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.


LRB093 18902 RAS 44637 b

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

HB6672 LRB093 18902 RAS 44637 b

1     AN ACT concerning waterways.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act is amended by
5 changing Section 5 as follows:
 
6     (615 ILCS 5/5)  (from Ch. 19, par. 52)
7     Sec. 5. Jurisdiction. The Department of Natural Resources
8 shall upon behalf of the State of Illinois, have jurisdiction
9 and supervision over all of the rivers and lakes of the State
10 of Illinois, wherein the State of Illinois or the people of the
11 State have any rights or interests, and shall make a list by
12 counties of all the waters of Illinois, showing the waters,
13 both navigable and non-navigable, that are found in each county
14 of the State, and if the same are lakes, the extent of the
15 shore lines and the amount, extent and area of the water
16 surface; and in a like way, if the same are rivers, and
17 specifying whether the same are navigable or non-navigable, and
18 whether they have or have not been meandered.
19 (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)