Bill Text: IL SB0769 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources under the Act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB0769 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SB0769-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 SB0769 Introduced 1/31/2019, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
615 ILCS 5/5 from Ch. 19, par. 52
Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources under the Act.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act is amended by
changing Section 5 as follows:
(615 ILCS 5/5) (from Ch. 19, par. 52)
Sec. 5. The The Department of Natural Resources shall upon
behalf of the State of Illinois, have jurisdiction and
supervision over all of the rivers and lakes of the State of
Illinois, wherein the State of Illinois or the people of the
State have any rights or interests, and shall make a list by
counties of all the waters of Illinois, showing the waters,
both navigable and non-navigable, that are found in each county
of the State, and if the same are lakes, the extent of the
shore lines and the amount, extent and area of the water
surface; and in a like way, if the same are rivers, and
specifying whether the same are navigable or non-navigable, and
whether they have or have not been meandered.
(Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)