Bill Text: IL HB4757 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Water Authorities Act. Provides that if specified territory is located within a county that has adopted a groundwater protection ordinance, then the territory may not be incorporated as a water authority or be annexed to an existing water authority. Effective immediately.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-15 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4757 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2009-HB4757-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning local government.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Water Authorities Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Section 1 as follows:
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| 6 | (70 ILCS 3715/1) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 223)
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| 7 | Sec. 1. Incorporation. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | (a) Any area of contiguous territory may be incorporated as | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | a
water authority in the following manner: Not less than 500 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | legal voters
of the proposed authority shall petition the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | circuit court for the
county in which the proposed authority, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | or the major portion thereof, is
located defining the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | boundaries of the proposed authority, stating its
name and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | requesting that the question of whether the proposed territory
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| 15 | shall be organized as a water authority be submitted to the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | legal voters
of the proposed authority.
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| 17 | Upon the filing of such petition, the court shall set a day | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | for a
public hearing thereon. Notice of the time and place of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | such hearing
shall be given by publication in a newspaper | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | having a general
circulation in said proposed authority not | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | less than 15 days prior to
such hearing and if there is no such | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | newspaper then such notice shall be
posted in at least 10 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | public places within such proposed authority not
less than 15 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | days before such hearing.
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| 2 | The court shall preside at such hearing and all persons | ||||||
| 3 | residing
within such proposed authority shall be given an | ||||||
| 4 | opportunity to be heard
concerning the location and boundaries | ||||||
| 5 | thereof and to make suggestions
regarding the same. The | ||||||
| 6 | petitioners may authorize and designate one or
more persons to | ||||||
| 7 | represent them at such hearing with authority to amend,
dismiss | ||||||
| 8 | or withdraw the petition. Such hearing may be continued from
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| 9 | time to time and the court may modify or amend the petition.
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| 10 | The court shall enter an order fixing and determining the | ||||||
| 11 | boundaries
of such proposed authority and shall certify the | ||||||
| 12 | proposition to the proper
election officials, who shall submit | ||||||
| 13 | to the legal voters thereof at an election
thereafter the | ||||||
| 14 | question of
whether the proposed authority be organized and | ||||||
| 15 | established as a water
authority pursuant to the provisions of | ||||||
| 16 | this Act. Notice of such election
shall be given and the | ||||||
| 17 | election conducted in the manner provided by the
general | ||||||
| 18 | election law.
Such notice shall state a description of the | ||||||
| 19 | territory to be included.
The proposition shall be | ||||||
| 20 | substantially as follows:
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| 21 | -------------------------------------------------------------
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| 22 | For organization of water authority
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| 23 | -------------------------------------------------------------
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| 24 | Against organization of water authority
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| 25 | -------------------------------------------------------------
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| 26 | (b) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, | ||||||
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| 1 | if the territory is located within a county that has adopted a | ||||||
| 2 | groundwater protection ordinance, then the territory may not be | ||||||
| 3 | incorporated as a water authority or be annexed to an existing | ||||||
| 4 | water authority. | ||||||
| 5 | (Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
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| 6 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 7 | becoming law.
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