093_HB0659eng

 
HB0659 Engrossed                     LRB093 05344 JAM 05434 b

 1        AN ACT concerning waterways.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act is amended
 5    by changing Section 5 as follows:

 6        (615 ILCS 5/5) (from Ch. 19, par. 52)
 7        Sec.   5.  Jurisdiction.    The   Department  of  Natural
 8    Resources shall upon behalf of the State  of  Illinois,  have
 9    jurisdiction and supervision over all of the rivers and lakes
10    of  the  State  of Illinois, wherein the State of Illinois or
11    the people of the State have any  rights  or  interests,  and
12    shall  make a list by counties of all the waters of Illinois,
13    showing the waters, both navigable  and  non-navigable,  that
14    are  found  in  each county of the State, and if the same are
15    lakes, the extent of the shore lines and the  amount,  extent
16    and area of the water surface; and in a like way, if the same
17    are  rivers, and specifying whether the same are navigable or
18    non-navigable,  and  whether  they  have  or  have  not  been
19    meandered.
20    (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)