Illinois § 19

§ 19.

Landfills. (a) No land that is owned or acquired by a conservation district may be used for the development or operation of any new pollution control facility, as those terms are defined in Section 3.330 of the Environmental Protection Act. (b) A conservation district may not transfer any land or interest in land owned or acquired by the district to any other entity which the district has reason to know intends to construct, expand or operate thereon any sanitary landfill or regulated waste treatment, disposal or storage facility or develop or operate thereon any new pollution control facility, as that term is defined in Section 3.330 of the Environmental Protection Act. A conservation district that wishes to transfer any land or interest in land owned or acquired by the district to any other entity must impose, as a condition of the transfer, a covenant prohibiting the development thereon or operation of any new pollution control facility, as that term is defined in Section 3.330 of the Environmental Protection Act. (Source: P.A. 92-574, eff. 6-26-02.)