Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 Special Districts: Article III - Organization Of Drainage Districts

• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-1
  Drainage districts. Drainage districts may be formed to construct, maintain or repair drains or levees or to engage in other drainage or levee work...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-2
  Names of districts. A district which is organized as an outlet drainage district shall include the term "outlet drainage district" in its name. A...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-3
  Petition. A drainage district may be organized upon petition signed by 20% of the adult owners owning more than one-fourth of the land in...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-4
  Setting petition for hearing. Upon the filing of the petition, it shall be presented to the court, which shall fix the date and hour...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-5
  Notice of hearing. The clerk of the circuit court shall give notice of the hearing on the petition in the manner provided in Section...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-6
  Time and manner of giving notice. Notice of the hearing on the petition shall be given by publishing the notice in a newspaper of...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-7
  Hearing. At the hearing, the court shall determine whether or not the requisite number of owners owning the required acreage of land signed the...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-8
  Findings and determinations by the court. If the court finds that the petition has not been signed as required by Section 3-3 or that...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-9
  Appointment of temporary commissioners - Continuance. If the Court finds for the petitioners, it shall notify the appropriate appointing authority which shall be the...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-10
  Oath of temporary commissioners. Before entering on their duties and within 10 days after appointment, the temporary commissioners shall qualify by subscribing to an...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-11
  Filling vacancies-Removal from office. If for any reason a vacancy occurs in the office of temporary commissioner, the appropriate appointing authority shall appoint a...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-12
  Organization of temporary commissioners-Quorum. The temporary commissioners shall elect one of their number as chairman and may elect one of their number as secretary....
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-13
  Duties of temporary commissioners. The temporary commissioners shall examine the area proposed to be included in the district and the land upon which any...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-14
  Employment of engineer-Engineer's report. The temporary commissioners shall, unless otherwise authorized by the court, employ an engineer who shall be a registered professional engineer...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-15
  Report of temporary commissioners. The temporary commissioners shall report in writing to the court on or before the date fixed for the filing of...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-16
  Petition to add lands to proposed district. Any person owning land adjoining the proposed district may, at any time at least 10 days prior...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-17
  Setting report for hearing. The report of the temporary commissioners shall be presented to the court on the date last fixed for the filing...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-18
  Notice of hearing on report. If the temporary commissioners recommend in their report that the district be organized and that additional land be included...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-19
  Other districts or municipal corporations as defendants. If the temporary commissioners recommend in their report that the district be organized and report that there...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-20
  Hearing on report. Any owner of land in the proposed district or in any other district or municipal corporation made a party defendant may,...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-21
  Modification of report. If, after hearing the evidence, the court finds that the report of the temporary commissioners should be modified in any particular...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-22
  Dismissal of proceedings. If, at the conclusion of the hearing, the court finds that the benefits to the lands in the proposed district from...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-23
  Order organizing district. If, at the conclusion of the hearing, the court approves the plans for the proposed work or any modification thereof and...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-24
  Effect of order organizing district. When the order organizing the district is given or made, the district shall become and be a body politic...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-25
  Appeals from order organizing district. The order organizing the district shall be final, and separate or joint appeals may be taken by the parties...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-26
  Alternate method of organization - Referendum. As an alternate to the method of organizing a drainage district hereinbefore provided in this Article, proceedings for...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-27
  Organization of drainage district by user. Where 2 or more parties owning adjoining or contiguous lands, or their predecessors in title, have, by voluntary...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-28
  Outlet drainage districts-Organization. Outlet drainage districts may be organized in the manner provided in Sections 3-3 through 3-26: (a) When an open drain, whether...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-29
  Outlet drainage districts-Commissioners-Powers. Commissioners, both temporary and permanent, shall be appointed for outlet drainage districts at the time and in the manner and with...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-30
  Outlet drainage districts-Lands included in other districts. The fact that land is in an outlet drainage district shall not, in itself, prevent that land...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 3-31
  Mutual Drainage Districts. Owners of lands which require combined drainage or combined drainage and protection from overflow may form a drainage district by mutual...

Last modified: February 18, 2015