HB6660 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6660

Introduced 02/09/04, by Dan Reitz

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

615 ILCS 5/9

from Ch. 19, par. 56

Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning navigation.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT in relation to bodies of water.

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

Section 5. The Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act is amended by changing Section 9 as follows:

(615 ILCS 5/9) (from Ch. 19, par. 56)

Sec. 9. The Department of Natural Resources shall carefully investigate any and all complaints that may be made that any person, company or corporation is attempting to interfere with the free and unobstructed navigation of any of the public bodies of water of the State, and if it finds that the complaint is well founded, the Department shall enter the such order as may be required to prevent wrongful interference with such navigation.

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