Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 ILCS 2205 — Sanitary District Act of 1907.

Short title

Short title. This Act may be cited as the Sanitary District Act of 1907. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

Whenever any area of contiguous territory within the limits of two counties, having within its limits two or more incorporated cities or villages, and an aggregate population of not less than 3,500 inhabitants, shall be so situate as to be subject to overflow from any river or tributary thereof, and the maintenance of…

Upon the filing of such petition in the office of the circuit clerk of said county it shall be the duty of the court to consider the boundaries of such proposed district, whether the same shall be described in said petition or otherwise. Four weeks' notice shall be given by the court of the time and place where such bo…

Upon such determination, the court shall order to be submitted to the legal voters of the proposed sanitary district at an election in which all of the electors in the proposed district may vote the question of the organization and establishment thereof, as determined by the commissioners, or a majority of them. The co…

Upon the organization of such sanitary district, the circuit court shall order the election of the corporate authorities

Upon the organization of such sanitary district, the circuit court shall order the election of the corporate authorities. Thereupon, the clerk of the circuit court shall certify said order to the proper election official, who shall conduct such election at the time and in the manner provided by the general election law…

There shall be 5 trustees, elected as provided in this Section, who shall constitute a board of trustees for the sanitary district

There shall be 5 trustees, elected as provided in this Section, who shall constitute a board of trustees for the sanitary district. The trustees shall hold office for 4 years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. At all regular elections held after August 20, 1965, 3 trustees shall be elected from the…

Such sanitary district shall be held in all courts to be a body corporate, and politic, under the name and style of

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, a…

The board of trustees, and its successors in office, shall constitute the corporate authority of the sanitary district, and shall exercise all powers and manage and control all the affairs and property of the district. The board of trustees may select a clerk, treasurer, engineer and attorney, and employ such other cle…

The board of trustees of any sanitary district organized under this Act, when so requested by the treasurer of the district, shall designate one or more banks or savings and loan associations in which the funds and moneys received by the treasurer, by virtue of his office, may be deposited. When a bank or savings and l…

The board of trustees of the sanitary district shall, within 3 months after its organization hereunder, cause to be filed in the office of the recorder in each county in which the district is situated, a certified copy of the record of the court, in the matter of such organization, showing the name and boundaries of th…

Said board of trustees shall have full power to pass all necessary ordinances, and make all orders, rules and regulations for the proper management and conduct of the business of said board of trustees, and of said municipality, and for carrying into effect the objects for which said sanitary district is formed. (Sourc…

All ordinances, orders, rules, resolutions and regulations shall before taking effect, be passed upon by the president of the board of trustees

All ordinances, orders, rules, resolutions and regulations shall before taking effect, be passed upon by the president of the board of trustees. Such as he shall approve, he shall sign, and such as he shall not approve, he shall return to the board of trustees, with his objections thereto in writing, at its next regula…

All ordinances making any appropriation, shall within one month after they have been passed, be published at least once in a newspaper published in such district, in each of the counties in which the same is situate; and no such ordinance shall take effect until ten days after it is so published. All other ordinances,…

All ordinances, orders and resolutions, and the date of publication thereof, may be proven by the certificate of the clerk under the seal of the corporation, and when printed in book or pamphlet form, and purporting to be published by authority of the board of trustees, such book or pamphlet shall be received as eviden…

Actions to impose a fine or imprisonment for violation of a sanitary district ordinance or resolution adopted under authority of this Act shall be brought in the corporate name of the sanitary district as plaintiff. Such actions shall commence with a complaint or a warrant. A warrant may issue upon execution of an affi…

The board of trustees shall have power to lay out, locate, establish and construct one or more levees or embankments of such size, material and character as may be required to protect said district against overflow from any river, or tributary stream, or water-course, and to lay out, establish and construct all such ot…

The Board of Trustees shall have power to lay out, locate, establish, construct, maintain and operate one or more drains, conduits, treatment plants, pumping plants, works, ditches, channels or outlets of such capacity and character as may be required for the treatment, carrying-off and disposal of swamp, stagnant or o…

Where any sewer system under the jurisdiction of a city, village or incorporated town is tributary to a sanitary district sewer system, and the board of trustees of such sanitary district finds that it will conduce to the public health, comfort or convenience, the board shall have the power and authority to regulate, l…

Any district formed hereunder shall have the right to require that any sewer system, sewage treatment works or sewage treatment facility constructed in or within 3 miles of the limits of such district which is tributary thereto and not within the limits of any other sanitary district be constructed in accordance with t…

Any sanitary district may annex any territory which is not within the corporate limits of the sanitary district but which is contiguous to it and is served by the sanitary district or by a municipality with sanitary sewers that are connected and served by the sanitary district by the passage of an ordinance to that eff…

The corporate authorities of any sanitary district may enter into an agreement with one or more of the owners of record of land in any territory which may be annexed to such sanitary district as provided in this Act. Such agreement may provide for the annexation of such territory to the sanitary district, subject to th…

For purposes of this Act, territory to be organized as a sanitary district shall be considered to be contiguous territory, and territory to be annexed to a sanitary district shall be considered to be contiguous to the sanitary district notwithstanding that the territory to be so organized is divided by one or more rail…

The board of trustees of any sanitary district organized under this Act may require that, before any person or municipal corporation connects to the sewage system of the district, the district be permitted to inspect the drainage lines of the person or municipal corporation to determine whether they are adequate and su…

Such sanitary district may acquire by purchase, condemnation or otherwise, any and all real and personal property, rights of way and privileges, either within or without its corporate limits, required for its corporate purposes: Provided, all moneys for the purchase or condemnation of any property, shall be paid before…

Eminent domain

Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject to, and shall be exercised in accordance with, the Eminent Domain Act. (Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)