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 1        AN ACT concerning port districts.

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

 4        Section 5.  The Tri-City Regional Port  District  Act  is
 5    amended by changing Section 2 as follows:

 6        (70 ILCS 1860/2) (from Ch. 19, par. 285)
 7        Sec. 2.  Definitions. When used in this Act:
 8        "District" or "Port District" means the Tri-City Regional
 9    Port District created by this Act.
10        "Terminal"  means  a  public  place, station or depot for
11    receiving and delivering baggage, mail,  freight  or  express
12    matter   and   for  any  combination  of  such  purposes,  in
13    connection with the transportation of persons and property on
14    water or land or in the air.
15        "Terminal  facilities"   means   all   land,   buildings,
16    structures,  improvements, equipment and appliances useful in
17    the operation of public warehouse, storage and transportation
18    facilities  and  industrial,  manufacturing,  processing  and
19    conversion  activities  for  the  accommodation  of   or   in
20    connection  with  commerce  by water or land or in the air or
21    useful  as  an  aid  to  further  the  public  interest,   or
22    constituting   an  advantage  or  convenience  to,  the  safe
23    landing, taking off and navigation of aircraft, or  the  safe
24    and  efficient  operation or maintenance of a public airport;
25    except that nothing in this  definition  contained  shall  be
26    interpreted as granting authority to the District to acquire,
27    purchase,  create,  erect  or  construct  a bridge across any
28    waterway which serves as a  boundary  between  the  State  of
29    Illinois and any other state.
30        "Port  facilities"  means  all  public structures, except
31    terminal facilities as defined herein,  that  are  in,  over,
 
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 1    under  or  adjacent to navigable waters and are necessary for
 2    or incident to the furtherance of water commerce and includes
 3    the widening and deepening of slips,  harbors  and  navigable
 4    waters.
 5        "Aircraft"  means  any contrivance now known or hereafter
 6    invented, used or designed for navigation of, or  flight  in,
 7    the air.
 8        "Airport" means any locality, either land or water, which
 9    is  used  or  designed  for  the  landing  and  taking off of
10    aircraft, or for the location  of  runways,  landing  fields,
11    airdromes,  hangars,  buildings, structures, airport roadways
12    and other facilities.
13        "Airport  hazard"  means  any  structure,  or  object  of
14    natural growth, located on or in the vicinity of an  airport,
15    or  any use of land near an airport which is hazardous to the
16    use of such airport for the landing and take-off of aircraft.
17        "Approach" means any path, course or zone defined  by  an
18    ordinance  of  the District or by other lawful regulation, on
19    the ground or in the air, or both, for the use of aircraft in
20    landing and taking off from an  airport  located  within  the
21    District.
22        "Commercial  aircraft"  means  any  aircraft  other  than
23    public  aircraft  engaged  in  the  business  of transporting
24    persons or property.
25        "Private aircraft" means any aircraft other  than  public
26    and commercial aircraft.
27        "Public  aircraft"  means an aircraft used exclusively in
28    the governmental service of the  United  States,  or  of  any
29    state  or  of any public agency, including military and naval
30    aircraft.
31        "Public  airport"  means  an  airport  owned  by  a  Port
32    District, an airport authority or other public  agency  which
33    is  used  or  is  intended  for use by public, commercial and
34    private aircraft and by persons owning,  managing,  operating
 
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 1    or desiring to use, inspect or repair any such aircraft or to
 2    use any such airport for aeronautical purposes.
 3        "Public incinerator" means a facility for the disposal of
 4    waste  by incineration by any means or method for public use,
 5    including, but not limited to, incineration and  disposal  of
 6    industrial wastes.
 7        "Public  interest"  means the protection, furtherance and
 8    advancement of the general welfare and of public  health  and
 9    safety and public necessity and convenience.
10        "Navigable  waters"  means any public waters which are or
11    can be made usable for water commerce.
12        "Governmental agency" means the Federal,  State  and  any
13    local  governmental  body, and any agency or instrumentality,
14    corporate or otherwise, thereof.
15        "Person"  means  any   individual,   firm,   partnership,
16    corporation,  both domestic and foreign, company, association
17    or  joint  stock  association;  and  includes  any   trustee,
18    receiver, assignee or personal representative thereof.
19        "General  obligation  bond"  means any bond issued by the
20    District any part of the principal or interest of which  bond
21    is to be paid by taxation.
22        "Revenue  bond" means any bond issued by the District the
23    principal and interest of which bond is payable  solely  from
24    revenues or income derived from terminal, terminal facilities
25    or port facilities of the District.
26        "Board" means the Tri-City Port District Board.
27        "Governor" means the Governor of the State of Illinois.
28        "Mayor"  means the Mayor of the city of Venice, the Mayor
29    of the city of Madison or the Mayor of the  city  of  Granite
30    City, as the case may require.
31    (Source: P.A. 92-643, eff. 1-1-03.)