65 ILCS 5/11-135-8
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 11 - Corporate Powers and Functions

 (from Ch. 24, par. 11-135-8)Sec. 11-135-8.         Such commission shall have the right to supply water  to any municipality, political subdivision, private person or  corporation, in addition to the municipalities which have formed the  commission, and to construct water transmission and distribution lines within  a radius of 25 miles outside the  corporate limits of member municipalities for the purpose of furnishing  water to any additional entities which contract with the commission for  a supply of water, upon such payment, terms and conditions as may be  mutually agreed upon.  In addition to the foregoing powers, if there is  any municipality within a radius of 25 miles of the corporate limits of  the commission which desires not to own or operate a waterworks system,  and such municipality adopts an ordinance requesting the Commission to supply  water for public and domestic use within such municipality, then any such  commission may, when determined by the Commissioners to be in the public  interest and necessary for the protection of the public health or in the  best interest of the Commission or its environs, enter into and perform  contracts, whether long term or short term, with any such municipality,  to acquire, construct and operate and maintain its waterworks properties  within the corporate limits of such municipality for the purpose of supplying  water for public and domestic use to the inhabitants thereof.Such commission shall have the power to contract with any person,  corporation or political subdivision or any municipal corporation or  other agency for a supply of water, or to supply water to such person,  corporation, municipal corporation or political subdivision. Any such  contract made by a commission for a supply of water may contain  provisions whereby the  commission is obligated to pay for such supply of water without setoff or  counterclaim and irrespective of whether such supply of water is ever  furnished, made available or delivered to the commission or whether any  project for the supply of water contemplated by any such contract is  completed, operable or operating and notwithstanding any suspension,  interruption, interference, reduction or curtailment of the supply of  water from such project.  Any such contract may provide that if one or more  of the other purchasers defaults in the payment of its obligations under  such contract or similar contract made with the supplier of the water, one  or more of the remaining purchasers party to such contract or such similar  contract shall be required to pay for all or a portion of the obligations  of the defaulting purchasers.  Any such  contract entered into to supply water 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 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.The changes in this Section made by this amendatory Act of 1984 are  intended to be declarative of existing law.    (Source: P.A. 83-1123.)