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65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-20
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

Sec. 11-135.5-20. Board of commissioners.(a)   Appointment of commissioners. Upon the adoption of an ordinance and intergovernmental agreement by the corporate authorities of a municipality under this Division, the mayor or president, with the approval of the corporate authorities, shall appoint a commissioner.(b)  Commission.  The commissioners so appointed by each of the municipalities shall constitute a commission and a municipal corporation and a public body politic and corporate with the powers and duties specified in this Division. The corporate name of the commission and its duration shall be provided in the agreement, and in such name the commission may contract and be contracted with and sue and be sued. The commissioners shall be collectively referred to as a board of commissioners.(c)  Term; qualifications; compensation; bonds.  Each commissioner appointed by a mayor or president shall be the mayor or president or an elected member of the corporate authorities of the municipality from which the appointment is made. The agreement establishing the commission shall specify the period during which a commissioner shall hold office and may provide for the appointment of alternate commissioners from member municipalities.  No commissioner may receive any compensation for serving as commissioner. Each commissioner shall furnish a bond for the faithful performance of that commissioner's official duties. This bond shall not be less than $5,000 and its costs shall be paid by the commission.(d)   Removal; prohibited interests.  Each commissioner may be removed by the corporate authorities of the municipality from which the commissioner was appointed for any cause for which any municipal officer may be removed.  No commissioner or employee of the commission and no mayor, president, member of the corporate authorities, or employee of any of the municipalities shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or job of work or materials, or the profits thereof, or services to be performed for or by the commission.(e)    Violations.  A violation of this Section is a Class C misdemeanor. A conviction is cause for the removal of a person from office or employment.  (Source: P.A. 102-684, eff. 12-16-21.)
65 ILCS 5/11-135.5-45
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

Sec. 11-135.5-45. Laws not applicable. The provisions of this Division: (i) are not subject to Division 135 or Division 136 of Article 11 of this Code or the Water Commission Act of 1985; and (ii) do not apply to any commission formed or operating under Division 135 or Division 136 of Article 11 of this Code or the Water Commission Act of 1985.  (Source: P.A. 102-684, eff. 12-16-21.)
65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 136 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 DIVISION 136.      JOINT ACQUISITION AND OPERATION OF WATER AND SEWAGE SYSTEMS
65 ILCS 5/11-136-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-1)Sec. 11-136-1.         Any 2 or more municipalities, except cities of 500,000 or  more inhabitants, may acquire either by purchase or construction a  waterworks system or sources of supply of water or sewer systems, or any  combination thereof, and may operate jointly a waterworks system or sources  of supply of water or sewer systems, or any combination thereof, and  improve and extend the same, as provided in this Division 136. The  corporate authorities of such municipalities desiring to avail themselves  of the provisions of this Division 136 shall adopt a resolution or  ordinance determining and electing to acquire and operate jointly a  waterworks system or sources of supply of water or sewer systems, or any  combination thereof, as the case may be. This Division 136 shall not be  construed as limiting, amending or repealing any other laws with respect to  joint acquisition and operation of a waterworks system or sources of supply  of water or sewer systems, or any combination thereof, but shall be  considered as an additional grant of power for the purposes herein set out.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-136-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-2)Sec. 11-136-2.         Upon the adoption of such an ordinance or resolution by the  corporate authorities of any such municipality, the mayor or president,  with the approval of the corporate authorities, shall appoint one  commissioner for each 5,000 population, or part thereof.  The commissioners  so appointed by each of such municipalities, together with a like  commissioner appointed by the chairman of the county board of the  county in which the municipality having the  greatest population is  situated, shall constitute a commission and public corporation with the  powers and duties specified in this Division 136.  The corporate name of the  commission shall be "(here insert appropriate name indicative of the area)  Water Commission" or "Water and Sewer Commission" and as such the  commission may contract and be contracted with, and sue and be sued.The commissioners so appointed shall serve for a term of 6 years, or  until their successors have been appointed and have qualified.  Each  commissioner shall be an elector of the municipality for which he acts as  commissioner.  However, no person shall be eligible for appointment, if he  has held an elective office in the state, county or municipality, until one  year after the expiration of the term for which he was elected.  A  commissioner is eligible for reappointment upon the expiration of his term.  A vacancy shall be filled for the balance of the unexpired term in the same  manner as that prescribed for the appointment of the person who has ceased  to hold office.  Each commissioner shall receive the same compensation which  shall not be more than $1,000 per year.  Each commissioner shall furnish a  bond for the faithful performance of his official duties.  This bond shall  not be less than $5,000 and its costs shall be paid by the commission.Each commissioner may be removed for any cause for which any other  municipal officer may be removed.  No commissioner, or employee of the  commission, and no mayor, or president, or other member of the corporate  authorities, or any employee of any of the municipalities, shall be  interested directly or indirectly in any contractor-job of work or  materials, or the profits thereof, or services to be performed for or by  the commission.A violation of any of the foregoing provisions of this section is a  Class C misdemeanor.  A conviction is cause for the removal of a person from  his office or employment.  Any member of the commission or any employee  thereof who in any manner contributes money, labor, or other valuable thing  to any person for election purposes in any election for office in any of  the municipalities which are furnished water by the commission is guilty of  a Class C misdemeanor.    (Source: P.A. 84-1308.)
65 ILCS 5/11-136-3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-3)Sec. 11-136-3.         Such a commission shall organize by appointing a chairman  from its own members and a clerk and treasurer, who need not be  commissioners. It shall adopt its own rules of procedure and provide for  its meetings. The commission has full and complete supervision, management,  and control of the waterworks system, or sources of supply of water, or  sewer systems, or combination thereof, as provided in the ordinances or  resolutions for acquiring and operating the same, and in their maintenance,  operation, and extension. The commission is authorized to contract with the  municipalities which established the commission or with any other person,  firm or corporation for a supply of water, a sewage treatment plant or any  other facilities useful in conducting a water supply and sewage disposal  system for a period not exceeding 50 years, and the corporate authorities  of those municipalities are authorized to enter into contracts with the  commission. The commission is authorized to purchase from any person, firm  or corporation or municipal corporation including those making up the  commission, any sewer or water properties or sources of supplies and  municipalities are hereby authorized to sell such facilities to the  commission.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-136-6
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-6)Sec. 11-136-6. Whenever such commission shall pass an ordinance for the  construction or acquisition of any waterworks properties or sewer  properties or improvements or extensions or mains, pumping stations,  reservoirs or other appurtenances thereto, which such commission is  authorized to make, the making of which will require that private property  be taken or damaged, such commission may cause compensation therefor to be  ascertained and may condemn and acquire possession thereof in the same  manner as nearly as may be, as provided for the  exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act. However, proceedings to ascertain the  compensation to be paid for taking or damaging private property shall in  all cases be instituted in the county where the property sought to be taken  or damaged is situated.       (Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)
65 ILCS 5/11-136-7
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-7)Sec. 11-136-7.         Such commission may construct, maintain, alter and extend  its water mains or sewer facilities as a proper use of highways along,  upon, under and across any highway, street, alley or public ground in the  State, including highways within a municipality, but so as not to  inconvenience the public use thereof. Such commission may construct,  maintain and operate any conduit or conduits, water pipe or pipes, wholly  or partially buried or otherwise in, upon and along any of the lands owned  by the State of Illinois and under any of the public waters therein.  However, the right, permission and authority hereby created shall be  subject to all public rights of commerce and navigation and the authority  of the United States in behalf of such public rights and also the laws of  the State of Illinois to regulate and control the same. Notice shall be  given to the highway authorities of any municipality, county, township,  road district or township district in which such highway, street or public  way may be situated at least 60 days before any construction or  installation work in such highway or street shall commence. All laws and  ordinances pertaining to such work for the protection of the public and of  public property shall be complied with except that no fee may be charged  such commission for the construction or installation of such facilities in  such public places.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-136-8
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-8)Sec. 11-136-8.         Such commission shall have the right to supply water or  sewer facilities to any municipality, political subdivision, private person  or corporation, in addition to the municipalities which have formed the  commission, upon such payment, terms and conditions as may be mutually  agreed upon, provided the water is delivered to such party or parties at  the corporate limits of the municipalities which have created such  commission or from such water works properties of the commission located  outside such municipalities that have been constructed or acquired as  necessary and incidental to the furnishing of water to the municipalities  which formed the commission.Such commission shall have the power to contract with any person,  corporation or political subdivision or any municipal corporation or other  agency for a sewer system or for a supply of water, or to supply water to  such person, corporation, municipal corporation or political subdivision.  Any such contract entered into to supply water or sewer service to a  municipal corporation or political subdivision shall provide that the  payments to be made thereunder shall be solely from the revenues to be  derived by such municipality or political subdivision from the operation of  the waterworks system or sewer system of such municipality or political  subdivision, and said contract shall be a continuing, valid and binding  obligation of the municipality or political subdivision, payable from such  revenues for such period of years, not to exceed 40, as may be provided in  such contract. Any such contract shall not be a debt within the meaning of  any statutory or constitutional limitations.No prior appropriation shall be required before entering into such  contract, and no appropriation shall be required to authorize payments to  be made under the terms of any such contract, notwithstanding any provision  of this Code to the contrary.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-136-9
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-136-9)Sec. 11-136-9.         All powers and duties of the commission heretofore set forth  in this Division 136 may be exercised within the municipalities  constituting the commission and in contiguous territory not more than 3  miles beyond the corporate limits of such municipalities and in the  territory necessary to interconnect any of the municipalities constituting  the commission. The commission shall keep proper accounting records which  records shall be kept so as to show the book value, reserve for  depreciation, revenue and expenses broken down as to type of utility and by  all municipalities making up the commission.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 137 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 DIVISION 137.      CONTRACT FOR, PURCHASE OR LEASE OF WATER AND SEWERAGE SYSTEMS
65 ILCS 5/11-137-1
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-1)Sec. 11-137-1.         To enable municipalities to promote and procure the  construction and installation of waterworks and sewerage systems when it  becomes necessary for public health and welfare or for better sanitary  conditions of a municipality, each municipality may contract with any  person for a supply of water for public use, and for sewerage for drainage  and sanitary purposes of the municipality, for a period not exceeding 30  years. Any contract that is entered into by a municipality and pledged to  secure the bonds issued to construct any waterworks or sewerage system  shall enure at all times and under all conditions to the benefit of the  holders of any of the bonds so issued and for the payment of those bonds.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-137-2
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-2)Sec. 11-137-2.         In all municipalities where any person has constructed  a waterworks or sewerage system, or both, the municipality may purchase  or lease that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, from the owners  thereof, subject to the provisions of this Division 137.Before such a lease or purchase is binding upon the municipality, the  corporate authorities shall pass an ordinance authorizing the  municipality to lease or purchase that waterworks or sewerage system, or  both, and shall include in the ordinance the terms, as near as  practicable, upon which the lease or purchase shall be made. The  ordinance shall be published at least once, within 10 days after  passage, in one or more newspapers published in the municipality, or, if  no newspaper is published therein, then in one or more newspapers with a  general circulation within the municipality. In municipalities with less  than 500 population in which no newspaper is published, publication may  instead be made by posting a notice in 3 prominent places within the  municipality.The publication or posting of the ordinance shall be accompanied by a  notice of (1) the specific number of voters required to sign a petition  requesting the question of authorizing the lease or purchase of a waterworks  or sewerage system to be submitted to the electors; (2) the time in which  such petition must be filed; and (3) the date of the prospective referendum.  The municipal clerk shall provide a petition form to any individual requesting one.If no petition is presented to the corporate authorities as  hereinafter provided, within 30 days after the ordinance is so published  and posted, the corporate authorities may consummate the lease or  purchase of that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, as provided in  the ordinance. If within 30 days after the first publication of the  ordinance a petition is filed with the municipal clerk signed by electors  of the municipality numbering 10% or more of the number of registered  voters in the municipality, asking that the question of leasing or  purchasing that waterworks or sewerage system, or both, as provided in the  ordinance, be submitted to a vote, the clerk shall certify the proposition  and the corporate authorities shall designate an election at which the  question shall be submitted. If a majority of the votes cast on the  question are in favor thereof, the corporate authorities may complete the  lease or purchase, but if a majority of the votes cast on the question are  unfavorable, no further action shall be taken by the municipality for a  period of not less than 6 months. Thereafter, the same or another question  may be submitted as before.    (Source: P.A. 87-767.)
65 ILCS 5/11-137-3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-3)Sec. 11-137-3.         If any municipality is authorized to purchase a waterworks  or sewerage system, or both, as provided in Section 11-137-2, and if the  system is pledged to secure the payment of bonds, or other written  evidences of indebtedness, by a mortgage or trust deed, the corporate  authorities of the municipality may direct the municipal clerk or  treasurer, by a motion or resolution, to enter the bonds, or the other  written evidences of indebtedness on the records of the municipality as an  indebtedness against the waterworks or sewerage system only. The corporate  authorities shall have all the revenue derived from the operation of the  system, and all rents due and payable to the former owners for use of the  water and sewerage facilities, and pledged for the payment of the  indebtedness, set apart in a separate fund for the payment of the  indebtedness as it becomes due and payable, provided the system can be  operated and maintained from the current funds of the municipality  appropriated therefor.Nothing contained in this Division 137 affects any lien or renders void  any bond, mortgage, or trust deed securing any indebtedness upon the  system, or any franchise under which the system is operated, or any  contract executed by any person as owner for the construction and  installation of the waterworks or sewerage system, or both, prior to the  transfer of the system to the municipality as provided in this Division  137. If the municipality neglects or fails to pay the indebtedness as it  falls due and if any mortgage or trust deed is foreclosed at the instance  of bona fide holders of unpaid bonds or other written evidences of  indebtedness, the mortgagee or trustee for those bona fide holders shall be  re-invested with all former rights which existed in their behalf by virtue  of the franchise and contract which were granted by the municipality, and  which were pledged.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/11-137-4
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-4)Sec. 11-137-4.         Such municipalities may borrow money and levy and collect a  general tax, in the same manner as other municipal taxes may be levied and  collected, to procure funds to lease or purchase and maintain such a  waterworks or sewerage system, or both, and to pay any existing  indebtedness thereon. They may issue their bonds to procure funds to  purchase such a system or systems and to pay off the existing bonds or  indebtedness thereon, at the time of the purchase or at any time thereafter  that the financial condition of the municipality will permit.  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.If an appropriation has been made therefor, such a municipality may  constitute and make any bond which falls due during the current year, and  which is secured by a mortgage or trust deed on such a system or systems,  and which was issued by any person to procure funds to construct the system  or systems, a bond of the municipality for that year and levy and collect a  tax to pay the appropriation. However, this action shall not increase the  bonded indebtedness of the municipality in excess of the constitutional  limitation for the year for which this tax is to be levied and collected.    (Source: P.A. 89-655, eff. 1-1-97.)
65 ILCS 5/11-137-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-137-5)Sec. 11-137-5.         A municipality may contract with any person for a supply of  water for public use for a period not exceeding 30 years.A municipality so contracting may pay for the water so supplied by  general taxation, or out of the rents paid by consumers for the water  supplied to them, or out of any fund otherwise available for that purpose,  or by any combination of any of these means.    (Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 138 heading
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 DIVISION 138.      LOCATING SOURCE OF WATER SUPPLY OUTSIDE OF MUNICIPALITIES