(70 ILCS 605/11-1) (from Ch. 42, par. 11-1)
Sec. 11-1.
Right
to connect drains and levees.
Any drainage district may connect its drains, in the course of natural
drainage, or its levees to the drains or levees of another district or to
the storm drains or levees of a municipal corporation exercising drainage
powers. Any municipal corporation exercising drainage powers may connect
its storm drains, in the course of natural drainage, or its levees to the
drains or levees of a drainage district. If, by reason of such connection,
lands or other property in the district or municipal corporation making the
connection receive benefits from work theretofore or thereafter constructed
by the other public body, then the district or municipal corporation making
the connection shall be liable to the district or municipal corporation
conferring the benefits for the just proportion of the cost of such work
and of the cost of the enlargement, improvement, maintenance, repair and
operation thereof based upon the relation which the benefits to the lands
in the district or municipal corporation making the connection bear to the
entire benefits from such work. Whenever the connection is made for the
purpose of obtaining an outlet, such connection in itself shall be prima
facie evidence of the fact that lands and other property in the district or
municipal corporation making the connection are benefited by such work.
Any district may, by a contract in writing with another district or with
a municipal corporation exercising drainage powers approved in the manner
provided in Sections 11-5, 11-6 and 11-7, obtain the right to connect
its drains other than in the course of natural drainage to the drains of
the other districts or to the storm drains of the municipal corporation.
Any municipal corporation exercising drainage powers may in like manner
obtain the right to connect its drains other than in the course of natural
drainage to the drains of a drainage district. If a drainage district or
municipal corporation exercising drainage powers, by reason of connecting
its drains other than in the course of natural drainage, causes damage to
any lands or other property by flooding or otherwise, it is liable for such
damage to the owners thereof or other persons interested therein and such
liability shall not be avoided by the terms of any contract between the two
bodies.
(Source: Laws 1955, p. 512.)
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