(70 ILCS 2105/18) (from Ch. 42, par. 401)
Sec. 18.
Every such conservancy district is authorized to construct,
maintain, alter and extend its sewers, pipelines, channels, ditches and
drains along, upon, under and across any highway, street, alley or public
ground in the State as a proper use of highways, but so as not to incommode
the public use thereof, and the right and authority are hereby granted to
any such district to construct, maintain and operate any conduits, mainpipe
or pipes, wholly or partially submerged, buried, or otherwise, in, upon and
along any of the lands owned by said State and under any of the public
waters therein; Provided, that the extent and location of the lands and
waters so to be used and appropriated shall be approved by the Governor of
said State of Illinois, upon application duly made to him asking for such
approval: And provided further, that the rights, permission and authority
hereby granted shall be subject to all public rights of commerce and
navigation, and to the authority of the United States in behalf of such
public rights and also to the right of said State of Illinois to regulate
and control fishing in said public waters.
(Source: Laws 1925, p. 346.)
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