(70 ILCS 1805/4) (from Ch. 19, par. 604)
Sec. 4.
The Port District has the following functions, powers and
duties:
(a) to study the existing harbor facilities within the area of the Port
District and recommend to appropriate governmental agencies, including
the General Assembly of Illinois, such changes and modifications as may
from time to time be required for continuing development therein and to
meet changing business and commercial needs;
(b) to make an investigation of conditions within the Port District and
prepare and adopt a comprehensive plan for the development of port
facilities for the Port District. In preparing and recommending changes
and modifications in existing harbor facilities, or a comprehensive plan
for the development of such port facilities, the Port District, if
deemed desirable, may set aside and allocate an area or areas, within
the lands owned by the Port District, to be leased to private parties
for industrial, manufacturing, commercial, or harbor purposes, where
such area or areas in the opinion of the Board, are not required for
primary purposes in the development of harbor and port facilities for
the use of public water and land transportation, or will not be needed
immediately for such purposes, and where such leasing in the opinion of
the Board will aid and promote the development of terminal and port
facilities;
(c) to issue permits for the construction of wharves, piers, dolphins,
booms, weirs, breakwaters, bulkheads, jetties, bridges or other
structures of any kind in any navigable waters within the Port District
or for the deposit of rock, earth, sand or other material, or any matter
of any kind or description in such waters and to regulate beyond the
limits or jurisdiction of any municipality the anchorage, moorage and
speed of vessels and to establish and enforce regulations for the
operation of bridges; provided, however, that any permit issued or
regulation established or adopted by the Port District shall be subject
to the paramount authority of the Federal Government to regulate
navigation and the Department of Natural Resources
of the State of Illinois under the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act;
(d) to acquire, own, construct, lease and maintain port and water
terminal facilities and transportation facilities thereto within the
Port District, and, subject to the provisions of Section 5 of this Act,
to operate or contract for the operation of such facilities, and to fix
and collect just, reasonable, and non-discriminatory charges or rentals
for the use of such facilities. The charges or rentals so collected
shall be deposited in the treasury of the Port District, and be used to
defray the reasonable expenses of the Port District, and to pay the
principal and interest upon any revenue bonds issued by the Port
District;
(e) to enter into contracts dealing in any manner with the objects
and purposes of this Act.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
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