HB6672 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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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.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning waterways.

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 5 as follows:

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

Sec. 5. Jurisdiction. The Department of Natural Resources shall upon behalf of the State of Illinois, have jurisdiction and supervision over all of the rivers and lakes of the State of Illinois, wherein the State of Illinois or the people of the State have any rights or interests, and shall make a list by counties of all the waters of Illinois, showing the waters, both navigable and non-navigable, that are found in each county of the State, and if the same are lakes, the extent of the shore lines and the amount, extent and area of the water surface; and in a like way, if the same are rivers, and specifying whether the same are navigable or non-navigable, and whether they have or have not been meandered.

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