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Public Act 92-0643
SB1695 Enrolled LRB9214721BDpc
AN ACT concerning port districts.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Tri-City Regional Port District Act is
amended by changing Sections 2, 6, and 23 and by adding
Section 15.5 as follows:
(70 ILCS 1860/2) (from Ch. 19, par. 285)
Sec. 2. When used in this Act:
"District" or "Port District" means the Tri-City Regional
Port District created by this Act.
"Terminal" means a public place, station or depot for
receiving and delivering baggage, mail, freight or express
matter and for any combination of such purposes, in
connection with the transportation of persons and property on
water or land or in the air.
"Terminal facilities" means all land, buildings,
structures, improvements, equipment and appliances useful in
the operation of public warehouse, storage and transportation
facilities and industrial, manufacturing, processing and
conversion activities for the accommodation of or in
connection with commerce by water or land or in the air or
useful as an aid to further the public interest, or
constituting an advantage or convenience to, the safe
landing, taking off and navigation of aircraft, or the safe
and efficient operation or maintenance of a public airport;
except that nothing in this definition contained shall be
interpreted as granting authority to the District to acquire,
purchase, create, erect or construct a bridge across any
waterway which serves as a boundary between the State of
Illinois and any other state.
"Port Facilities" means all public structures, except
terminal facilities as defined herein, that are in, over,
under or adjacent to navigable waters and are necessary for
or incident to the furtherance of water commerce and includes
the widening and deepening of slips, harbors and navigable
waters.
"Aircraft" means any contrivance now known or hereafter
invented, used or designed for navigation of, or flight in,
the air.
"Airport" means any locality, either land or water, which
is used or designed for the landing and taking off of
aircraft, or for the location of runways, landing fields,
airdromes, hangars, buildings, structures, airport roadways
and other facilities.
"Airport Hazard" means any structure, or object of
natural growth, located on or in the vicinity of an airport,
or any use of land near an airport which is hazardous to the
use of such airport for the landing and take-off of aircraft.
"Approach" means any path, course or zone defined by an
ordinance of the District or by other lawful regulation, on
the ground or in the air, or both, for the use of aircraft in
landing and taking off from an airport located within the
District.
"Commercial Aircraft" means any aircraft other than
public aircraft engaged in the business of transporting
persons or property.
"Private Aircraft" means any aircraft other than public
and commercial aircraft.
"Public Aircraft" means an aircraft used exclusively in
the governmental service of the United States, or of any
state or of any public agency, including military and naval
aircraft.
"Public Airport" means an airport owned by a Port
District, an airport authority or other public agency which
is used or is intended for use by public, commercial and
private aircraft and by persons owning, managing, operating
or desiring to use, inspect or repair any such aircraft or to
use any such airport for aeronautical purposes.
"Public Incinerator" means a facility for the disposal of
waste by incineration by any means or method for public use,
including, but not limited to, incineration and disposal of
industrial wastes.
"Public Interest" means the protection, furtherance and
advancement of the general welfare and of public health and
safety and public necessity and convenience in respect to
aeronautics.
"Navigable waters" means any public waters which are or
can be made usable for water commerce.
"Governmental agency" means the Federal, State and any
local governmental body, and any agency or instrumentality,
corporate or otherwise, thereof.
"Person" means any individual, firm, partnership,
corporation, both domestic and foreign, company, association
or joint stock association; and includes any trustee,
receiver, assignee or personal representative thereof.
"General obligation bond" means any bond issued by the
District any part of the principal or interest of which bond
is to be paid by taxation.
"Revenue bond" means any bond issued by the District the
principal and interest of which bond is payable solely from
revenues or income derived from terminal, terminal facilities
or port facilities of the District.
"Board" means the Tri-City Port District Board.
"Governor" means the Governor of the State of Illinois.
"Mayor" means the Mayor of the city of Venice, the Mayor
of the city of Madison or the Mayor of the city of Granite
City, as the case may require.
(Source: P.A. 77-1578.)
(70 ILCS 1860/6) (from Ch. 19, par. 289)
Sec. 6. The District has power to apply for and accept
grants, loans, or appropriations from the federal government,
the State of Illinois, and Madison County, or any agency or
instrumentality thereof to be used for any of the purposes of
the District and to enter into any agreements with the
federal, State, and county governments government in relation
to such grants, loans or appropriations.
The District may petition any federal, state, municipal,
or local authority, administrative, judicial and legislative,
having jurisdiction in the premises, for the adoption and
execution of any physical improvement, change in method or
system of handling freight, warehousing, docking, lightering,
and transfer of freight, which in the opinion of the District
is designed to improve or better the handling of commerce in
and through the Port District or improve terminal or
transportation facilities therein.
(Source: Laws 1959, p. 71.)
(70 ILCS 1860/15.5 new)
Sec. 15.5. A mayor may hold the office of Commissioner of
the Tri-City Regional Port District simultaneously with the
office of mayor. Notwithstanding any statute to the contrary,
a mayor's acceptance of an appointment as a Commissioner of
the Tri-City Regional Port District does not terminate or
impair the mayor's public office.
(70 ILCS 1860/23) (from Ch. 19, par. 306)
Sec. 23. The Board may appoint an executive director a
general manager who shall be a person of recognized ability
and business experience to hold office during the pleasure of
the Board. The executive director general manager shall have
management of the properties and business of the District and
the employees thereof subject to the general control of the
Board, shall direct the enforcement of all ordinances,
resolutions, rules and regulations of the Board, and shall
perform such other duties as may be prescribed from time to
time by the Board. The Board may appoint a general attorney,
and a chief engineer, and a general manager to assist the
executive director, and shall provide for the appointment of
other officers, and the employment of additional attorneys,
engineers, consultants, agents and employees as may be
necessary. It shall define their duties and may require
bonds of such of them as the Board may designate. The
executive director, general manager, general attorney, chief
engineer, and all other officers provided for pursuant to
this section shall be exempt from taking and subscribing any
oath of office and shall not be members of the Board. The
compensation of the executive director, general manager,
general attorney, chief engineer, and all other officers,
attorneys, consultants, agents and employees shall be fixed
by the Board.
(Source: P.A. 80-323.)
Passed in the General Assembly April 23, 2002.
Approved July 11, 2002.
Effective January 01, 2003.
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