Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 70 ILCS 2105/27

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
     Nothing in this Act contained shall apply to or be construed in any manner to affect the property, real, personal or mixed and wherever situated, or the channels, drains, ditches and outlets and adjuncts and additions thereto and their use, operation and maintenance and the right to the flow of water therein for sewage dilution, or affect the jurisdiction, rights, powers, duties and obligations of any existing sanitary district or any sanitary district or any city or village which now has a population of one million or more within its territorial limits.
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