Bill Text: IL SB2012 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the Open Meetings Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB2012 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB2012-Amended.html

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Sen. Pamela J. Althoff

Filed: 4/4/2014

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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2012
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2012 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 5. The Fox Waterway Agency Act is amended by
adding Section 7.5a as follows:
(615 ILCS 90/7.5a new)
Sec. 7.5a. Public use of channels.
(a) If dredging and restoration work upon a channel located
within the territory of the Agency is paid for with boating
fees or other public moneys the water located within the
channel remains public water. The channel shall remain open and
accessible to the general public; however, if the channel is
owned or under the jurisdiction of any governmental entity or
agency, the general public's use of the channel shall be
subject to that entity or agency's authority to take charge of,
control, and police the channel.

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(b) If dredging and restoration work upon a channel located
within the territory of the Agency is entirely paid for with
funds other than those generated by boating fees or other
public moneys, the owner of the property adjoining the channel
shall retain the right to close the channel to the general
public, provided that if a property owner closes a channel to
the public in accordance with this subsection (b), the property
owner shall post signage giving notice that the channel is a
private waterway and closed to the general public.
(c) The provisions of this Section only apply to dredging
and restoration work performed on or after the effective date
of this amendatory Act of the 98th General Assembly.".