65 ILCS 5/11-135-3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-3)Sec. 11-135-3.         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 the common source  of supply of water, or both, 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 for a  supply of water to those municipalities, 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 develop, promote and provide for  recreational facilities on property acquired in and for the operation of  its common source of supply of water and to include reasonable charges  for such recreational facilities as part of the cost of operation and  maintenance of the waterworks system.Any 2 or more water commissions organized under this Division 135  may, by resolution adopted by each commission and ratified by the  corporate authorities of each of the municipalities comprising each of  the water commissions agree to the joint purchase, construction,  operation, improvement or extension, or any combination thereof, of  either or both a waterworks system and a common source of supply of  water for those commissions.  When such an agreement has been executed,  the water commissions entering into that agreement may jointly issue  revenue bonds for the projects subject to the agreement in the same  manner and subject to the same conditions as are provided in this  Division 135 in the case of an individual water commission.Any additional municipality or water commission may join and become a  part of the system  provided for in this Division 135 in the same manner as if participating  at the time of formation if approved by majority vote of the water  commissioners and such approval is ratified by resolution of the corporate  authorities of a majority of the municipalities or water commissions  constituting  the commission; except that if a system is composed of two municipalities,  only the approval of a majority of the water commissioners is required to  accept an additional municipality or water commission to the system.  If a  municipality or water commission has  been a continuous customer of the same water commission for a minimum of  20 years, receives at least 90% of its water from the water commission,  and the population of the municipality or water commission  exceeds  20% of the population of  the then current member municipalities in the water commission, that  municipality or water commission  shall become a part of the system.  In such event the name of the water commission may be  changed either to include the joining municipality's or water  commission's name or to provide  another name that is indicative of the area. The  membership of the  water commission shall be enlarged to include a member from such joining  municipality or water commission.    (Source: P.A. 91-659, eff. 12-22-99.)