70 ILCS 605/12-22
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS|70 ILCS 605/ - Illinois Drainage Code.|Article XII - Miscellaneous Provisions--Penalties

 (from Ch. 42, par. 12-22)Sec. 12-22.     Repealing section.     This Act is intended as a complete revision, consolidation and  codification of all the statutes of this State relating to the  organization and operation of drainage districts and the construction of  drains, ditches and levees for agricultural, sanitary and mining  purposes and the following acts and all acts amendatory thereof are  repealed:"An Act to provide for the construction, reparation and protection of  drains, ditches and levees, across the lands of others, for  agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the  organization of drainage districts", approved May 29, 1879;"An Act to provide for drainage for agricultural and sanitary  purposes, and to repeal certain acts therein named," approved June 27,  1885;"An Act to authorize certain drainage and levee districts to acquire,  maintain and operate dredge boats for the construction and preservation  of drains, ditches and levees", approved May 16, 1905;"An Act to authorize drainage districts and special drainage  districts to acquire, maintain and operate dredge boats and other  necessary equipment for the construction and preservation of drains and  ditches," approved June 26, 1923;"An Act to authorize certain drainage and levee districts to acquire,  maintain and operate dredge boats, land dredges and other necessary  equipment for the construction and preservation of drains, ditches and  levees," approved July 1, 1941;"An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of a levee or  levees in special drainage districts and to legalize and validate former  proceedings, bonds, orders indebtedness and expenditures had, issued or  incurred in regard to, on account of, or with the view to the erection  and maintenance of such levee or levees," approved June 26, 1923;"An Act to authorize the organization of drainage and levee districts  for the purpose of accepting works constructed or proposed to be  constructed by the United States of America, to authorize existing  districts to accept such works, to authorize all districts to comply  with the conditions imposed in connection with the construction of such  works, and to empower two or more districts to cooperate in accepting  and maintaining such works," approved June 12, 1937;"An Act to enable the owners of farm lands which form any part of a  drainage district, in which there is located in whole or in part a city,  town or village, to reorganize as a separate drainage district with  certain rights and duties in relation thereto", filed June 26, 1917;"An Act to extend the time and provide for the payment of assessments  of benefits in drainage districts", approved May 22, 1885;"An Act in relation to the abatement of assessments for benefits in  drainage districts", filed July 13, 1933;"An Act to maintain and improve county ditches heretofore constructed  to drain swamp and overflowed lands", approved June 23, 1883;"An Act declaring legal drains heretofore or hereafter constructed by  mutual license, consent or agreement, by adjacent or adjoining owners of  land, and to limit the time within which such license or agreement  heretofore granted may be withdrawn", approved June 4, 1889;"An Act to enable the commissioners of drainage districts to contract  with railroad companies to construct or keep in repair any levee or  levees now constructed or to be hereafter constructed in such districts,  and to grant to such railroad companies a right-of-way over, on, along  or across such levees", approved June 5, 1889;"An Act to provide for the dissolution of drainage districts,"  approved June 4, 1889;"An Act authorizing all drainage districts to issue bonds, and  providing for the registration and payment thereof", approved June 15,  1895;"An Act to authorize the levying of special assessments upon lands,  railroads, public highways and municipal corporations situate within any  drainage district so as to provide the funds necessary to pay the cost  of construction for benefits that shall have been conferred by the  construction of any work of improvement, without special assessments  having been legally levied prior thereto, and providing for the issuance  of bonds payable out of such special assessments, authorized by this act  to be levied," approved June 11, 1917;"An Act to provide for constructing pumping plants and maintaining  the same in operation, in drainage and levee districts and special  drainage districts heretofore or hereafter organized, and to legalize  and validate former proceedings, assessments, bond issues, indebtedness,  and expenditures in regard to, or on account of, the erection,  maintenance and operation of pumping plants, and to repeal an act  therein named", approved June 27, 1913;"An Act to enable adjoining drainage districts to connect their  ditches, drains, levees or other works, and to provide for the  apportionment of the cost of the construction, operation and maintenance  of the work of a drainage district where lands in an adjoining district  are benefited thereby, and to repeal an act therein named", approved  June 28, 1913;"An Act to enable adjoining drainage districts to construct and erect  a joint pumping station or joint pumping stations, ditches, levees or  other works, to contract for the proportion of the cost of construction  and maintenance of the same to be paid by each, and providing for the  approval of the same," approved June 27, 1913;"An Act in relation to the construction, reparation and protection of  drains, ditches and levees across the land of others for agricultural,  sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the organization of  drainage districts, approved and in force May 29, 1879", approved June  7, 1897;"An Act to provide for the refunding by drainage districts of money  raised by assessments or taxes illegally levied and collected and of  money raised by assessments or taxes legally levied where the proposed  improvements for which the assessments or taxes were levied, have been  abandoned", approved June 1, 1921;"An Act in relation to the abatement of assessments for benefits in  levee and drainage districts", approved June 15, 1895;"An Act to authorize the commissioners of drainage districts to  convey property to and lease property from the Federal Government",  approved November 20, 1933;"An Act to enable drainage districts to effect settlements for  damages resulting from changes in water surface elevations of any river,  lake, or other water surfaces, or of ground water, caused by flood  control, navigation, irrigation, or water power projects and works  constructed by Federal Agencies", approved July 17, 1945;"An Act to give circuit courts of this State and the Superior Courts  of Cook County, in term time, and judges thereof in vacation, concurrent  jurisdiction with the county courts, in all matters pertaining to the  organization of farm drainage districts, and farm drainage and levee  districts, and the operation thereof, and to repeal all acts in conflict  herewith", approved June 5, 1909;"An Act to provide for the care of water in lakes and artificial  ponds or bodies of water within the boundaries of drainage and levee  districts, or drainage districts", approved June 17, 1929.    (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)