70 ILCS 1825/4.6

(70 ILCS 1825/4.6) (from Ch. 19, par. 254.6)

Sec. 4.6.

To locate, establish and maintain a public airport, public
airports and public airport facilities within its corporate limits or
within or upon any body of water adjacent thereto, and to construct,
develop, expand, extend and improve any such airport or airport facility.

Such power and those related thereto may be exercised only with the approval
of the voters in the district.  The Board shall by ordinance, duly adopted,
cause to be submitted to the legal voters of the district a proposition
to establish and maintain an airport within the district by certifying the
proposition and the ordinance to the proper election officials who shall
submit the proposition to the voters at an election in accordance with the
general election law.  In addition to the requirements of the general election
law, notice of the submission of such proposition at any election shall be
published at least 10 days prior to the date of the election at least once
in one or more newspapers published in the district or, if no newspaper
is published in the district, in one or more newspapers with a general circulation
within the district.  The proposition shall be in substantially the following form:

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Shall the Joliet                      Yes
Regional Port District
be authorized to establish   ---------------------------------
and maintain a public
airport facility ?                     No

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If a majority of those voting upon the proposition vote in favor of
the proposition, the Board may thereafter exercise such powers.

(Source: P.A. 83-1102.)