HB 3370 — METRO WATER RECLAMATION TAXES

HB3370 EngrossedEnrolled LRB098 10891 OMW 41416 b AN ACT concerning local government.

The board of commissioners annually may levy taxes for corporate purposes upon property within the territorial limits of such sanitary district, the aggregate amount of which, exclusive of the amount levied for (a) the payment of bonded indebtedness and the interest on bonded indebtedness (b) employees' annuity and benefit purposes (c) construction purposes, and (d) for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a reserve fund for the payment of claims, awards, losses, judgments, or liabilities, settlements, or demands and associated attorney's fees and costs that which might be imposed on or incurred by such sanitary district in matters including, but not limited to, under the Workers' Compensation Act or the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act, and any claim in tort, including but not limited to, any claim imposed upon such sanitary district under the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, any claim of deprivation of any constitutional or HB3370 EngrossedEnrolled - 2 - LRB098 10891 OMW 41416 b statutory right or protection, for all expenses, fees, and costs, both direct and in support of and for all costs related to the repair or replacement of any property owned by such sanitary district which is damaged by fire, flood, explosion, vandalism or any other peril, natural or manmade, shall not exceed the sum produced by extending the rate of .46% for each of the years 1979 through 2004 and by extending the rate of 0.41% for the year 2005 and each year thereafter, upon the assessed valuation of all taxable property within the sanitary district as equalized and determined for State and local taxes.

Amounts realized from taxes so levied for construction purposes shall be limited for use to such purposes and shall not be available for appropriation or used to defray the cost of repairs to or expense of maintaining or operating existing or future HB3370 EngrossedEnrolled - 3 - LRB098 10891 OMW 41416 b facilities, but such restrictions, however, shall not apply to additions, alterations, enlargements, and replacements which will add appreciably to the value, utility, or the useful life of said facilities.

For the purpose of establishing and maintaining a reserve fund for the payment of claims, awards, losses, judgments, or liabilities, settlements, or demands and associated attorney's fees and costs that which might be imposed on or incurred by such sanitary district in matters including, but not limited to, under the Workers' Compensation Act or the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act, and any claim in tort, including but not limited to, any claim imposed upon such sanitary district under the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act, any claim of deprivation of any constitutional or statutory right or protection, for all expenses, fees, and costs, both direct and in support and for all costs related to HB3370 EngrossedEnrolled - 4 - LRB098 10891 OMW 41416 b the repair or replacement, where the cost thereof exceeds the sum of $10,000, of any property owned by such sanitary district which is damaged by fire, flood, explosion, vandalism or any other peril, natural or man-made, such sanitary district may also levy annually upon all taxable property within its territorial limits a tax not to exceed .005% of the assessed valuation of said taxable property as equalized and determined for State and local taxes;

Nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to compel said district to maintain or operate HB3370 EngrossedEnrolled - 5 - LRB098 10891 OMW 41416 b said bridges, as movable bridges, for a period of 9 years from and after the time when the water has been turned into said channel pursuant to law, unless the needs of general navigation of the Des Plaines and Illinois Rivers, when connected by said channel, sooner require it.