Chapter 70 — SPECIAL DISTRICTS

(70 ILCS 2805/32l) (from Ch. 42, par. 443l) Sec. 32l. For the purpose of purchasing any waterworks under this act or for the purpose of purchasing any property necessary therefor, the district has the right of eminent domain as provided by the Eminent Domain Act. (Source: P.A. 94…

(70 ILCS 2805/32m) (from Ch. 42, par. 443m) Sec. 32m. Whenever the trustees of a district have been authorized by the affirmative vote of the legal voters of the district to acquire by purchase or construction and thereafter operate, improve or extend waterworks, as herein provid…

(70 ILCS 2805/32n) (from Ch. 42, par. 443n) Sec. 32n. Any district issuing revenue bonds under this Act shall install and maintain a proper system of accounts, showing the amount of revenue received and its application. At least once a year the district shall have the accounts pr…

(70 ILCS 2805/33) (from Ch. 42, par. 444) Sec. 33. Except as provided in Section 33.1, any sanitary district created under this Act which does not have outstanding and unpaid any revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this Act may be dissolved as follows: (a) Any 50 elector…

(70 ILCS 2805/33.1) Sec. 33.1. Dissolution of Lakes Region Sanitary District. The Lakes Region Sanitary District may dissolve itself upon entering into a dissolution agreement with Lake County for the county to acquire all of the assets and responsibilities of the district. Upon …

(70 ILCS 2805/34) (from Ch. 42, par. 445) Sec. 34. If the vote is in favor of dissolution of the sanitary district, there shall be no further appointments for trustees. The officers acting at the time of this vote shall close up the business affairs of the sanitary district, and …

(70 ILCS 2805/35) (from Ch. 42, par. 446) Sec. 35. The dissolution of any sanitary district shall not affect the obligation of any bonds issued or contracts entered into by such district, nor invalidate the levy, extension or collection of any taxes or special assessments upon th…

(70 ILCS 2805/36) (from Ch. 42, par. 447) Sec. 36. All courts shall take judicial notice of the dissolution of such sanitary districts. (Source: Laws 1957, p. 349.)

(70 ILCS 2805/37) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.1) Sec. 37. Whenever any territory contained within a sanitary district created under this Act is annexed to any municipality, the sanitary district shall remain responsible for providing sewers and collecting and disposing of sewage in su…

(70 ILCS 2805/37.1) Sec. 37.1. Dissolution of district with no employees and no bond indebtedness; winding up sanitary district business; tax by acquiring municipalities. (a) Any sanitary district created under this Act which is located in a county having a population of 3,000,00…

(70 ILCS 2805/38) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.2) Sec. 38. That all sanitary districts heretofore organized under the provisions of this Act and in which proceedings there was a substantial compliance with the provisions hereof and a majority of the voters voting upon the question at a…

(70 ILCS 2805/39) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.3) Sec. 39. Alternative special assessment procedure. As an alternative to using the procedure prescribed by Division 2 of Article 9 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as now or hereafter amended, for making local improvements by special asse…

(70 ILCS 2805/4) (from Ch. 42, par. 415) Sec. 4. The trustees shall constitute a board of trustees for the sanitary district. The board of trustees is the corporate authority of the sanitary district, and may exercise all the powers and manage and control all the affairs and prop…

(70 ILCS 2805/4.1) (from Ch. 42, par. 415.1) Sec. 4.1. The board of trustees of any sanitary district may arrange to provide for the benefit of employees and trustees of the sanitary district group life, health, accident, hospital and medical insurance, or any one or any combinat…

(70 ILCS 2805/4.2) (from Ch. 42, par. 415.2) Sec. 4.2. Within 60 days after the effective date of this Amendatory Act of 1977 every sanitary district organized under the "Sanitary District Act of 1936" shall file with the Secretary of State the official name of the district. (Sou…

(70 ILCS 2805/4.3) Sec. 4.3. Combined waterworks and sewerage system. A sanitary district may, by ordinance, combine and jointly operate the district's waterworks and sewerage systems. A sanitary district operating a combined waterworks and sewerage system may: (i) improve and ex…

(70 ILCS 2805/40) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.4) Sec. 40. Appointed committee of local improvements. The board of any district may appoint a committee of local improvements consisting of the members of the board of trustees. The board's right to raise or lower the compensation of any …

(70 ILCS 2805/41) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.5) Sec. 41. Ordinance authorizing improvements. When any district provides by ordinance for the making of any local improvement, it shall prescribe by the same ordinance whether the improvement shall be made by special assessment or specia…

(70 ILCS 2805/42) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.6) Sec. 42. Restriction on passage of ordinance and abandonment of proposed improvement. No ordinance for any local improvement, to be paid wholly or in part by special assessment or special taxation, shall be considered or passed by the b…

(70 ILCS 2805/43) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.7) Sec. 43. Estimate of cost and first resolution. All ordinances for local improvements to be paid for wholly or in part by special assessment or special taxation shall originate with the committee of local improvements to whom petitions …

(70 ILCS 2805/44) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.8) Sec. 44. Public hearing and second resolution. At the time and place fixed in the specified notice for the public hearing, the committee of local improvements shall meet and hear the representations of any person desiring to be heard on…

(70 ILCS 2805/45) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.9) Sec. 45. Recommendation by committee. Accompanying any ordinance for a local improvement presented by the committee of local improvements to the board shall be a recommendation of such improvement by the committee signed by at least a m…

(70 ILCS 2805/46) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.10) Sec. 46. Publication of ordinance. Upon the presentation to the board of the proposed ordinance, together with the required recommendation and estimate, if the estimate of costs exceeds the sum of $500,000, exclusive of the amount to b…

(70 ILCS 2805/47) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.11) Sec. 47. Special tax. When the ordinance under which a local improvement is ordered provides that the improvement shall be made wholly or in part by special taxation of benefited property, that special tax shall be levied, assessed and…

(70 ILCS 2805/48) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.12) Sec. 48. Special assessment. When the ordinance under which a local improvement is ordered to be made contains no provisions for the condemnation of private property therefor and provides that the improvement shall be wholly or in part…

(70 ILCS 2805/49) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.13) Sec. 49. Petition and jurisdiction of courts. Upon the passage of any ordinance for a local improvement the district, by and through an attorney employed for that purpose, shall file a petition in the circuit court in the county where …

(70 ILCS 2805/5) (from Ch. 42, par. 416) Sec. 5. All ordinances imposing any penalty or making any appropriations shall, within one month after they are passed, be published at least once in a daily or weekly newspaper published in the district or, if there is no newspaper publis…

(70 ILCS 2805/50) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.14) Sec. 50. Appointment of assessing officer. Upon or before the filing of such a petition, some resident of the district appointed by the chairman of the committee of local improvements shall make a true and impartial assessment of the c…

(70 ILCS 2805/51) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.15) Sec. 51. Apportionment of cost. The officer specified in Section 50 shall estimate what portion of the total cost of such improvement will be of benefit to the public and what proportion thereof will be of benefit to the property to be…

(70 ILCS 2805/52) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.16) Sec. 52. Determination of benefit to private property owners by assessing officer. In determining the benefit to be received by private property owners as a result of a proposed improvement, the assessing officer, in his or her discret…

(70 ILCS 2805/53) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.17) Sec. 53. Description of property assessed. In levying any special assessment or special tax, each lot, block, tract or parcel of land shall be assessed separately in the same manner as upon assessment for general taxation, except that …

(70 ILCS 2805/54) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.18) Sec. 54. Assessment roll, notice and affidavit of compliance. The assessment roll shall contain (1) a list of all the lots, blocks, tracts and parcels of land assessed for the proposed improvement, (2) the amount assessed against each,…

(70 ILCS 2805/55) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.19) Sec. 55. Installments and interest. The ordinance provided for in this Act may provide that the aggregate amounts assessed in each individual assessment shall be divided into annual installments not more than 10 in number. Such divisio…

(70 ILCS 2805/56) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.20) Sec. 56. Notice by publication. Petitioner, in addition to other required notices, shall publish a notice at least twice, not more than 30 nor less than 15 days in advance of the time at which confirmation of the specified assessment i…

(70 ILCS 2805/57) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.21) Sec. 57. Objections. Any person interested in any real estate to be affected by an assessment may appear and file objections to the report by the time mentioned in the notice or within such further time as the court may allow. As to al…

(70 ILCS 2805/58) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.22) Sec. 58. Review of assessment roll by the court. Upon written objections or motions for that purpose the court in which the specified proceeding is pending may inquire in a summary way whether the officer making the report has omitted …

(70 ILCS 2805/59) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.23) Sec. 59. Hearing of legal objections. On the application of the petitioner at any time after the return day the court may set down all objections, except the objection that the property of the objector will not be benefited to the amou…

(70 ILCS 2805/6) (from Ch. 42, par. 417) Sec. 6. All ordinances, orders and resolutions, and the date of publication thereof, may be proved by the certificate of the clerk under the seal of the corporation, and when printed in book or pamphlet form, and purporting to be published…

(70 ILCS 2805/6.1) (from Ch. 42, par. 417.1) Sec. 6.1. Actions to impose a fine or imprisonment for violation of a sanitary district ordinance or resolution adopted under authority of this Act shall be brought in the corporate name of the sanitary district as plaintiff. Such acti…

(70 ILCS 2805/6.2) (from Ch. 42, par. 417.2) Sec. 6.2. The sanitary district, in addition to other powers vested in it, is authorized to enter into agreements with any city, village or incorporated town located partly within and partly without the territorial limits of the sanita…

(70 ILCS 2805/60) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.24) Sec. 60. Trial by jury. If it is objected on the part of any property assessed for such an improvement that it will not be benefited thereby to the amount assessed thereon and that it is assessed more than its proportionate share of th…

(70 ILCS 2805/61) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.25) Sec. 61. Distribution of deficiency and new notice. Wherever on a hearing by the court or before a jury the amount of any assessment is reduced or canceled so that there is a deficiency in the total amount remaining assessed in the pro…

(70 ILCS 2805/62) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.26) Sec. 62. Precedence for trial. The hearing in all cases arising under this Act shall have precedence over all other cases in any court where they are brought except criminal cases or other cases in which the public is a moving party. (…

(70 ILCS 2805/63) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.27) Sec. 63. Modification by court or abandonment of proposed improvements. The court before which any such proceedings may be pending may modify, alter, change, annul or confirm any assessment returned as specified in addition to the auth…

(70 ILCS 2805/64) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.28) Sec. 64. Acquisition of lands as prerequisite to special assessment. No special assessment or special tax shall be levied for any local improvement until the land necessary therefor has been acquired and is in possession of the distric…

(70 ILCS 2805/65) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.29) Sec. 65. Prior improvement of same kind as objection. It is no objection to the legality of any local improvement that a similar improvement has been previously made in the same locality if the ordinance therefor is recommended by the …

(70 ILCS 2805/66) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.30) Sec. 66. Judgment on installment assessments. In case of a special assessment or a special tax levied to be paid by installments under the provisions of this Act the order of confirmation that is entered upon the return of the assessme…

(70 ILCS 2805/67) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.31) Sec. 67. Effect of judgment. The judgments of the court shall be final as to all the issues involved, and the proceedings in the specified cause shall be subject to review by appeal as hereinafter provided and not otherwise. However, b…

(70 ILCS 2805/68) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.32) Sec. 68. Validity of special tax for accepted work and new ordinance. No special assessment or special tax shall be held invalid because levied for work already done if it appears that the work was done under a contract which has been …

(70 ILCS 2805/69) (from Ch. 42, par. 447.33) Sec. 69. Supplemental assessments, rebates and new hearing in case of deficiency. At any time after the bids have been received pursuant to the provisions of this Act, if it appears to the satisfaction of the committee of local improve…