TITLE 92: TRANSPORTATION
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AUTHORITY: Implementing Section 9-123 of the Illinois Highway Code (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 121, par. 9-123) and authorized by Section 10 of "An Act in relation to the construction, operation, regulation and maintenance of a system of toll highways and to create The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, and to define its powers and duties, to make an appropriation in conjunction therewith," (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1983, ch. 121, par. 100-10).
SOURCE: Filed April 26, 1965; codified at 8 Ill. Reg. 18929.
Section 2510.5 Resolution No. 7029
a) Whereas, the Authority has received requests for permission to discharge sewage into the drainage system of the Illinois Tollway; and
b) Whereas, it is the Public Policy of the State of Illinois as expressed in the Illinois Highway Code to prohibit the discharge of sewage into open ditches along any public highway or drainage structure installed for street or highway drainage purpose as more fully set forth in par. 9-123 of the Illinois Highway Code; and
c) Whereas, it is deemed necessary and in the best interest of the Authority for the protection of the Tollway and its patrons to adopt a regulation governing the discharge of sewage into open ditches along the Illinois State Toll Highway consistent to the Public Policy of the State of Illinois as set forth in the Illinois Highway Code.
d) Now therefore, be it resolved by The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority that the following Regulation is hereby adopted and promulgated pursuant to Section 8 (a) of The Toll Highway Act.
Section 2510.10 Discharge of Sewage into Open Ditches along the Illinois Tollway
No person, firm, corporation, or institution, public or private, shall discharge or empty any type of sewage, including the effluent from septic tanks or other sewage treatment devices, or any other domestic, commercial or industrial waste, or any putrescible liquids, or cause the same to be discharged or emptied in any manner into open ditches along the Illinois Tollway, or into any drain or drainage structure installed by the Authority for highway drainage purposes.