligated to the commission for construction or operating costs will be required to pay for all or a portion of the payments, advances by, or obligations of the defaulting municipality. No prior appropriation shall be required for the corporate authorities of a municipality to authorize the payments, advances, or obligations herein provided for.
    Whenever a municipality, through its corporate authorities, has paid, advanced, or obligated the municipality for development, construction, or operating costs as herein provided, the commission may contract with the municipality, on such terms as may be agreed, for the repayment to the municipality by the commission of any payment or advance made by the municipality to the commission and to charge, in addition to all other charges and rates authorized under this Division, such rates and charges for water sold by the commission as shall be necessary to provide for such repayment. In addition, any payment or advance of such costs made by a municipality pursuant to this Section may be repaid by the commission to the municipality: (i) from the proceeds of revenue bonds authorized to be issued by the commission pursuant to this Division; (ii) out of receipts from other sources available to the commission, including grants and loans; or (iii) by the commission providing credits against amounts otherwise due to the commission from the municipality, including interest on the amounts due.
    Whenever a member municipality has incurred construction and operating costs for a project and has advanced funds or otherwise obligated itself for the payment of such costs, the commission is authorized to accept assignment of such debt instruments and the payment obligations thereunder and to thereafter make all necessary payments to meet such obligations: (i) from the proceeds of revenue bonds authorized to be issued by the commission pursuant to this Division; (ii) out of receipts from other sources available to the commission, including grants and loans; or (iii) by the commission providing credits against amounts otherwise due to the commission from the municipality, including interest on the amounts due.
    As used in this subsection, "construction and operating costs" means the costs of construction and operation of a project, including debt incurred and principal and interest payments, whether incurred by the commission or a member municipality.
    (f) Commission facilities. A waterworks system or a common source of supply of water, or both, purchased or constructed by the commission: (1) may be located within or without the corporate limits of any member municipality; (2) may include, or may consist of, without limitation, facilities for receiving, storing, and transmitting water from any source for supplying water to member municipalities and other purchasers of water from the commission; and (3) may include, without limitation, facilities that are developed, acquired, constructed, extended, or improved by the commission that may at any time be owned by another unit of local government if such facilities will serve the waterworks system or provide a common source of supply of water for the commission.
(Source: P.A. 102-684, eff. 12-16-21; 102-1134, eff. 2-10-23.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-20

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-20)
    Sec. 11-135.5-20. Board of commissioners.
    (a) Appointment of commissioners. Upon the adoption of an ordinance and intergovernmental agreement by the corporate authorities of a municipality under this Division, the mayor or president, with the approval of the corporate authorities, shall appoint a commissioner.
    (b) Commission. The commissioners so appointed by each of the municipalities shall constitute a commission and a municipal corporation and a public body politic and corporate with the powers and duties specified in this Division. The corporate name of the commission and its duration shall be provided in the agreement, and in such name the commission may contract and be contracted with and sue and be sued. The commissioners shall be collectively referred to as a board of commissioners.
    (c) Term; qualifications; compensation; bonds. Each commissioner appointed by a mayor or president shall be the mayor or president or an elected member of the corporate authorities of the municipality from which the appointment is made. The agreement establishing the commission shall specify the period during which a commissioner shall hold office and may provide for the appointment of alternate commissioners from member municipalities. No commissioner may receive any compensation for serving as commissioner. Each commissioner shall furnish a bond for the faithful performance of that commissioner's official duties. This bond shall not be less than $5,000 and its costs shall be paid by the commission.
    (d) Removal; prohibited interests. Each commissioner may be removed by the corporate authorities of the municipality from which the commissioner was appointed for any cause for which any municipal officer may be removed. No commissioner or employee of the commission and no mayor, president, member of the corporate authorities, or employee of any of the municipalities shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or job of work or materials, or the profits thereof, or services to be performed for or by the commission.
    (e) Violations. A violation of this Section is a Class C misdemeanor. A conviction is cause for the removal of a person from office or employment.
(Source: P.A. 102-684, eff. 12-16-21.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-25

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-25)
    Sec. 11-135.5-25. Board organization and powers.
    (a) Organization of board. A commission shall organize by electing a chair from among its own members and shall elect persons, who need not be commissioners, to such other offices as shall be designated in the agreement. It shall adopt its own bylaws, rules, and regulations and provide for its meetings. The commission has full and complete supervision, management, and control of the waterworks system or the common source of supply of water, or both, as provided in the agreement and ordinances for acquiring and operating the same, and in their maintenance, operation, and extension. The board of commissioners shall determine the general policy of the commission, shall approve the annual budget, shall make all appropriations (which may include appropriations made at any time in addition to those made in any annual appropriation document), shall approve all contracts for the purchase or sale of water, shall adopt ordinances or resolutions providing for the issuance of bonds or notes by the commission, shall adopt its bylaws, rules, and regulations, and shall have such other powers and duties as may be prescribed in the agreement. Such agreement may further specify the voting and approval requirements for actions regarding the commission's powers and duties, including those powers and actions of the commission which shall be authorized only upon votes of greater than a majority of all commissioners or only upon consents of the corporate authorities of a certain number of member municipalities, or both.
    The agreement may provide for the establishment of a technical advisory committee to consist of a municipal employee member from each member municipality as designated by ordinance or other official action, from time to time by the corporate authorities of the member municipality, and having the qualifications as prescribed in the agreement, and also may provide for such functions and duties of the committee as will support the efficient administration and operation of the commission.
    The board of commissioners may establish other committees from time to time, consisting of either members of the board or members who are municipal employees from each member municipality, in order to support the efficient administration and operation of the commission.
    (b) Water contracts to acquire water supply. A commission may contract to acquire a supply of water on such terms and conditions as it finds in the best interests of the commission for a period not exceeding 101 years. The term of the water supply contract may, at the end of the initial or extended term, be extended by an amendment, renewal, or revision beyond 101 years by further agreement of the parties. A commission may contract with any person, corporation, political subdivision, municipal corporation, or other governmental or non-governmental entity for a supply of water, and any such political subdivision, municipal corporation, or other governmental entity is authorized to enter into such a contract with the commission. A commission may accept from a municipality that is a member of the commission the assignment of a contract to acquire a supply of water and to accept and perform the duties and obligations and make all payments required pursuant to such assigned contract.
    A contract made by or assigned to a commission for a supply of water may contain provisions whereby the commission is obligated to pay for such supply of water without setoff or counterclaim and irrespective of whether such supply of water is ever furnished, made available, or delivered to the commission or whether any project for the supply of water contemplated by the contract is completed, operable, or operating and notwithstanding any suspension, interruption, interference, reduction, or curtailment of the supply of water from such project.
    No prior appropriation shall be required before entering into or accepting assignment of such contract, and no appropriation shall be required to authorize payments to be made under the terms of the contract, notwithstanding any provision of this Code to the contrary. The contract shall not be a debt within the meaning of any statutory or constitutional limitations.
    (c) Water contracts to provide water supply to members. The commission is authorized to contract with the municipalities which established the commission, and with other municipalities that have become members pursuant to the process established in the intergovernmental agreement, for a supply of water to those municipalities, for a period not exceeding 101 years, and those municipalities are authorized to enter into such contracts with the commission. The term of the water supply contract may, at the end of the initial or extended term, be extended by an amendment, renewal, or revision beyond 101 years by further agreement of the parties.
    Any such contract made by a commission and any such municipalities to supply water may contain provisions whereby the purchasing municipality is obligated to pay for such supply of water without setoff or counterclaim and irrespective of whether such supply of water is ever furnished, made available, or delivered to the purchasing municipality or whether any project for the supply of water contemplated by any such contract is completed, operable, or operating and notwithstanding any suspension, interruption, interference, reduction, or curtailment of the supply of water from such project. Any such contract may provide that if one or more of the other purchasers' defaults in the payment of its obligations under the contract or similar contract made with the supplier of the water, the remaining purchasers party to such contract or such similar contract shall be required to pay for all or a portion of the obligations of the defaulting purchaser. Each municipality that enters into such a contract shall be obligated and have the duty to include an amount sufficient to pay the annual amount of its obligation each year in the next succeeding appropriation ordinances. No prior appropriation shall be required for a municipality to authorize the payments, advances, or obligations provided for in such contracts or this subsection.
    (d) Water contracts to provide water supply to nonmembers and extend system. A commission may supply water to and contract with a person, corporation, political subdivision, municipal corporation, or other governmental or non-governmental entity, in addition to the municipalities which have formed the commission and other municipalities that have become members pursuant to the process established in the intergovernmental agreement, and to construct water transmission and distribution lines within a radius of 25 miles outside the corporate limits of member municipalities for the purpose of furnishing water to any additional entities which contract with the commission for a supply of water, upon such payment, terms, and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon. Any such contract shall be a continuing, valid, and binding obligation of the purchaser for such period of years, not to exceed 40, as may be provided in such contract.
    Any such contract entered into to supply water to a municipal corporation or political subdivision shall provide that the payments to be made thereunder shall be from the revenues to be derived by such municipality or political subdivision from the operation of the waterworks system or combined waterworks and sewer system of such municipality or political subdivision or from receipts from other sources available to the municipality or political subdivision, including grants and loans. Any such contract made by a commission and a purchaser that is such a municipal corporation or political subdivision to supply water may contain provisions whereby the purchaser is obligated to pay for such supply of water without setoff or counterclaim and irrespective of whether such supply of water is ever furnished, made available, or delivered to the purchaser or whether any project for the supply of water contemplated by any such contract is completed, operable, or operating and notwithstanding any suspension, interruption, interference, reduction, or curtailment of the supply of water from such project. The contract may provide that, if one or more of the other purchasers defaults in the payment of its obligations under such contract or similar contract made with the supplier of the water, the remaining purchasers party to such contract or such similar contract shall be required to pay for all or a portion of the obligations of the defaulting purchaser. Each municipal corporation or political subdivision that enters into such a contract shall be obligated and have the duty to include an amount sufficient to pay the annual amount of its obligation each year in the next succeeding appropriation ordinances. No prior appropriation shall be required for a municipality or political subdivision to authorize the payments, advances, or obligations provided for in such contracts or this subsection. Any such contract shall not be a debt within the meaning of any statutory or constitutional limitations.
    (e) Additional powers. In addition to any other powers set forth in this Division and in the agreement, a commission has the following powers:
        (1) The power to enter into intergovernmental
    
police assistance agreements with any municipality or county.
        (2) The power to enter into intergovernmental
    
agreements with any unit of local government or other governmental entity in order to carry out the purposes for which the commission was formed.
(Source: P.A. 102-684, eff. 12-16-21; 102-1134, eff. 2-10-23.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-30

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-30)
    Sec. 11-135.5-30. Revenue bonds.
    (a) Revenue bonds; power; purposes. A commission may from time to time issue its revenue bonds in such principal amounts as the commission deems necessary to provide sufficient funds to carry out any of its corporate purposes and powers, including, without limitation: developing, acquiring, constructing, extending, or improving a waterworks system or common source of supply of water, or any combination thereof; the funding or refunding of the principal of, redemption premium on, if any, and interest on bonds issued by it, whether or not such bonds or interest to be funded or refunded have or have not become due; the payment of engineering, legal, and other expenses, together with interest to a date one year subsequent to the estimated date of completion of the project; the establishment or increase of reserves to secure or to pay such bonds and interest thereon; the providing of working capital; and the payment of all other costs or expenses of the commission incident to and necessary or convenient to carry out its corporate purposes and powers. These bonds shall have all the qualities of negotiable instruments under the laws of this State and shall not constitute indebtedness of any of the municipalities constituting the commission.
    (b) Source of payment. Every issue of bonds of a commission shall be payable out of the revenues to be derived pursuant to contracts with the specified municipalities and other purchasers of water or by virtue of the operation of any properties acquired or to be acquired or constructed. A commission may issue such types of bonds as it determines, including bonds as to which the principal and interest are payable from the revenues from one or more projects, or from an interest therein or a right to the products and services thereof, or from one or more revenue producing contracts made by the commission, or its revenues generally. Any such bonds may be additionally secured by a pledge of any grant, subsidy, contribution, or other revenue source from the United States, the State of Illinois, or any unit of local government, or any combination thereof.
    (c) Receipt of funds by treasurer. Before the treasurer of the commission is entitled to receive the proceeds of the sale of such a bond issue, the treasurer shall supply a corporate surety bond in an amount equivalent to the amount of funds to be derived from the sale of the bonds, and, in addition thereto, the treasurer shall supply a separate corporate surety bond for the faithful accounting of any funds that may come into that individual's possession in an amount equal to the amount of funds likely to come into the treasurer's hands in any one year from the revenue to be derived from the operation of any of the properties of the commission. The cost of these surety bonds shall be paid by the commission. The requirement to supply corporate surety bonds under this subsection does not apply to the extent that the proceeds of the sale of the bonds and other funds are subject to the administration of the trustee pursuant to a trust indenture with a bank or trust company.
    (d) Approval process; terms. The revenue bonds shall be issued pursuant to an ordinance or resolution, or, in the alternative, pursuant to a master trust indenture as well as a supplemental trust indenture with each issuance, and may be issued in one or more series, and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times within the estimated period of usefulness of the project involved and, in any event, not more than 50 years from the date thereof, bear interest at such rate or rates as authorized under Section 2 of the Bond Authorization Act, which rates may be fixed or variable, be in such denominations, be in such form, either coupon or registered, carry such conversion, registration, and exchange privileges, have such rank or priority, be executed in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment at such place or places within or without the State, be subject to such terms of redemption with or without premium, and contain or be subject to such other terms as the ordinance or resolution, or the master trust indenture or supplemental trust indenture or both, may provide, and shall not be restricted by the provisions of any other law limiting the amounts, maturities, interest rates, or other terms of obligations of public agencies or private persons. The master trust indenture and any supplemental trust indenture shall be entered into with a bank or trust company within or outside the State having trust powers and possessing capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000. The bonds shall be sold in such manner as the commission shall determine, at private or public sale. It shall not be necessary that the ordinance or resolution, or the master trust indenture or supplemental trust indenture or both, refer to plans and specifications nor that there be on file for public inspection prior to the adoption of such ordinance or resolution, or the master trust indenture or supplemental trust indenture or both, detailed plans and specifications of the project. This ordinance or resolution, or the master trust indenture or supplemental trust indenture or both, may contain such covenants and restrictions in relation to the operation of the properties under the control of the commission and the issuance of additional revenue bonds thereafter as may be deemed necessary or advisable for the assurance of payment of the bonds thereby authorized and as may be thereafter issued. It shall be plainly stated on each bond that it does not constitute an indebtedness of any municipality represented by the commission within the meaning of any statutory or constitutional limitation. Upon the issuance of revenue bonds, the revenue of the commission derived pursuant to contracts entered into for the sale of water to the municipalities that have formed the commission and to other municipalities that have become members pursuant to the intergovernmental agreement, as well as contracts entered into with other persons, corporations, political subdivisions, municipal corporations, or other governmental or non-governmental entities and from the operation of its properties, shall be accounted for as provided in the ordinance or resolution, or the master trust indenture or supplemental trust indenture or both, authorizing the issuance of the bonds. Any commission created under the provisions of this Division may also issue bonds for the purpose of providing funds for the payment, refunding, or redemption of any of the commission's bonds or notes before, after, or at their maturity, including the payment of redemption premiums or interest accruing or to accrue on such bonds or notes being paid or redeemed, and for the payment of any installments of interest accrued or to accrue on any bond or note.
    (e) No limitation. The provisions of this Section are not a limit upon a municipality that is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 102-684, eff. 12-16-21.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-35

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-35)
    Sec. 11-135.5-35. Revenues; rates; costs; construction contracts.
    (a) Revenue fund. Whenever bonds are issued under this Division, the revenue received from the operation of the properties under the control of the commission shall be set aside as collected and deposited in a separate fund to be used only (1) in paying the cost of the operation and maintenance of those properties, (2) in providing an adequate depreciation fund, (3) in paying the principal of and interest upon the revenue bonds issued by the commission, as provided by this Division, (4) to comply with the covenants of the ordinance or resolution, or the master trust indenture or any applicable supplemental trust indenture or both, authorizing the issuance of such bonds, and (5) to carry out the corporate purposes and powers of the commission.
    (b) Rates and charges for waterworks system. If the commission has charge of the operation of a complete waterworks system, including the distribution mains, the commission shall establish rates and charges for water and the use of commission waterworks system facilities, which shall be sufficient at all times to pay the cost of operation and maintenance, to provide an adequate depreciation fund, to pay the principal of and interest upon all revenue bonds issued as provided by this Division, to comply with the covenants of the ordinance or resolution, or the master trust indenture or any applicable supplemental trust indenture or both, authorizing the issuance of such bonds, and to carry out the corporate purposes and powers of the commission. Charges and rates shall be established, revised, and maintained by ordinance and become payable as the commission may determine by ordinance.
    (c) Rates and charges for water source of supply. If the commission has charge of the operation of a common source of supply of water, the municipalities represented by the commission shall contract with the commission for water. These municipalities shall establish such charges and rates for water supplied by them to consumers as will be sufficient at all times (1) to pay the cost of operation and maintenance of the respective waterworks systems (or combined waterworks and sewerage systems) of the municipalities, (2) to provide an adequate depreciation fund therefor, (3) to pay the principal of and interest on all revenue bonds of the municipalities payable from the revenues of the waterworks system (or combined waterworks and sewerage system), and (4) to pay the charges and rates established by the commission for the sale of water by the commission to, and the use of commission waterworks system facilities by, those municipalities. The commission shall establish such charges and rates for water supplied to those municipalities and the use of commission waterworks system facilities as will be sufficient at all times (1) to pay the cost of operation and maintenance of the common source of supply of water, (2) to provide an adequate depreciation fund therefor, (3) to pay the principal of and interest on the revenue bonds issued by the commission, (4) to comply with the covenants of the ordinance or resolution, or the master trust indenture or any applicable supplemental trust indenture or both, authorizing the issuance of such bonds, and (5) to carry out the corporate purposes and powers of the commission, under the provisions of this Division. Contracts entered into between the commission and the specified municipalities shall include covenants for the establishment of rates and charges as provided in this Section.
    (d) Pension costs. Contributions to a retirement fund or other pension alternative authorized by the Illinois Pension Code, including, without limitation, the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, by commissions created under this Division which have been included under the retirement fund or other pension alternative shall be considered a cost of operation and maintenance for the purposes of this Section.
    (e) Enforcement of obligations. An owner of a bond issued under this Division, a trustee under a master trust indenture or supplemental trust indenture or both with respect to the bonds issued under this Division, or both the owner and trustee may, in a civil action, mandamus action, or other proceeding, enforce and compel performance of all duties required by this Division to be performed by such a commission or by any of the municipalities, including the making of rates and charges, the collecting of sufficient revenue, and the application thereof, as provided in this Division.
    (f) Construction contracts. All or any portion of a waterworks system or other public improvement of such a commission, when the expense thereof will exceed the greater of (i) $25,000 or (ii) the amount of expense above which a work or public improvement by a municipality must be let to the lowest responsible bidder after advertising for bids under Section 8-9-1 of this Code, shall be constructed, maintained, or repaired either: (1) by a contract let to the lowest responsible bidder after advertising for bids, in the manner prescribed by the commission's bylaws, rules, and regulations and by the vote required as established in the intergovernmental agreement pursuant to Section 11-135.5-25; or (2) without advertising for bids, if authorized by a vote of greater than a majority of all the commissioners as established in the intergovernmental agreement pursuant to Section 11-135.5-25. The commission's bylaws, rules, and regulations shall provide for an alternative procedure for emergency procurement if an emergency makes it impracticable to follow the procedures in this subsection.
    (g) Alternative project delivery. A commission may use alternative project delivery methods if the commission determines it to be in the commission's best interest for a particular project. An alternative project delivery method may include, without limitation, design-build or construction-manager-at-risk. All notices for the procurement of goods, services, or work to be provided pursuant to an alternate delivery method shall include all requirements for the goods, services, or work to be procured. All awards of contracts or agreements for the procurement of goods, services, or work to be provided pursuant to an alternate delivery method shall be made on the basis of demonstrated competence and qualifications and with due regard for the principles of competitive selection. As part of an alternate project delivery procurement process, prior to submission of proposals, the commission may conduct meetings and exchange confidential information with proposers to promote understanding of the request for proposals, review alternative design concepts, or discuss other issues related to the procurement.
    As used in this subsection:
    "Construction-manager-at-risk" means a delivery method in which the party proposing to be the construction manager commits to be responsible for performance of certain preconstruction services and, if the parties reach agreement on key terms, becomes responsible for construction of the project.
    "Design-build" means a delivery method that provides responsibility within a single contract for furnishing the architectural, engineering, land-surveying, and related services for the project, as well as the labor, materials, equipment, and other construction services for the project.
    (h) Procurement goals and requirements. A commission may establish goals or requirements for the procurement of goods and services and for construction contracts to promote and encourage the continuing economic development of (i) businesses that are owned and operated by minorities, women, persons with disabilities, or veterans; (ii) businesses that are located within the territory of one or more of the municipalities that are members of the commission; (iii) businesses that employ persons who reside in the territory of one or more of the municipalities that are members of the commission; (iv) businesses that are located within the territory of a municipality having more than 2,000,000 inhabitants in which a portion of the commission's waterworks system or other commission improvement is located; or (v) businesses that employ persons who reside in the territory of a municipality having more than 2,000,000 inhabitants in which a portion of the commission's waterworks system or other commission improvement is located.
    A commission may also establish other goals or requirements that result in the award to a responsible bidder other than the lowest responsible bidder if the commission determines that the award is in the commission's best interests, notwithstanding the requirements of subsection (f). Goals or requirements that are set by a commission that result in a preference being applied to a bidder or proposer, who has met those goals or requirements, in a commission's process for awarding construction contracts and for the procurement of goods and services must comply with the constitutional standards applicable to the preferences.
    (i) Contract assignment. A member municipality may enter into a contract for any portion of a waterworks system or other public improvement of a commission pursuant to a contracting method that is consistent with the requirements applicable to the municipality and generally consistent with the principles in subsection (f) or (g). The commission may accept assignment of such a contract and of payment obligations under that contract.
    (j) Project labor agreement. In connection with a contract by a commission for the construction of all or any portion of a waterworks system or other public improvement of the commission, the commission must enter into a project labor agreement with the applicable local building trades council prior to the commencement of any and all construction, building, renovation, demolition, or any material change to the structure or land.
(Source: P.A. 102-684, eff. 12-16-21; 102-1134, eff. 2-10-23.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-40

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-40)
    Sec. 11-135.5-40. Property.
    (a) Generally. A commission may (i) acquire, hold, sell, lease as lessor or lessee, transfer, or dispose of real or personal property, or interest therein, and (ii) acquire by gift, legacy, or grant any real estate or personal property, or rights therein, in all such instances as it deems appropriate in the exercise of its powers for its lawful purposes, whether the land or personal property is located within or outside the boundaries of the members of the commission. The commission also may accept any grant, subsidy, or contribution from the United States, the State of Illinois, a unit of local government, or any other governmental entity, or any combination thereof.
    (b) Private property. Whenever a commission passes an ordinance for the construction or acquisition of any waterworks properties, or improvements or extension or mains, pumping stations, reservoirs, or other appurtenances thereto, which such commission is authorized to make, the making of which will require that private property be taken or damaged, such commission may cause compensation therefor to be ascertained and may condemn and acquire possession thereof in the same manner as nearly as may be, as provided for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act. However, proceedings to ascertain the compensation to be paid for taking or damaging private property shall be instituted in the circuit court of the county where the property sought to be taken or damaged is situated.
    (c) Public property. When a commission created under this Division requires that public property be taken or damaged for the purposes specified in this Section, the commission may condemn and acquire possession of public property and cause compensation for such public property to be ascertained in the same manner provided for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act while the commission has the power to initiate action in the manner provided by Article 20 of the Eminent Domain Act.
    (d) Highways and public ground. A commission may construct, maintain, alter, and extend its water mains as a proper use of highways along, upon, under, and across any highway, street, alley, or public ground in the State, including highways within a municipality, but so as not to inconvenience the public use thereof, and the commission may construct, maintain, and operate any conduit or conduits, water pipe or pipes, wholly or partially buried or otherwise in, upon, and along any of the lands owned by the State and under any of the public waters therein. However, the right, permission, and authority hereby created shall be subject to all public rights of commerce and navigation and the authority of the United States in behalf of such public rights and also the laws of the State to regulate and control the same. Notice shall be given to the highway authorities of a municipality, county, township, road district, or township district in which such highway, street, or public way may be situated at least 60 days before any construction or installation work in such highway or street shall commence. All laws and ordinances pertaining to such work for the protection of the public and of public property shall be complied with, except that no fee may be charged such commission for the construction or installation of such facilities in such public places.
    (e) Surplus property. When, in the opinion of a commission, real estate owned by it, however acquired, is no longer necessary, appropriate, required for the use of, profitable to, or for best interest of the commission, such commission may, by resolution, lease such surplus real estate for a period not to exceed 99 years or sell such surplus real estate, in accordance with procedures established in the intergovernmental agreement or bylaws or adopted by resolution by such commission.
    (f) Tax exemption. All property, income, and receipts of or transactions by a commission shall be exempt from all taxation, the same as if it were the property, income, or receipts of or transaction by the member municipalities.
    (g) Agricultural impact mitigation agreement. For any private property that is used for agricultural purposes, as defined in Section 1-60 of the Property Tax Code, that is damaged or taken by a commission created under this Division, the commission shall enter into an agricultural impact mitigation agreement with the Illinois Department of Agriculture to ensure any negative impacts to private property are properly mitigated.
(Source: P.A. 102-684, eff. 12-16-21.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-45

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-45)
    Sec. 11-135.5-45. Laws not applicable. The provisions of this Division: (i) are not subject to Division 135 or Division 136 of Article 11 of this Code or the Water Commission Act of 1985; and (ii) do not apply to any commission formed or operating under Division 135 or Division 136 of Article 11 of this Code or the Water Commission Act of 1985.
(Source: P.A. 102-684, eff. 12-16-21.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-50

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-50)
    Sec. 11-135.5-50. Solicitation of proposals.
    (a) A commission may enter into design-build contracts. In addition to the requirements set forth in its local ordinances, when the commission elects to use the design-build delivery method, it must issue a notice of intent to receive proposals for the project at least 14 days before issuing the request for the proposal. The commission must publish the advance notice in the manner prescribed by ordinance, which shall include posting the advance notice online on its website. The commission may publish the notice in construction industry publications or post the notice on construction industry websites. A brief description of the proposed procurement must be included in the notice. The commission must provide a copy of the request for proposal to any party requesting a copy.
    (b) The request for proposal shall be prepared for each project and must contain, without limitation, the following information:
        (1) The name of the commission.
        (2) A preliminary schedule for the completion of the
    
contract.
        (3) The proposed budget for the project, the source
    
of funds, and the currently available funds at the time the request for proposal is submitted.
        (4) Prequalification criteria for design-build
    
entities wishing to submit proposals. The Commission shall include, at a minimum, its normal prequalification, licensing, registration, and other requirements; however, nothing precludes the use of additional prequalification criteria by the commission.
        (5) Material requirements of the contract, including,
    
but not limited to, the proposed terms and conditions, required performance and payment bonds, and insurance.
        (6) The performance criteria.
        (7) The evaluation criteria for each phase of the
    
solicitation. Price may not be used as a factor in the evaluation of Phase I proposals.
        (8) The number of entities that will be considered
    
for the technical and cost evaluation phase.
    (c) The commission may include any other relevant information that it chooses to supply. The design-build entity shall be entitled to rely upon the accuracy of this documentation in the development of its proposal.
    (d) The date that proposals are due must be at least 21 calendar days after the date of the issuance of the request for proposal. If the cost of the project is estimated to exceed $12,000,000, then the proposal due date must be at least 28 calendar days after the date of the issuance of the request for proposal. The commission shall include in the request for proposal a minimum of 30 days to develop the Phase II submissions after the selection of entities from the Phase I evaluation is completed.
(Source: P.A. 102-1134, eff. 2-10-23.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-55

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-55)
    Sec. 11-135.5-55. Development of scope and performance criteria.
    (a) The commission shall develop, with the assistance of a licensed design professional or public art designer, a request for proposal, which shall include scope and performance criteria. The scope and performance criteria must be in sufficient detail and contain adequate information to reasonably apprise the qualified design-build entities of the commission's overall programmatic needs and goals, including criteria and preliminary design plans, general budget parameters, schedule, and delivery requirements.
    (b) Each request for proposal shall also include a description of the level of design to be provided in the proposals. This description must include the scope and type of renderings, drawings, and specifications that, at a minimum, will be required by the commission to be produced by the design-build entities.
    (c) The scope and performance criteria shall be prepared by a design professional or public art designer who is an employee of the commission, or the commission may contract with an independent design professional or public art designer selected under the Local Government Professional Services Selection Act to provide these services.
    (d) The design professional or public art designer that prepares the scope and performance criteria is prohibited from participating in any design-build entity proposal for the project.
    (e) The design-build contract may be conditioned upon subsequent refinements in scope and price and may allow the commission to make modifications in the project scope without invalidating the design-build contract.
(Source: P.A. 102-1134, eff. 2-10-23.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-60

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-60)
    Sec. 11-135.5-60. Procedures for selection.
    (a) The commission must use a two-phase procedure for the selection of the successful design-build entity. Phase I of the procedure will evaluate and shortlist the design-build entities based on qualifications, and Phase II will evaluate the technical and cost proposals.
    (b) The commission shall include in the request for proposal the evaluating factors to be used in Phase I. These factors are in addition to any prequalification requirements of design-build entities that the commission has set forth. Each request for proposal shall establish the relative importance assigned to each evaluation factor and subfactor, including any weighting of criteria to be employed by the commission. The commission must maintain a record of the evaluation scoring to be disclosed in event of a protest regarding the solicitation.
    The commission shall include the following criteria in every Phase I evaluation of design-build entities: (i) experience of personnel; (ii) successful experience with similar project types; (iii) financial capability; (iv) timeliness of past performance; (v) experience with similarly sized projects; (vi) successful reference checks of the firm; and (vii) commitment to assign personnel for the duration of the project and qualifications of the entity's consultants.
    The commission may include any additional relevant criteria in Phase I that it deems necessary for a proper qualification review. The commission may not consider any design-build entity for evaluation or award if the entity has any pecuniary interest in the project or has other relationships or circumstances, including, but not limited to, long-term leasehold, mutual performance, or development contracts with the commission, that may give the design-build entity a financial or tangible advantage over other design-build entities in the preparation, evaluation, or performance of the design-build contract or that create the appearance of impropriety.
    Upon completion of the qualifications evaluation, the commission shall create a shortlist of the most highly qualified design-build entities. The commission, in its discretion, is not required to shortlist the maximum number of entities as identified for Phase II evaluation, provided that no less than 2 design-build entities nor more than 6 are selected to submit Phase II proposals. The commission shall notify the entities selected for the shortlist in writing. This notification shall commence the period for the preparation of the Phase II technical and cost evaluations. The commission must allow sufficient time for the shortlist entities to prepare their Phase II submittals considering the scope and detail requested by the commission.
    (c) The commission shall include in the request for proposal the evaluating factors to be used in the technical and cost submission components of Phase II. Each request for proposal shall establish, for both the technical and cost submission components of Phase II, the relative importance assigned to each evaluation factor and subfactor, including any weighting of criteria to be employed by the commission. The commission must maintain a record of the evaluation scoring to be disclosed in event of a protest regarding the solicitation.
    The commission shall include the following criteria in every Phase II technical evaluation of design-build entities: (i) compliance with objectives of the project; (ii) compliance of proposed services to the request for proposal requirements; (iii) quality of products or materials proposed; (iv) quality of design parameters; (v) design concepts; (vi) innovation in meeting the scope and performance criteria; and (vii) constructability of the proposed project. The commission may include any additional relevant technical evaluation factors it deems necessary for proper selection.
    The commission shall include the following criteria in every Phase II cost evaluation: the total project cost; the construction costs; and the time of completion. The commission may include any additional relevant technical evaluation factors it deems necessary for proper selection. The total project cost criteria weighting factor shall not exceed 30%.
    The commission shall directly employ or retain a licensed design professional or a public art designer to evaluate the technical and cost submissions to determine if the technical submissions are in accordance with generally accepted industry standards.
    Upon completion of the technical submissions and cost submissions evaluation, the commission may award the design-build contract to the highest overall ranked entity.
(Source: P.A. 102-1134, eff. 2-10-23.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-65

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-65)
    Sec. 11-135.5-65. Small projects. In any case where the total overall cost of the project is estimated to be less than $12,000,000, the commission may combine the two-phase procedure for selection described in Section 11-135.5-60 into one combined step, provided that all the requirements of evaluation are performed in accordance with Section 11-135.5-60.
(Source: P.A. 102-1134, eff. 2-10-23.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-70

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-70)
    Sec. 11-135.5-70. Submission of proposals. Proposals must be properly identified and sealed. Proposals may not be reviewed until after the deadline for submission has passed as set forth in the request for proposals. All design-build entities submitting proposals shall be disclosed after the deadline for submission, and all design-build entities who are selected for Phase II evaluation shall also be disclosed at the time of that determination.
    Proposals shall include a bid bond in the form and security as designated in the request for proposals. Proposals shall also contain a separate sealed envelope with the cost information within the overall proposal submission. Proposals shall include a list of all design professionals, public art designers, and other entities to which any work may be subcontracted during the performance of the contract.
    Proposals must meet all material requirements of the request for proposal or they may be rejected as non-responsive. The commission has the right to reject any and all proposals.
    The drawings and specifications of the proposal may remain the property of the design-build entity.
    The commission shall review the proposals for compliance with the performance criteria and evaluation factors.
    Proposals may be withdrawn prior to evaluation for any cause. After evaluation begins by the commission, clear and convincing evidence of error is required for withdrawal.
(Source: P.A. 102-1134, eff. 2-10-23.)

65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-75

    (65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-75)
    Sec. 11-135.5-75. Award; performance. The commission may award the contract to the highest overall ranked entity. Notice of award shall be made in writing. Unsuccessful entities shall also be notified in writing. The commission may not request a best and final offer after the receipt of proposals. The commission may negotiate with the selected design-build entity after award but prior to contract execution for the purpose of securing better terms than originally proposed, provided that the salient features of the request for proposal are not diminished.
    A design-build entity and associated design professionals shall conduct themselves in accordance with the relevant laws of this State and the related provisions of the Illinois Administrative Code.
(Source: P.A. 102-1134, eff. 2-10-23.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 136

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 136 heading)
DIVISION 136. JOINT ACQUISITION AND OPERATION
OF WATER AND SEWAGE SYSTEMS

65 ILCS 5/11-136-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-136-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-1)
    Sec. 11-136-1. Any 2 or more municipalities, except cities of 500,000 or more inhabitants, may acquire either by purchase or construction a waterworks system or sources of supply of water or sewer systems, or any combination thereof, and may operate jointly a waterworks system or sources of supply of water or sewer systems, or any combination thereof, and improve and extend the same, as provided in this Division 136. The corporate authorities of such municipalities desiring to avail themselves of the provisions of this Division 136 shall adopt a resolution or ordinance determining and electing to acquire and operate jointly a waterworks system or sources of supply of water or sewer systems, or any combination thereof, as the case may be. This Division 136 shall not be construed as limiting, amending or repealing any other laws with respect to joint acquisition and operation of a waterworks system or sources of supply of water or sewer systems, or any combination thereof, but shall be considered as an additional grant of power for the purposes herein set out.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-136-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-136-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-2)
    Sec. 11-136-2. Upon the adoption of such an ordinance or resolution by the corporate authorities of any such municipality, the mayor or president, with the approval of the corporate authorities, shall appoint one commissioner for each 5,000 population, or part thereof. The commissioners so appointed by each of such municipalities, together with a like commissioner appointed by the chairman of the county board of the county in which the municipality having the greatest population is situated, shall constitute a commission and public corporation with the powers and duties specified in this Division 136. The corporate name of the commission shall be "(here insert appropriate name indicative of the area) Water Commission" or "Water and Sewer Commission" and as such the commission may contract and be contracted with, and sue and be sued.
    The commissioners so appointed shall serve for a term of 6 years, or until their successors have been appointed and have qualified. Each commissioner shall be an elector of the municipality for which he acts as commissioner. However, no person shall be eligible for appointment, if he has held an elective office in the state, county or municipality, until one year after the expiration of the term for which he was elected. A commissioner is eligible for reappointment upon the expiration of his term. A vacancy shall be filled for the balance of the unexpired term in the same manner as that prescribed for the appointment of the person who has ceased to hold office. Each commissioner shall receive the same compensation which shall not be more than $1,000 per year. Each commissioner shall furnish a bond for the faithful performance of his official duties. This bond shall not be less than $5,000 and its costs shall be paid by the commission.
    Each commissioner may be removed for any cause for which any other municipal officer may be removed. No commissioner, or employee of the commission, and no mayor, or president, or other member of the corporate authorities, or any employee of any of the municipalities, shall be interested directly or indirectly in any contractor-job of work or materials, or the profits thereof, or services to be performed for or by the commission.
    A violation of any of the foregoing provisions of this section is a Class C misdemeanor. A conviction is cause for the removal of a person from his office or employment. Any member of the commission or any employee thereof who in any manner contributes money, labor, or other valuable thing to any person for election purposes in any election for office in any of the municipalities which are furnished water by the commission is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.
(Source: P.A. 84-1308.)

65 ILCS 5/11-136-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-136-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-3)
    Sec. 11-136-3. Such a commission shall organize by appointing a chairman from its own members and a clerk and treasurer, who need not be commissioners. It shall adopt its own rules of procedure and provide for its meetings. The commission has full and complete supervision, management, and control of the waterworks system, or sources of supply of water, or sewer systems, or combination thereof, as provided in the ordinances or resolutions for acquiring and operating the same, and in their maintenance, operation, and extension. The commission is authorized to contract with the municipalities which established the commission or with any other person, firm or corporation for a supply of water, a sewage treatment plant or any other facilities useful in conducting a water supply and sewage disposal system for a period not exceeding 50 years, and the corporate authorities of those municipalities are authorized to enter into contracts with the commission. The commission is authorized to purchase from any person, firm or corporation or municipal corporation including those making up the commission, any sewer or water properties or sources of supplies and municipalities are hereby authorized to sell such facilities to the commission.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-136-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-136-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-4)
    Sec. 11-136-4. For the purpose of acquiring such a waterworks system or sources of supply of water or sewer systems, or any combination thereof or for making improvements and extensions to such a waterworks system or sources of supply of water or sewer systems, or any combination thereof, such a commission is authorized to issue revenue bonds payable solely from the revenue to be derived pursuant to any contracts with the specified municipalities or with any person, firm or corporation or by virtue of the operation of any properties acquired or to be acquired. These bonds shall not constitute an indebtedness of any of the municipalities represented by the commission. The bonds shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable semiannually, and shall mature within the period of usefulness of the property to be acquired or constructed from the proceeds thereof. This period shall be conclusively determined by the commission at or before the time of the issuance of the bonds, and in no event shall any of the bonds be issued with a maturity more than 50 years from the date thereof. The bonds shall be sold in such manner as the commission shall determine, except that if issued to bear interest at the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, the bonds shall be sold for not less than par and accrued interest, and except that the selling price of any bond bearing interest at less than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, shall be such that the interest cost of the money received from that bond shall not exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, computed to maturity, according to standard tables of bond values.
    Before the treasurer of the commission is entitled to receive the proceeds of the sale of such a bond issue, he shall supply a corporate surety bond in an amount equivalent to the amount of funds to be derived from the sale of the bonds, and, in addition thereto, he shall supply a separate corporate surety bond for the faithful accounting of any funds that may come into his possession in an amount equal to the amount of funds likely to come into his hands in any one year from the revenue to be derived from the operation of any of the properties of the commission. The cost of these surety bonds shall be paid by the commission.
    The revenue bonds shall be issued pursuant to an ordinance or resolution and shall be in such form and be executed in such manner as may be prescribed by the ordinance or resolution. It shall not be necessary that the ordinance or resolution refer to plans and specifications nor that there be on file for public inspection prior to the adoption of such ordinance detailed plans and specifications of the project. This ordinance or resolution may contain such covenants and restrictions in relation to the operation of the properties under the control of the commission and the issuance of additional revenue bonds thereafter as may be deemed necessary or advisable for the assurance of payment of the bonds thereby authorized and as may be thereafter issued. It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that it does not constitute an indebtedness of any municipality represented by the commission within the meaning of any statutory or constitutional limitation. Upon the issuance of revenue bonds, the revenue of the commission derived pursuant to contracts entered into for the sale of water to the specified municipalities and from the operation of its properties, shall be accounted for as provided in the ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds. Any commission created under the provisions of this Division 136 may also issue new bonds for the purpose of providing funds for the payment of unpaid bonds in accordance with the procedure prescribed by this Division 136.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
    The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/11-136-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-136-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-5)
    Sec. 11-136-5. Whenever bonds are issued under this Division 136 the revenue received from the operation of the properties under the control of the commission shall be set aside as collected and deposited in a separate fund to be used only (1) in paying the cost of the operation and maintenance of those properties, (2) in providing an adequate depreciation fund, and (3) in paying the principal of and interest upon the revenue bonds issued by the commission, as provided by this Division 136.
    In case the commission has charge of the operation of a complete waterworks system or sewer system including the distribution mains, the commission shall establish rates and charges for water or sewer service or both which shall be sufficient at all times to pay the cost of operation and maintenance, to provide an adequate depreciation fund, and to pay the principal of and interest upon all revenue bonds issued as provided by this Division 136. The rates for water and sewer service need not be the same nor do rates for the same type of service have to be identical in the several municipalities constituting the commission but shall be equitably based upon the net plant account and the expenses of operation in each municipality. Charges and rates shall be established, revised, and maintained by ordinance and become payable as the commission may determine by ordinance.
    In case the commission has charge of the operation of sources of supply of water, the municipalities specified in Section 11-136-1 represented by the commission shall contract with the commission for water. These municipalities shall establish such charges and rates for water supplied by them to consumers as will be sufficient at all times (1) to pay the cost of operation and maintenance of the respective waterworks systems of the municipalities, (2) to provide an adequate depreciation fund therefor, and (3) to pay the charges and rates established by the commission for the sale of water by the commission to those municipalities, and the commission shall establish such charges and rates for water supplied to those municipalities as will be sufficient at all times (1) to pay the cost of operation and maintenance of the common source of supply of water, (2) to provide an adequate depreciation fund therefor, and (3) to pay the principal of and interest on the revenue bonds issued by the commission, under the provisions of this Division 136. Contracts entered into between the commission and the specified municipalities shall include covenants for the establishment of rates and charges as provided in this section.
    Municipality contributions to the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund, by commissions created under this Division 136 which have been included under that Fund, shall be considered a cost of operation and maintenance for the purposes of this Section.
    Any holder of a bond or of any of its coupons, issued under this Division 136, in any civil action, mandamus, or other proceedings, may enforce and compel performance of all duties required by this Division 136 to be performed by such a commission or by any of the municipalities, including the making of rates and charges, the collecting of sufficient revenue, and the application thereof, as provided in this Division 136.
    All contracts for the construction of a waterworks system or sources of supply of water, or sewer systems, or any combination thereof, to be let by such a commission, shall be entered into only after advertising for bids, pursuant to a resolution to be adopted for that purpose by the commission. A notice inviting bids shall be published in a newspaper published and having a general circulation in the county or counties in which the municipalities represented by the commission are located, not more than 30 nor less than 15 days in advance of the receipt of the bids. The notice shall be published at least twice. In the resolution directing the advertising for bids the commission also shall establish all requirements necessary for the bidding, for the awarding of contracts, and for the approval of contractors' faithful performance bonds.
(Source: P.A. 80-425.)

65 ILCS 5/11-136-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-136-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-6)
    Sec. 11-136-6. Whenever such commission shall pass an ordinance for the construction or acquisition of any waterworks properties or sewer properties or improvements or extensions or mains, pumping stations, reservoirs or other appurtenances thereto, which such commission is authorized to make, the making of which will require that private property be taken or damaged, such commission may cause compensation therefor to be ascertained and may condemn and acquire possession thereof in the same manner as nearly as may be, as provided for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act. However, proceedings to ascertain the compensation to be paid for taking or damaging private property shall in all cases be instituted in the county where the property sought to be taken or damaged is situated.
(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)

65 ILCS 5/11-136-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-136-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-7)
    Sec. 11-136-7. Such commission may construct, maintain, alter and extend its water mains or sewer facilities as a proper use of highways along, upon, under and across any highway, street, alley or public ground in the State, including highways within a municipality, but so as not to inconvenience the public use thereof. Such commission may construct, maintain and operate any conduit or conduits, water pipe or pipes, wholly or partially buried or otherwise in, upon and along any of the lands owned by the State of Illinois and under any of the public waters therein. However, the right, permission and authority hereby created shall be subject to all public rights of commerce and navigation and the authority of the United States in behalf of such public rights and also the laws of the State of Illinois to regulate and control the same. Notice shall be given to the highway authorities of any municipality, county, township, road district or township district in which such highway, street or public way may be situated at least 60 days before any construction or installation work in such highway or street shall commence. All laws and ordinances pertaining to such work for the protection of the public and of public property shall be complied with except that no fee may be charged such commission for the construction or installation of such facilities in such public places.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-136-8

    (65 ILCS 5/11-136-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-8)
    Sec. 11-136-8. Such commission shall have the right to supply water or sewer facilities to any municipality, political subdivision, private person or corporation, in addition to the municipalities which have formed the commission, upon such payment, terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon, provided the water is delivered to such party or parties at the corporate limits of the municipalities which have created such commission or from such water works properties of the commission located outside such municipalities that have been constructed or acquired as necessary and incidental to the furnishing of water to the municipalities which formed the commission.
    Such commission shall have the power to contract with any person, corporation or political subdivision or any municipal corporation or other agency for a sewer system or for a supply of water, or to supply water to such person, corporation, municipal corporation or political subdivision. Any such contract entered into to supply water or sewer service to a municipal corporation or political subdivision shall provide that the payments to be made thereunder shall be solely from the revenues to be derived by such municipality or political subdivision from the operation of the waterworks system or sewer system of such municipality or political subdivision, and said contract shall be a continuing, valid and binding obligation of the municipality or political subdivision, payable from such revenues for such period of years, not to exceed 40, as may be provided in such contract. Any such contract shall not be a debt within the meaning of any statutory or constitutional limitations.
    No prior appropriation shall be required before entering into such contract, and no appropriation shall be required to authorize payments to be made under the terms of any such contract, notwithstanding any provision of this Code to the contrary.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-136-9

    (65 ILCS 5/11-136-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-9)
    Sec. 11-136-9. All powers and duties of the commission heretofore set forth in this Division 136 may be exercised within the municipalities constituting the commission and in contiguous territory not more than 3 miles beyond the corporate limits of such municipalities and in the territory necessary to interconnect any of the municipalities constituting the commission. The commission shall keep proper accounting records which records shall be kept so as to show the book value, reserve for depreciation, revenue and expenses broken down as to type of utility and by all municipalities making up the commission.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 137

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 137 heading)
DIVISION 137. CONTRACT FOR, PURCHASE OR LEASE
OF WATER AND SEWERAGE SYSTEMS

65 ILCS 5/11-137-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-137-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-1)
    Sec. 11-137-1. To enable municipalities to promote and procure the construction and installation of waterworks and sewerage systems when it becomes necessary for public health and welfare or for better sanitary conditions of a municipality, each municipality may contract with any person for a supply of water for public use, and for sewerage for drainage and sanitary purposes of the municipality, for a period not exceeding 30 years. Any contract that is entered into by a municipality and pledged to secure the bonds issued to construct any waterworks or sewerage system shall enure at all times and under all conditions to the benefit of the holders of any of the bonds so issued and for the payment of those bonds.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-137-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-137-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-2)
    Sec. 11-137-2. In all municipalities where any person has constructed a waterworks or sewerage system, or both, the municipality may purchase or lease that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, from the owners thereof, subject to the provisions of this Division 137.
    Before such a lease or purchase is binding upon the municipality, the corporate authorities shall pass an ordinance authorizing the municipality to lease or purchase that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, and shall include in the ordinance the terms, as near as practicable, upon which the lease or purchase shall be made. The ordinance shall be published at least once, within 10 days after passage, in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality.
    The publication or posting of the ordinance shall be accompanied by a notice of (1) the specific number of voters required to sign a petition requesting the question of authorizing the lease or purchase of a waterworks or sewerage system to be submitted to the electors; (2) the time in which such petition must be filed; and (3) the date of the prospective referendum. The municipal clerk shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one.
    If no petition is presented to the corporate authorities as hereinafter provided, within 30 days after the ordinance is so published and posted, the corporate authorities may consummate the lease or purchase of that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, as provided in the ordinance. If within 30 days after the first publication of the ordinance a petition is filed with the municipal clerk signed by electors of the municipality numbering 10% or more of the number of registered voters in the municipality, asking that the question of leasing or purchasing that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, as provided in the ordinance, be submitted to a vote, the clerk shall certify the proposition and the corporate authorities shall designate an election at which the question shall be submitted. If a majority of the votes cast on the question are in favor thereof, the corporate authorities may complete the lease or purchase, but if a majority of the votes cast on the question are unfavorable, no further action shall be taken by the municipality for a period of not less than 6 months. Thereafter, the same or another question may be submitted as before.
(Source: P.A. 87-767.)

65 ILCS 5/11-137-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-137-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-3)
    Sec. 11-137-3. If any municipality is authorized to purchase a waterworks or sewerage system, or both, as provided in Section 11-137-2, and if the system is pledged to secure the payment of bonds, or other written evidences of indebtedness, by a mortgage or trust deed, the corporate authorities of the municipality may direct the municipal clerk or treasurer, by a motion or resolution, to enter the bonds, or the other written evidences of indebtedness on the records of the municipality as an indebtedness against the waterworks or sewerage system only. The corporate authorities shall have all the revenue derived from the operation of the system, and all rents due and payable to the former owners for use of the water and sewerage facilities, and pledged for the payment of the indebtedness, set apart in a separate fund for the payment of the indebtedness as it becomes due and payable, provided the system can be operated and maintained from the current funds of the municipality appropriated therefor.
    Nothing contained in this Division 137 affects any lien or renders void any bond, mortgage, or trust deed securing any indebtedness upon the system, or any franchise under which the system is operated, or any contract executed by any person as owner for the construction and installation of the waterworks or sewerage system, or both, prior to the transfer of the system to the municipality as provided in this Division 137. If the municipality neglects or fails to pay the indebtedness as it falls due and if any mortgage or trust deed is foreclosed at the instance of bona fide holders of unpaid bonds or other written evidences of indebtedness, the mortgagee or trustee for those bona fide holders shall be re-invested with all former rights which existed in their behalf by virtue of the franchise and contract which were granted by the municipality, and which were pledged.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-137-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-137-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-4)
    Sec. 11-137-4. Such municipalities may borrow money and levy and collect a general tax, in the same manner as other municipal taxes may be levied and collected, to procure funds to lease or purchase and maintain such a waterworks or sewerage system, or both, and to pay any existing indebtedness thereon. They may issue their bonds to procure funds to purchase such a system or systems and to pay off the existing bonds or indebtedness thereon, at the time of the purchase or at any time thereafter that the financial condition of the municipality will permit. Any bonds issued under this Section as limited bonds as defined in Section 3 of the Local Government Debt Reform Act shall comply with the requirements of the Bond Issue Notification Act.
    If an appropriation has been made therefor, such a municipality may constitute and make any bond which falls due during the current year, and which is secured by a mortgage or trust deed on such a system or systems, and which was issued by any person to procure funds to construct the system or systems, a bond of the municipality for that year and levy and collect a tax to pay the appropriation. However, this action shall not increase the bonded indebtedness of the municipality in excess of the constitutional limitation for the year for which this tax is to be levied and collected.
(Source: P.A. 89-655, eff. 1-1-97.)

65 ILCS 5/11-137-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-137-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-5)
    Sec. 11-137-5. A municipality may contract with any person for a supply of water for public use for a period not exceeding 30 years.
    A municipality so contracting may pay for the water so supplied by general taxation, or out of the rents paid by consumers for the water supplied to them, or out of any fund otherwise available for that purpose, or by any combination of any of these means.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 138

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 138 heading)
DIVISION 138. LOCATING SOURCE OF WATER SUPPLY
OUTSIDE OF MUNICIPALITIES

65 ILCS 5/11-138-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-138-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-138-1)
    Sec. 11-138-1. Any water company organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of supplying any municipality or the inhabitants thereof with water, may locate its source of supply at, or change its source of supply to, a point not more than 20 miles beyond the corporate limits of the municipality. Such company may enter upon any land and take and damage private property beyond those corporate limits, (1) for the construction, maintenance, and operation of a line or lines of water-pipe to the source of supply, (2) for the necessary pumping stations, reservoirs, and other appurtenances, and (3) for the protection of all reservoirs, submerged land, and source of supply from contamination, pollution, or damage from any cause whatsoever.
    Such a company may construct, maintain, and operate beyond those corporate limits such a line or lines of water-pipe across or under any railroad right-of-way, and in and under any public or private road, highway, street, alley, or public ground, or across or under any of the waters within this state, subject, however, to these conditions: (1) such a line or lines of water-pipe shall not interfere with any railroad, or with any sewer, gas pipes, water-pipes, or other conduit, already laid in or under any public or private road, highway, street, alley, or public ground by public authority; (2) such a company, in the construction and repair of such a line or lines of water-pipe, shall restore any public or private road, highway, street, alley, or public ground that is damaged to the same condition as before, and shall not unnecessarily interfere with the public use of the navigation of any of the specified waters; and (3) the laying of the water-pipes and construction of the other works shall be done under such reasonable regulations as the corporate authorities of any township or municipality wherein that work is done may prescribe.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-138-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-138-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-138-2)
    Sec. 11-138-2. Whenever it is necessary for the construction, maintenance, and operation of such a line or lines of water-pipe, pumping stations, reservoirs, other appurtenances, or for the protection of reservoirs, submerged land, and the source of supply from contamination, pollution, or damage from any cause, to take or damage private property adjacent to these improvements, that property may be taken or damaged, and the compensation therefor may be ascertained and paid in the manner which may be then provided by law for the exercise of the right of eminent domain.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-138-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-138-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-138-3)
    Sec. 11-138-3. Any person who unlawfully and intentionally molests or destroys any part of such a line of water-pipe, pumping station, reservoir, or other appurtenance, or the material or property belonging to a specified water company, or who in any manner interferes with the construction, maintenance, or operation of the property specified in this section is guilty of a petty offense. But a prosecution under the provisions of this section shall not in any manner prevent a recovery by the company entitled thereto, of the amount of damages done to its property.
(Source: P.A. 77-2830.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 139

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 139 heading)
DIVISION 139. COMBINED WATERWORKS AND
SEWERAGE SYSTEMS

65 ILCS 5/11-139-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-1)
    Sec. 11-139-1. When used in this Division 139, "waterworks" means and includes a waterworks system in its entirety or any integral part thereof, including mains, hydrants, meters, values, standpipes, storage tanks, pump tanks, intakes, wells, impounding reservoirs, pumps, machinery, purification plants, softening apparatus, and all other elements, useful in connection with a water supply or water distribution system.
    "Sewerage system" means and includes any or all of the following: a sewerage treatment plant or plants, collecting, intercepting and outlet sewers, lateral sewers, and drains, including combined and separate storm water and sanitary drains, force mains, conduits, pumping stations, ejector stations and all other appurtenances, extensions and improvements necessary, useful, or convenient for the collection, treatment, and disposal in a sanitary manner of sewage and industrial wastes.
    "Combined waterworks and sewerage system" means and includes a waterworks and sewerage system, which the municipality determines by ordinance to operate in combination.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2433.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-2)
    Sec. 11-139-2. Any municipality may acquire, or construct, and maintain and operate a combined waterworks and sewerage system either within or without the corporate limits thereof. A municipality owning and operating a waterworks or sewerage system may provide for the inclusion of that waterworks or sewerage system or the combination of the 2 in a combined waterworks and sewerage system under this Division 139, and in connection therewith may provide for paying or refunding any unpaid obligations which are payable solely from the revenue of or which are secured by a mortgage of that waterworks or sewerage system, or any part thereof included in the combined waterworks and sewerage system. Any municipality owning and operating a combined waterworks and sewerage system may also provide for paying or refunding any unpaid obligations which are payable solely from the revenue of the combined waterworks and sewerage system. A municipality owning, acquiring, or constructing and providing for the operation of a combined waterworks and sewerage system may improve and extend that system, and may impose and collect charges or rates for the use of that system as provided in this Division 139. A municipality may also, when determined by its corporate authorities to be in the public interest and necessary for the protection of the public health or in the best interests of the municipality and its environs, enter into and perform contracts, whether long-term or short-term, with any other municipality within a radius of 25 miles of its corporate limits and construct water mains to such municipality and supply water to such municipalities on the request of any such municipality; provided, that such water mains be constructed and that such municipality purchase water on a long term basis at rates sufficient to amortize the cost of the construction of such water mains and pay the cost of maintenance and operation thereof, as hereinafter provided in this Division 139, and also with any industrial establishment for the provision and operation by the municipality of sewerage facilities, either within or without the corporate limits of such municipality, to abate or reduce the pollution of waters caused by discharges of industrial wastes by the industrial establishment and the payment periodically by such municipality or municipalities or the industrial establishment to the municipality of amounts at least sufficient, in the determination of such corporate authorities, to compensate the municipality for the cost of providing (including payment of principal and interest charges, if any) and of operating and maintaining any such facilities. This amendatory Act is not a prohibition upon the contractual and associational powers granted by Article VII, Section 10 of the Constitution.
(Source: P.A. 77-2837.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-3)
    Sec. 11-139-3. For the purpose of defraying the cost of acquiring, constructing, extending, or improving a combined waterworks and sewerage system or any part thereof, any municipality (1) may apply money received therefor from the federal government or available therefor from any source, and (2) may issue and sell revenue bonds of the municipality payable solely from revenue derived from the operation of the combined waterworks and sewerage system. These bonds may be issued in such amounts as may be necessary to provide sufficient funds to pay all the costs of the acquisition, construction, extension, or improvement of the combined waterworks and sewerage system as authorized by Section 11-139-2, including engineering, legal, and other expenses, together with interest to the estimated date of completion of the combined waterworks and sewerage system or of the project to be constructed. The bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable semi-annually and shall mature within the period of usefulness of the project involved, to be determined by the corporate authorities and in any event not more than 40 years. The bonds shall be sold in such manner as the corporate authorities shall determine and if issued to bear interest at the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, shall be sold for not less than par and accrued interest. If any of these bonds are issued to bear interest at a rate of less than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, the minimum price at which they may be sold shall be such that the interest cost to the municipality of the proceeds of the bonds shall not exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, computed to maturity. In case any officer whose signature appears on the bonds or coupons attached thereto ceases to hold that office before the delivery of the bonds to the purchaser, the signature nevertheless shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes, with the same effect as if he had remained in office until the delivery of the bonds. The bonds shall have all the qualities of negotiable instruments under the law of this state.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
    This amendatory Act of 1971 is not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
    This amendatory Act of 1972 is not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-4)
    Sec. 11-139-4. Whenever an existing waterworks or sewerage system is included in a combined waterworks and sewerage system under this Division 139 and there are unpaid obligations previously issued, which are payable solely from the revenue or secured by a mortgage of the waterworks or sewerage system, or any part thereof, or whenever there are unpaid obligations previously issued which are payable solely from the revenue of the combined waterworks and sewerage system, the unpaid obligations may be refunded by the issue and exchange therefor of revenue bonds, to be issued under this Division 139, with the consent of the respective holders of the unpaid obligations. The holders of revenue bonds issued under this Division 139, whether (1) for refunding or (2) for acquisition, construction, extension, or improvement, or both, have the same rights and privileges with respect to payment and there is no distinction between revenue bonds issued for the 2 purposes unless it is specifically provided in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds that the bonds, or such ones thereof as may be specified, issued for such acquisition, construction, extension or improvement, shall, to the extent and in the manner prescribed, be subordinated and be junior in standing, with respect to the payment of principal and interest and the security thereof, to such other bonds payable from the revenue of the combined waterworks and sewerage system as are specified in such ordinance. Whenever any unpaid obligations previously issued which are payable solely from the revenue or secured by a mortgage of any waterworks or sewerage system included in a combined waterworks and sewerage system or any combined waterworks and sewerage system under this Division 139 are refunded, the unpaid obligations shall be surrendered and exchanged for revenue bonds of the combined waterworks and sewerage system of a total principal amount which shall not be more but may be less than the principal amount of the obligations exchanged and the interest thereon to the date of exchange.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-5)
    Sec. 11-139-5. The corporate authorities of any municipality availing itself of the provisions of this Division 139 shall adopt an ordinance describing in a general way the contemplated project. If it is intended to include in the combined waterworks and sewerage system any existing waterworks or any existing sewerage system, the ordinance shall provide for its inclusion in the combined system and shall describe in a general way the existing waterworks or sewerage system to be included in the combined waterworks and sewerage system. If it is intended to acquire or construct a combined waterworks and sewerage system, or to extend and improve such a system, the ordinance shall describe in a general way the system to be acquired or constructed or the extension or improvement to be made or any project authorized by Section 11-139-2. It shall not be necessary that the ordinance refer to plans and specifications nor that there be on file for public inspection prior to the adoption of such ordinance detailed plans and specifications of the project. The ordinance shall set out the estimated cost of the contemplated project, and if any existing waterworks or sewerage system is included in the project, the ordinance shall state the means provided for defraying or refunding any unpaid obligation, payable solely from the revenue or secured by a mortgage of the waterworks or sewerage system, and if any unpaid obligations payable from the revenue of the combined waterworks and sewerage system are outstanding and unpaid the ordinance shall state the means providing for defraying or refunding any unpaid obligation so payable from the revenue of the combined waterworks and sewerage system. The ordinance shall determine the period of usefulness of the contemplated project. The ordinance shall also prescribe the method of defraying the cost of the contemplated project and fix the amount of revenue bonds proposed to be issued, the interest rate, and all other details in connection with the bonds deemed advisable. The ordinance may contain such covenants and restrictions upon the issuance thereafter of additional revenue bonds as may be deemed necessary or advisable for the assurance of the payment of bonds thereby authorized and as may be thereafter issued.
(Source: P.A. 77-2837.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-6)
    Sec. 11-139-6. Within 10 days after the ordinance for any project under this Division 139 has been passed, it shall be published at least once in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality. The publication or posting of the ordinance shall be accompanied by a notice of (1) the specific number of voters required to sign a petition requesting the question of the adoption of the ordinance be submitted to the electors of the municipality; (2) the time in which such petition must be filed; and (3) the date of the prospective referendum. The municipal clerk shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one. If no petition is filed with the municipal clerk, as provided in this section, within 30 days after the publication or posting of the ordinance, it shall be in effect. But if within this 30 day period a petition is filed with the municipal clerk signed by electors of the municipality numbering 10% or more of the number of registered voters in the municipality, asking that the question of acquiring, constructing, extending, or improving the combined waterworks and sewerage system, as provided in the ordinance, and the issuance of revenue bonds therefor be submitted to the electors of the municipality, the municipal clerk shall certify such question for submission at an election in accordance with the general election law. If a majority of the votes cast on the question are in favor thereof, the ordinance shall be in effect. But if a majority of the votes cast on the question are unfavorable, the municipality shall proceed no further and the ordinance shall not take effect.
(Source: P.A. 87-767.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-7)
    Sec. 11-139-7. Revenue bonds issued under this Division 139 shall be payable solely from the revenue derived from the operation of the combined waterworks and sewerage system on account of which the bonds are issued; provided, that bonds issued under this Division 139 may also be payable from funds pledged by the municipality issuing such bonds pursuant to the Illinois Finance Authority Act. Notwithstanding any such pledge or any other matter, these bonds shall not in any event constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation and it shall be so stated on the face of each bond.
(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-8

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-8)
    Sec. 11-139-8. The corporate authorities of any municipality availing itself of this Division 139 may (1) make, enact, and enforce all needful rules and regulations for the acquisition, construction, extension, improvement, management, and maintenance of the combined waterworks and sewerage system of the municipality and for the use thereof, (2) make, enact, and enforce all needful rules, regulations, and ordinances for the care and protection of such a system, which may be conducive to the preservation of the public health, comfort, and convenience and to rendering the water supply of the municipality pure and the sewerage harmless insofar as it is reasonably possible to do so, and (3) charge the inhabitants thereof a reasonable compensation for the use and service of the combined waterworks and sewerage system and to establish rates for that purpose. Separate rates may be fixed for the water and sewer services respectively or single rates may be fixed for the combined water and sewer services. Separate rates may be fixed for any water services to any other municipality and separate sewer rates to any industrial establishment for the purposes set forth in Section 11-139-2. These rates, whether separate or combined, shall be sufficient at all times to (1) pay the cost of operation and maintenance of the combined waterworks and sewerage system, (2) provide an adequate depreciation fund, and (3) pay the principal of and interest upon all revenue bonds issued under this Division. Rates shall be established, revised, and maintained by ordinance and become payable as the corporate authorities may determine by ordinance.
    Whenever a municipality shall issue revenue bonds as provided by this Division to pay the cost of the extension or improvement of its combined waterworks and sewerage system or any part thereof to serve a particular area of the municipality, the municipality may vary its rates to be charged for the water and sewer services of the system or for either of them effective upon the issuance of bonds as provided by this division to pay the cost of the extension or improvement of its combined waterworks or sewerage system or any part thereof to serve a particular area of a municipality so that the rates to be charged for services in the particular area to be served by such extension or improvement shall be calculated to produce, in addition to the revenues generally to be produced by such rates, sufficient funds to pay the principal of and interest upon the revenue bonds issued to pay the cost of such extension or improvement for that particular area.
    Such charges or rates are liens upon the real estate upon or for which service is supplied whenever the charges or rates become delinquent as provided by the ordinance of the municipality fixing a delinquency date; except the charges or rates established by contract for the supply of water to another municipality. A lien is created under the preceding sentence only if the municipality sends to the owner or owners of record of the real estate, as referenced by the taxpayer's identification number, (i) a copy of each delinquency notice sent to the person who is delinquent in paying the charges or rates or other notice sufficient to inform the owner or owners of record, as referenced by the taxpayer's identification number, that the charges or rates have become delinquent and (ii) a notice that unpaid charges or rates may create a lien on the real estate under this Section. However, the municipality has no preference over the rights of any purchaser, mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lien holder arising prior to the filing of the notice of such a lien in the office of the recorder of the county in which such real estate is located, or in the office of the registrar of titles of such county if the property affected is registered under "An Act concerning land titles", approved May 1, 1897, as amended. This notice shall consist of a sworn statement setting out (1) a description of such real estate sufficient for the identification thereof, (2) the amount of money due for such service, and (3) the date when such amount became delinquent. The municipality shall send a copy of the notice of the lien to the owner or owners of record of the real estate, as referenced by the taxpayer's identification number. The municipality has the power to foreclose this lien in the same manner and with the same effect as in the foreclosure of mortgages on real estate.
    The municipality also has the power, from time to time, to sue the occupant or user of the real estate in a civil action to recover the money due for services rendered, plus a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court. Whenever a judgment is entered in such a civil action the foregoing provisions in this section with respect to filing sworn statements of such delinquencies in the office of the recorder and creating a lien against the real estate shall not be effective thereafter as to charges sued upon and no lien shall exist thereafter against the real estate for the delinquency. Judgment in such a civil action operates as a release and waiver of the lien for the amount of the judgment.
(Source: P.A. 87-1197.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-9

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-9)
    Sec. 11-139-9. Whenever revenue bonds are issued under this Division 139, sufficient revenue derived from the operation of such a combined waterworks and sewerage system shall be deposited in a separate fund, designated as the waterworks and sewerage fund of the municipality. It shall be used only (1) to pay the cost of maintenance and operation of the combined system, (2) to provide an adequate depreciation fund, and (3) to pay the principal of and interest upon the revenue bonds of the municipality issued under this Division 139.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-10

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-10)
    Sec. 11-139-10. Any municipality operating a combined waterworks and sewerage system under this Division 139, shall set up and maintain a proper system of accounts showing the amount of revenue received from the combined waterworks and sewerage system and the application of this revenue. At least once each year the municipality shall have these accounts properly audited, and a report of this audit shall be open to the public for inspection at all reasonable times.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-11

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-11)
    Sec. 11-139-11. The holder of any bond or of any coupon of any bond issued under this Division 139 may proceed by civil action to compel performance of all duties required by this Division 139, including the making and collection of sufficient rates for the purposes specified in this Division 139 and the application of the revenue therefrom to those purposes.
(Source: P.A. 77-942.)

65 ILCS 5/11-139-12

    (65 ILCS 5/11-139-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-139-12)
    Sec. 11-139-12. Acquisition by eminent domain. For the purpose of acquiring, constructing, extending, or improving any combined waterworks and sewerage system under this Division 139, or any property necessary or appropriate therefor, any municipality has the right of eminent domain, as provided by the Eminent Domain Act.
    The fair cash market value of an existing waterworks and sewerage system, or portion thereof, acquired under this Division 139, which existing system is a special use property, may be determined by considering Section 15 of Article I of the Illinois Constitution, the Eminent Domain Act, and the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice and giving due consideration to the income, cost, and market approaches to valuation based on the type and character of the assets being acquired. In making the valuation determination, the historical and projected revenue attributable to the assets, the costs of the assets, and the condition and remaining useful life of the assets may be considered while giving due account to the special use nature of the property as used for water and sewerage purposes.
    Additionally, in determining the fair cash market value of existing utility facilities, whether real or personal, consideration may be given to the depreciated value of all facilities and fixtures constructed by the utility company and payments made by the utility company in connection with the acquisition or donation of any waterworks or sanitary sewage system.
    Except as is provided in subsection (h) of Section 10-5-10 of the Eminent Domain Act, no prior approval of the Illinois Commerce Commission, or any other body having jurisdiction over the existing system, is required.
(Source: P.A. 103-13, eff. 6-9-23.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 140

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 140 heading)
DIVISION 140. OUTLET SEWERS OUTSIDE MUNICIPAL
BOUNDARIES

65 ILCS 5/11-140-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-140-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-140-1)
    Sec. 11-140-1. In every municipality with a population of 100,000 or less which has a sewage system but has no adequate outlet therefor, or any proper disposition of the sewage thereof, without constructing an outlet sewer the terminus of which will be outside the corporate limits of the municipality, the corporate authorities thereof may (1) construct an outlet sewer, wholly without, or partially within and partially without the corporate limits of the municipality into which the sewers throughout the municipality are to empty, and through which the sewers are to discharge their sewage for proper disposition and sanitary benefits, (2) construct reservoirs, erect pumping works, machinery, and plants for the treatment of the sewage within or without the corporate limits of the municipality, (3) acquire the necessary land and machinery for these purposes, and (4) otherwise provide for discharge of the municipality's sewage into channels that will promote the health and improve the sanitary condition of and accomplish the purpose of an outlet sewer for the municipality. The cost of exercising the powers conferred by this section shall be borne by special assessment or by special taxation upon the property in those portions of the municipality the sewers in which are ultimately to find their outlet through the outlet sewer so constructed.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-140-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-140-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-140-2)
    Sec. 11-140-2. The corporate authorities of such municipality may maintain and keep in repair the outlet sewers, purification plants, reservoirs, pumping works, and machinery provided for in Section 11-140-1. The cost of the maintenance and repair shall be borne by special assessment or by special taxation upon the property specified in Section 11-140-1. No lot, block, or parcel of land shall be assessed more than once in any one year for such maintenance and repair.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-140-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-140-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-140-3)
    Sec. 11-140-3. The corporate authorities of such a municipality may acquire by purchase, gift, condemnation, or otherwise, all the real and personal property, rights-of-way, and easements within or without the corporate limits of the municipality necessary for the construction and maintenance of the outlet sewers and works authorized by Section 11-140-1. The corporate authorities have the same control and jurisdiction of this property which is without as of that which is within the municipality.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-140-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-140-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-140-4)
    Sec. 11-140-4. When the corporate authorities of a municipality determine to construct improvements provided for in Section 11-140-1, they shall do so by an ordinance which shall prescribe whether the improvements shall be made by special assessment or by special taxation. The ordinance shall also prescribe the nature, character, locality, and description of the improvements, either by setting forth the same in the ordinance itself, or by reference to maps, plats, plans, profiles, or specifications thereof on file in the office of the municipal clerk, or by both methods.
    The ordinance shall also describe by reasonably well understood boundaries, those portions of the municipality the sewerage of which is to be conducted by sewers already laid, or by those contemplated to be laid, into and through the outlet sewer provided for by Section 11-140-1. This property within those boundaries shall be assessable for the cost of this outlet sewer improvement. If property is to be taken or damaged for this improvement, the ordinance shall describe the property with reasonable certainty.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-140-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-140-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-140-5)
    Sec. 11-140-5. All proceedings preliminary to the passage of the ordinance, the enactment of the ordinance and the provisions thereof, and all subsequent proceedings, including the filing of the petition, steps necessary to the making of the assessment roll, the return thereof to the court, notices to parties assessed, newspaper publications, confirmation of assessment by court, delivery of roll to the collector, collection of assessments, return of delinquent lists, application for judgments against delinquents, tax sales on delinquents, and tax deeds necessary to be taken to make, levy, confirm, and collect an assessment, and to pay the cost by special assessment or by special taxation of the outlet sewer provided for by Section 11-140-1, as well as proceedings for the condemnation of property, the manner of awarding contracts, doing and superintending the work, and paying the contractor therefor, shall be in accordance with the provisions of Article 9, except in so far as the provisions of this Division 140 are inconsistent therewith.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-140-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-140-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-140-6)
    Sec. 11-140-6. For the purpose of anticipating the collection of the second and succeeding installments provided for by this Division 140, every municipality specified in Section 11-140-1 may issue and retire bonds in accordance with the provisions and regulations of Article 9.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 141

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 141 heading)
DIVISION 141. SEWERAGE SYSTEMS AND ABATEMENT
OF POLLUTION FROM INDUSTRIAL WASTES

65 ILCS 5/11-141-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-1)
    Sec. 11-141-1. When used in this Division 141, "sewerage system" means and includes any or all of the following: a sewage treatment plant or plants, collecting, intercepting and outlet sewers, force mains, conduits, lateral sewers and extensions, pumping stations, ejector stations, and all other appurtenances, extensions or improvements necessary or useful and convenient for the collection, treatment, and disposal, in a sanitary manner, of sewage and industrial wastes. The term also includes the disconnection of storm water drains and constructing outlets therefor, where, in any case, such work is necessary to relieve existing sanitary sewers of storm water loads, in order to permit the efficient operation of such sanitary sewers for collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage and industrial wastes.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-2)
    Sec. 11-141-2. Every municipality may construct or acquire, and may improve, extend, and operate a sewerage system either within or without the corporate limits thereof. Every municipality also may, when determined by its corporate authorities to be in the public interest and necessary for the protection of the public health, enter into and perform contracts, whether long-term or short-term, with any industrial establishment for the provision and operation by the municipality of sewerage facilities to abate or reduce the pollution of waters caused by discharges of industrial wastes by the industrial establishment and the payment periodically by the industrial establishment to the municipality of amounts at least sufficient, in the determination of such corporate authorities, to compensate the municipality for the cost of providing (including payment of principal and interest charges, if any), and of operating and maintaining the sewerage facilities serving such industrial establishment.
    Every municipality may borrow money from the United States Government or any agency thereof, or from any other source, for the purpose of improving or extending or for the purpose of constructing or acquiring and improving and extending a sewerage system and, as evidence thereof, may issue its revenue bonds, payable solely from the revenue derived from the operation of the sewerage system by that municipality. These bonds may be issued with maturities not exceeding 40 years from the date of the bonds, and in such amounts as may be necessary to provide sufficient funds to pay all the costs of the improvement or extension or construction or acquisition and improvement and extension of the sewerage system, including engineering, legal, and other expenses, together with interest, to a date 6 months subsequent to the estimated date of completion. These bonds shall bear interest at a rate of not more than the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable semi-annually, may be made registerable as to principal, and may be made callable on any interest payment date at a price of par and accrued interest under such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds. Bonds issued under this Division 141 are negotiable instruments. They shall be executed by the mayor or president of the municipality and by the municipal clerk and shall be sealed with the corporate seal of the municipality. In case any officer whose signature appears on the bonds or coupons ceases to hold that office before the bonds are delivered, his signature, nevertheless, shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes, the same as though he had remained in office until the bonds were delivered. The bonds shall be sold in such manner and upon such terms as the corporate authorities shall determine, except that the selling price shall be such that the interest cost to the municipality of the proceeds of the bonds shall not exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, payable semi-annually, computed to maturity according to the standard table of bond values.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
    The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-3)
    Sec. 11-141-3. Whenever the corporate authorities of a municipality determine to improve or extend or to construct or acquire and improve and extend a sewerage system and to issue bonds, under this Division 141, for the payment of the cost thereof, the corporate authorities shall adopt an ordinance describing, in a general way, the contemplated project. It is not necessary that the ordinance refer to plans and specifications nor that there be on file for public inspection prior to the adoption of such ordinance detailed plans and specifications of the project.
    Whenever a municipality has been directed by an order issued under "An Act to establish a Sanitary Water Board and to control, prevent and abate pollution of the streams, lakes, ponds and other surface and underground waters in the State, and to repeal an Act named therein", approved July 12, 1951, as now or hereafter amended, or the "Environmental Protection Act", enacted by the 76th General Assembly, to abate its discharge of untreated or inadequately treated sewage, this fact shall be set out in the ordinance, unless the order to abate the discharge has been reversed on appeal.
    The ordinance shall set out the estimated cost of the project, determine the period of usefulness thereof, and fix the amount of revenue bonds proposed to be issued, the maturity or maturities, the interest rate, which shall not exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract, and all the details in connection with the bonds. The ordinance may contain such covenants and restrictions upon the issuance of additional revenue bonds thereafter, which will share equally the revenue of the sewerage system, as may be deemed necessary or advisable for the assurance of the payment of the bonds first issued. Any municipality may also provide in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds under this Division 141 that the bonds, or such ones thereof as may be specified, shall, to the extent and in the manner prescribed, be subordinated and be junior in standing, with respect to the payment of principal and interest and the security thereof, to such other bonds as are designated in the ordinance.
    The ordinance shall pledge the revenue derived from the operation of the sewerage system for the purpose of paying the cost of operation and maintenance of the system, providing an adequate depreciation fund, and paying the principal and interest on the bonds of the municipality issued under this Division 141.
    This amendatory Act (Public Act 76-1983) applies to bonds which are authorized but not sold on its effective date.
    With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.
    The amendatory Acts of 1971, 1972 and 1973 are not a limit upon any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 86-4.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-4)
    Sec. 11-141-4. Within 10 days after this ordinance has been passed, it shall be published at least once in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality.
    If the ordinance specifies that the municipality has been directed by an order issued under the provisions of "An Act to establish a Sanitary Water Board and to control, prevent and abate pollution of the streams, lakes, ponds and other surface and underground waters in the State, and to repeal an Act named therein", approved July 12, 1951, as heretofore and hereafter amended, and the Environmental Protection Act, to abate its discharge of untreated or inadequately treated sewage, the ordinance authorizing the issuance of those revenue bonds shall be in effect immediately upon its adoption and publication, or posting, as provided in this section, notwithstanding any provision in this Code or any other law to the contrary.
    In all other cases, if no petition is filed with the municipal clerk as hereinafter provided in this section, within 30 days after the publication or posting of the ordinance, the ordinance shall be in effect after the expiration of that 30 day period. In such cases the publication or posting of the ordinance shall be accompanied by a notice of (1) the specific number of voters required to sign a petition requesting the question of improving or extending or of construction or acquiring and improving and extending a sewerage system and of issuing revenue bonds to be submitted to the electors; (2) the time in which such petition must be filed; and (3) the date of the prospective referendum. The municipal clerk shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one. But if within that 30 day period a petition is filed with the municipal clerk signed by electors of the municipality numbering 10% or more of the number of registered voters in the municipality, asking that the question of improving or extending or of construction or acquiring and improving and extending a sewerage system and of issuing revenue bonds to pay the cost thereof be submitted to the electors of the municipality, the municipal clerk of the municipality shall certify the question for submission at an election.
    If a majority of the electors voting upon the question voted in favor thereof, the ordinance shall be in effect, but if a majority of the electors voting upon the questions are not in favor thereof, the ordinance shall not take effect.
(Source: P.A. 87-767.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-5)
    Sec. 11-141-5. All bonds issued under this Division 141 are payable solely from the revenue derived from the operation of the sewerage system; provided, that bonds issued under this Division 141 may also be payable from funds pledged by the municipality issuing such bonds pursuant to the Illinois Finance Authority Act. Notwithstanding any such pledge or any other matter, these bonds shall not, in any event, constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation. It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that the bond has been issued under this Division 141 and that it does not constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within any constitutional or statutory limitation.
(Source: P.A. 93-205, eff. 1-1-04.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-6)
    Sec. 11-141-6. So long as any revenue bonds of the municipality under the provisions of this Division 141 are outstanding, all revenue derived from the operation of such a sewerage system shall be set aside as collected, and deposited in a special fund of the municipality, and this revenue shall be used only for the purpose of paying the cost of operating and maintaining the sewerage system, providing an adequate depreciation fund, and paying the principal of and interest on the bonds issued by the municipality under the provisions of this Division 141. When no such revenue bonds are outstanding, such revenue shall be used for the purpose of paying the principal of and interest on any other bonds or indebtedness issued or incurred by the municipality for the construction, acquisition, improvement, extension, operation or improvement of the sewerage system, or for paying for the construction, acquisition, improvement, extension, operation or improvement of the sewerage system.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-7)
    Sec. 11-141-7. Powers. The corporate authorities of any municipality that owns and operates or that may hereafter own and operate a sewerage system constructed or acquired under the provisions of any law of this state may make, enact, and enforce all needful rules, regulations, and ordinances for the improvement, care, and protection of its sewerage system and any other sewer or sewerage system, located outside the corporate boundary of the municipality and not owned by it, that directly or indirectly connects with the municipality's sewerage system, which may be conducive to the preservation of the public health, comfort, and convenience, and may render the sewage carried in the sewerage system of the municipality harmless in so far as it is reasonably possible to do so.
    The corporate authorities of such a municipality may, by ordinance, charge the inhabitants thereof for the use and service of its sewerage system whether by direct or indirect connection therewith within or without the corporate boundary, and to establish charges or rates for that purpose. The corporate authorities of such a municipality may by ordinance charge the users thereof, whether they be inside of or outside of the municipality, for the use and service of its sewerage system whether by direct or indirect connection therewith, within or without the corporate boundary, and may establish charges or rates for that purpose, provided however that where such users are residents of another municipality with whom there is a contract for use and service of the sewerage system, then such charges or rates shall be made in accordance with the terms of the contract, either directly to the users or to the contracting municipality as may be provided by the provisions of the contract. In making such rates and charges the municipality may provide for a rate to the outside users in excess of the rate fixed for the inhabitants of said municipality as may be reasonable. Where bonds are issued as provided in Sections 11-141-2 and 11-141-3, the corporate authorities shall establish rates or charges as provided in this section, and these charges or rates shall be sufficient at all times to pay the cost of operation and maintenance, to provide an adequate depreciation fund, and to pay the principal of and interest upon all revenue bonds issued under Sections 11-141-2 and 11-141-3.
    A depreciation fund is a fund for such replacements as may be necessary from time to time for the continued effective and efficient operation of the system. The depreciation fund shall not be allowed to accumulate beyond a reasonable amount necessary for that purpose, and shall not be used for extensions to the system.
    Charges or rates shall be established, revised, and maintained by ordinance and become payable as the corporate authorities may determine by ordinance.
    Such charges or rates are liens upon the real estate upon or for which sewerage service is supplied whenever the charges or rates become delinquent as provided by the ordinance of the municipality fixing a delinquency date. A lien is created under the preceding sentence only if the municipality sends to the owner or owners of record, as referenced by the taxpayer's identification number, of the real estate (i) a copy of each delinquency notice sent to the person who is delinquent in paying the charges or rates or other notice sufficient to inform the owner or owners of record, as referenced by the taxpayer's identification number, that the charges or rates have become delinquent and (ii) a notice that unpaid charges or rates may create a lien on the real estate under this Section. However, the municipality has no preference over the rights of any purchaser, mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lien holder arising prior to the filing of the notice of such a lien in the office of the recorder of the county in which such real estate is located, or in the office of the registrar of titles of such county if the property affected is registered under "An Act concerning land titles", approved May 1, 1897, as amended. This notice shall consist of a sworn statement setting out (1) a description of such real estate sufficient for the identification thereof, (2) the amount of money due for such sewerage service, and (3) the date when such amount became delinquent. The municipality shall send a copy of the notice of the lien to the owner or owners of record of the real estate, as referenced by the taxpayer's identification number. The municipality has the power to foreclose this lien in the same manner and with the same effect as in the foreclosure of mortgages on real estate.
    Except in counties with a population of more than 250,000 where the majority of the municipal sewerage system users are located outside of the municipality's corporate limits, the payment of delinquent charges for sewerage service to any premises may be enforced by discontinuing either the water service or the sewerage service to that premises, or both. A rate or charge is delinquent if it is more than 30 days overdue. Any public or municipal corporation or political subdivision of the State furnishing water service to a premises (i) shall discontinue that service upon receiving written notice from the municipality providing sewerage service that payment of the rate or charge for sewerage service to the premises has become delinquent and (ii) shall not resume water service until receiving a similar notice that the delinquency has been removed. The provider of sewerage service shall not request discontinuation of water service before sending a notice of the delinquency to the sewer user and affording the user an opportunity to be heard. An investor-owned public utility providing water service within a municipality that provides sewerage service may contract with the municipality to discontinue water service to a premises with respect to which the payment of a rate or charge for sewerage service has become delinquent. The municipality shall reimburse the privately owned public utility, public or municipal corporation, or political subdivision of the State for the reasonable cost of the discontinuance and the resumption of water service, any lost water service revenues, and the costs of discontinuing water service. The municipality shall indemnify the privately owned public utility, public or municipal corporation, or political subdivision of the State for any judgment and related attorney's fees resulting from an action based on any provision of this paragraph.
    The municipality also has the power, from time to time, to sue the occupant or user of that real estate in a civil action to recover money due for sewerage services, plus a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court. However, whenever a judgment is entered in such a civil action, the foregoing provisions in this section with respect to filing sworn statements of such delinquencies in the office of the recorder and creating a lien against the real estate shall not be effective as to the charges sued upon and no lien shall exist thereafter against the real estate for the delinquency. Judgment in such a civil action operates as a release and waiver of the lien upon the real estate for the amount of the judgment.
(Source: P.A. 93-500, eff. 6-1-04.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-8

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-8) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-8)
    Sec. 11-141-8. Every municipality which issues bonds under this Division 141 shall install and maintain a proper system of accounts showing the amount of revenue received from the sewerage system and the application of that revenue. At least once each year the municipality shall have the accounts properly audited. A report of that audit shall be open for inspection at all proper times to any taxpayer, sewerage system user, or the holder of any bond issued under this Division 141, or their respective representatives.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-9

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-9) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-9)
    Sec. 11-141-9. The holder of any bond issued under this Division 141, or of any coupon representing interest accrued thereon, by any civil action, mandamus, injunction or other proceeding, may compel the officials of the municipality issuing the bonds to perform all duties imposed upon them by the provisions of this Division 141, including the making and collection of sufficient charges or rates for that purpose and the application of the revenue from the sewerage system.
(Source: P.A. 83-345.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-10

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-10) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-10)
    Sec. 11-141-10. For the purpose of improving or extending, or constructing or acquiring and improving and extending a sewerage system under this Division 141, a municipality may acquire any property necessary or appropriate therefor by eminent domain as provided by the Eminent Domain Act.
(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-10.1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-10.1)
    Sec. 11-141-10.1. Annexation of territory including township sewerage system.
    (a) If a municipality annexes part or all of the territory in which a township operates a sewerage system that includes a sewage treatment plant or plants, and if the corporate authorities of the municipality do not operate a sewerage system that includes a sewage treatment plant or plants, the township shall be responsible for that portion of the sewerage system within the annexed territory. Any user fees attributable to the annexed territory shall remain with the township, unless, by agreement, the township assigns those fees.
    (b) If a municipality annexes part or all of the territory in which a township operates a sewerage system that does not include a sewage treatment plant or plants, the authority responsible for operating the sewerage system within the annexed territory shall assume responsibility for that portion of the sewerage system within the annexed territory. Beginning upon the date of annexation, any user fees attributable to the maintenance and operation of the sewerage system shall be collected by the corporate authorities of the municipality.
(Source: P.A. 94-475, eff. 8-4-05.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-10.5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-10.5)
    Sec. 11-141-10.5. Sewerage systems; adjacent municipality's access to other jurisdictions. The corporate authorities of any municipality shall not restrain or interfere with an adjacent municipality's construction, maintenance, alteration, or extension of a sewerage system that accesses intercepting and outlet sewers of a third consenting wastewater treatment authority outside of the adjacent municipality's corporate boundaries provided that the construction, maintenance, alteration, or extension is an appropriate or practical route, according to any Environmental Protection Agency engineer, and is necessary to maintain or establish compliance with the Environmental Protection Act or rules or regulations promulgated by the Pollution Control Board.
    Any municipality granting access to intercepting and outlet sewers of a third consenting wastewater treatment authority may recover only its actual costs, including but not limited to inspection, regulation, administration, and repair costs, associated with any construction, maintenance, extension, or alteration of the existing system.
(Source: P.A. 90-190, eff. 7-24-97.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-11

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-11) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-11)
    Sec. 11-141-11. Every municipality may construct or acquire a sewerage system to serve a particular locality within its corporate limits or to extend or improve an existing sewerage system for the purpose of serving a particular locality within the municipality not theretofore served by its existing sewerage system, and may pay the cost thereof by the issuance and sale of revenue bonds of the municipality, payable solely from the revenue derived from the operation of the entire sewerage system or systems of the municipality. Except insofar as inconsistent with this section, the provisions of Sections 11-141-1 through 11-141-10 govern all matters connected with a project under this section.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-12

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-12) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-12)
    Sec. 11-141-12. Every municipality also may construct or acquire a sewerage system to serve a particular locality within its corporate limits or to extend or improve an existing sewerage system for the purpose of serving a particular locality within the municipality not theretofore served by its existing sewerage system, and may pay the cost thereof by the issuance and sale of revenue bonds of the municipality, payable solely from the revenue derived from the operation of the sewerage system constructed or acquired for that particular locality, or from the revenue to be derived from the operation of the improvements and extensions of an existing system. Except insofar as inconsistent with this section, the provisions of Section 11-141-2 govern all matters connected with the bonds issued under this section.
    Bonds issued under this section are payable solely from revenue derived from the operation of that sewerage system or improvement or extension. These bonds shall not, in any event, constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation, and it shall be so stated on the face of each bond. The face of each bond shall also contain a description of the locality for which that system or improvement or extension is constructed or acquired.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-13

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-13) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-13)
    Sec. 11-141-13. The corporate authorities of any municipality intending to avail itself of the provisions of Sections 11-141-12 through 11-141-18 shall adopt a resolution declaring its intention to construct or acquire a sewerage system for a particular locality within the municipality, or its intention to make an extension or improvement to an existing sewerage system for a particular locality, and describing the project to be constructed and the boundaries of the locality to be served thereby. The corporate authorities shall also determine the estimated cost of the project, approve a report of the engineer for the municipality of the possible rates to be charged to users of the sewerage system or improvement or extension, and set a date for a public hearing on the question of whether or not the project should be constructed.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-14

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-14) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-14)
    Sec. 11-141-14. Notice of the public hearing shall be sent by mail to the persons who paid the general taxes for the last preceding year on each lot, block, tract, or parcel of land within the boundaries of the locality to be served by the proposed project and also to each occupant of premises within the locality. Notice shall also be published at least once, the first publication being not more than 30 nor less than 15 days before the date set for the hearing, in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality. The notice shall state (1) the time and place of the hearing, (2) the intention of the corporate authorities to construct or acquire the system or to extend or improve the existing system, (3) a description of the project to be constructed or acquired and the boundaries of the locality to be served thereby, (4) the estimated cost of the project, and (5) the probable rates to be charged the users of the system or improvement or extension.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-15

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-15) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-15)
    Sec. 11-141-15. At the time and place fixed in the notice for the public hearing, the corporate authorities shall meet and hear the representations of any person desiring to be heard on the subject of the construction or acquisition of the proposed project, the nature thereof, the cost as estimated, and the probable rates to be charged. After the hearing has been had and all persons desiring to appear have been heard, the corporate authorities shall adopt a new resolution adopting, altering, amending, changing, or modifying the former resolution or abandoning the project.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-16

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-16) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-16)
    Sec. 11-141-16. Powers; particular locality. If after the public hearing the corporate authorities of the municipality adopt a resolution to proceed with the construction or acquisition of the project, the corporate authorities may make and enforce all needful rules and regulations in connection with the construction, acquisition, improvement, or extension, and with the management and maintenance of the project to be constructed or acquired. The corporate authorities also may establish the rate or charge to each user of the sewerage system or improvement or extension at a rate which will be sufficient to pay the principal and interest of any bonds, issued to pay the cost thereof, maintenance, and operation of the system, improvement, or extension and may provide an adequate depreciation fund therefor. Charges or rates shall be established, revised, and maintained by ordinance and become payable as the corporate authorities may determine by ordinance. Such charges or rates are liens upon the real estate upon or for which sewerage service is supplied whenever the charges or rates become delinquent as provided by the ordinance of the municipality fixing a delinquency date. A lien is created under the preceding sentence only if the municipality sends to the owner or owners of record of the real estate, as referenced by the taxpayer's identification number, (i) a copy of each delinquency notice sent to the person who is delinquent in paying the charges or rates or other notice sufficient to inform the owner or owners of record, as referenced by the taxpayer's identification number, that the charges or rates have become delinquent and (ii) a notice that unpaid charges or rates may create a lien on the real estate under this Section. However, the municipality has no preference over the rights of any purchaser, mortgagee, judgment creditor, or other lien holder arising prior to the filing of the notice of such a lien in the office of the recorder of the county in which such real estate is located or in the office of the registrar of titles of such county if the property affected is registered under "An Act concerning land titles", approved May 1, 1897, as amended. This notice shall consist of a sworn statement setting out (1) a description of such real estate sufficient for the identification thereof, (2) the amount of money due for such sewerage service, and (3) the date when such amount became delinquent, (4) the owner of record of the premises. The municipality shall send a copy of the notice of the lien to the owner or owners of record of the real estate, as referenced by the taxpayer's identification number. The municipality may foreclose this lien in the same manner and with the same effect as in the foreclosure of mortgages on real estate.
    Except in counties with a population of more than 250,000 where the majority of the municipal sewerage system users are located outside of the municipality's corporate limits, the payment of delinquent charges for sewerage service to any premises may be enforced by discontinuing either the water service or the sewerage service to that premises, or both. A rate or charge is delinquent if it is more than 30 days overdue. Any public or municipal corporation or political subdivision of the State furnishing water service to a premises (i) shall discontinue that service upon receiving written notice from the municipality providing sewerage service that payment of the rate or charge for sewerage service to the premises has become delinquent and (ii) shall not resume water service until receiving a similar notice that the delinquency has been removed. The provider of sewerage service shall not request discontinuation of water service before sending a notice of the delinquency to the sewer user and affording the user an opportunity to be heard. An investor-owned public utility providing water service within a municipality that provides sewerage service may contract with the municipality to discontinue water service to a premises with respect to which the payment of a rate or charge for sewerage service has become delinquent. The municipality shall reimburse the privately owned public utility, public or municipal corporation, or political subdivision of the State for the reasonable cost of the discontinuance and the resumption of water service, any lost water service revenues, and the costs of discontinuing water service. The municipality shall indemnify the privately owned public utility, public or municipal corporation, or political subdivision of the State for any judgment and related attorney's fees resulting from an action based on any provision of this paragraph.
    The municipality also may, from time to time, sue the occupant or user of the real estate in a civil action to recover the money due for sewerage services, plus a reasonable attorney's fee, to be fixed by the court. However, whenever a judgment is entered in such a civil action, the foregoing provision in this section with respect to filing sworn statements of such delinquencies in the office of the recorder and creating a lien against the real estate shall not be effective as to the charges sued upon and no lien shall exist thereafter against the real estate for that delinquency. Judgment in such a civil action operates as a release and waiver of the lien upon the real estate for the amount of the judgment. The charge provided in this section to be made against each user of an improvement or extension shall be in addition to the charge, if any, made of all users of the system under Section 11-141-7 and shall be kept separate and distinct therefrom.
    This amendatory Act of 1975 is not a limit on any municipality which is a home rule unit.
(Source: P.A. 93-500, eff. 6-1-04.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-17

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-17) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-17)
    Sec. 11-141-17. If the corporate authorities adopt a resolution to proceed with the construction or acquisition of the project as provided in Section 11-141-16, they shall adopt an ordinance providing for the issuance of the bonds. The ordinance shall contain the necessary detail and data provided for by Section 11-141-3. It shall not be necessary that the ordinance refer to plans and specifications nor that there be on file for public inspection prior to the adoption of such ordinance detailed plans and specifications of the project. Within 10 days after the ordinance has been passed, it shall be published at least once in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the municipality. The ordinance shall become effective 10 days after the publication.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-141-18

    (65 ILCS 5/11-141-18) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-141-18)
    Sec. 11-141-18. All revenue derived from the operation of such a sewerage system, improvement, or extension shall be set aside as collected, and deposited in a special fund of the municipality. It shall be used only for the purpose of paying the cost of operating and maintaining the sewerage system, improvement, or extension, providing an adequate depreciation fund, and paying the principal and interest on the bonds issued by the municipality under Sections 11-141-12 through 11-141-18 for the purpose of constructing or acquiring the system, improvement, or extension.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 142

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 142 heading)
DIVISION 142. SEWAGE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL

65 ILCS 5/11-142-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-142-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-142-1)
    Sec. 11-142-1. Subject to the provisions of Section 11-142-2, whenever a municipality which is not in a sanitary district has constructed a sewage treatment or disposal plant or plants, the municipality may levy an annual tax of not to exceed .075% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all taxable property therein for the operation and maintenance of the plant or plants. The tax shall be in addition to all other taxes authorized by law to be levied and collected in the municipality and shall be in addition to taxes levied for general purposes as authorized by Section 8-3-1.
    The foregoing limitation upon tax rates may be increased or decreased according to the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)

65 ILCS 5/11-142-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-142-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-142-2)
    Sec. 11-142-2. Section 11-142-1 shall be in force in any municipality in which "An Act to provide for a tax for the operation and maintenance of sewage treatment and disposal plants in municipalities which are not in any sanitary district," approved May 2, 1932, has been heretofore adopted and was in force immediately prior to January 1, 1942. Section 11-142-1 shall not be in force in any other municipality until the question of its adoption is certified by the clerk and submitted to the electors of the municipality at an election in accordance with the general election law, and approved by a majority of those voting thereon.
    The question shall be in substantially the following form:
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    Shall Section 11-142-1 of the
Illinois Municipal Code, providing          YES
for a tax for the operation and
maintenance of sewage treatment         ----------------------
and disposal plants in municipalities
which are not in any sanitary               NO
district, be adopted?
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    If a majority of the electors of the municipality voting on the question vote in favor of adopting Section 11-142-1, it shall become operative in that municipality.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

65 ILCS 5/11-142-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-142-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-142-3)
    Sec. 11-142-3. In addition to all other taxes now or hereafter authorized, the corporate authorities of each municipality may levy and collect, without referendum, a tax for the purpose of paying the expenses 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 may be extended at a rate not to exceed .02% of the value of all taxable property within the municipality as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue.
(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 143

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 143 heading)
DIVISION 143. CITY SEWERAGE FUND TAX

65 ILCS 5/11-143-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-143-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-143-1)
    Sec. 11-143-1. The corporate authorities of any municipality which now has, or hereafter may have, established a system of sewerage for the municipality, annually may levy and collect a tax not to exceed .01666% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of the taxable real and personal property in the municipality, for the extension and laying of sewers in the municipality and for the maintenance of those sewers. However, the board of public works of the municipality, if any, or the head of the municipality's sewer department, shall first certify to the corporate authorities the amount that will be necessary for those purposes. The tax shall be known as the sewerage fund tax and shall be levied and collected in the same manner as are the other general taxes of the municipality.
    A two-thirds majority of all the corporate authorities may levy and collect annually, a tax not to exceed .10% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of the taxable real and personal property in the municipality, for the specified purposes. Nothing in this Section increases the aggregate amount of tax, as limited in Section 8-3-1, that may be levied in any one year.
(Source: P.A. 81-1550.)

65 ILCS 5/11-143-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-143-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-143-2)
    Sec. 11-143-2. Upon approval by referendum as hereinafter provided, the city council of any city having a population of less than 100,000 inhabitants which operates a sewage disposal plant may levy and collect an annual tax of not to exceed .075% of the assessed valuation of the taxable property in the city for the purpose of operating and maintaining such sewage disposal plant. However, the board of public works of the city, if any, or the head of the city's sewer department, shall first certify to the city council the amount that will be necessary for such purpose. This tax shall be levied and collected in like manner as the general taxes for city purposes and shall not be included within any limitation of rate prescribed by Section 8-3-1 but shall be excluded therefrom and shall be in addition thereto and in excess thereof.
    This Section shall not be in force in any municipality until the question of its adoption is certified by the clerk and submitted to the electors of the municipality at an election in accordance with the general election law and approved by a majority of those voting thereon.
    The question shall be in substantially the following form:
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    Shall Section 11-143-1 of
the Illinois Municipal Code,           YES
providing for an additional
tax for the operation and       ------------------------------
maintenance of a sewage                NO
disposal plant, be adopted?
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    If a majority of the electors of the municipality voting on the question vote in favor of adopting this section, it shall become operative in that municipality.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 144

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 144 heading)
DIVISION 144. TAX TO PAY DEFAULTED SEWERAGE
SYSTEM BONDS

65 ILCS 5/11-144-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-144-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-144-1)
    Sec. 11-144-1. For the purpose of Sections 11-144-2 and 11-144-3, "sewerage system" means a sewage treatment plant or plants, collecting, intercepting and outlet sewers, force mains, conduits, lateral sewers and extensions, pumping stations, ejector stations and all other appurtenances, extensions, or improvements necessary or useful and convenient for the collection, treatment, and disposal, in a sanitary manner, of sewage and industrial wastes.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-144-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-144-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-144-2)
    Sec. 11-144-2. Subject to the provisions of Section 11-144-3, when a municipality with a population of less than 3,000 has issued revenue bonds prior to July 22, 1939, for the purpose of constructing or acquiring sewerage systems, and payment of the principal and interest on these bonds has been defaulted, the corporate authorities thereof annually may levy and collect a tax upon the taxable real and personal property in the municipality not to exceed .5% on the dollar. The proceeds of this tax shall be used for the payment of the defaulted principal and interest on the specified bonds. The tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner as are other general taxes of the municipality.
(Source: P.A. 76-1593.)

65 ILCS 5/11-144-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-144-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-144-3)
    Sec. 11-144-3. The corporate authorities of a municipality specified in Section 11-144-2, by ordinance, may cause the question of the levy of the tax to be submitted to the electors at an election in accordance with the general election law. The question shall be certified by the clerk of the municipality to the proper election authority. The question shall be in substantially the following form:
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    Shall a tax not exceeding .5%
be levied each year on all taxable             YES
property in the .... of .... for
the purpose of redeeming defaulted         -------------------
revenue bonds, and accrued interest
thereon, issued for the purpose of             NO
constructing or acquiring sewerage systems?
--------------------------------------------------------------
    The levy is authorized if the majority of votes cast on the proposition are in favor thereof. The corporate authorities shall then levy a tax annually, not exceeding the rate authorized by that election, until the amount necessary to redeem the principal and interest on the specified bonds is collected.
    Any municipality whose electors have approved the levy of an annual tax under "An Act to authorize cities, villages and incorporated towns to levy a tax for the redemption of defaulted revenue bonds, and accrued interest thereon, issued for the purpose of constructing or acquiring sewerage systems," approved July 22, 1939, shall continue to levy the tax annually, not exceeding one-half of the rate authorized at the election, until the amount necessary to redeem the principal of and interest on the specified bonds is collected.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 145

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 145 heading)
DIVISION 145. COLLECTION OF SEWER REVENUES BY OPERATOR
OF WATERWORKS SYSTEM

65 ILCS 5/11-145-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-145-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-145-1)
    Sec. 11-145-1. Any municipality which issues revenue bonds for the construction, acquisition, improvement, extension or operation of a sewerage system under the provisions of this Code and establishes rates, charges or rents for the use of such sewerage system based upon the volume of water delivered through a waterworks system not owned by such municipality, may enter into a contract with the owner or operator of such waterworks system to act as collector of such rates, rents or charges for the use of such sewerage system and to pay over such revenues to such municipality as provided by this section. Such contract may authorize and require such owner or operator of the waterworks system, as agent for the municipality, to do all things relating to the collection of such rates, rents or charges as the municipality could do if it were making such collections directly and may allow such compensation to such collector for acting as such, not to exceed 6% of the total amount collected, as may be agreed upon by the contracting parties, such compensation to be deducted from such collections and the balance to be paid over to such municipality.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 146

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 146 heading)
DIVISION 146. CONTRACT FOR COLLECTING AND
DISPOSING OF SEWAGE ORIGINATING
OUTSIDE MUNICIPALITY

65 ILCS 5/11-146-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-146-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-146-1)
    Sec. 11-146-1. The corporate authorities of each municipality may contract with the State of Illinois, any municipality, or any person for the collection and disposal of sewage originating outside of municipalities.
    The corporate authorities of a municipality may provide by ordinance for the extension and maintenance of municipal sewers in specified areas outside the corporate limits.
(Source: P.A. 76-1516.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 147

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 147 heading)
DIVISION 147. SEWAGE DISPOSAL CONTRACTS BETWEEN CERTAIN MUNICIPAL
CORPORATIONS

65 ILCS 5/11-147-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-147-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-147-1)
    Sec. 11-147-1. Whenever a municipality, drainage district, sanitary district, or other municipal corporation is adjacent to any other municipality, drainage district, sanitary district, or other municipal corporation the adjacent municipal corporations have the power to contract with each other, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between them, for the perpetual or temporary use and benefit by one of them of any sewer or drain, or of any system of sewerage or drainage or part thereof, or of any sewage disposal or sewage treatment plants and works, heretofore or hereafter constructed by the other. Any such sewer or drain, or system of sewerage or drainage or part thereof, or sewage disposal or sewage treatment plants and work, heretofore or hereafter constructed by one such municipal corporation may be extended or furnished to the inhabitants of the other. Such municipal corporations may by contract with each other provide for the joint construction of any sewer or drain or sewage disposal or sewage treatment plants and works by the municipal corporations so contracting, and for the common use thereof by the inhabitants of the contracting municipal corporations. In addition, whenever a sanitary district has acquired an easement granting the sanitary district the right to construct or operate a sanitary sewer system or part of a sanitary sewer system over property that connects the sanitary district to a municipality, the municipality and the sanitary district may enter into a contract for the use of the sanitary sewer system regardless of whether the sanitary district is adjacent to the municipality.
(Source: P.A. 94-1106, eff. 2-9-07.)

65 ILCS 5/11-147-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-147-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-147-2)
    Sec. 11-147-2. Any contract specified in Section 11-147-1 may be made by the authority of an ordinance or resolution passed by the proper legislative authority of the municipality, sanitary district, drainage district, or other municipal corporation proposing the contract, and shall be assented to by an ordinance or resolution passed by the proper legislative authority of the municipality, sanitary district, drainage district, or other municipal corporation assenting to the contract. When made and assented to by the proper legislative authorities of the municipal corporations who are parties thereto, the contract shall be in all respects valid and binding.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-147-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-147-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-147-3)
    Sec. 11-147-3. Every municipality lying within or partly within the corporate limits of, or adjacent to, any sanitary district which was organized under "An Act to create sanitary districts in certain localities, to drain and protect the same from overflow for sanitary purposes and to provide for sewage disposal," approved May 17, 1907, as heretofore and hereafter amended, and which is authorized to collect, carry-off, dispose of, and treat sewage and industrial wastes, may enter into a contract with this sanitary district upon such reasonable terms as may be agreed upon, for the use of the drains, conduits, treatment plants, pumping plants, and works maintained by the sanitary district for the carrying-off, disposal, and treatment of sewage and industrial wastes.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-147-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-147-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-147-4)
    Sec. 11-147-4. Any municipality lying wholly or partly within the boundaries of any county which accepts the provisions of "An Act in relation to water supply, drainage, sewage, pollution and flood control in certain counties," approved July 22, 1959, as heretofore or hereafter amended, may contract with such county for water supply or sewerage service to or for the benefit of the inhabitants of the municipality. Any such contract may provide for the periodic payment to the county of a share of the amounts necessary to pay or provide for the expenses of operation and maintenance of the waterworks or sewerage system of the combined waterworks and sewerage system (including insurance) of the county, to pay the principal of and interest on any revenue bonds issued by the county hereunder, and to provide an adequate depreciation fund and to maintain other reserves and sinking funds for the payment of the bonds or the extension or improvement of the waterworks properties or sewage facilities of the county or a combination thereof, as the case may be.
    Any such contract may be entered into without making a previous appropriation for the expense thereby incurred. Any such contract may be for a term not in excess of 20 years, if the contract is a general obligation of the municipality, or for a term not in excess of 40 years, if the obligation under the contract is payable solely from the revenues derived by the municipality from its water supply or sewerage system.
    If the contract is payable solely from the revenues derived by the municipality from its water supply or sewerage system, the amounts due under the contract shall be deemed an expense of operating and maintaining the water supply or sewerage system of the municipality.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 2429.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 148

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 148 heading)
DIVISION 148. JOINT CONSTRUCTION OF SEWAGE
PLANT WITH OUT-OF-STATE MUNICIPALITY

65 ILCS 5/11-148-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-148-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-148-1)
    Sec. 11-148-1. Whenever the territory of any municipality of this state is adjacent to the territory of another state, the municipality may jointly construct a sewage disposal plant, together with all necessary and proper pipes, conduits, and appurtenances within its own corporate limits, and may own, operate, and maintain the plant jointly with any municipality in the adjacent state, for their joint use, on terms and conditions to be agreed upon by the municipalities.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-148-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-148-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-148-2)
    Sec. 11-148-2. Whenever a municipality in an adjacent state desires to construct a sewage disposal plant in an Illinois municipality adjacent to the boundary of the State of Illinois, the municipality in the adjacent state may construct a sewage disposal plant, together with all necessary and proper pipes, conduits, and appurtenances, within the corporate limits of the Illinois municipality, and may hold, own, maintain, and operate the plant as its sole and separate property, subject to the approval of the corporate authorities of the Illinois municipality.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-148-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-148-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-148-3)
    Sec. 11-148-3. Whenever a municipality in an adjacent state desires to construct a sewage disposal plant within or near the corporate limits of an adjoining municipality, located in the State of Illinois, the municipality in the adjacent state may construct the sewage disposal plant within or near the corporate limits of the Illinois municipality, together with all necessary pipes, conduits, and appurtenances thereto, and may own, operate, and maintain the plant and also may permit use thereof by the Illinois municipality upon terms and conditions to be agreed upon by contract between the municipalities.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-148-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-148-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-148-4)
    Sec. 11-148-4. Whenever a municipality located in the State of Illinois owns and operates a sewage disposal plant within or near its corporate limits, and is adjacent to a municipality in another state, the Illinois municipality has the power to permit use of its sewage disposal plant and appurtenances by the adjacent municipality located in the other state, on terms to be agreed upon by a contract between the municipalities.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-148-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-148-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-148-5)
    Sec. 11-148-5. The interest, ownership, or equity which any municipality of another state has in any sewage disposal plant and necessary connecting and outlet sewers and appurtenances in the State of Illinois, constructed by virtue of Section 11-148-1 through 11-148-4 is not subject to taxation in the State of Illinois.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-148-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-148-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-148-6)
    Sec. 11-148-6. Whenever a municipality of another state constructs or leases a sewage disposal plant in the State of Illinois, pursuant to the provisions of Sections 11-148-1 through 11-148-4, the municipality may condemn and take property within the State of Illinois necessary for that disposal plant and for connecting and outlet sewers and appurtenances, in the same manner as might any municipality within this state.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-148-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-148-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-148-7)
    Sec. 11-148-7. The purpose of Sections 11-148-1 through 11-148-6 is the elimination or lessening of pollution of streams within the State of Illinois, and is particularly for the benefit of adjacent municipalities whose territory is located partially in the State of Illinois and partially in an adjacent state, and whose sewage disposal can be most efficiently and economically handled by a joint plant for the 2 municipalities. The sections specified shall be liberally construed to give effect to these purposes.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 149

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 149 heading)
DIVISION 149. EXTENSION OF MUNICIPAL WATER
AND SEWER SERVICE OUTSIDE CORPORATE
LIMITS

65 ILCS 5/11-149-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-149-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-149-1)
    Sec. 11-149-1. The corporate authorities of a municipality may provide by ordinance for the extension and maintenance of municipal sewers and water mains, or both, in specified areas outside the corporate limits. Such service shall not be extended, however, unless a majority of the owners of record of the real property in the specified area petition the corporate authorities for the service. In a non-home rule municipality, if such service has been provided to another unit of local government, the municipality cannot thereafter require the annexation of the property owned by the unit of local government to the municipality as a prerequisite to the continuation and maintenance of such service.
(Source: P.A. 94-544, eff. 8-10-05.)

65 ILCS 5/11-149-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-149-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-149-2)
    Sec. 11-149-2. The extension of such service may be financed by the issuance of bonds payable solely from the revenue obtained from the furnishing of such service. The bonds shall be issued and shall be subject to the provisions, as near as may be, of Division 139 of this article. The corporate authorities may make rules and regulations and may establish charges for such service in areas outside the corporate limits in the manner provided in Section 11-139-8, as near as may be.
(Source: Laws 1963, p. 2727.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 150

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 150 heading)
DIVISION 150. WATERWORKS AND SEWERAGE
CONNECTION CHARGE

65 ILCS 5/11-150-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-150-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-150-1)
    Sec. 11-150-1. The corporate authorities of any municipality operating a waterworks, sewerage or combined waterworks and sewerage system have the power by ordinance to collect a fair and reasonable charge for connection to any such system in addition to those charges covered by normal taxes, for the construction, expansion and extension of the works of the system, the charge to be assessed against new or additional users of the system and to be known as a connection charge, except that no connection or water usage charge shall exceed the actual cost required for the installation or usage of an automatic sprinkler system. The funds thus collected shall be used by the municipality for its general corporate purposes with primary application thereof being made by the necessary expansion of the works of the system to meet the requirements of the new users thereof.
(Source: P.A. 85-784.)

65 ILCS 5/11-150-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-150-2)
    Sec. 11-150-2. Billing for services.
    (a) On or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly, the corporate authorities of any municipality operating a waterworks or combined waterworks and sewerage system:
        (1) shall bill for any utility service, including
    
previously unbilled service: (A) within 12 months after the provision of that service to the customer if the service is supplied to a residential customer; or (B) within 24 months after the provision of that service to that customer if the service is supplied to a non-residential customer; however, the corporate authorities of a municipality may bill for unpaid amounts that were billed to a customer or if the customer was notified that there is an unpaid amount before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly for service that was supplied to the customer before January 1, 2016;
        (2) shall not intentionally delay billing beyond the
    
normal billing cycle;
        (3) shall label any amount attributed to previously
    
unbilled service as such on the customer's bill and include the beginning and ending dates for the period during which the previously unbilled amount accrued;
        (4) shall issue the makeup billing amount calculated
    
on a prorated basis to reflect the varying rates for previously unbilled service accrued over a period of time when the rates for service have varied; and
        (5) shall provide the customer with the option of a
    
payment arrangement to retire the makeup bill for previously unbilled service by periodic payments, without interest or late fees, over a time equal to the amount of time the billing was delayed.
    (b) The time limit of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) shall not apply to previously unbilled service attributed to tampering, theft of service, fraud, or the customer preventing the utility's recorded efforts to obtain an accurate reading of the meter.
(Source: P.A. 100-178, eff. 8-18-17.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 150.1

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 150.1 heading)
DIVISION 150.1. LEAD HAZARD COST RECOVERY FEE
(Source: P.A. 99-922, eff. 1-17-17.)

65 ILCS 5/11-150.1-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-150.1-1)
    Sec. 11-150.1-1. Lead hazard cost recovery fee. The corporate authorities of any municipality that operates a waterworks system and that incurs reasonable costs to comply with Section 35.5 of the Illinois Plumbing License Law shall have the authority, by ordinance, to collect a fair and reasonable fee from users of the system in order to recover those reasonable costs. Fees collected pursuant to this Section shall be used exclusively for the purpose of complying with Section 35.5 of the Illinois Plumbing License Law.
(Source: P.A. 99-922, eff. 1-17-17.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 151

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 151 heading)
DIVISION 151. MUNICIPALITY RELATIONSHIP
TO PUBLIC WATER DISTRICT

65 ILCS 5/11-151-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-151-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-151-1)
    Sec. 11-151-1. As used in this Article, "public water district" or "district" means a public water district organized under "An Act in relation to public water districts", approved July 25, 1945, as amended.
(Source: P.A. 76-1356.)

65 ILCS 5/11-151-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-151-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-151-2)
    Sec. 11-151-2. This Article does not apply to any public water district whose territory is situated in 2 or more municipalities, except where one of the municipalities is incorporated after June 1, 2004 pursuant to the amendatory changes to Section 2-3-5 made by this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly. Nothing in this Article prohibits a municipality from continuing to operate utility facilities which it owns and operates, at the time territory is annexed to the municipality, in that territory even though it is part of a public water district.
(Source: P.A. 93-1058, eff. 12-2-04.)

65 ILCS 5/11-151-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-151-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-151-3)
    Sec. 11-151-3. Except as otherwise provided in this Article, no municipality may furnish water or sanitary sewer service to any territory situated within a public water district and more than one mile from the corporate limits of the municipality without the district's consent. Nothing in this Section affects the performance by the municipality of any other function in which the district is not engaged.
    A municipality that operates a public water supply and furnishes water service has the exclusive right, as against a public water district, to serve residents in the territory within one mile or less of the corporate limits of the municipality but may consent to the district's providing service to such residents.
(Source: P.A. 76-1356.)

65 ILCS 5/11-151-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-151-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-151-4)
    Sec. 11-151-4. If a municipality annexes all of the territory of a public water district, the municipality shall take over all the properties and assets of the district, assume all debts, liabilities and obligations of the district and perform all functions and services of the district. The district shall be abolished and the rights and duties imposed on the municipality of this Section shall commence 90 days after the effective date of the annexation or at such earlier date as the corporate authorities of the municipality, by ordinance, provide.
(Source: P.A. 76-1356.)

65 ILCS 5/11-151-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-151-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-151-5)
    Sec. 11-151-5. If a municipality annexes part, but not all of the territory of a public water district, sanitary sewer district, or both, the corporate authorities of the municipality and of the district may enter contracts providing for the division and allocation of duplicate and overlapping powers, functions and duties between the 2 entities and for the use, management, control, purchase, conveyance, assumption and disposition of the properties, assets, debts, liabilities and obligations of the district. The corporate authorities of a district and such a municipality may also enter agreements providing for the operation by the municipality of the district's utility systems and other properties or for the transfer, conveyance or sale of those systems and properties to the municipality. "Systems and properties" includes those of every kind and character and whether situated within or outside the municipality. An operating contract made under this Section may not extend for a period longer than 30 years and must be subject to amendment, renewal or termination by mutual consent of the contracting parties. No contract under this Section may contain any provision impairing the obligation of any existing contract of such a municipality or district.
(Source: P.A. 90-190, eff. 7-24-97.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 152

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 152 heading)
DIVISION 152. MUNICIPAL INSURANCE AVAILABILITY PROGRAM

65 ILCS 5/11-152-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-152-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-152-1)
    Sec. 11-152-1. (a) The corporate authorities of any municipality over 1,000,000 in population may establish a municipal insurance availability program to make available to the residents of such municipality, who are otherwise unable to obtain such insurance at affordable rates, insurance against damage or loss, including the costs of diagnosis or repair, where the proximate cause of such damage or loss is attributable to the breakage or stoppage of a water or sewage drainage system or pipes, apparatus and conduits utilized in connection therewith.
    (b) The corporate authorities shall establish uniform eligibility requirements for participation in the program.
    (c) The corporate authorities shall appoint a program administrator to operate the program.
(Source: P.A. 84-1431.)

65 ILCS 5/11-152-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-152-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-152-2)
    Sec. 11-152-2. (a) The municipal insurance availability program shall offer to each eligible resident coverage in the amount and type determined to be sufficient by the program administrator.
    (b) Premiums charged for coverage issued under the program shall be reasonable in relation to the coverage provided.
    (c) The program administrator shall establish a premium billing procedure for collection of premiums from insureds on a periodic basis.
    (d) The program administrator shall perform all necessary functions to assure timely payment of claims under the program.
(Source: P.A. 84-1431.)

65 ILCS 5/11-152-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-152-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-152-3)
    Sec. 11-152-3. Revenues received under the municipal insurance availability program shall be used to pay the costs of the program and to maintain and service the municipality's water and sewage drainage system.
(Source: P.A. 84-1431.)

65 ILCS 5/11-152-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-152-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-152-4)
    Sec. 11-152-4. Municipal insurance availability programs organized under this Division 152 of Article 11 of the Illinois Municipal Code shall be subject to all applicable provisions of the Illinois Insurance Code.
(Source: P.A. 84-1431.)