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65 ILCS 5/11-111-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-111-5)Sec. 11-111-5.         If a railroad or street railway company has tracks located  upon, or across any street in such an improvement district, then, in  estimating the cost of the work, the railroad or street railway company  shall be charged with the cost of the fill upon that street or crossing in  the amount that it would cost the railroad or street railway company to  make an independent embankment of the same height to receive its tracks  upon that street or crossing. However, any railroad or street railway  company has the same right to build its embankment or make its proportion  of the improvement as is allowed to individuals. If a railroad or street  railway company fails or refuses to comply with the municipal ordinances in  this regard, the tracks of the delinquent railroad or street railway  company shall be a nuisance, all of the railroad or street railway  company's rights upon that street or crossing shall be forfeited, and the  tracks removed as the work progresses.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-111-6
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-111-6)Sec. 11-111-6.         If any property within an improvement district created under  Sections 11-111-1 through 11-111-7 belongs to a minor or any other person  incapacitated to contract, the guardian, or other person in  charge of his or her estate, may apply to the circuit court of the county in  which  the district is located, by petition, for leave to endorse the specified  bonds. When endorsed by order of the court, the endorsement shall be valid.    (Source: P.A. 83-706.)
65 ILCS 5/11-111-7
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-111-7)Sec. 11-111-7.         In addition to the powers given by Sections 11-111-1 through  11-111-7 to municipalities to collect an amount sufficient to pay the  interest and principal, the owner or holder of any bond has his personal  remedy in any court against the endorser upon his endorsement, for failure  to pay the interest or principal, and in case of 2 successive failures by  any person liable on such a bond, the bond becomes due. Then the holder may  enforce his lien for the interest and principal by foreclosure in any court  of competent jurisdiction in this state.All the powers granted to municipalities by Sections 11-111-1 through  11-111-7 may be put into effect by proper ordinances.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-111-8
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-111-8)Sec. 11-111-8.         Every city or village with a population of not more than  500,000 whether incorporated under the general law or a special charter,  whose site is wholly or partially subject to overflow, inundation, or the  unsanitary accumulation of sipe water or surface water, and wholly or  partially surrounded by levees, dykes, or embankments to prevent overflow:  (1) may divide the municipality, or any part thereof, into improvement  districts, (2) may fix the grade of streets, avenues, alleys, or public  grounds within the improvement districts at any height deemed necessary to  give a surface drainage from each improvement district to the river or  rivers which cause the overflow, inundation, or accumulation of sipe and  surface water, and (3) may require all low lots, blocks, or parts thereof,  or tracts of land, within each improvement district, to be filled to the  established grade of adjoining streets, avenues, alleys, or public grounds,  or in such manner as to prevent the overflow or inundation thereof, or such  accumulation of sipe or surface water therein as in the judgment of the  corporate authorities of the municipality would be unsanitary and injurious  to the public health or safety.Such a city or village shall provide by ordinance for the making of such  a local improvement and in that ordinance shall provide whether the  improvement shall be made (1) by special assessment, or by special taxation  of contiguous property, (2) by general taxation, or (3) by both methods. In  order to carry out the purposes of Sections 11-111-8 through 11-111-10,  such a city or village has all the power in relation to special assessment,  special or general taxation, or for the issuance of bonds in payment of the  cost of the specified local improvement, including the provisions of  Article 9, granted to any city or village in this state.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-111-9
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-111-9)Sec. 11-111-9.         When a specified improvement district has been created by  ordinance under Sections 11-111-8 through 11-111-10, the corporate  authorities shall have an accurate survey of the work contemplated to be  done, made by the city engineer, if there is one, and if not, then by a  competent civil engineer. This engineer shall make and file with the  municipal clerk, plats, profiles, and estimates of the work to be done. The  estimates shall include the cost of all walls or other structures necessary  to hold the earth in its proper place and the cost of the fill upon each  lot, block, or part thereof, and tract of land within the district, which  must be filled under the ordinance. The survey, plat, profile, and  estimates shall be used in estimating the benefit to be charged against the  lots, blocks, or parts thereof, or tracts of land, within that improvement  district by reason of the filing and protection thereof from overflow or  unsanitary accumulation of sipe or surface water.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-111-10
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-111-10)Sec. 11-111-10.         Each lot, block, or part thereof, or tract of land in an  improvement district specified in Section 11-111-8, whether already filled  to grade or not, may be assessed to pay the cost of the improvement  according to the special benefit it will receive therefrom.When the ordinance under which the specified local improvement is  ordered provides that the improvement shall be made wholly or partially by  special taxation of contiguous property, the special tax shall be levied,  assessed, and collected, as nearly as may be, in the manner provided by  Article 9. However, no special tax shall be levied or assessed upon any  property to pay for the improvement, in an amount in excess of the special  benefit which that property will receive from the improvement. The  ordinance is not conclusive of that benefit, but the question of that  benefit and of the amount of the special tax are subject to court review,  and shall be tried in the same manner as in proceedings by special  assessment.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 111.1 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 DIVISION 111.1.      REMOVAL OF STREAM OBSTRUCTIONS
65 ILCS 5/11-111.1-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-111.1-1)Sec. 11-111.1-1.         The corporate authorities may remove or cause the removal  in such manner as they may direct, the driftwood and other obstructions  from natural and other water courses causing flooding of any part of the  corporate area whether such obstructions are located inside or outside the  corporate limits, and for that purpose, after written notice to the owner  at least 10 days prior thereto, may enter upon the lands or waters of any  person, but subject to responsibility for all damages which shall be  occasioned thereby.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 2616.)
65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 112 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 DIVISION 112.      TAXES FOR LEVEE PURPOSES
65 ILCS 5/11-112-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-112-1)Sec. 11-112-1.         When a vote has been taken under "An Act to enable cities,  villages and towns threatened with overflow or inundation to levy taxes by  vote of the electors thereof, to strengthen, build, raise or repair the  levees around same and to issue anticipation warrants on such taxes,"  approved June 11, 1897, as amended, or when a vote is taken under this  section and Section 11-112-2 at a general municipal election in a  municipality that is protected by levees or embankments, or that may deem  it necessary to be so protected, and a majority of the legal votes cast at  the election were or are for a tax to build, raise, strengthen, or repair  the levees around the municipality, not exceeding the rate of .1666%  annually, to be levied annually for a period of not exceeding 7 years on  the taxable property of the municipality, the corporate authorities of the  municipality may (1) make an appropriation by ordinance of the proceeds of  the tax so authorized, (2) pass an ordinance levying the tax for the whole  period as authorized by the vote to be annually extended, and (3) draw tax  anticipation warrants thereon to the amount that the tax levy will produce  based on the assessment of the preceding year of all the taxable property  of the municipality. These warrants shall draw interest at not to exceed  the rate authorized by the vote authorizing the tax, not exceeding 7%  annually, but the warrants shall not be sold below par.The foregoing limitation upon tax rate may be increased or decreased  according to the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of  Illinois.    (Source: P.A. 76-845.)
65 ILCS 5/11-112-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-112-2)Sec. 11-112-2.         The county clerk of the county in which the municipality  specified in Section 11-112-1 is located shall extend each year the taxes  specified in Section 11-112-1, when the ordinance making the levy of the  tax is certified to him. The tax shall be extended at the rate fixed in the  ordinance, not exceeding .1666% for a period not exceeding 7 years. The  county clerk shall extend the tax in a separate column designated the  "Seven Year Levee Tax."The collector of state and county taxes, when he receives the money  collected from this levee tax, shall pay it to the municipal treasurer,  every 2 weeks, informing the treasurer that this money is from the 7 year  levee tax; and he shall take the treasurer's receipt for the money as 7  year levee tax paid over.The municipal treasurer shall receive the money so paid over by the  collector and shall pay the money out as rapidly as possible on warrants  issued on the 7 year levee tax only, so long as such warrants remain  unpaid.This tax shall be levied in addition to taxes for general purposes  authorized by Section 8-3-1.The foregoing limitation upon tax rate may be increased or decreased  according to the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of  Illinois.    (Source: P.A. 76-845.)
65 ILCS 5/11-112-3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-112-3)Sec. 11-112-3.         Subject to the provisions of Section 11-112-7, every  municipality, whether incorporated under general law or special charter,  which is subject to overflow or inundation from a river or other sources  may construct, widen, raise, strengthen, improve, and maintain levees,  protective embankments and structures and has the power for any of these  purposes to levy and collect annually a tax of not exceeding .1666% of  the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of  all the taxable property within its corporate  limits.The foregoing limitation upon tax rate may be increased or decreased  according to the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of  Illinois.    (Source: P.A. 81-1509.)
65 ILCS 5/11-112-4
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-112-4)Sec. 11-112-4.         This annual tax provided for in Section 11-112-3 shall be  designated as the levee tax and shall be levied and collected in the same  manner as are the general taxes of that municipality. This tax shall be in  addition to and exclusive of all other taxes which that municipality is now  or hereafter authorized to levy and collect.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-112-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-112-5)Sec. 11-112-5.         All taxes collected by virtue of Sections 11-112-3 through  11-112-8 shall be deposited in the municipal treasury to the credit of what  shall be called the levee fund. This fund shall be kept separate and apart  from all other funds or money of the municipality and shall be used and  paid out only for the purpose specified in those sections. The money in  this levee fund, as far as possible, shall be kept at interest by the  municipality.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-112-6
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-112-6)Sec. 11-112-6.         Such a municipality specified in Section 11-112-3 may  purchase or condemn, by the exercise of the right of eminent domain, all  real estate needed for the purpose of constructing thereon levees,  protective embankments, and structures, and also for the purpose of  obtaining earth or other materials, either within or without the corporate  limits of the municipality, with which to construct, widen, raise,  strengthen, improve, or maintain those levees, protective embankments, and  structures.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-112-7
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-112-7)Sec. 11-112-7.         The levee tax provided for by Section 11-112-3 shall  not be levied and collected for any year until the question of its levy  for that year has been certified by the clerk and submitted to a vote  of the electors and has received the affirmative vote of a majority  of the electors voting upon the question.    (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
65 ILCS 5/11-112-8
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-112-8)Sec. 11-112-8.         Nothing contained in Sections 11-112-3 through 11-112-7  limits the powers granted to municipalities by Sections 11-112-1 and  11-112-2, or possessed by a municipality under this Code or any other Act.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 113 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 DIVISION 113.      SURFACE WATER AND SEWAGE REMOVAL TAX
65 ILCS 5/11-113-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-113-1)Sec. 11-113-1.         The corporate authorities of any municipality having a population  less than 500,000, subject to the referendum provision of Section  11-113-2, may levy, annually, a tax of not to exceed .15% of the value,  as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue,  of all taxable property therein to provide for the expense of pumping to  remove surface water and sewage due to flood conditions. Revenue raised  by this tax cannot be transferred to any other fund in the municipality  and can be used only for pumping necessitated by flood conditions. This  tax shall be in addition to all taxes authorized by law to be levied and  collected in the municipality and shall be in addition to the amount  authorized to be levied for general purposes provided by Section 8-3-1.The foregoing limitation upon tax rate may be increased or decreased  according to the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of  Illinois.    (Source: P.A. 81-1509.)
65 ILCS 5/11-113-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-113-2)Sec. 11-113-2.         This Division 113 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 and approved by a majority of those voting  on the question at an election in accordance with the general election law.The question shall be in substantially the  following form:    --------------------------------------------------------------Shall Division 113 of the IllinoisMunicipal Code permitting municipalitiesto levy an additional annual tax of not        YESto exceed .15% for the purpose ofproviding revenue for pumping surface      -------------------water and sewage brought about by floodconditions be adopted by the City              NO(Village or Incorporated Town, as thecase may be) of ....?--------------------------------------------------------------If a majority of the votes cast on the question is in favor of  adopting this Division 113, then such division shall be adopted. It  shall be in force in the adopting municipality for the purpose of the  fiscal years succeeding the year in which the election is held.    (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 113.1 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 DIVISION 113.1.      STORMWATER MANAGEMENT TAX
65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 114 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 DIVISION 114.      LEVEE IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION
65 ILCS 5/11-114-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-114-1)Sec. 11-114-1.         The corporate authorities of a municipality with a  population of less than 500,000 which (1) is bounded by or through which  flows a river, or (2) is contiguous to or contains within its corporate  limits a portion of a navigable lake, may provide by ordinance for the  creation of a levee improvement commission, consisting of four members  and a chairman. The mayor or president, with the approval of the  corporate authorities, shall appoint the 4 members of the commission.  The mayor or president shall be ex-officio chairman of the commission.The members of the levee improvement commission shall be electors of  the municipality, and shall serve without compensation. Their terms of  office shall be fixed by the ordinance creating the commission. Before  entering upon their duties, the members shall execute a bond, payable to  the municipality, in the sum of $2,000, conditioned upon the performance  of their duties.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-114-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-114-2)Sec. 11-114-2.         The levee improvement commission has full control and  supervision of all improvements, docks, levees, industrial developments and  facilities, including terminals and parks, on the river front or lake  shore, and the land, whether developed or undeveloped, approximate to the  river front or lake shore, located within the corporate limits of the  municipality.All money derived from the tax or the sale of bonds authorized by  Section 11-114-3 shall be under the control of the commission and shall be  expended only upon the warrants of the commission for the purpose  authorized by this Division 114.The commission may expend money over which it has control, for the  construction, operation, or maintenance of improvements, docks, levees,  industrial developments and facilities, including terminals and parks, on  the river front or lake shore, or of land over which the commission has  control.The commission may lease any property over which it has control and fix  the terms of the lease, subject to the approval of the corporate  authorities.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-114-3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-114-3)Sec. 11-114-3.         Subject to the provisions of this Division 114 the corporate  authorities of any municipality specified in this Division 114 may issue  bonds for the purposes authorized. These bonds shall (1) be issued in the  name of the municipality, (2) be attested by the municipal clerk, (3) 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 annually, and (4)  mature at such time not exceeding 20 years from the date thereof, as is  specified in the bonds. The proceeds of the bonds shall be used exclusively  for the purposes authorized by this Division 114.An annual tax which, when considered in the aggregate for the period for  which the bonds are issued, will be sufficient to pay the principal and  interest of the bonds, may be levied for the payment thereof.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.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.    (Source: P.A. 89-655, eff. 1-1-97.)
65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 114.1 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 DIVISION 114.1.      FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAPS