Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 Special Districts: Article -
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 0.01
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Water Authorities Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 1
Any area of contiguous territory may be incorporated as a water authority in the following manner: Not less than 500 legal voters of the...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 2
The court shall canvass the returns of the election and by written order shall determine and declare the result thereof within the territory that...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 3
Every water authority so established shall be governed by a board of 3 trustees. Such number shall be increased by one for each county,...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 4
Such board of trustees shall, within thirty days after appointment, organize by selecting one of its members as chairman and one thereof as secretary....
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 5
Each trustee shall furnish a bond to be approved by the appointing authority, as defined in Section 3 of this Act, in the amount...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 5.1
Any water authority organized under this Act may determine, in the manner provided in this Section, to have an elected, rather than an appointed,...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 5.2
Any water authority, that has determined to have an elected rather than an appointed board of trustees pursuant to Section 5.1, may, in the...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 6
Such board of trustees shall have the following powers: 1. To make inspections of wells or other withdrawal facilities and to require information and...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 6.5
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...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 6a
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act any person, firm, corporation, or agency of the public diverting or obtaining water at the time of...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 6b
Purchases made pursuant to this Act shall be made in compliance with the "Local Government Prompt Payment Act", approved by the Eighty-fourth General Assembly....
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 6c
Boil order; notification of certified local health department required. If a water authority issues a boil order, then the authority must notify any certified local...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 7
All final administrative decisions of any board of trustees organized pursuant to this act shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 8
Provisions of this act shall not apply to water used for agricultural purposes, farm irrigation, or water used for domestic purposes where not to...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 9
Any adjoining territory may be annexed to such water authority in the following manner: A written petition requesting such annexation and signed by a...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 10
For the purpose of paying the cost of the acquisition by condemnation, purchase or otherwise and of the construction of any water supply or...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 11
Any ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds as provided in this Act shall describe in a general way the contemplated project,...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 12
Any ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of revenue bonds under this Act may in the discretion of the authority provide that the bonds...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 13
Whenever revenue bonds are issued under this Act the income and revenue derived from the operation of the water supply or other waterworks properties...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 14
With respect to any area acquired by a water authority for reservoir purposes, whether within or without the corporate boundaries of the authority, the...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 15
To police such area and to exercise police power with respect thereto and to employ and commission policemen. Such policemen and trustees of the...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 16
In all actions for the violation of any ordinance of the authority, the first process shall be a summons or a warrant. A warrant...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 17
Any sheriff may serve any process, or make any arrest in an authority, or the part thereof, located in the county in which he...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 18
To regulate or prohibit fishing, boating, swimming and other sporting activities. (Source: Laws 1957, p. 1599.)
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 19
To license and regulate or prohibit water craft, boat docks, wharves, boat houses and other structures in or on or on the shore of...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 20
To lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave or otherwise improve, and vacate roads, parking areas, wharves, parks, picnic areas and swimming...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 21
If the trustees determine that the leasing of the zone of land adjacent to the reservoir will aid in the protection from pollution or...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 22
To sell and dispose of property, real or personal, that is no longer needed for its purposes. (Source: Laws 1957, p. 1599.)
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 23
To grant easements and rights of way. (Source: Laws 1957, p. 1599.)
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 24
To make such regulations as it deems necessary to protect public health, welfare and safety and to prevent pollution of its water supply. (Source:...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 25
If it leases its property for residential or business purposes, to construct, and operate a water distribution and sewage system, require the use thereof...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 26
With respect to territory outside its corporate limits which is not held by it for reservoir purposes but which territory is within the watershed...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 27
An authority may acquire easements and rights of way for ingress to and egress from any of its real property by purchase, gift, condemnation...
- Illinois Water Authorities Act. - 70 ILCS 3715, Section 28
Cessation of authority organization. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if a majority vote of the board of trustees is in favor of the proposition...
Last modified: February 18, 2015