§ 12-22 — Repealing section

This Act is intended as a complete revision, consolidation and codification of all the statutes of this State relating to the organization and operation of drainage districts and the construction of drains, ditches and levees for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes and the following acts and all acts amendatory thereof are repealed: "An Act to provide for the construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees, across the lands of others, for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the organization of drainage districts", approved May 29, 1879; "An Act to provide for drainage for agricultural and sanitary purposes, and to repeal certain acts therein named," approved June 27, 1885; "An Act to authorize certain drainage and levee districts to acquire, maintain and operate dredge boats for the construction and preservation of drains, ditches and levees", approved May 16, 1905; "An Act to authorize drainage districts and special drainage districts to acquire, maintain and operate dredge boats and other necessary equipment for the construction and preservation of drains and ditches," approved June 26, 1923; "An Act to authorize certain drainage and levee districts to acquire, maintain and operate dredge boats, land dredges and other necessary equipment for the construction and preservation of drains, ditches and levees," approved July 1, 1941; "An Act to provide for the construction and maintenance of a levee or levees in special drainage districts and to legalize and validate former proceedings, bonds, orders indebtedness and expenditures had, issued or incurred in regard to, on account of, or with the view to the erection and maintenance of such levee or levees," approved June 26, 1923; "An Act to authorize the organization of drainage and levee districts for the purpose of accepting works constructed or proposed to be constructed by the United States of America, to authorize existing districts to accept such works, to authorize all districts to comply with the conditions imposed in connection with the construction of such works, and to empower two or more districts to cooperate in accepting and maintaining such works," approved June 12, 1937; "An Act to enable the owners of farm lands which form any part of a drainage district, in which there is located in whole or in part a city, town or village, to reorganize as a separate drainage district with certain rights and duties in relation thereto", filed June 26, 1917; "An Act to extend the time and provide for the payment of assessments of benefits in drainage districts", approved May 22, 1885; "An Act in relation to the abatement of assessments for benefits in drainage districts", filed July 13, 1933; "An Act to maintain and improve county ditches heretofore constructed to drain swamp and overflowed lands", approved June 23, 1883; "An Act declaring legal drains heretofore or hereafter constructed by mutual license, consent or agreement, by adjacent or adjoining owners of land, and to limit the time within which such license or agreement heretofore granted may be withdrawn", approved June 4, 1889; "An Act to enable the commissioners of drainage districts to contract with railroad companies to construct or keep in repair any levee or levees now constructed or to be hereafter constructed in such districts, and to grant to such railroad companies a right-of-way over, on, along or across such levees", approved June 5, 1889; "An Act to provide for the dissolution of drainage districts," approved June 4, 1889; "An Act authorizing all drainage districts to issue bonds, and providing for the registration and payment thereof", approved June 15, 1895; "An Act to authorize the levying of special assessments upon lands, railroads, public highways and municipal corporations situate within any drainage district so as to provide the funds necessary to pay the cost of construction for benefits that shall have been conferred by the construction of any work of improvement, without special assessments having been legally levied prior thereto, and providing for the issuance of bonds payable out of such special assessments, authorized by this act to be levied," approved June 11, 1917; "An Act to provide for constructing pumping plants and maintaining the same in operation, in drainage and levee districts and special drainage districts heretofore or hereafter organized, and to legalize and validate former proceedings, assessments, bond issues, indebtedness, and expenditures in regard to, or on account of, the erection, maintenance and operation of pumping plants, and to repeal an act therein named", approved June 27, 1913; "An Act to enable adjoining drainage districts to connect their ditches, drains, levees or other works, and to provide for the apportionment of the cost of the construction, operation and maintenance of the work of a drainage district where lands in an adjoining district are benefited thereby, and to repeal an act therein named", approved June 28, 1913; "An Act to enable adjoining drainage districts to construct and erect a joint pumping station or joint pumping stations, ditches, levees or other works, to contract for the proportion of the cost of construction and maintenance of the same to be paid by each, and providing for the approval of the same," approved June 27, 1913; "An Act in relation to the construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees across the land of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the organization of drainage districts, approved and in force May 29, 1879", approved June 7, 1897; "An Act to provide for the refunding by drainage districts of money raised by assessments or taxes illegally levied and collected and of money raised by assessments or taxes legally levied where the proposed improvements for which the assessments or taxes were levied, have been abandoned", approved June 1, 1921; "An Act in relation to the abatement of assessments for benefits in levee and drainage districts", approved June 15, 1895; "An Act to authorize the commissioners of drainage districts to convey property to and lease property from the Federal Government", approved November 20, 1933; "An Act to enable drainage districts to effect settlements for damages resulting from changes in water surface elevations of any river, lake, or other water surfaces, or of ground water, caused by flood control, navigation, irrigation, or water power projects and works constructed by Federal Agencies", approved July 17, 1945; "An Act to give circuit courts of this State and the Superior Courts of Cook County, in term time, and judges thereof in vacation, concurrent jurisdiction with the county courts, in all matters pertaining to the organization of farm drainage districts, and farm drainage and levee districts, and the operation thereof, and to repeal all acts in conflict herewith", approved June 5, 1909; "An Act to provide for the care of water in lakes and artificial ponds or bodies of water within the boundaries of drainage and levee districts, or drainage districts", approved June 17, 1929.

Legislative History

(Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)