Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 Special Districts: Article IV - Commissioners And Other Officers--Selection, Qualifications, Powers And Duties

• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-1
  Appointment of Commissioners. Upon the organization of the district, the temporary commissioners shall continue as permanent commissioners and shall hold office until the first...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-2
  Petition for appointment of commissioners. Whenever a petition signed by a majority of the total number of adult landowners who together own a majority...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-3
  Qualifications of Commissioners. No person shall be appointed or elected commissioner of a district who is not an adult resident of Illinois. Neither shall...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-4
  Oath of Commissioners-Bond of Commissioners.) Before entering on his duties each commissioner appointed or elected under this Act shall qualify by subscribing to an...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-5
  Election of Commissioners in Districts organized under Farm Drainage Act and certain other Districts. Commissioners for all districts which, at the time this Act...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-6
  Change from election to appointment of Commissioners in certain districts. In all districts which were operating and existing under the provisions of the Farm...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-7
  Appointment of commissioners in districts organized under Levee Act and certain other districts. In all districts which, at the time this Act goes into...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-8
  Change from appointment to election of commissioners in certain districts. In any district, whether heretofore or hereafter organized, 10 per cent or more of...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-9
  Single commissioner. Whenever the drains, levees or other work for the construction of which the district was organized are completed, then the appointing authority...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-10
  Filling vacancies in appointive commissioners-Removal from office. If, for any reason, a vacancy occurs in the office of commissioner in a district in which...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-11
  Organization of Commissioners-Quorum.) The commissioners shall elect one of their number as chairman and shall elect a secretary, who may or may not be...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-12
  Meetings of Commissioners-Minutes. The commissioners shall hold an annual meeting of the district each November in the county in which the district is organized....
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-13
  Pay of commissioners. Each commissioner shall receive for his services a sum not to exceed $30 per day for each day he is actually...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-14
  General powers of commissioners. The commissioners constitute the corporate authorities of the district and shall exercise the corporate functions conferred by law. The commissioners...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-15
  Duty to Keep System in Repair-Minor Improvements.) The commissioners shall make an annual inspection of all the district's improvements and works and keep the...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-15.1
  Protection of environmental values. In performing any of the duties and in exercising any of the powers provided in this Code, the commissioners shall...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-16
  Specific powers of commissioners-Court approval. When authorized by the court, the commissioners may: (a) construct additional drains, ditches, levees or other works necessary for...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-16a
  Prompt payment. Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the Local Government Prompt Payment Act. (Source: P.A. 86-297.)
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-17
  Acquisition of property - Eminent domain. Whenever an order has been entered by the court authorizing the performance of any work, either within or...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-17.5
  Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, any power granted under this Code to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-18
  Authority to levy assessments. In order to perform and carry out the duties imposed and powers granted by this Act or to perform or...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-19
  Obtaining court authorization. If the commissioners determine that it is necessary or advisable (a) to exercise any of the specific powers conferred upon them...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-20
  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 4-21
  Notice of hearing. The petitioners or the clerk of the court shall give notice of the hearing in the manner provided in Section 4-22,...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-22
  Time and manner of giving notice. Notice of the hearing on the petition, unless other notice is directed by the court as provided in...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-23
  Objections-Hearing. Any landowner in the district or other party defendant may, at or prior to the time fixed for hearing, file objections to the...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-24
  Findings - Dismissal - Order. If, at the conclusion of the hearing, the court finds that it is not necessary or advisable to construct...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-25
  Contingency Fund. In districts which have an annual maintenance assessment, the commissioners may build up and maintain a contingency fund to meet emergencies arising...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-26
  Settlement of disputes. In the event of dispute or disagreement between the commissioners and any owner of land in the district with regard to...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-27
  Contracts, Agreements and Cooperation. The commissioners, subject to the approval of the court, shall have the power and authority: (a) To levy and collect...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-28
  Sale of district owned real estate-Power of court. The court has power to: (a) authorize the commissioners to sell at public sale and convey...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-29
  Sale of district owned real estate - petition - notice - hearing - order. When the commissioners deem it advisable to sell any real...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-30
  Leasing right-of-way and other district property - Easements - Licenses. The commissioners of any drainage district, subject to the approval of the court, shall...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-31
  Other powers and duties of commissioners. In addition to the powers and duties provided in this Article, the commissioners shall have such other powers...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-32
  Financial Reports of Commissioners. On or before the last day of November in each year, and more often if the court so requires, the...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-32.1
  List of Active Commissioners. On or before the last day in December of each year, the commissioners shall file a list of active commissioners...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-33
  Report on completion of work. Commissioners may (and if money has been or will be borrowed to provide funds for the performance of the...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-33.1
  Maps.) The commissioners shall file with the circuit clerk and the county clerk of the county in which the district is organized a map...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-34
  Commissioners as officers of court-Verified petition or report as prima facie evidence. The commissioners of a drainage district are officers of the court and...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-35
  Clerk of the Circuit Court as District Clerk-Drainage Record.) The clerk of the circuit court of the county in which a district is organized...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-35.1
  County Clerk-Composite Map.) The county clerk shall compile and keep a composite map showing the boundaries of all drainage districts organized in the county....
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-36
  (Repealed). (Source: Repealed by P.A. 88-30.)
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-37
  County collector to collect assessments. Except as hereinafter provided in Section 4-38, the County Collector of the County in which any of the lands...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-38
  District treasurer; collector. (a) The commissioners shall appoint a treasurer of the district. The individual serving as treasurer shall be a resident of this...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-39
  Clerks, treasurers and collectors of districts organized under prior acts. In all districts organized or existing under a prior act repealed by this Act...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-40
  Liability of Drainage Districts and Commissioners-Indemnification. No commissioner shall be personally responsible or liable for any injury, death or damage to property which may...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 4-45
  Flood prevention districts; reporting requirement; control. If a flood prevention district has been formed under the Flood Prevention District Act, the flood prevention district shall...

Last modified: February 18, 2015