2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 70 - SPECIAL DISTRICTS › 70 ILCS 2905/ - Metro-East Sanitary District Act of 1974. › Article I - General Provisions--Application Of Act

(70 ILCS 2905/Art. I heading)
ARTICLE I.
GENERAL PROVISIONS--APPLICATION OF ACT
(70 ILCS 2905/1-1) (from Ch. 42, par. 501-1)
Sec. 1-1. 
		
		
		This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Metro-East Sanitary
District Act of 1974".
(Source: P.A. 78-1017.)
(70 ILCS 2905/1-2) (from Ch. 42, par. 501-2)
Sec. 1-2. 
		
		
		Whenever the voters of a sanitary district created under "An Act to
create sanitary districts in certain localities, to drain and protect the
same from overflow for sanitary purposes and to provide for sewage
disposal", approved May 17, 1907, as now or hereafter amended, vote as
provided in Sections 29 through 29.3 of that Act to dissolve that district
and to create a new district under this Act, the provisions of this Act
shall apply to and govern the new district. The boundaries of the new
district shall be the same as those of the old district.
(Source: P.A. 78-1017.)
(70 ILCS 2905/1-3) (from Ch. 42, par. 501-3)
Sec. 1-3. 
		
		
		Appointments to the first board of commissioners of the new district
shall be made in accordance with Section 3-1 of this Act at least 30 days
before the first Monday in December of the year of the expiration of the
terms of office of the incumbent trustees of the old district, and the
commissioners so appointed shall take office on such first Monday in
December. On that day, the old district is legally dissolved, and the new
district under this Act shall succeed to all the property, functions,
causes of action, rights and obligations of the former district.
(Source: P.A. 78-1017.)
(70 ILCS 2905/1-4) (from Ch. 42, par. 501-4)
Sec. 1-4. 
		
		
		Nothing in this Act shall impair the security of any indebtedness of the
former district incurred before the effective date of this Act. The new
district shall be obligated for such indebtedness, and the direct annual
tax provided for in accordance with Section 16 of "An Act to create
sanitary districts in certain localities, to drain and protect the same
from overflow for sanitary purposes and to provide for sewage disposal",
approved May 17, 1907, as amended, to pay the interest on and principal of
such indebtedness shall continue to be levied and extended until such
indebtedness has been paid in full.
(Source: P.A. 78-1017.)
(70 ILCS 2905/1-5) (from Ch. 42, par. 501-5)
Sec. 1-5. 
		
		Such sanitary district shall be held in all courts to be
a body corporate,
and politic, under the name and style of .... sanitary district, and by
such name and style may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with,
acquire and hold real and personal property necessary for corporate
purposes, have a common seal, and change the same at pleasure, and exercise
all the powers in this Act conferred. No claim for compensation shall be
made or suit for damages filed against such district on account of any
damage to property, unless notice in writing is filed with the board within
6 months after the occurrence of the damage or injury giving the name and
residence address of the owner of the property damaged, its location and
the probable extent of the damage sustained. All courts of this State shall
take judicial notice of the existence of sanitary districts organized
hereunder.
The board of commissioners may, by ordinance, change the corporate name
of a sanitary district organized under this Act. Such ordinance shall be
published at least once in a newspaper having a general circulation within
the district and shall become effective 10 days after such first
publication. A copy of such ordinance together with a certificate of
publication thereof certified by the president of the board shall be
transmitted to the Secretary of State. After such ordinance becomes
effective all references in any ordinance, resolution, bonds, or any other
document to such sanitary district by its former corporate name shall mean
and include the corporate name under which such sanitary district is then
operating. No rights, duties or privileges of such sanitary district, or
those of any person, existing before the change of corporate name shall be
affected by such change of name. All proceedings pending in any court in
favor of or against a sanitary district at the time a change of corporate
name is effected may continue to final consummation under the name in which
they were commenced.
(Source: P.A. 83-345.)