§ 9c

The corporate authorities of any such sanitary district may by ordinance establish a fund to be known as a "construction working cash fund" which shall be maintained and administered in the manner provided by this Act for the purpose of enabling said corporate authorities to have in the treasury at all times sufficient money to meet demands thereon for ordinary and necessary expenditures for construction purposes as defined in Section 5.2 of this Act. To create the construction working cash fund, the corporate authorities may incur an indebtedness and issue bonds therefor in an amount which, when added to any amounts accumulated from tax collections under Section 9cc of this Act, will not exceed 90% of the amount produced by multiplying the maximum tax rate permitted under this Act for construction purposes by the last known assessed valuation of all taxable property within the territorial boundaries of the sanitary district as equalized and determined for State and local taxes at the time any bonds are issued, plus 90% of the construction fund allocation from the last known entitlement of such sanitary district from the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund under Section 12 of "An Act in relation to State revenue sharing with local governmental entities", approved July 31, 1969, as amended. The bonds shall mature within 20 years from the date of issuance and shall bear interest at a rate or rates not exceeding that permitted by "An Act to authorize public corporations to issue bonds, other evidences of indebtedness and tax anticipation warrants subject to interest rate limitations set forth therein", approved May 26, 1970, as amended. In order to authorize and issue such bonds, the corporate authorities shall adopt an ordinance designating the purpose and fixing the date and the amount of the bonds proposed to be issued, the maturity thereof, the rate of interest thereon, place of payment and denomination; and provide for the levy and collection of a direct annual tax upon all the taxable property of the sanitary district sufficient to pay and discharge the principal thereof at maturity, and to pay the interest thereon as it falls due. Upon the filing in the office of the county clerk of the county where the sanitary district is located of a certified copy of any such ordinance, the county clerk shall extend the tax therein provided for. Said bonds may be issued by the corporate authorities without submitting the question of issuance to the legal voters of such sanitary district for approval. All moneys derived from the issuance of said construction working cash fund bonds pursuant to this Amendatory Act of 1985, when received by the treasurer of the district, shall be set apart in the construction working cash fund. The moneys in such fund shall not be regarded as current assets available for appropriation and shall not be appropriated by the corporate authorities in the annual sanitary district budget, but in order to provide moneys with which to meet ordinary and necessary disbursements for salaries and other construction purposes may be transferred, in whole or in part, to the construction fund of the sanitary district and so disbursed therefrom in anticipation of the collection of any taxes lawfully levied for construction purposes or in the anticipation of the receipt of such sanitary district's entitlement from the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund under Section 12 of "An Act in relation to State revenue sharing with local governmental entities", approved July 31, 1969, as amended. Upon the receipt by the treasurer of the sanitary district of any taxes or entitlements in anticipation of the collection or receipt whereof moneys of the construction working cash fund have been so transferred for disbursement, such fund shall immediately be reimbursed therefrom until the full amount so transferred has been retransferred to said fund. If the taxes or entitlements in anticipation of the collection of which such transfers are made are not collected in sufficient amounts to effect a complete reimbursement of the construction working cash fund within the second budget year following the year in which said transfer was made of the amounts transferred from the construction working cash fund to the construction fund, the deficiencies between the amounts thus transferred and the amounts repaid shall be general obligations of the construction fund until repaid either from taxes or entitlements in anticipation of which such transfers were made or from appropriations which may be made in annual sanitary district budgets of sums of money to apply on such general obligations. Moneys shall be transferred from the construction working cash fund to the construction fund only upon the authority of the corporate authorities, which shall by resolution direct the treasurer of the sanitary district to make transfers. The resolution shall set forth (a) the entire amount of real estate taxes extended or estimated to be extended from which the construction working cash fund will be reimbursed, (b) the estimated amount of the construction fund allocation of the sanitary district's entitlement of the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund from which the construction working cash fund will be reimbursed, and (c) the aggregate amount of moneys theretofore transferred from the construction working cash fund to the construction fund in anticipation of the collection of such taxes or entitlements. The amount which the resolution shall direct the treasurer of the sanitary district to transfer in anticipation of the collection of taxes levied or the receipt of the construction fund allocation of the entitlement for any year, when added to the aggregate amount of any such transfers theretofore made, shall not exceed the aggregate of 100% of the actual or estimated amount of such taxes extended or to be extended plus 100% of that part of the entitlement estimated to be received from the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund to be allocated to the construction fund, as set forth in the resolution. Any member of the board of commissioners of said sanitary district or any officer thereof or any other person holding any other position of trust or employment under the said board, who is guilty of the wilful violation of any of the provisions of this Amendatory Act of 1985, shall be guilty of a business offense and shall be fined not exceeding $10,000 and shall forfeit the right to his office, trust or employment and shall be removed therefrom. Any such member, officer or person shall be liable for any sum that may be unlawfully diverted from the construction working cash fund or otherwise used, to be recovered by the corporate authorities of said sanitary district or by any taxpayer in the name and for the benefit of said board of commissioners in an appropriate civil action. A taxpayer so suing shall file a bond for and shall be liable for, all costs, taxed against the board of commissioners in such a suit. Nothing herein shall bar any other remedies. The authority granted by this Amendatory Act of 1985 shall be cumulative authority for the issuance of bonds and shall not be held to repeal any laws with respect thereto.

Legislative History

(Source: P.A. 89-574, eff. 1-1-97.)