Bill Text: IL HB5399 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Fox Waterway Agency Act. Makes a technical change concerning the Agency's programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-08 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5399 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB5399-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
shall
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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