(20 ILCS 805/805-235) (was 20 ILCS 805/63a6)
Sec. 805-235.
Lease of lands acquired by the Department; disposition of
obsolete buildings. The Department has the power to do and perform
each and every act or thing considered
by the Director to be necessary or desirable to fulfill and carry out
the intent and purpose of all laws pertaining to the Department, including the right to rehabilitate or sell at
public auction buildings or structures affixed to lands over which the
Department has acquired jurisdiction when in the judgment of the Director
those
buildings or structures are obsolete, inadequate, or unusable for the
purposes
of the Department and to lease those lands with
or without appurtenances for a consideration in money or in kind for a
period of time not in excess of 5 years for the purposes and upon
the terms and conditions that the Director considers to
be in the best interests of
the State when those lands are not immediately to be used or
developed by the
State. All those sales shall be made subject to the written
approval of the
Governor. The funds derived from those sales and from those leases shall be
deposited in the State Parks Fund, except that funds derived from
those sales and from
those leases on lands managed and operated principally as wildlife
or fisheries
areas by the Department shall be
deposited in the Wildlife and Fish Fund.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
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