Bill Text: IL HB4114 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Amends the Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act. In provisions concerning the Kaskaskia Port District's rights and powers, provides that the District may own or lease one or more, or a combination or combinations of, industrial buildings, office buildings, buildings to be used as a factory, mill shops, processing plants, packaging plants, assembly plants, fabricating plants, and buildings to be used as warehouses and other storage facilities (currently, only acquire, erect, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, and operate such facilities).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-05-06 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0725 [HB4114 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB4114-Enrolled.html

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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act is
amended by changing Section 7.1 as follows:
(70 ILCS 1830/7.1) (from Ch. 19, par. 507.1)
Sec. 7.1. Additional rights and powers. The Port District
has the following additional rights and powers:
(a) To issue permits for the construction of all
wharves, piers, dolphins, booms, weirs, breakwaters,
bulkheads, jetties, bridges or other structures of any
kind, over, under, in, or within 40 feet of any navigable
waters within the Port District, for the deposit of rock,
earth, sand or other material, or any matter of any kind or
description in such waters;
(b) To prevent and remove obstructions in navigable
waters, including the removal of wrecks or vessels; to
recover damages, including attorney fees, for the removal
and clean-up of the site or sites and the surrounding or
downstream environment; these rights and powers shall
include, but are not limited to, emergency powers to seize
wrecks or vessels, remediate damages, and provide for the
disposition of the wrecks or vessels;

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(c) To locate and establish dock lines and shore or
harbor lines;
(d) To regulate the anchorage, moorage and speed of
water borne vessels and to establish and enforce
regulations for the operation of bridges;
(e) To acquire, own, construct, lease, operate and
maintain terminals, terminal facilities, port facilities,
transportation equipment facilities, railroads and
marinas, and airport facilities and systems, and to fix
and collect just, reasonable, and non-discriminatory
charges for use of such facilities, equipment and systems.
The charges so collected shall be used to defray the
reasonable expenses of the Port District, and to pay the
principal of and interest on any revenue bonds issued by
the Port District;
(f) To operate, maintain, manage, lease, sub-lease,
and to make and enter into contracts for the use,
operation or management of, and to provide rules and
regulations for, the operation, management or use of, any
public port or public port facility;
(g) To fix, charge and collect reasonable rentals,
tolls, fees and charges for the use of any public port, or
any part thereof, or any public port facility;
(h) To establish, maintain, expand and improve
roadways, railroads, and approaches by land, or water, to
any such terminal, terminal facility and port facilities,

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and to contract or otherwise provide by condemnation, if
necessary, for the removal of any port, terminal, terminal
facilities and port facility hazards or the removal or
relocation of all private structures, railroads, mains,
pipes, conduits, wires, poles, and all other facilities
and equipment which may interfere with the location,
expansion, development or improvement of ports, terminals,
terminal facilities and port facilities or with the safe
approach thereto, or exit or takeoff therefrom by
vehicles, vessels, barges and other means of
transportation, and to pay the cost of removal or
relocation;
(i) To police its physical property only and all
waterways and to exercise police powers in respect thereto
or in respect to the enforcement of any rule or regulation
provided by the ordinances of the District and to employ
and commission police officers and other qualified persons
to enforce such rules and regulations. A regulatory
ordinance of the District adopted under any provisions of
this Section may provide for a suspension or revocation of
any rights or privileges within the control of the
District for a violation of any such regulatory ordinance.
(j) To enter into agreements with the corporate
authorities or governing body of any other municipal
corporation or any political subdivision of this State to
pay the reasonable expense of services furnished by such

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municipal corporation or political subdivision for or on
account of income producing properties of the District;
(k) To enter into contracts dealing in any manner with
the objects and purposes of this Act;
(l) To acquire, own, lease, mortgage, sell, or
otherwise dispose of interests in and to real property and
improvements situate thereon and in personal property
necessary to fulfill the purposes of the District;
(m) To designate the fiscal year for the District;
(n) To engage in any activity or operation which is
incidental to and in furtherance of efficient operation to
accomplish the District's primary purpose;
(o) To acquire, erect, construct, maintain and operate
aquariums, museums, planetariums, climatrons and other
edifices for the collection and display of objects
pertaining to natural history or the arts and sciences and
to permit the directors or trustees of any corporation or
society organized for the erection, construction,
maintenance and operation of an aquarium, museum,
planetarium, climatron or other such edifice to perform
such erection, construction, maintenance and operation on
or within any property now or hereafter owned by or under
the control or supervision of the District; and to
contract with any such directors or trustees relative to
such acquisition, erection, construction, maintenance and
operation and to charge or authorize such directors or

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trustees to charge an admission fee, the proceeds of which
shall be devoted exclusively to such erection,
construction, maintenance and operation;
(p) To do any act which is enumerated in Section
11-74.1-1 of the "Illinois Municipal Code", in the same
manner and form as though the District were a
"municipality" as referred to in such Section;
(q) To acquire, own, erect, construct, lease,
reconstruct, improve, maintain and operate one or more, or
a combination or combinations of, industrial buildings,
office buildings, buildings to be used as a factory, mill
shops, processing plants, packaging plants, assembly
plants, fabricating plants, and buildings to be used as
warehouses and other storage facilities.
(r) To acquire, own, construct, lease or contract for
any period not exceeding 99 years, operate, develop, and
maintain Port District water and sewage systems and other
utility systems and services, including, but not limited
to, pipes, mains, lines, sewers, pumping stations,
settling tanks, treatment plants, water purification
equipment, wells, storage facilities, lines, and all other
equipment, material, and facilities necessary to those
systems, for the use, upon payment of reasonable fee set
by the District, of any tenant, occupant, or user of the
District facilities or any person engaged in commerce in
the District; provided that the District shall not

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acquire, own, construct, lease, operate, develop, and
maintain the systems and services if those systems and
services can be provided by an investor-owned public
utility offering electric or gas services. The public
utility shall provide the District with a written
response, within 30 days after receiving a written request
from the District for those systems or services, stating
whether it will or will not be able to provide the
requested systems or services in accordance with the
Public Utilities Act.
(Source: P.A. 99-507, eff. 6-24-16.)