(45 ILCS 60/0.01) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 116.990) Sec. 0.01. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Compact Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

(45 ILCS 60/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 117) Sec. 1. The following Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Compact, which has been negotiated by representatives of the States of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia, is hereby approved, ratified, adopted, enacted into law, and entered into by the State of Illinois as a party thereto and signatory state, namely:

(45 ILCS 60/2) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 118) Sec. 2. The State of Illinois hereby consents that the State of Virginia may become a party to and a signatory State of the aforesaid Compact as fully as if it had been expressly named therein. (Source: Laws 1939, p. 310.)

(45 ILCS 60/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 119) Sec. 3. In pursuance of Article IV of said Compact, there shall be three members (hereinafter called commissioners) of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (hereinafter called Commission) from the State of Illinois. The Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint two persons as two of such commissioners, each of which shall be a resident and citizen of the State of Illinois. The terms of one of the said two commissioners first appointed shall be three years and of the other shall be six years; and their successors shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for terms of six years each. Each commissioner shall hold office until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. Vacancies occurring in the office of any such commissioner from any reason or cause shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for the unexpired term. The third commissioner from the State of Illinois shall be the Director of the Environmental Protection Agency, ex-officio, and the term of any such ex-officio commissioner shall terminate at the time he ceases to hold said office of Director of the Environmental Protection Agency, and his successor as a commissioner shall be his successor as said Director of the Environmental Protection Agency. With the exception of the issuance of any order under the provisions of Article IX of the Compact, said ex-officio commissioner may delegate, from time to time, to any deputy or other subordinate in his department or office the power to be present and participate, including voting, as his representative or substitute at any meeting of or hearing by or other proceeding of the Commission. The terms of each of the initial three members shall begin at the date of the appointment of the two appointive commissioners, provided the said Compact shall then have gone into effect in accordance with Article XI of the Compact; otherwise shall begin upon the date upon which said Compact shall become effective in accordance with said Article XI. Any Commissioner may be removed from office by the Governor upon charges and after a hearing, but opportunity to be heard shall be given. (Source: P.A. 79-392.)

(45 ILCS 60/4) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 120) Sec. 4. There is hereby granted to the Commission and the commissioners thereof all the powers provided for in the said Compact and all the powers necessary or incidental to the carrying out of said Compact in every particular. All officers of the State of Illinois are hereby authorized and directed to do all things falling within their respective provinces and jurisdiction necessary to or incidental to the carrying out of said Compact in every particular; it being hereby declared to be the policy of the State of Illinois to perform and carry out the said Compact and to accomplish the purposes thereof. All officers, bureaus, departments and persons of and in the state government or administration of the State of Illinois are hereby authorized and directed at convenient times and upon request of the said Commission to furnish the said Commission with information and data possessed by them or any of them and to aid said Commission by loan of personnel or other means lying within their legal powers respectively. The Circuit Courts of the State of Illinois are hereby granted the jurisdiction specified in Article IX of said Compact, and the office of the Attorney General or any other law enforcing officer of the State of Illinois is hereby granted the power to institute any action for the enforcement of the orders of the Commission as specified in said Article IX of the Compact. (Source: Laws 1939, p. 310.)

(45 ILCS 60/5) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 121) Sec. 5. Any powers herein granted to the Commission shall be regarded as in aid of and supplemental to and in no case a limitation upon any of the powers vested in said Commission by other laws of the State of Illinois or by the laws of the States of Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and West Virginia, or by Congress or the terms of said Compact. (Source: Laws 1939, p. 310.)