Bill Text: IL SB1299 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Fox Waterway Agency Act. Allows Lake County or McHenry County, if providing law enforcement services on a waterway in which a portion of the territory of the Agency is located, to assess a public safety enforcement user fee of up to $20 per user that uses the waterway for recreational or commercial boating. Provides that if Lake County and McHenry county both levy fees, those fees will be combined into a single $30 fee to be collected by the Agency, 60% of which shall be remitted to Lake County and 40% of which shall be remitted to McHenry County. Allows the Agency to keep $0.50 of every fee collected for administrative costs. The public safety enforcement user fee shall be used for county law enforcement purposes. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB1299 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SB1299-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,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Fox Waterway Agency Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Section 7.2 as follows:
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| 6 | (615 ILCS 90/7.2) (from Ch. 19, par. 1209) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 7.2. The Agency may charge reasonable user fees
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| 8 | recreational and commercial boating, and has the authority to | |||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | issue
revenue bonds and to borrow funds from any financial | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | lending institution, but
shall
not have the authority to impose | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | any property tax.
The Agency shall devise a schedule
of user | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | fees. The Agency shall conduct public hearings before
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| 13 | establishing or changing user fees or soliciting the issuance | |||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | of revenue
bonds or the borrowing of funds. The Agency may | |||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | issue
stickers as evidence of the payment of user fees.
The | |||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | Agency may impose a civil penalty on persons who knowingly use | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | the waterway
without paying a required user fee in an amount | |||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | not exceeding $500
for each
violation. This Such civil penalty | |||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | may be recovered by the Agency in a civil
action. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | The Agency may also sell its dredging materials from the | |||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | waterway as reclaimed topsoil. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | At least 75% of the gross income collected under this | |||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | Section, except any county public safety enforcement user fees | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | collected under this Section,
shall be used exclusively for | ||||||
| 2 | projects designed to maintain and improve the
waterway.
These | ||||||
| 3 | Such projects may include, but are not limited to, dredging, | ||||||
| 4 | site acquisition
for silt deposit, water safety, and water | ||||||
| 5 | quality projects. Any funds
which have not
been expended by the | ||||||
| 6 | end of a fiscal year may be accumulated in a revolving
fund. | ||||||
| 7 | If Lake County or McHenry County provides law enforcement | ||||||
| 8 | services on a waterway in which a portion of the territory of | ||||||
| 9 | the Agency is located, the county board of that county may by | ||||||
| 10 | ordinance assess a public safety enforcement user fee of up to | ||||||
| 11 | $20 per user who uses the waterway for recreational or | ||||||
| 12 | commercial boating. This fee shall be collected by the Agency | ||||||
| 13 | at the time it collects its other user fees and remitted to the | ||||||
| 14 | county. If Lake County and McHenry County both assess a public | ||||||
| 15 | safety enforcement user fee under this paragraph then the total | ||||||
| 16 | fee shall be $30, and the Agency shall collect the $30 county | ||||||
| 17 | public safety enforcement user fee and remit the fees collected | ||||||
| 18 | as follows: 60% to Lake County and 40% to McHenry County. The | ||||||
| 19 | Agency may retain $0.50 of each fee collected under this | ||||||
| 20 | paragraph to defray administrative costs associated with user | ||||||
| 21 | fee collection and processing. The public safety enforcement | ||||||
| 22 | user fee provided under this paragraph shall be used by the | ||||||
| 23 | county for law enforcement purposes. | ||||||
| 24 | (Source: P.A. 96-960, eff. 7-2-10.)
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| 25 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 26 | becoming law.
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