Bill Text: IL HB4757 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

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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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB4757 Introduced 1/11/2010, by Rep. Michael W. Tryon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 3715/1 from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 223
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.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Water Authorities Act is amended by changing
Section 1 as follows:
(70 ILCS 3715/1) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 223)
Sec. 1. Incorporation.
(a) Any area of contiguous territory may be incorporated as
a water authority in the following manner: Not less than 500
legal voters of the proposed authority shall petition the
circuit court for the county in which the proposed authority,
or the major portion thereof, is located defining the
boundaries of the proposed authority, stating its name and
requesting that the question of whether the proposed territory
shall be organized as a water authority be submitted to the
legal voters of the proposed authority.
Upon the filing of such petition, the court shall set a day
for a public hearing thereon. Notice of the time and place of
such hearing shall be given by publication in a newspaper
having a general circulation in said proposed authority not
less than 15 days prior to such hearing and if there is no such
newspaper then such notice shall be posted in at least 10
public places within such proposed authority not less than 15

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days before such hearing.
The court shall preside at such hearing and all persons
residing within such proposed authority shall be given an
opportunity to be heard concerning the location and boundaries
thereof and to make suggestions regarding the same. The
petitioners may authorize and designate one or more persons to
represent them at such hearing with authority to amend, dismiss
or withdraw the petition. Such hearing may be continued from
time to time and the court may modify or amend the petition.
The court shall enter an order fixing and determining the
boundaries of such proposed authority and shall certify the
proposition to the proper election officials, who shall submit
to the legal voters thereof at an election thereafter the
question of whether the proposed authority be organized and
established as a water authority pursuant to the provisions of
this Act. Notice of such election shall be given and the
election conducted in the manner provided by the general
election law. Such notice shall state a description of the
territory to be included. The proposition shall be
substantially as follows:
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For organization of water authority
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Against organization of water authority
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(b) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,

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if the 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.
(Source: P.A. 81-1489.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.