Division 142 - Sewage Treatment and Disposal - Illinois Statutes

      (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 142 heading)DIVISION 142. SEWAGE TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL

(65 ILCS 5/11‑142‑1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑142‑1)     Sec. 11‑142‑1. Subject to the provisions of Section 11‑142‑2, whenever a municipality which is not in a sanitary district has constructed a sewage treatment or disposal plant or plants, the municipality may levy an annual tax of not to exceed .075% of the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of all taxable property therein for the operation and maintenance of the plant or plants. The tax shall be in addition to all other taxes authorized by law to be levied and collected in the municipality and shall be in addition to taxes levied for general purposes as authorized by Section 8‑3‑1.     The foregoing limitation upon tax rates may be increased or decreased according to the referendum provisions of the General Revenue Law of Illinois. (Source: P.A. 81‑1509.)

(65 ILCS 5/11‑142‑2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑142‑2)     Sec. 11‑142‑2. Section 11‑142‑1 shall be in force in any municipality in which "An Act to provide for a tax for the operation and maintenance of sewage treatment and disposal plants in municipalities which are not in any sanitary district," approved May 2, 1932, has been heretofore adopted and was in force immediately prior to January 1, 1942. Section 11‑142‑1 shall not be in force in any other municipality until the question of its adoption is certified by the clerk and submitted to the electors of the municipality at an election in accordance with the general election law, and approved by a majority of those voting thereon.     The question shall be in substantially the following form: ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑     Shall Section 11‑142‑1 of the Illinois Municipal Code, providing          YES for a tax for the operation and maintenance of sewage treatment         ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑ and disposal plants in municipalities which are not in any sanitary               NO district, be adopted? ‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑     If a majority of the electors of the municipality voting on the question vote in favor of adopting Section 11‑142‑1, it shall become operative in that municipality. (Source: P.A. 81‑1489.)

(65 ILCS 5/11‑142‑3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11‑142‑3)     Sec. 11‑142‑3. In addition to all other taxes now or hereafter authorized, the corporate authorities of each municipality may levy and collect, without referendum, a tax for the purpose of paying the expenses of the chlorination of sewage, or other means of disinfection or additional treatment as may be required by water quality standards approved or adopted by the Pollution Control Board or by the court, which tax may be extended at a rate not to exceed .02% of the value of all taxable property within the municipality as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue. (Source: P.A. 81‑1509.)