Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 ILCS 2805 — Sanitary District Act of 1936.

This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Sanitary District Act of 1936"

This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Sanitary District Act of 1936". (Source: Laws 1967, p. 948.)

Incorporation; referendum

Incorporation; referendum. (a) Any area of contiguous territory within the limits of a single county and without the limits of any city, village or incorporated town may be incorporated as a sanitary district under this Act in the manner provided in this Section. Any 2 areas that (i) are not contiguous to each other, b…

All courts in this State shall take judicial notice of the existence of all sanitary districts organized under this Act

All courts in this State shall take judicial notice of the existence of all sanitary districts organized under this Act. (Source: Laws 1935-36, Fourth Sp. Sess., p. 16.)

(a) A board of trustees, consisting of 3 members, for the government, control and management of the affairs and business of each sanitary district organized under this Act shall be created by appointment as provided in paragraph (b) of this Section or by election as provided in Sections 3.1 and 3.2. (b) Within 60 days…

Upon petition by at least 5% of the registered voters within the territory of a sanitary district, the circuit court of the county in which the district is located shall order a referendum on the question of whether the trustees of the district shall be elected, rather than appointed. Notice of the referendum shall be…

When a district has voted, as provided in Section 3

When a district has voted, as provided in Section 3.1, to elect its trustees, 3 trustees shall be elected at the regular election provided by the general election law for the election of such officers, and every 4 years thereafter, to serve for terms of 4 years commencing on the first Monday in the month following the…

The trustees shall constitute a board of trustees for the sanitary district

The trustees shall constitute a board of trustees for the sanitary district. The board of trustees is the corporate authority of the sanitary district, and may exercise all the powers and manage and control all the affairs and property of the district. The board of trustees at the beginning of each new term of office s…

The board of trustees of any sanitary district may arrange to provide for the benefit of employees and trustees of the sanitary district group life, health, accident, hospital and medical insurance, or any one or any combination of such types of insurance. Such insurance may include provision for employees and trustees…

Within 60 days after the effective date of this Amendatory Act of 1977 every sanitary district organized under the "Sanitary District Act of 1936" shall file with the Secretary of State the official name of the district. (Source: P.A. 80-424.)

Combined waterworks and sewerage system

Combined waterworks and sewerage system. A sanitary district may, by ordinance, combine and jointly operate the district's waterworks and sewerage systems. A sanitary district operating a combined waterworks and sewerage system may: (i) improve and extend that system; (ii) impose rates and collect charges for the use o…

All ordinances imposing any penalty or making any appropriations shall, within one month after they are passed, be published at least once in a daily or weekly newspaper published in the district or, if there is no newspaper published in the district, in a newspaper published in the county and having general circulatio…

All ordinances, orders and resolutions, and the date of publication thereof, may be proved 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 the board of trustees, such book or pamphlet shall be received as evidence of the pas…

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 sanitary district, in addition to other powers vested in it, is authorized to enter into agreements with any city, village or incorporated town located partly within and partly without the territorial limits of the sanitary district and which has a sewage system to receive and dispose of all sewage of such city, vi…

The board of trustees of any sanitary district organized under this Act shall have power to provide for the collection and disposal of the sewage thereof and the drainage of such district and to save and preserve the water supplied to the inhabitants of such district from contamination. For that purpose they may constr…

Every such sanitary district shall proceed as rapidly as is reasonably possible, by construction, purchase, lease or otherwise, to provide sewers and a plant or plants for the treatment and purification of its sewage, which plant or plants shall be of suitable kind and sufficient capacity to properly treat and purify s…

Private funding of public sewers; reimbursement; contract

Private funding of public sewers; reimbursement; contract. If one or more persons pay for building a sewer to be dedicated to the sanitary district as a public sewer, and if the sewer will, in the opinion of the board of trustees, be used for the benefit of property whose owners did not contribute to the cost of the se…

Filing of contract

Filing of contract. A contract entered into under Section 8.1 between the board of trustees and persons building a sewer to be dedicated to the sanitary district as a public sewer shall be filed with the recorder of each county in which all or a part of the property affected by the contract is located. The recording of…

In providing works for the disposal of industrial sewage, commonly called industrial wastes, in the manner above provided whether said industrial sewage is disposed of in combination with municipal sewage or independently, said sanitary district shall have power to apportion and collect therefor, from the producer ther…

The sanitary district may acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise all real and personal property, right of way and privilege, either within or without its corporate limits that may be required for its corporate purposes. If real property is acquired by condemnation, the sanitary district may not sell or lease a…

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.)

The board of trustees may borrow money for corporate purposes, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, sewer, drainage, and waterworks purposes, and in evidence thereof issue its bonds payable from taxes unlimited as to rate or amount and to be extended for collection against all taxable property s…

All bonds issued pursuant to this Act shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding that permitted by the Bond Authorization Act

All bonds issued pursuant to this Act shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding that permitted by the Bond Authorization Act.(Source: P.A. 104-417, eff. 8-15-25.)

In addition to the powers and authority now possessed by them, the board of trustees of any sanitary district organized under this Act shall have the power, by majority vote: (a) To convey, grant, transfer or sell to the United States of America, or to any proper agency thereof, any real or personal property owned by t…

In addition to the powers and authority now possessed by it, the board of trustees of any sanitary district organized under this Act shall have the power by majority vote: (a) To use the general funds of the sanitary district to defend, indemnify and hold harmless, in whole or in part, the board of trustees, members of…