93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6672


 
Introduced 02/09/04, by Dan Reitz
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		












615 ILCS 5/5
  from Ch. 19, par. 52









    Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act.  Adds a caption to a
Section concerning the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources
under the Act.
















LRB093 18902 RAS 44637 b

















 


 


A BILL FOR









 











HB6672

LRB093 18902 RAS 44637 b






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    AN ACT concerning waterways. 

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
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represented in the General Assembly: 


 
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    Section 5. The Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act is amended by 
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changing
Section 5 as follows:


 
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    (615 ILCS 5/5)  (from Ch. 19, par. 52)

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    Sec. 5. Jurisdiction.  The Department of Natural Resources 
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shall upon
behalf of the State of
Illinois, have jurisdiction 
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and supervision over all of the rivers and
lakes of the State 
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of Illinois, wherein the State of Illinois or the people
of the 
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State have any rights or interests, and shall make a list by

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counties of all the waters of Illinois, showing the waters, 
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both navigable
and non-navigable, that are found in each county 
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of the State, and if the
same are lakes, the extent of the 
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shore lines and the amount, extent and
area of the water 
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surface; and in a like way, if the same are rivers, and

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specifying whether the same are navigable or non-navigable, and 
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whether
they have or have not been meandered.


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(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)