|
Public Act 102-0725
|
HB4114 Enrolled | LRB102 18997 AWJ 27725 b |
|
|
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;
|
|
(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, |
|
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
|
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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.)
|