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