Bill Text: IL SB1869 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended
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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of cities and villages must also maintain storm sewers, detention basins, and retention basins for drainage purposes.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-08-13 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0330 [SB1869 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB1869-Amended.html
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of cities and villages must also maintain storm sewers, detention basins, and retention basins for drainage purposes.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-08-13 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0330 [SB1869 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB1869-Amended.html
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1 | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1869
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1869 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by | ||||||
5 | changing Section 11-110-1 as follows:
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6 | (65 ILCS 5/11-110-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-110-1)
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7 | Sec. 11-110-1.
The corporate authorities of cities and | ||||||
8 | villages for
drainage purposes may lay out, establish, | ||||||
9 | construct, and maintain drains,
storm sewers, detention | ||||||
10 | basins, retention basins and other "green infrastructure" | ||||||
11 | facilities, such as green roofs, rain gardens, bioswales, tree | ||||||
12 | boxes, porous pavement, porous pipe systems, native plantings, | ||||||
13 | constructed wetlands, and cisterns, ditches, levees, dykes, | ||||||
14 | pumping works, and machinery, and may acquire the
necessary | ||||||
15 | land and machinery therefor, and in this manner may provide for
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16 | draining or otherwise managing the runoff, such as by |
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1 | infiltration, evapotranspiration, or collection, on any | ||||||
2 | portion of the land within their corporate limits, by special
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3 | assessment upon the property benefited thereby, or by general | ||||||
4 | taxation, or
a combination both . No lot, block, tract, or | ||||||
5 | parcel of land, however, shall be
assessed more than once in | ||||||
6 | any one year by a municipality for maintenance.
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7 | (Source: P.A. 87-1197.)".
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