Bill Text: IL SB0972 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Fox Waterway Agency Act. Makes a technical change concerning the Agency's programs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-08-15 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB0972 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB0972-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB0972 Introduced 2/6/2009, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
615 ILCS 90/7.1 from Ch. 19, par. 1208
Amends the Fox Waterway Agency Act. Makes a technical change concerning the Agency's programs.
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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 Fox Waterway Agency Act is amended by
changing Section 7.1 as follows:
(615 ILCS 90/7.1) (from Ch. 19, par. 1208)
Sec. 7.1. The The Agency shall implement reasonable
programs and adopt necessary and reasonable ordinances and
rules to improve and maintain the Chain O Lakes - Fox River
recreational waterway from the Wisconsin State line to the
Algonquin Dam for the purposes of boating, sailing, canoeing,
swimming, water skiing, rowing, iceboating, fishing, hunting
and other recreational uses, to help prevent or control
flooding of the waterway, to improve recreational uses of the
waterway, to prevent pollution and otherwise improve the
quality of the waterway, to promote tourism, and to create and
administer a procedure for establishing restricted areas. In
the case of a local ordinance relating to the establishment of
restricted areas, speed limits, or other boating restrictions
that is adopted by another unit of local government and
conflicts with an Agency ordinance or rule, the Agency
ordinance or rule shall control even if the conflicting
ordinance is more restrictive, except that municipalities with

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corporate boundaries that are both adjacent to and at the
southern terminus of the Agency's jurisdiction over the Fox
River shall retain the right to establish reasonable no-wake
zones within their corporate boundaries. The Agency may develop
programs and build projects to minimize pollution in the
watershed from otherwise entering the waterway. Prior to
establishing any restricted area, the Agency shall provide 21
days notice to any municipality in which the proposed area
borders upon or is located. Notice shall be filed with the
Clerk of the municipality. If such a municipality, by
resolution of the corporate authority of the municipality,
files an objection to the establishing of the proposed
restricted area, then that restricted area shall not be
approved except by a favorable vote of two-thirds of the
Chairman and Board of Directors. All Agency programs,
ordinances and rules shall be in conformance with the Rivers,
Lakes, and Streams Act. The Agency shall coordinate efforts of
State, federal and local governments to improve and maintain
the waterway.
(Source: P.A. 89-162, eff. 7-19-95.)