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90_HB0424
615 ILCS 5/5 from Ch. 19, par. 52
Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act to make a
technical change in a provision concerning the Department of
Natural Resources having jurisdiction and supervision over
rivers and lakes.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act by
2 changing Section 5.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act is amended
6 by changing Section 5 as follows:
7 (615 ILCS 5/5) (from Ch. 19, par. 52)
8 Sec. 5. Jurisdiction; supervision; list of waters. The
9 Department of Natural Resources shall upon behalf of the
10 State of Illinois, have jurisdiction and supervision over all
11 of the rivers and lakes of the State of Illinois, wherein the
12 State of Illinois or the people of the State have any rights
13 or interests, and shall make a list by counties of all the
14 waters of Illinois, showing the waters, both navigable and
15 non-navigable, that are found in each county of the State,
16 and if the same are lakes, the extent of the shore lines and
17 the amount, extent and area of the water surface; and in a
18 like way, if the same are rivers, and specifying whether the
19 same are navigable or non-navigable, and whether they have or
20 have not been meandered.
21 (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff. 2-7-96.)
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