Act

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act

70 ILCS 2605/1
70 ILCS 2605/1.1— This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act
70 ILCS 2605/2— All courts in this state shall take judicial notice of the existence of all sanitary districts organized under this act
70 ILCS 2605/3— The corporate authority of the Sanitary District of Chicago shall consist of nine trustees
70 ILCS 2605/3.1— EPA Director
70 ILCS 2605/3.2— The designation of the corporate authorities of sanitary districts organized under this Act is changed from "trustees" and "boards of trustees" to "commissioners" and "boards of commissioners"
70 ILCS 2605/4
70 ILCS 2605/4.1— All offices and places of employment, other than the offices of sanitary district trustees and the offices enumerated in Section 4.13 of this Act, in the sanitary district shall be classified and filled in the manner hereinafter provided for and not otherwise
70 ILCS 2605/4.1a— The person appointed as treasurer for the district pursuant to Section 4 of this Act must devote his full time to performance of the duties of that office and may hold no other position in public or private employment
70 ILCS 2605/4.2
70 ILCS 2605/4.2a— There is created a Department of Human Resources for the district, the executive officer of which is the Director of Human Resources, hereinafter in this Act called the Director
70 ILCS 2605/4.3— Classification of positions
70 ILCS 2605/4.4
70 ILCS 2605/4.5
70 ILCS 2605/4.6
70 ILCS 2605/4.7
70 ILCS 2605/4.8
70 ILCS 2605/4.9
70 ILCS 2605/4.10— Promotions
70 ILCS 2605/4.11— Appointments
70 ILCS 2605/4.12— The Director may by his rules provide for transfers of officers and employees in the classified service from positions in one office or department to positions of the same class and grade in another office or department
70 ILCS 2605/4.13
70 ILCS 2605/4.14— No employee in the classified civil service of the sanitary district shall be involuntarily demoted or discharged except for cause, upon written charges, and after an opportunity to be heard in his own defense
70 ILCS 2605/4.15
70 ILCS 2605/4.16
70 ILCS 2605/4.17— Said civil service board shall, on or before the 31st day of January of each year, make to the trustees a report showing its own action, the rules in force, the practical effects thereof and any suggestions it may approve for the more effectual accomplishment of the purposes of this Act
70 ILCS 2605/4.18— The civil service board shall select one of its own members to act as secretary
70 ILCS 2605/4.19— All officers of the sanitary district shall aid the civil service board and the Director in all proper ways in carrying out the provisions of the act and at any place where examinations are to be held shall allow reasonable use of public buildings for holding such examinations
70 ILCS 2605/4.20
70 ILCS 2605/4.21
70 ILCS 2605/4.22— Solicitation of political contributions by a commissioner or an employee
70 ILCS 2605/4.23— Soliciting political contributions from a commissioner or an employee
70 ILCS 2605/4.24
70 ILCS 2605/4.25— Political contributions and campaigns
70 ILCS 2605/4.26
70 ILCS 2605/4.27
70 ILCS 2605/4.28
70 ILCS 2605/4.29— The Director shall certify to the treasurer or other financial or auditing officer all appointments to offices and places in the classified service, and all vacancies occurring therein, whether by dismissal, resignation or death
70 ILCS 2605/4.30
70 ILCS 2605/4.30a— Any citizen may maintain a suit to restrain a disbursing officer from making any payment in contravention of any provision of this law, or of any rule, regulation or order thereunder
70 ILCS 2605/4.31
70 ILCS 2605/4.32
70 ILCS 2605/4.33— Any person who shall wilfully or through culpable negligence violate any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor
70 ILCS 2605/4.34— If any person shall be convicted under the last preceding section, any public office or place of public employment which such person may hold shall, by force of such conviction, be rendered vacant
70 ILCS 2605/4.35— Prosecution for violations of this Act may be instituted either by the Attorney General, the State's attorney for the county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed, or by the civil service board acting through special counsel
70 ILCS 2605/4.36
70 ILCS 2605/4.37— The provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto, shall apply to and govern all proceedings for the judicial review of final administrative decisions of the civil service commission hereunder
70 ILCS 2605/4.38
70 ILCS 2605/4.39— Power to deduct wages for debts
70 ILCS 2605/4a— The chairman of the committee on finance of the board of trustees of any sanitary district organized under this Act may designate in writing one or more persons who shall have authority to affix his signature as chairman to any written instrument which is required to be signed by the chairman
70 ILCS 2605/4b— The Governor shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a State Sanitary District Observer
70 ILCS 2605/5.1— The fiscal year of any sanitary district organized under this Act shall commence on the first day of January and terminate on the 31st day of December
70 ILCS 2605/5.2— Definitions
70 ILCS 2605/5.3— The budget for the district shall present a complete financial plan for the budget year
70 ILCS 2605/5.4— The executive director shall prepare the budget for the district and shall submit the proposed budget to the board of trustees which shall make such changes as it deems desirable and shall approve the budget
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70 ILCS 2605/5.6
70 ILCS 2605/5.7— The board of trustees of the district shall consider the budget estimates as submitted to it by the executive director and may add to, revise, alter, increase or decrease the items contained in the budget
70 ILCS 2605/5.7a— No changes in title or rate shall take place during the fiscal year among the titles and rates that are listed in the Annual Appropriation Ordinance
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70 ILCS 2605/5.9
70 ILCS 2605/5.10
70 ILCS 2605/5.11
70 ILCS 2605/5.12— Annual audit
70 ILCS 2605/5.12a— (Repealed)
70 ILCS 2605/5.13
70 ILCS 2605/6
70 ILCS 2605/7
70 ILCS 2605/7a— Discharge into sewers of a sanitary district
70 ILCS 2605/7aa— The sanitary district has the power and authority to prevent the pollution of any waters from which a water supply may be obtained by any city, town or village within the district
70 ILCS 2605/7b
70 ILCS 2605/7bb— (Repealed)
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70 ILCS 2605/7e
70 ILCS 2605/7f— Regulation of connecting sewerage systems
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70 ILCS 2605/7h— Stormwater management
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70 ILCS 2605/8.5— Eminent domain
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70 ILCS 2605/8b
70 ILCS 2605/8c
70 ILCS 2605/8d— Transfer of certain real property
70 ILCS 2605/9
70 ILCS 2605/9.1— The Sanitary District in order to provide further funds required for paying the cost of the works which have been made necessary by the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States in the consolidated cases entitled "Wisconsin et al
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70 ILCS 2605/9.4
70 ILCS 2605/9.5
70 ILCS 2605/9.6
70 ILCS 2605/9.6a— Bonds for sewage treatment, water quality, and facility improvements
70 ILCS 2605/9.6b
70 ILCS 2605/9.6c— Local Government Assistance Program; bonds
70 ILCS 2605/9.6d— Other Post Employment Benefit Trusts
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70 ILCS 2605/9.8
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70 ILCS 2605/9e— Stormwater working cash fund
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70 ILCS 2605/10.1
70 ILCS 2605/10.2
70 ILCS 2605/10.3— Notice of the public hearing shall be published once a week for 2 consecutive weeks in a newspaper published and having a general circulation in the sanitary district, and the first publication shall be at least 15 days prior to the date set for the hearing
70 ILCS 2605/10.4
70 ILCS 2605/10.5
70 ILCS 2605/10.6— If the board of trustees adopts a resolution to proceed with the construction or acquisition of the project as provided in Section 10.5 of this Amendatory Act of 1955, they shall adopt an ordinance providing for the issuance of the bonds
70 ILCS 2605/10.7— All revenue derived from the operation of such a sewerage system or drainage system, improvement or extension shall be set aside as collected, and deposited in a special fund of the sanitary district
70 ILCS 2605/10.8
70 ILCS 2605/10.9
70 ILCS 2605/10a
70 ILCS 2605/11.1
70 ILCS 2605/11.2
70 ILCS 2605/11.3
70 ILCS 2605/11.4
70 ILCS 2605/11.5
70 ILCS 2605/11.6— The head of each department shall notify the director of procurement and materials management of those officers and employees authorized to sign requests for purchases
70 ILCS 2605/11.7
70 ILCS 2605/11.8— Any agreement or collusion among bidders or prospective bidders in restraint of freedom of competition by agreement to bid a fixed price, or otherwise, shall render the bids of such bidder void
70 ILCS 2605/11.9
70 ILCS 2605/11.10— Every contract or purchase order involving amounts in excess of the mandatory competitive bid threshold shall be signed by the president or other duly authorized officer of the board of commissioners, by the executive director, by the clerk and by the director of procurement and materials management
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70 ILCS 2605/11.12
70 ILCS 2605/11.13
70 ILCS 2605/11.14— No contract to which the sanitary district is a party shall be assigned by the successful bidder without the written consent of the director of procurement and materials management
70 ILCS 2605/11.15
70 ILCS 2605/11.16— The executive director, with the advice and consent of the board of trustees, shall appoint the director of procurement and materials management
70 ILCS 2605/11.17— Powers of director of procurement and materials management
70 ILCS 2605/11.18— The board of trustees is expressly authorized to establish a revolving fund to enable the director of procurement and materials management to purchase items of common usage in advance of immediate need
70 ILCS 2605/11.19— No department, office, agency or instrumentality, officer or employee of the sanitary district, shall be empowered to execute any purchase order or contract except as expressly authorized by this Act
70 ILCS 2605/11.19a— 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
70 ILCS 2605/11.20— There shall be a board of standardization, composed of the director of procurement and materials management of the sanitary district who shall be chairman, and 4 other members who shall be appointed by the president of the board of trustees of the sanitary district
70 ILCS 2605/11.21— Official ordinances authorized by this Act shall be adopted by formal action of the board of trustees of the sanitary district and shall be published for the information of the public
70 ILCS 2605/11.22— Any purchase order or contract executed in violation of this Act shall be null and void
70 ILCS 2605/11.23— The comptroller of the sanitary district shall conduct audits of all expenditures incident to all purchase orders and contracts awarded by the director of procurement and materials management
70 ILCS 2605/11.24— (a) A person or business entity shall be disqualified from doing business with The Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago for a period of 5 years from the date of conviction or entry of a plea or admission of guilt, if that person or business entity: 1
70 ILCS 2605/12— Power to levy taxes
70 ILCS 2605/12a— Any such sanitary district may accept anticipation warrants issued by any municipality or municipalities within the territorial limits of such sanitary district in payment of any judgment or other obligation due such district
70 ILCS 2605/13— The board of trustees has power to defray the expenses of any improvement made by it in the execution of the powers hereby granted to such incorporation, by special assessment or by general taxation, or partly by special assessment and partly by general taxation, as they shall by ordinance prescribe
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70 ILCS 2605/18— In making any special assessment for any improvement which requires the taking or damaging of property, the cost of acquiring the right to damage or take such property may be estimated and included in the assessment as a part of the cost of making such improvement
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70 ILCS 2605/19a— No person shall be an incompetent judge or juror by reason of his being an inhabitant or owner or life tenant of real estate in any sanitary district formed under the provisions hereof in any action in which such sanitary district may be a party in interest
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70 ILCS 2605/24
70 ILCS 2605/24A
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70 ILCS 2605/26
70 ILCS 2605/27— If any channel is constructed under Section 23 of this Act, the trustees of such district shall, when such channel is completed, and before any water or sewage is admitted therein, duly notify, in writing, the Governor of this State of such fact
70 ILCS 2605/28
70 ILCS 2605/35— Sanitary district; acquisition of land
70 ILCS 2605/40— Bridge construction
70 ILCS 2605/45— Control of bridges
70 ILCS 2605/50— Police force
70 ILCS 2605/55— Development; lease; sale of electrical energy
70 ILCS 2605/56— Resource recovery
70 ILCS 2605/57— Nutrient trading
70 ILCS 2605/60— Des Plaines River
70 ILCS 2605/65
70 ILCS 2605/65.1— Lagoons; Cook County
70 ILCS 2605/65.2— Treatment process area; Cook County
70 ILCS 2605/86— Added land
70 ILCS 2605/88— Drainage; navigation; special assessments
70 ILCS 2605/90— Extension of corporate limits
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