(65 ILCS 5/11-111-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-111-1)
Sec. 11-111-1.
Every city or village, whether incorporated under the
general law or under a special charter, whose site is wholly or partially
subject to overflow and wholly or partially surrounded by levees, dykes, or
embankments to prevent overflow: (1) may divide the municipality, or any
part thereof, into improvement districts, (2) may fix the grade of the
streets, avenues, alleys, or public grounds within the improvement
districts, at any height deemed necessary to give a surface drainage from
each improvement district to the river or rivers which cause the overflow,
and (3) may require low lots, blocks, or parts thereof, within an
improvement district to be filled in such manner as to prevent water from
standing thereon and thus to prevent them from becoming a nuisance or
injurious to the public health, in the judgment of the corporate
authorities of the municipality.
The work authorized to be done by Sections 11-111-1 through 11-111-7
shall be done by special assessment or special taxation of contiguous
property. Every city or village exercising the power granted by these
sections has the same power in relation to special assessments or special
taxation as is granted to any city, village, or drainage or improvement
district in this state.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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