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Sen. John G. Mulroe
Filed: 4/15/2015
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 637
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| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 637 by replacing |
| 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| 4 | | "Section 5. The Illinois Aeronautics Act is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 47 as follows:
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| 6 | | (620 ILCS 5/47) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 22.47)
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| 7 | | Sec. 47.
Operation without certificate of approval |
| 8 | | unlawful;
applications.) An application for a certificate of |
| 9 | | approval of an
airport or restricted landing area, or the |
| 10 | | alteration or extension
thereof, shall set forth, among other |
| 11 | | things, the location of all
railways, mains, pipes, conduits, |
| 12 | | wires, cables, poles and other
facilities and structures of |
| 13 | | public service corporations or municipal or
quasi-municipal |
| 14 | | corporations, located within the area proposed to be
acquired |
| 15 | | or restricted, and the names of persons owning the same, to the
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| 16 | | extent that such information can be reasonably ascertained by |
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| 1 | | the
applicant.
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| 2 | | It shall be unlawful for any municipality or other |
| 3 | | political
subdivision, or officer or employee thereof, or for |
| 4 | | any person, to make
any alteration or extension of an existing |
| 5 | | airport or restricted landing
area, or to use or operate any |
| 6 | | airport or restricted landing area, for
which a certificate of |
| 7 | | approval has not been issued by the Department;
provided, that |
| 8 | | no certificate of approval shall be required for an
airport or |
| 9 | | restricted landing area which was in existence and approved
by |
| 10 | | the Illinois Aeronautics Commission, whether or not being |
| 11 | | operated,
on or before July 1, 1945, or for the O'Hare |
| 12 | | Modernization Program as defined
in Section 10
of the O'Hare
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| 13 | | Modernization Act; except that a certificate of approval shall |
| 14 | | be required
under this Section
for construction of a new runway |
| 15 | | at O'Hare International Airport with a
geographical |
| 16 | | orientation that varies from a geographical east-west |
| 17 | | orientation
by more than 10 degrees, or for construction of a |
| 18 | | new runway at that airport
that would result in more than 8 |
| 19 | | runways being available for aircraft
operations at that |
| 20 | | airport. The decommission, alteration, destruction, or |
| 21 | | re-designation of diagonal runways 14R/32L, 14L/32R, 4L/22R, |
| 22 | | and 4R/22L at O'Hare International Airport is prohibited by any |
| 23 | | municipality or other political subdivision, or officer or |
| 24 | | employee thereof. All runways shall be maintained and used in a |
| 25 | | safe and equitable manner for the purpose of fairly |
| 26 | | distributing air traffic over city and suburban communities |
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| 1 | | surrounding O'Hare International Airport.
The Department shall |
| 2 | | supervise, monitor, and enforce
compliance with the
O'Hare |
| 3 | | Modernization Act by all other departments, agencies, and units |
| 4 | | of State
and local
government.
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| 5 | | Provisions of this Section do not apply to special purpose |
| 6 | | aircraft
designated as such by the Department when
operating to |
| 7 | | or
from uncertificated areas other than their principal base of |
| 8 | | operations,
provided mutually acceptable arrangements are made |
| 9 | | with the property
owner, and provided the owner or operator of |
| 10 | | the aircraft assumes
liabilities which may arise out of such |
| 11 | | operations.
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| 12 | | (Source: P.A. 93-450, eff. 8-6-03.)".
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