(70 ILCS 2405/13) (from Ch. 42, par. 312)
Sec. 13.
Every such district is authorized to construct, maintain, alter
and extend its sewers, channels, ditches and drains, as a proper use of
highways along, upon, under and across any highway, street, alley or public
ground in the state, 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 conduit or conduits, main pipe or
pipes, wholly or partially submerged, buried or otherwise, in, upon and
along any of the lands owned by said state under any of the public waters
therein; Provided, that the extent and location of the lands and waters so
as to be used and appropriated 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 1917, p. 396.)
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