Water Authorities Act

Sections covered

• 70 ILCS 3715/0.01Short title
• 70 ILCS 3715/1Special Districts › 70 ILCS 3715 — Water Authorities Act
• 70 ILCS 3715/10Special Districts › 70 ILCS 3715 — Water Authorities Act
• 70 ILCS 3715/11Special Districts › 70 ILCS 3715 — Water Authorities Act
• 70 ILCS 3715/12Special Districts › 70 ILCS 3715 — Water Authorities Act
• 70 ILCS 3715/13Special Districts › 70 ILCS 3715 — Water Authorities Act
• 70 ILCS 3715/14With respect to any area acquired by a water authority for reservoir purposes, whether within or without the corporate boundaries of the authority, the authority has the powers enumerated in Sections 15 to 23, inclusive, which are in addition to any other powers of an authority
• 70 ILCS 3715/15To police such area and to exercise police power with respect thereto and to employ and commission policemen
• 70 ILCS 3715/16In all actions for the violation of any ordinance of the authority, the first process shall be a summons or a warrant
• 70 ILCS 3715/17Any sheriff may serve any process, or make any arrest in an authority, or the part thereof, located in the county in which he was elected, which any officer of that authority is authorized to make under this Act or any ordinance passed in pursuance thereof
• 70 ILCS 3715/18To regulate or prohibit fishing, boating, swimming and other sporting activities
• 70 ILCS 3715/19To license and regulate or prohibit water craft, boat docks, wharves, boat houses and other structures in or on or on the shore of the reservoir
• 70 ILCS 3715/2The court shall canvass the returns of the election and by written order shall determine and declare the result thereof within the territory that shall be described in the order, which order shall be entered of record in the court
• 70 ILCS 3715/20To lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave or otherwise improve, and vacate roads, parking areas, wharves, parks, picnic areas and swimming pools for public use
• 70 ILCS 3715/21Special Districts › 70 ILCS 3715 — Water Authorities Act
• 70 ILCS 3715/22To sell and dispose of property, real or personal, that is no longer needed for its purposes
• 70 ILCS 3715/23To grant easements and rights of way
• 70 ILCS 3715/24To make such regulations as it deems necessary to protect public health, welfare and safety and to prevent pollution of its water supply
• 70 ILCS 3715/25If it leases its property for residential or business purposes, to construct, and operate a water distribution and sewage system, require the use thereof and make reasonable charges therefor to such residents and businesses
• 70 ILCS 3715/26Special Districts › 70 ILCS 3715 — Water Authorities Act
• 70 ILCS 3715/27An authority may acquire easements and rights of way for ingress to and egress from any of its real property by purchase, gift, condemnation or otherwise and may dedicate such easements and rights of way to public use
• 70 ILCS 3715/28Cessation or dissolution of authority organization
• 70 ILCS 3715/3Every water authority so established shall be governed by a board of 3 trustees
• 70 ILCS 3715/4Such board of trustees shall, within thirty days after appointment, organize by selecting one of its members as chairman and one thereof as secretary
• 70 ILCS 3715/5Special Districts › 70 ILCS 3715 — Water Authorities Act
• 70 ILCS 3715/5.1Any water authority organized under this Act may determine, in the manner provided in this Section, to have an elected, rather than an appointed, board of trustees
• 70 ILCS 3715/5.2Any water authority, that has determined to have an elected rather than an appointed board of trustees pursuant to Section 5.1, may, in the manner provided in this Section, revert to an appointed board of trustees
• 70 ILCS 3715/6Such board of trustees shall have the following powers: 1
• 70 ILCS 3715/6.5Eminent domain
• 70 ILCS 3715/6aSpecial Districts › 70 ILCS 3715 — Water Authorities Act
• 70 ILCS 3715/6bPurchases 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 3715/6cBoil order; notification of certified local health department required
• 70 ILCS 3715/7All final administrative decisions of any board of trustees organized pursuant to this act shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Review Law, and all amendments and modifications thereof, and the rules adopted pursuant thereto
• 70 ILCS 3715/8Provisions of this act shall not apply to water used for agricultural purposes, farm irrigation, or water used for domestic purposes where not to exceed 4 families are supplied from the same well or other immediate source
• 70 ILCS 3715/9Special Districts › 70 ILCS 3715 — Water Authorities Act