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90_SB1282enr

      70 ILCS 2405/9            from Ch. 42, par. 308
          Amends the Sanitary District Act of 1917.  Increases  the
      amount  of money a sanitary district may borrow from banks or
      other   financial   institutions    to    $25,000,000    (now
      $10,000,000).  Effective immediately.
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  Sanitary District Act of 1917 by
 2    changing Section 9.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.  The Sanitary District Act of 1917 is amended
 6    by changing Section 9 as follows:
 7        (70 ILCS 2405/9) (from Ch. 42, par. 308)
 8        Sec. 9.  Borrowing powers; debt limitation; referendum.
 9        (a)  The  corporation  may  borrow  money  for  corporate
10    purposes and may issue bonds for those purposes but shall not
11    become indebted in any manner, or  for  any  purpose,  to  an
12    amount  in  the aggregate exceeding 5.75% on the valuation of
13    taxable property in the district to  be  ascertained  by  the
14    last  assessment  for  State  and  county  taxes  before  the
15    indebtedness  was  incurred  or,  until  January  1, 1983, if
16    greater,  the  sum  that  is  produced  by  multiplying   the
17    district's  1978  equalized  assessed  valuation  by the debt
18    limitation percentage in effect on January 1, 1979.
19        The trustees shall also have the express power to  borrow
20    money  from  banks or other financial institutions, execute a
21    note or notes and a security agreement to secure the  payment
22    of  the  note or notes, and provide security for repayment of
23    the  note  or  notes  by  pledging   district   revenues   or
24    encumbering  district assets.  The maximum amount that may be
25    borrowed under this paragraph shall  not  exceed  $25,000,000
26    $10,000,000 for the aggregate of all those notes.  The period
27    for repayment of any note shall not exceed 20 years.
28        The  trustees  shall also have the express power, without
29    referendum, to execute an agreement for a loan from the Water
30    Pollution Control Revolving Fund of the  State  of  Illinois,
31    under   the  Environmental  Protection  Act,  and  to  pledge
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 1    revenues of the district for the repayment of the loan.
 2        (b)  Whenever the board of trustees of a district desires
 3    to  issue  bonds  under  this  Section  they  shall  order  a
 4    referendum to be held in the district on  the  question.  The
 5    board  shall  certify  the  question  to  the proper election
 6    officials, who shall submit the question at  an  election  in
 7    accordance  with the general election law. In addition to the
 8    requirements of the  general  election  law,  the  notice  of
 9    referendum  shall state the amount of bonds to be issued. The
10    question shall be in substantially the following form:
11             Shall (name of district) issue bonds in  the  amount
12        of $(amount)?
13    The votes shall be recorded as "Yes" or "No".
14    The  result of the referendum shall be entered in the records
15    of the district. If it appears that a majority of the  voters
16    voting at the election on the question have voted in favor of
17    the issue of the bonds, the board of trustees shall order and
18    direct  the  execution  of the bonds for and on behalf of the
19    district. All bonds issued under this Section shall mature in
20    not more than 20 annual installments.
21        (c)  The  corporation  may  borrow  money  for  corporate
22    purposes, and may issue bonds for those purposes,  without  a
23    referendum on the question if the corporation or the board of
24    trustees  of  the  district  has  been  directed, by an order
25    issued  by  a  court  of  competent  jurisdiction  or  by  an
26    administrative  agency  of  the  State  of  Illinois   having
27    jurisdiction  to  issue  the order, to abate its discharge of
28    untreated or inadequately treated sewage and if the borrowing
29    is deemed necessary by the board of trustees of the  sanitary
30    district  to  make  possible  compliance  with the order. The
31    amount of money that the corporation may borrow to abate  the
32    sewage  discharge  shall be limited to that required for that
33    purpose plus any reasonable future expansion approved by  the
34    court  or  an  administrative agency of the State of Illinois
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 1    having jurisdiction. The ordinance providing  for  the  bonds
 2    shall set out the fact that the bonds are deemed necessary to
 3    make   possible  compliance  with  the  order  and  shall  be
 4    published or posted in the manner provided in  this  Act  for
 5    publication  or  posting of ordinances making appropriations.
 6    The ordinance shall be in full force  and  effect  after  its
 7    adoption  and  publication  or  posting  as  provided in this
 8    subsection, notwithstanding any provision in this Act or  any
 9    other law to the contrary.
10    (Source: P.A. 89-558, eff. 7-26-96.)
11        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
12    becoming law.

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