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90_SB1500
70 ILCS 1830/1.1 new
70 ILCS 1830/7.1 from Ch. 19, par. 507.1
70 ILCS 1830/10 from Ch. 19, par. 510
70 ILCS 1830/9 rep.
70 ILCS 1830/11 rep.
Amends the Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act.
Provides that the main purpose of the Act is to promote
industrial, commercial, transportation, and economic
activities. Provides that the Port District has the right to
acquire, own, construct, lease, operate and maintain, among
other things, transportation equipment facilities, railroads
and marinas, and airport facilities. Provides that the
District has the power to acquire, own, construct, lease or
contract for any period not exceeding 99 years, operate,
develop, and maintain water, sewage, and other utility
systems and services for the use of any tenant, occupant, or
user of the District or any person engaged in commerce in the
District. Provides that the Board may promulgate reasonable
regulations prescribing the qualification of operators (now
bidders). Requires that copies of the regulations be made
available to all prospective operators (now bidders).
Repeals provisions concerning public warehouses and grain
elevators.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act is
5 amended by changing Sections 7.1 and 10 and by adding Section
6 1.1 as follows:
7 (70 ILCS 1830/1.1 new)
8 Sec. 1.1. Purpose. The General Assembly declares that
9 the main purpose of this Act is to promote industrial,
10 commercial, transportation, and economic activities thereby
11 reducing the evils attendant upon unemployment and enhancing
12 the public health and welfare of this State.
13 (70 ILCS 1830/7.1) (from Ch. 19, par. 507.1)
14 Sec. 7.1. Additional rights and powers.
15 The Port District has the following additional rights and
16 powers:
17 (a) To issue permits for the construction of all
18 wharves, piers, dolphins, booms, weirs, breakwaters,
19 bulkheads, jetties, bridges or other structures of any kind,
20 over, under, in, or within 40 feet of any navigable waters
21 within the Port District, for the deposit of rock, earth,
22 sand or other material, or any matter of any kind or
23 description in such waters;
24 (b) To prevent and remove obstructions in navigable
25 waters, including the removal of wrecks;
26 (c) To locate and establish dock lines and shore or
27 harbor lines;
28 (d) To regulate the anchorage, moorage and speed of
29 water borne vessels and to establish and enforce regulations
30 for the operation of bridges;
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1 (e) To acquire, own, construct, lease, operate and
2 maintain terminals, terminal facilities, port facilities,
3 transportation equipment facilities, railroads and marinas,
4 and airport facilities and transport equipment facilities and
5 systems, and to fix and collect just, reasonable, and
6 non-discriminatory charges for use of such facilities,
7 equipment and systems. The charges so collected shall be used
8 to defray the reasonable expenses of the Port District, and
9 to pay the principal of and interest on any revenue bonds
10 issued by the Port District;
11 (f) To operate, maintain, manage, lease, sub-lease, and
12 to make and enter into contracts for the use, operation or
13 management of, and to provide rules and regulations for, the
14 operation, management or use of, any public port or public
15 port facility;
16 (g) To fix, charge and collect reasonable rentals,
17 tolls, fees and charges for the use of any public port, or
18 any part thereof, or any public port facility;
19 (h) To establish, maintain, expand and improve roadways,
20 railroads, and approaches by land, or water, to any such
21 terminal, terminal facility and port facilities, and to
22 contract or otherwise provide by condemnation, if necessary,
23 for the removal of any port, terminal, terminal facilities
24 and port facility hazards or the removal or relocation of all
25 private structures, railroads, mains, pipes, conduits, wires,
26 poles, and all other facilities and equipment which may
27 interfere with the location, expansion, development or
28 improvement of ports, terminals, terminal facilities and port
29 facilities or with the safe approach thereto, or exit or
30 takeoff therefrom by vehicles, vessels, barges and other
31 means of transportation, and to pay the cost of removal or
32 relocation;
33 (i) To police its physical property only and all
34 waterways and to exercise police powers in respect thereto or
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1 in respect to the enforcement of any rule or regulation
2 provided by the ordinances of the District and to employ and
3 commission police officers and other qualified persons to
4 enforce such rules and regulations. A regulatory ordinance of
5 the District adopted under any provisions of this Section may
6 provide for a suspension or revocation of any rights or
7 privileges within the control of the District for a violation
8 of any such regulatory ordinance.
9 (j) To enter into agreements with the corporate
10 authorities or governing body of any other municipal
11 corporation or any political subdivision of this State to pay
12 the reasonable expense of services furnished by such
13 municipal corporation or political subdivision for or on
14 account of income producing properties of the District;
15 (k) To enter into contracts dealing in any manner with
16 the objects and purposes of this Act;
17 (l) To acquire, own, lease, sell or otherwise dispose of
18 interests in and to real property and improvements situate
19 thereon and in personal property necessary to fulfill the
20 purposes of the District;
21 (m) To designate the fiscal year for the District;
22 (n) To engage in any activity or operation which is
23 incidental to and in furtherance of efficient operation to
24 accomplish the District's primary purpose;
25 (o) To acquire, erect, construct, maintain and operate
26 aquariums, museums, planetariums, climatrons and other
27 edifices for the collection and display of objects pertaining
28 to natural history or the arts and sciences and to permit the
29 directors or trustees of any corporation or society organized
30 for the erection, construction, maintenance and operation of
31 an aquarium, museum, planetarium, climatron or other such
32 edifice to perform such erection, construction, maintenance
33 and operation on or within any property now or hereafter
34 owned by or under the control or supervision of the District;
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1 and to contract with any such directors or trustees relative
2 to such acquisition, erection, construction, maintenance and
3 operation and to charge or authorize such directors or
4 trustees to charge an admission fee, the proceeds of which
5 shall be devoted exclusively to such erection, construction,
6 maintenance and operation;
7 (p) To do any act which is enumerated in Section
8 11-74.1-1 of the "Illinois Municipal Code", in the same
9 manner and form as though the District were a "municipality"
10 as referred to in such Section;
11 (q) To acquire, erect, construct, reconstruct, improve,
12 maintain and operate one or more, or a combination or
13 combinations of, industrial buildings, office buildings,
14 buildings to be used as a factory, mill shops, processing
15 plants, packaging plants, assembly plants, fabricating
16 plants, and buildings to be used as warehouses and other
17 storage facilities.
18 (r) To acquire, own, construct, lease or contract for
19 any period not exceeding 99 years, operate, develop, and
20 maintain Port District water and sewage systems and other
21 utility systems and services, including, but not limited to,
22 pipes, mains, lines, sewers, pumping stations, settling
23 tanks, treatment plants, water purification equipment, wells,
24 storage facilities, lines, and all other equipment, material,
25 and facilities necessary to those systems, for the use, upon
26 payment of a reasonable fee set by the District, of any
27 tenant, occupant, or user of the District facilities or any
28 person engaged in commerce in the District.
29 (Source: P.A. 77-2109.)
30 (70 ILCS 1830/10) (from Ch. 19, par. 510)
31 Sec. 10. Regulations as to qualifications of operators.
32 The Board, by ordinance, may promulgate reasonable
33 regulations prescribing qualifications of the operators
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1 bidders as to experience, adequacy of equipment, ability to
2 complete performance within the time set, and other factors
3 in addition to financial responsibility, and may by ordinance
4 provide for suitable performance guaranties to qualify a bid.
5 Copies of all such regulations shall be made available to all
6 prospective operators bidders.
7 (Source: Laws 1965, p. 1013.)
8 (70 ILCS 1830/9 rep.)
9 (70 ILCS 1830/11 rep.)
10 Section 10. The Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act is
11 amended by repealing Sections 9 and 11.