(70 ILCS 15/3) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 703)

Sec. 3. Purposes. It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that in order to promote the general welfare, to facilitate safe and convenient air travel and transport to and from the Kankakee River Valley Area, by the acquisition or construction and maintenance and operation of one or more airports in the Kankakee River Valley Area, and to promote the economic development of the area surrounding any such airport in a manner compatible with the safe and efficient operation thereof, it is necessary in the public interest, and is hereby declared to be a public purpose, to provide for the establishment of a Kankakee River Valley Area Airport Authority and to authorize such Authority:

(a) to acquire land for a new airport in the Kankakee River Valley Area and to construct, operate and maintain such airport;

(b) to acquire land for such other airports at such locations within the Kankakee River Valley Area as the Authority shall determine, subject to a declaration of public interest enacted into law by the General Assembly and to construct, operate and maintain any such airports, and to acquire, by purchase, lease or otherwise, such other existing airports within the Kankakee River Valley Area as the Authority shall deem necessary and to improve, operate and maintain any such airports;

(c) to acquire, by purchase, lease or otherwise, construct, operate and maintain related facilities for any such airport and to let or grant concessions or privileges in any such related facilities;

(d) to acquire land lying within the perimeter area of any such airport; to construct, operate and maintain related facilities and perimeter area facilities in the perimeter area of any such airport; and to let or grant concessions or privileges in any part or all of the perimeter area of any such airport and the perimeter area facilities thereon;

(e) to exercise the right of eminent domain to acquire land for airports at such locations within the Kankakee River Valley Area as the Authority shall deem necessary in the manner provided for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act.

(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)