Bill Text: IL HB1126 | 2011-2012 | 97th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Fox Waterway Agency Act. Makes a technical change concerning the Agency's programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB1126 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2011-HB1126-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Fox Waterway Agency Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 7.1 as follows:
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| 6 | (615 ILCS 90/7.1) (from Ch. 19, par. 1208)
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| 7 | Sec. 7.1.
The
The Agency shall implement reasonable | |||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | programs and adopt necessary and reasonable ordinances and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | rules to improve
and maintain the Chain O Lakes - Fox River | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | recreational waterway from the
Wisconsin State line to the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | Algonquin Dam for the purposes of boating, sailing,
canoeing, | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | swimming, water skiing, rowing, iceboating,
fishing, hunting | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | and other recreational uses, to help prevent or control
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| 14 | flooding
of the waterway, to improve recreational uses of the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | waterway, to prevent
pollution and
otherwise improve the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | quality of the waterway, to promote
tourism, and to create and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | administer a procedure for establishing restricted
areas. In | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | the case of a local ordinance relating to the
establishment of | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | restricted areas, speed limits, or other boating restrictions
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| 20 | that is adopted by another unit of local government and | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | conflicts with an
Agency
ordinance or rule, the Agency | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | ordinance or rule shall
control even if the conflicting | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | ordinance
is more restrictive,
except that municipalities with | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | corporate boundaries that are both
adjacent to and at the | ||||||
| 2 | southern terminus of the Agency's jurisdiction over the
Fox | ||||||
| 3 | River shall
retain the right to establish reasonable no-wake | ||||||
| 4 | zones within their corporate
boundaries.
The Agency may develop | ||||||
| 5 | programs and build projects to
minimize pollution in the | ||||||
| 6 | watershed from otherwise entering the waterway.
Prior to | ||||||
| 7 | establishing any restricted area, the Agency shall provide 21 | ||||||
| 8 | days
notice to any municipality in which the proposed area | ||||||
| 9 | borders upon or is
located. Notice shall be filed with the | ||||||
| 10 | Clerk of the municipality. If such a
municipality, by | ||||||
| 11 | resolution of the corporate authority of the municipality,
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| 12 | files an objection to the establishing of the proposed | ||||||
| 13 | restricted area, then
that restricted area shall not be | ||||||
| 14 | approved except by a favorable vote of
two-thirds of the | ||||||
| 15 | Chairman and Board of Directors.
All Agency programs, | ||||||
| 16 | ordinances and rules
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be in conformance with the Rivers, | ||||||
| 17 | Lakes, and Streams Act. The Agency shall
coordinate efforts of | ||||||
| 18 | State, federal and local governments to improve and
maintain | ||||||
| 19 | the waterway. | ||||||
| 20 | (Source: P.A. 89-162, eff. 7-19-95.)
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