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65 ILCS 5/11-119.2-3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-119.2-3)Sec. 11-119.2-3. The following terms whenever used or referred to in  this Division, shall have the following meanings unless the context requires otherwise:(1) "Agency agreement" means the written agreement between 2 or more municipalities  establishing a municipal natural gas agency.(2) "Bonds" means revenue bonds, notes and other evidences of obligations  of a municipal natural gas agency issued under the provisions of this Division.(3) "Eligible utility" means a public agency or other entity of any type,  which owns, operates or controls any plant or equipment for the exploration,  production, acquisition, storage, transmission or distribution  of natural gas in connection  with the furnishing thereof for sale or resale.(4) "Governing body" means, with respect to a municipality, the council,  city council, board of trustees, or other corporate authority of the municipality  which exercises the general governmental powers of such municipality.(5) "Municipal natural gas agency" means a body politic and corporate, municipal  corporation and unit of local government of the State of Illinois organized  in accordance with the provisions of this Division.(6) "Municipality" means a city, village or incorporated town in the State  of Illinois, or any other state in the United States, owning or operating a natural gas plant or system which  furnishes natural gas service to the public.(7) "Project" means any plant, works, system, facility, and real and personal  property of any nature whatsoever, together with all parts thereof and appurtenances  thereto, used or useful in the storage, acquisition, exploration,  production, distribution, transmission,  purchase, sale, exchange or interchange of natural gas and in the  acquisition, extraction, conversion, transportation, storage  or reprocessing of fuel of any kind for any such purposes, or any interest  in, or right to the use, services, output or capacity, of any such plant,  works, system or facilities.(8) "Public agency" means any municipality, political subdivision, municipal  corporation, unit of local government, governmental unit, or public corporation  operated by or pursuant to the laws of the State of Illinois, of another  state or of the United States, and any state, the United States, and any  commission, board, bureau or other body declared by the laws of any state  or the United States to be a department, agency, or instrumentality thereof.(9) "Natural gas" means any gaseous heating fuel which is naturally or  synthetically produced.       (Source: P.A. 94-731, eff. 4-19-06.)
65 ILCS 5/11-119.2-7
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-119.2-7)Sec. 11-119.2-7. Except as otherwise provided by this Division, a municipal  natural gas agency may acquire all real or personal property that it deems necessary  for carrying out the purposes of this Division, whether in fee simple absolute  or a lesser interest, by condemnation and the exercise of the power of eminent  domain in the manner provided in the Eminent Domain Act.  A municipal natural gas agency shall have no power of eminent domain with respect  to any real or personal property owned or leased by any eligible utility  as part of a system, whether existing, under construction or being planned,  of facilities for the storage, exploration,  transmission, production or distribution of natural gas.The authority of a municipal natural gas agency to acquire real or personal property  by condemnation or the exercise of the power of eminent domain shall be  a continuing power, and no exercise thereof shall exhaust it.       (Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)
65 ILCS 5/11-119.2-8
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-119.2-8)Sec. 11-119.2-8.         A municipal natural gas agency may establish,  levy, and collect or may authorize, by contract, franchise, lease, or otherwise,  the establishment, levying and collection of rents, rates and other charges  for the products and services afforded by the municipal natural gas agency or  by or in connection with any project or properties which it may construct,  acquire, own, operate, or control or with respect to which it may have any  interest or any right to the products and services thereof as it may deem  necessary, proper, desirable or reasonable.   Rents, rates, and other charges  shall be at least sufficient to meet the operation, maintenance and other  expenses thereof, including reasonable reserves, interest, and principal  payments, including payments into one or more sinking funds for the retirement  of principal.  A municipal natural gas agency may pledge its rates, rents, and  other revenue, or any part thereof, as security for the repayment, with  interest and premium, if any, of any moneys borrowed by it or advanced  to it for any of its authorized purposes and as security for the payment  of amounts due and owing by it under any contract.    (Source: P.A. 84-1221.)
65 ILCS 5/11-119.2-9
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-119.2-9)Sec. 11-119.2-9.     A.     In order to accomplish the purposes of this Division,  a municipality may enter into and carry out contracts and agreements for  the purchase from a municipal natural gas agency of natural gas and natural  gas transmission  services, natural gas supply development services and other services.(1) Each such contract and agreement shall be for a period not to exceed  50 years and shall contain such other terms, conditions and provisions,  not inconsistent with the provisions of this Division, as the governing  body of such municipality shall approve, including, without limitation,  provisions whereby the municipality is obligated to pay for the products  and services of a municipal natural gas agency without set-off or counterclaim  and irrespective of whether such products or services are furnished, made  available or delivered to the municipality or whether any project contemplated  by any such contract and agreement is completed, operable or operating,  and notwithstanding suspension, interruption, interference, reduction or  curtailment of the products and services of such project.(2) Each such contract and agreement may be pledged by such municipal  natural gas agency to secure its obligations and may provide that if one or more  municipalities defaults in the payment of its obligations under such contract  and agreement, the remaining municipalities having such contracts and agreements  shall be required to pay for and shall be entitled proportionately to use  or otherwise dispose of the products and services which were to be purchased  by the defaulting municipality.(3) Each such contract and agreement shall be a limited obligation of  a municipality payable from and secured by a pledge of, and lien and charge  upon, all or any part of the revenues derived or to be derived from the  ownership and operation of its natural gas system as an expense of  operation and maintenance thereof, and shall not constitute an indebtedness  of such municipality for the purpose of any statutory limitation.(4) Nothing in this Division shall be construed to preclude a municipality  from appropriating and using taxes and other revenues received in any year  to make payments due or to comply with covenants to be performed during  that year under any contract or agreement for a term of years entered into  as contemplated in this Division, subject to the provisions of laws regarding  local financing.B. Any such contract or agreement may include provisions for requirements  purchases, restraints on resale or other dealings, exclusive dealing, pricing,  territorial division, and other conduct or arrangements which may have an  anti-competitive effect.    (Source: P.A. 84-1221.)
65 ILCS 5/11-119.2-10
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-119.2-10)Sec. 11-119.2-10.         Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the  State of Illinois and all its public officers, governmental units, agencies and  instrumentalities, all banks, trust companies, savings banks and institutions,  building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment  companies, and others carrying on a banking business, all insurance  companies, insurance associations and others carrying on any insurance  business, and all executors, administrators, guardians, trustees and other  fiduciaries may legally invest any sinking funds, money, or other funds  belonging to them or within their control in any bonds issued pursuant to  this Division and the bonds shall be authorized security for any and all  public deposits.    (Source: P.A. 84-1221.)
65 ILCS 5/11-119.2-11
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-119.2-11)Sec. 11-119.2-11.     A.     This Division shall be construed liberally to effectuate  its legislative intent and purpose, as complete and independent authority  for the performance of each and every act and thing authorized by this Division,  and all authority granted shall be broadly interpreted to effectuate this  intent and purpose and not as a limitation of powers.  This Division is  expressly not a limit on any of the powers granted any unit of local government  of this State by constitution, statute, charter or otherwise, other than  when the unit of local government is acting expressly pursuant to this Division.B.  In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between this Division  and any other law or charter provision, the provisions of this Division shall prevail.C.  Any provision of this Division which may be determined by competent  authority to be prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as  to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or  unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and  any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate  or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.    (Source: P.A. 84-1221.)
65 ILCS 5/Art 11 prec Div 120 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 120 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 DIVISION 120.      TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM TAX
65 ILCS 5/11-120-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-120-1)Sec. 11-120-1.         The corporate authorities of any city, village or incorporated town  may levy, annually, a tax of not to exceed .03% of the value, as  equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, on  all taxable property therein, to provide revenue for the purpose of  operating, maintaining and improving any local transportation system  owned and operated by such city, village or incorporated town. 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 as provided by Section  8-3-1.    (Source: P.A. 81-1509.)
65 ILCS 5/11-120-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-120-2)Sec. 11-120-2.         This Division 120 shall not be in force in any city,  village or incorporated town until the question of its adoption is  certified by the clerk and submitted to the electors of the city, village  or incorporated town and  approved by a majority of those voting on the question.The question shall be in substantially the  following form:    --------------------------------------------------------------Shall Division 120 of the IllinoisMunicipal Code permitting                     YESmunicipalities to levy an additionalannual tax of not to exceed .03%          --------------------for the purpose of operating,maintaining and improving local               NOtransportation systems be adopted?--------------------------------------------------------------If a majority of the votes cast on the question is in favor of  adopting this Division 120, such division shall be adopted. It shall be  in force in the adopting city, village or incorporated town 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. 121 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 DIVISION 121.      SUBWAY SYSTEM
65 ILCS 5/11-121-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-121-1)Sec. 11-121-1.         Every municipality may construct or enter into contracts for  the construction of or to otherwise acquire in, under, upon, across, or  along the streets, alleys, and public places of the municipality, and in,  under, and upon any other property owned by the municipality or leased to  it for the purpose, subways for local transportation and other public  utility purposes and for any other municipal purpose. The term "subways" as  used in this Division 121, includes all tunnels, entrances, exits,  passageways, connections, approaches, inclines, elevators, stations, and  other structures, equipment, appliances, or appurtenant property,  appropriate to a system of such subways.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-121-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-121-2)Sec. 11-121-2.         Every municipality may acquire in the manner provided for by  any law of eminent domain of this state, any real or personal property  necessary or convenient for the purpose of constructing and operating  subways, as provided in Section 11-121-1.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-121-3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-121-3)Sec. 11-121-3.         The cost of constructing or otherwise acquiring such  subways, or the property necessary or appropriate for the operation  thereof, or such part of that cost as may be just and reasonable, may be  levied in any municipality upon and collected from the property specially  benefited thereby, if any, in the manner provided by Article 9.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-121-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-121-5)Sec. 11-121-5.         To secure the payment of any or all of such revenue bonds or  certificates and for the purpose of setting forth the covenants and  undertakings of the municipality in connection with the issuance thereof,  and the issuance of any additional revenue bonds or certificates payable  from such revenues or income, as well as the use and application of the  revenues or income to be derived from the operation of local transportation  facilities within such municipality, including but not limited to the  operation of all subways owned by such municipality, the municipality may  execute and deliver a trust agreement or agreements or all such covenants  and undertakings to secure the payment of the bonds or certificates may be  included in the ordinance authorizing the bonds or certificates. However,  no lien upon any physical property of the municipality shall be created  thereby. A remedy for any breach or default of the terms of any such trust  agreement or ordinance by the municipality may be by mandamus proceedings  in any court of competent jurisdiction to compel performance and compliance  therewith, but the trust agreement or ordinance may prescribe by whom or  upon whose behalf such action may be instituted. Under no circumstances  shall any revenue bonds or certificates issued by the municipality  hereunder be or become an indebtedness or obligation of the municipality  within the purview of any constitutional limitation or provision. It shall  be plainly stated on the face of each revenue bond and certificate that it  does not constitute such an indebtedness or obligation, but is payable  solely from the revenues or income as aforesaid.In case any officer whose signature appears on any bond or certificate  or interest coupon, issued under this Division 121 ceases to hold his  office before delivery thereof, his signature shall be valid and sufficient  for all purposes with the same effect as if he had remained in office until  delivery thereof.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-121-6
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-121-6)Sec. 11-121-6.         Without any petition or consent of any property owner, a  municipality has the power to lay down and construct in such subways,  railroad and street railway tracks and all necessary appurtenances and  operate the same for transportation purposes. Likewise, without any  petition or consent of any property owner, but subject to the provisions of  Section 11-121-7, a municipality may lease, consent to, permit, or grant  the use of such subways, or portions thereof, for transportation purposes,  including the right to pay down, construct, and operate railroad and street  railway tracks therein, to any political subdivision, municipal corporation  or public authority of this state authorized to construct and operate  transportation facilities or to any railroad or street railway or other  local transportation corporation upon such terms and conditions as the  corporate authorities of the municipality by ordinance shall prescribe and  for such duration of time as may be authorized by any law of this state  governing the grant of permits for local transportation purposes in the  streets of the municipality. The municipality may also use the subways or  lease or permit the use of the subways for transportation facilities other  than railroads and street railways, and to the extent that the subways are  not used for transportation purposes, the municipality may use the subways,  or lease or permit the use of the subways, for the purposes.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-121-7
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-121-7)Sec. 11-121-7.         No ordinance of any municipality granting any lease  of, or consent, permit, or right to use such subways for local  transportation purposes shall become operative until a proposition to  approve the ordinance has been submitted to the electors of the  municipality and has  been approved by a majority of the electors voting upon the proposition.  Every such ordinance shall order such submission and shall  designate the election at which the proposition is to be submitted.  The  municipal clerk shall promptly certify such ordinance and proposition for  submission.The proposition need not include the ordinance in full but shall indicate  the nature of the ordinance, and shall be substantially in the following form:    --------------------------------------------------------------Shall the ordinance passed by thecity council (or board of trustees)of (name of municipality) on                 YES(insert date), entitled ....,which grants to (name of grantee)        ---------------------a lease of (or consent, permit, orright to use, as the case may be)            NOof the municipally owned subwaystherein specified, for localtransportation purposes, be approved?--------------------------------------------------------------However, when any municipality by ordinance grants a permit to  construct and operate or maintain and operate a local transportation  system, including the use of municipally owned subways, and that  ordinance is submitted to and approved on a referendum, it is not  necessary to pass or to submit to a referendum a separate ordinance  granting a lease of or consent, permission, or right for the use of  those subways.    (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
65 ILCS 5/11-121-8
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-121-8)Sec. 11-121-8.         In this section, the term "public utility structures and  appliances" includes lines of a street railroad or other railroad, or both,  and the property used to supply or deal in gas, electricity, lighting,  water, heating, refrigerating, power, telephone, telegraph, and other  public utilities, and any conduits, pipes, wires, poles, or other  properties used for the specified purposes or any of them.Every municipality has the power to require persons owning or operating  public utility structures and appliances in, upon, under, over, across, or  along the streets, alleys, or public places of the municipality in which it  is proposed to construct subways, (1) to remove these public utility  structures and appliances from their locations in the streets, alleys, or  public places, and (2) to relocate them in such places in the subways or  elsewhere in the streets, alleys, or public places of the municipality as  may be designated by the municipality, either temporarily or for the  remainder of the period of the grant, license, or franchise which the  specified persons have to occupy the streets, alleys, and public places for  public utility purposes. If any person owning or operating public utility  structures and appliances fails or refuses so to remove or relocate them,  the municipality may remove or relocate them.However, the power of the municipality to so remove or relocate public  utility structures and appliances itself, or to require persons owning or  operating public utility structures and appliances to so remove or relocate  them, shall be exercised only upon such terms and conditions as the  municipality and these persons may agree upon, or in default of such an  agreement, upon such fair and reasonable terms and conditions as the  municipality may prescribe. These terms and conditions may include fair and  reasonable provisions as to how much, if any, of the expense of the  removal, or relocation, shall be paid by the owners or operators of public  utility structures and appliances, respectively, and as to what  compensation, if any, shall be paid to the municipality by the owners or  operators of public utility structures and appliances, respectively, for  the use or occupation of such space, if any, as they may use or occupy in  the subways.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)