Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 Special Districts: Article XII - Miscellaneous Provisions--Penalties

• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-1
  Lands within district-Right to use district drains. A landowner within any drainage district has the right to use the ditches and drains of the...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-2
  Lands within district-Rights of drainage. Land included within a district shall continue to have the same rights of drainage, both common law and statutory,...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-3
  Right of landowner to use right-of-way of district. The owner of any land over, through or across which a district has acquired a right-of-way...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-4
  Highway and railroad bridges. Whenever a district drain crosses an existing air-strip or airplane landing field owned by any county, township, city, village, Park...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-5
  Farm bridges. In districts organized prior to June 28, 1919, under the Farm Drainage Act, the districts shall continue to be liable for the...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-6
  When land may be in more than one district. If the work of a district or a proposed district includes the construction of a...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-7
  Penalty for obstructing or injuring drain, drainage structure, levee or pumping plant. Whoever wilfully obstructs, injures or destroys any covered drain constructed through the...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-8
  Penalty for preventing entry by commissioners upon lands or right-of-way. Whoever wilfully prohibits, prevents or obstructs the commissioners of a district or their agents...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-9
  Penalty for preventing construction or repair of private drain. Whoever wilfully prohibits, prevents or delays the construction or repair of any drain through the...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-10
  Penalty for failure or refusal of commissioner to perform duties-Removal from office. Any commissioner appointed under the provisions of this Act who wilfully fails...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-11
  Withdrawal of signature from petition. After a landowners petition has been filed with the court under any of the provisions of this Act, a...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-12
  Additional signers to petition. At any time before the conclusion of the hearing on a landowners petition filed with the court under any of...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-13
  Deeds, petitions and contracts in fraud of act. All deeds, made for the purpose of preventing or aiding the organization of a district or...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-14
  Separate petitions not required. Whenever the commissioners of a district petition the court for authority to do or perform any act or thing specified...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-15
  Continuances and amendments. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act, any hearing may be continued generally or to a day certain and from...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-16
  Appeals. Unless otherwise provided in this Act, appeals may be taken from the final judgments or orders as in other civil cases. An appeal...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-17
  Construction of act-Effect of omissions, imperfections or defects in proceedings. This Act shall be liberally construed to promote drainage for agricultural, sanitary and mining...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-18
  Insufficient notice-Default. If for any reason the clerk of the court fails to give proper notice of the hearing on any report, petition or...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-19
  Cooperation with other public agencies. Commissioners of a district shall cooperate in the exchange of information pertaining to drainage with the commissioners of other districts...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-20
  Annual assessments in existing districts-Changeover to this act. In any district heretofore organized or existing under the Levee Act in which, prior to the...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-21
  Partial invalidity. The invalidity of any provision or section of this Act shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this Act. 1955,...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-22
  Repealing section. This Act is intended as a complete revision, consolidation and codification of all the statutes of this State relating to the organization...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-23
  Saving clause. The repeal of a statute by this Act shall not affect any action pending or rights existing at the time this Act...
• Illinois Drainage Code. - 70 ILCS 605, Section 12-24
  Effective date. This Act shall take effect on January 1, 1956. (Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)

Last modified: February 18, 2015