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65 ILCS 5/9-2-131
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-131)Sec. 9-2-131.         Payment for any improvement done or performed under the  provisions of this Division 2, to be paid for out of any special assessment  or special tax levied in installments, as provided in this Division 2, may  be made in the bonds provided for in this Division 2. In the event payment  is made in the bonds authorized under Section 9-2-119, the first  installment of such special assessment or special tax shall be paid to the  person entitled thereto on the contract for that work. If this first  installment is not collected when payments fall due, vouchers therefor may  be issued, payable out of the first installment when collected. These  vouchers shall bear interest at the rate specified in the ordinance referred  to in Section 9-2-10 of the Illinois Municipal Code for bonds and not more  than the rate the installments of the assessment against which the vouchers  are issued bear, payable  annually, and shall be signed by such officers as may be prescribed by  ordinance.In the event payment is made in the bonds authorized under Section  9-2-127, the first installment of such special assessment or special tax  and all other installments thereof shall be held and used to pay the bonds  and interest thereon as provided in Section 9-2-127.However, in municipalities having a population of less than 500,000,  where the ordinance for the improvement provides for the collection of  costs, such costs shall be first paid out of this first installment and may  be included in and evidenced by vouchers issued as provided in this Section  9-2-131.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. 82-642.)
65 ILCS 5/9-2-132
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-132)Sec. 9-2-132.         Any property owner may pay his assessment wholly or in part,  either before or after it is due, and whether or not the assessment has  been withdrawn from collection or the property assessed has been sold to  any municipality or forfeited to the State for nonpayment of that  assessment, with the bonds or vouchers heretofore or hereafter issued under  this Division 2 on account of that assessment, applying, however, bonds  issued under Section 9-2-119 and vouchers of each series only to the  payment of the installments to which they relate. If bonds issued under  Section 9-2-127 are used to make such payments, such bonds may be applied  to the payment of any and all installments, but only such of those bonds  may be used as are next in numerical order of redemption at the time of  making such payments. In making such payments, the vouchers and bonds shall  be taken at their par value and interest accrued to the date of making the  payment. All vouchers and bonds received in payment of such an assessment  shall be cancelled by the officer receiving the vouchers, or bonds, as of  the date of their receipt, and then deposited with the treasurer or the  comptroller, as the case may be, of the municipality issuing the vouchers  or bonds.However, when the amount of the assessment is less than that of a bond  or voucher, the officer receiving the same shall issue a receipt for the  balance which shall entitle the owner to the same rights, except as to  negotiability, as if the receipt were the original bond or voucher in the  amount of the balance. Any such indorsement on any such bond or voucher  shall be made by writing or stamping across the face thereof the words  "payments upon this bond (or voucher) are listed upon the back."    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/9-2-133
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-133)Sec. 9-2-133.         When any municipality provides by ordinance for the  construction of a waterworks system, any portion of the cost of which is to  be paid by special assessment and a direct annual tax is authorized by a  vote as provided in Section 9-2-38, in order to secure the payment of the  cost of that construction, the contractor and holders of the bonds that may  be issued in payment of that cost, in the manner provided in this Division  2, shall have a lien upon the waterworks system, and upon the income to be  derived from its operation, to secure the payment of the amounts due them  respectively. This lien shall be to the fullest extent that the  municipality may be authorized by law to create. Upon a request in writing  of the contractor for the construction of such a waterworks system, or of  the holders of a majority in amount of the specified bonds, the  municipality shall convey by a deed of trust in the nature of a mortgage  the waterworks system so to be constructed, and all the property, both real  and personal, pertaining thereto. Such a deed of trust shall secure the  payment of the assessment for public benefit or of the bonds as the  contractor or holders of the bonds may elect. The trustees in such a deed  of trust shall be selected by the contractor or the holders of a majority  in amount of such bonds. The provisions of this section shall not apply to  any city having a population of 500,000 or more.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/9-2-134
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-134)Sec. 9-2-134.         The entire proceeds arising from the operation of such  waterworks system shall be paid into the municipal treasury and shall be  kept in a separate fund to be known as the "waterworks fund." After the  payment therefrom of the necessary running and operating expenses of the  waterworks system, the balance from time to time shall be credited by the  municipal treasurer upon the assessment levied against the municipality for  public benefits and the respective installments thereof, and shall be  applied toward the payment of the cost of the waterworks system in the  manner provided by this Division 2. Until the bonds so issued to pay the  cost of the construction of the waterworks system and the interest thereon  have been fully paid, the municipal treasurer shall not pay any warrant  drawn on the "waterworks fund" for any other purpose except for the payment  of the necessary operating expenses of the waterworks system.In case such a waterworks system is used and operated to supply water  for any existing distributing system, the entire proceeds derived from the  operation of the waterworks system and the distributing system so supplied  with water shall be apportioned and divided in proportion to the original  cost of the distributing system, and the cost of the waterworks system.  These costs shall be determined by the municipal clerk. The portion of such  income that is so determined to arise from the operation of the waterworks  system shall be paid to the municipal treasurer and placed in the  "waterworks fund" and used only in the manner specified in this section.  The provision of this section shall not apply to any city having a  population of 500,000 or more.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/9-2-135
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-135)Sec. 9-2-135.         No person accepting the vouchers or bonds as provided in this  Division 2 shall have any claim or lien upon the municipality in any event  for the payment of his vouchers or bonds or the interest thereon, except  from the collection of the assessment against which the vouchers or bonds  are issued. The municipality, nevertheless, shall not be in any way liable  to the holders of these vouchers or bonds in case of a failure to collect  the assessment, but with all reasonable diligence, so far as it can legally  do so, it shall cause a valid special assessment or a special tax, as the  case may be, to be levied and collected, to pay these bonds and vouchers,  until all bonds and vouchers are fully paid. Any holder of vouchers or  bonds, or his assigns, shall be entitled to summary relief by way of  mandamus or injunction to enforce the provisions of this section.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/9-2-136
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-136)Sec. 9-2-136.         From time to time, as the work under any contract for such an  improvement progresses, upon certificates by the board of local  improvements, or by some officer designated by the board for that purpose,  payments may be made either in money, vouchers, or bonds, as provided in  this Division 2, to apply upon the contract price, reserving, however, a  sufficient amount upon each of the payments to properly secure, in the  judgment of the board, the faithful performance of the contract. This  reserve shall be paid over at such time and on such conditions as the board  shall fix, after the specified work has been completed or accepted.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/9-2-137
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-137)Sec. 9-2-137.         The board of local improvements before the crediting of the  excess as provided for in Section 9-2-114, shall estimate an amount deemed  sufficient to make up any probable deficiency of interest, in the event  that from any cause, collections of interest may prove insufficient to meet  the interest to be paid on the bonds until they mature as hereinbefore  provided. This estimated amount shall be deducted out of the installments  as an item of expense before crediting rebates of excess as directed in  this Division 2 and shall be used for no other purpose than to make up such  a deficiency until the bonds are fully paid, both principal and interest.  Any balance remaining of this estimated amount after the principal and  interest of the bonds are fully paid may be used to reimburse the corporate  fund for any advances made from this fund on account of costs of the  special assessment or special tax or other expenses of the improvement for  which the special assessment or special tax is levied.However, in municipalities having a population of 500,000 or more, no  deduction of this estimated amount out of the installments shall be made  where the ordinance providing for the assessment provided that a certain  sum not to exceed 5% of the amount of that special assessment or special  tax shall be applied as provided in Sections 9-2-138 and 9-2-139, or in  case such a municipality, at any time before the crediting of such excess,  shall annually appropriate or set aside a fund sufficient in amount to meet  all estimated deficiencies in interest which may arise during the year for  which the fund is provided.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/9-2-138
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-138)Sec. 9-2-138.         If, after final settlement with the contractor for any  improvement and after full payment of all vouchers or bonds except those  bonds and interest coupons not presented for payment, although called and  for which funds are available and reserved, within the period of time  specified in Section 9-1-5, issued on account of that improvement, there is  any surplus remaining in the special assessment or special tax above the  specified payments and above the amount necessary for the payment of  interest on those vouchers or bonds, such surplus shall be applied to  reimbursing the public benefit fund for any amounts paid from such fund on  account of the improvement. If, after the public benefit fund has been  reimbursed, a surplus still remains, the proper authorities of the  municipality shall declare at once a rebate upon each lot, block, tract, or  parcel of land assessed, of its pro rata proportion of that surplus. Such  rebate shall be paid to the owner of record of each such lot, block, tract,  or parcel at the time of the declaration of the rebate. Should any  additional funds be collected after the original rebate is declared, the  municipality shall not be required to declare a supplemental rebate for 5  years from the date the original rebate is declared. The municipality may  deduct for its cost and expenses for declaring and making any rebate not  more than 5% of the amount declared to be rebated. The board of local  improvements shall keep and exhibit publicly in its office, an index of all  warrants upon which rebates are due and payable and upon proper proof, the  warrants shall be repaid to the persons entitled thereto.However, whenever any municipality having a population of 500,000 or  more has appropriated or set aside a fund sufficient in amount to meet all  estimated deficiencies in interest, cost of making, levying, and collecting  a special assessment or special tax, and of letting and executing  contracts, advertising, clerical hire, engineering and inspection, court  costs and fees of commissioners in condemnation proceedings incurred in  such a proceeding and has provided, in the ordinance providing for the  assessment, that a certain sum not to exceed 5% of the amount of the  assessment or special tax shall be applied toward the payment of the  specified and other costs of making and collecting the assessment, the  money collected in the fund created by this 5% so added as hereinbefore  authorized shall be used to pay all deficiency in interest in the warrant,  and the balance shall be used to reimburse the corporate funds for advances  made from the corporate funds on account of costs of the special assessment  or special tax or other expenses of the improvement for which the special  assessment or special tax was levied.    (Source: Laws 1965, p. 2969.)
65 ILCS 5/9-2-140
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-140)Sec. 9-2-140.         Appeals from final judgments or orders of any court made in  the proceedings provided for by this Division 2, may be taken in the manner  provided in other civil cases, by the municipality or by any of the owners  or parties interested in land taken, damaged, or assessed therein. However,  no appeal may be taken after 30 days from the entry of the final judgement  or order. Such an appeal may be prosecuted jointly, and upon a joint bond,  or severally, and upon several bonds, as may be specified in the order  fixing the amount and terms of such bonds.    (Source: P.A. 76-1407.)
65 ILCS 5/9-2-141
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-141)Sec. 9-2-141.         After the expiration of the 30 day period allowed for filing  a notice of appeal under this Division 2, an appeal from any such judgment  may be filed in the manner provided in other civil cases on petition or  application of owners or parties interested in the property affected  thereby, as shown by the record, at any time after the disposition of the  last remaining objections to the confirmation, if any, prior to the first  day of June following the entry of the judgment.However, if the warrant for collection as to any parcel is not certified  for collection so that an application for judgment of sale may be made in  the year following the entry of the judgment, leave to appeal as to that  parcel, on application, may be granted by the reviewing court within the  period of one year after the entry of the judgment.In every case there shall be filed with the clerk of the reviewing  court, with the application for leave to appeal, an affidavit by the  appellant or his agent setting forth the time when the warrant for  collection, as to the property, was so certified, and further setting forth  that the person to whom the notice of the filing of assessment roll as to  the property, as shown by the record, did not receive the notice, or  otherwise learn of the pendency of the proceedings for the confirmation of  the assessment until less than 10 days before the entry of default against  his property in the court below. In all such cases the notice of appeal  shall contain a statement that it is filed pursuant to leave granted by the  reviewing court under authority of this Division 2 and the notice of appeal  shall be filed and served on or before the dates hereinabove fixed.    (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3762.)
65 ILCS 5/9-2-142
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-142)Sec. 9-2-142.         Any municipality, not already controlled by this Division 2,  if it so determines by ordinance, may adopt the provisions of this Division  2, and where it has so adopted this Division 2, it has the right to take  all the proceedings provided for and to have the benefit of all the  provisions of this Division 2.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/9-2-143
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-143)Sec. 9-2-143.         Whenever, immediately prior to January 1, 1942, authority of  law existed in corporate authorities to levy special assessments or special  taxes for local improvements, and for that purpose to use the proceedings  provided by Article 9 of an act entitled "An Act to provide for the  incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, as amended,  or by "An Act concerning local improvements," approved June 14, 1897, as  amended, such corporate authorities are authorized to make use of the  provisions of this Division 2 for the purpose, with the same effect, and to  the same extent as heretofore authorized to use the provisions of either  mentioned act. Any such corporate authorities as may be on and after  January 1, 1942, authorized by law to levy such special assessments or  special taxes, whether otherwise expressly authorized thereto or not, may  make use of the provisions of this Division 2 in like manner.If, in any such case, a board of local improvements, as required in this  Division 2, does not exist, the corporate authorities shall take such steps  for a public hearing, on the subject of the proposed improvement, to be  paid for by special assessment or special taxation, as are required in this  Division 2 of the board of local improvements, and they shall act as such a  board in the manner provided in this Division 2, as nearly as may be, both  in originating the improvement and in executing the work and making payment  therefor.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/9-2-144
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-2-144)Sec. 9-2-144.         The laws subsisting immediately prior to January 1, 1942, the  time of the taking effect of this Division 2, shall continue to apply to  all proceedings for the condemnation of land, or the confirmation of  special assessment or special taxes for local improvements, which were  pending in any court in this state at the time of the taking effect of this  Division 2, and to all proceedings for the collection of any deficiency  under past levies already made under any law existing at the time of the  taking effect of this Division 2, and also to all proceedings for new  assessments made in lieu of others annulled before this Division 2 took  effect, by order of some court.Whenever any installment of an assessment confirmed under prior acts  matures, proceedings to return the installment delinquent, and to collect  the installment shall conform to the provisions of this Division 2.Whenever any bond issued under "An Act concerning local improvements,"  approved June 14, 1897, as amended, matures, proceedings to refund or  enforce its payment shall conform to the provisions of this Division 2, so  far as they are applicable.Nothing in this Division 2 shall be construed to repeal any of the laws  relating to civil service, and nothing in this Division 2 shall be  construed to repeal or modify any of the rules of the civil service  commission of the city of Chicago adopted pursuant to the civil service  laws, and nothing in this Division 2 shall be construed to repeal Division  84 of Article 11.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/Art. 9 Div. 3 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 DIVISION 3.      PROCEDURES FOR SPECIFIED LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS
65 ILCS 5/9-3-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-3-1)Sec. 9-3-1.         Any municipality may make a local improvement whenever the  public necessity requires such improvement, subject only to the limitations  prescribed in this Division 3. This Division 3 shall not be construed as  repealing any other laws with respect to local improvements, but shall be  considered as an additional grant of power for the purposes herein set out.  Any number of streets, avenues, lanes or alleys, or any other public  places, or parts thereof, to be improved may be included in one proceeding  (even though they may be intersected by previously improved streets,  avenues, roads or alleys which are not included in the proceeding) where  they are contiguous or part of a connected system with reciprocal benefits.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/9-3-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 9 - Local Improvements

 (from Ch. 24, par. 9-3-2)Sec. 9-3-2.         In this Division 3, the following terms have the meaning  ascribed to them unless the context indicates otherwise:"Municipality" means any city, village, or incorporated town."Attorney" means the attorney employed by the municipality to furnish  the necessary legal services in connection with any local improvement to be  constructed under this Division 3."Engineer" means the engineer employed by the municipality to prepare  the necessary plans, estimates, and specifications, and supervise  construction of any local improvement to be constructed under this Division  3."Assessed valuation" means the value of the property as shown on the tax  collectors' record for the last year in which taxes were levied."Assessor" or "assessing officer" means the county or township official  who performs the duties of assessor."Committee on local improvements" means the committee created pursuant  to Section 9-3-3 consisting of the presiding officer of the corporate  authorities of the municipality and an attorney and an engineer."Local improvements" means and includes the improving, widening or  extending of any street, avenue, lane, alley or other public place by  grading, paving, repaving, resurfacing, and constructing curbs, gutters,  storm sewers, sanitary sewers, water mains, walks, gas mains, street lights  and all necessary appurtenances thereto and otherwise improving the same,  or repairing of curbs, gutters, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, water mains,  walks, gas mains, street lights and all necessary appurtenances thereto and  otherwise improving the same."Prime Commercial Rate" means such prime rate as from time to time is  publicly announced by the largest commercial banking institution located  in this State, measured in terms of total assets.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)