(70 ILCS 2205/6) (from Ch. 42, par. 252)
Sec. 6.
Such sanitary district shall be held in all courts to be a body
corporate, and politic, under the name and style of .... sanitary district,
and by such name and style may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted
with, acquire and hold real and personal property necessary for corporate
purposes, have a common seal, and change the same at pleasure, and exercise
all the powers in this Act conferred. No claim for compensation shall be
made or action for damages filed against such district on account of any
damage to property occurring after July 1, 1933, unless notice in writing
is filed with the board within 6 months after the occurrence of the damage
or injury giving the name and residence address of the owner of the
property damaged, its location and the probable extent of the damage
sustained. All courts of this State shall take judicial notice of the
existence of sanitary districts organized hereunder.
The board of trustees may, by ordinance, change the corporate name of a
sanitary district organized under this Act. Such ordinance shall be
published at least once in a newspaper having a general circulation within
the district and shall become effective 10 days after such first
publication. A copy of such ordinance together with a certificate of
publication thereof certified by the president of the board shall be
transmitted to the Secretary of State. After such ordinance becomes
effective all references in any ordinance, resolution, bonds, or any other
document to such sanitary district by its former corporate name shall mean
and include the corporate name under which such sanitary district is then
operating. No rights, duties or privileges of such sanitary district, or
those of any person, existing before the change of corporate name shall be
affected by such change of name. All proceedings pending in any court in
favor of or against a sanitary district at the time a change of corporate
name is effected may continue to final consummation under the name in which
they were commenced.
(Source: P.A. 83-345.)
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