Public Act 0507 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB0740 Enrolled LRB099 04545 AWJ 24573 b

Public Act 099-0507

AN ACT concerning local government.

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

Section 5. The Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act is amended by changing Sections 1.1, 3, 6, 7.1, 14, and 20.2 as follows:

(70 ILCS 1830/1.1)

Sec. 1.1. Purpose. The General Assembly declares that the main purpose of this Act is to promote industrial, commercial, transportation, homeland security, recreation, water supply, flood control, and economic activities thereby reducing the evils attendant upon unemployment and enhancing the public health, safety, and welfare of this State.

(Source: P.A. 90-785, eff. 1-1-99.)

(70 ILCS 1830/3) (from Ch. 19, par. 503)

Sec. 3. There is created a political subdivision body politic and municipal corporation, named "Kaskaskia Regional Port District" embracing all of Monroe and Randolph Counties and Freeburg, Millstadt, Smithton, Prairie Du Long, New Athens, Marissa, Fayetteville, Engleman, Mascoutah, Shiloh Valley and Lenzburg Townships of St. Clair County. The Port District may sue and be sued in its corporate name but execution shall not in any case issue against any property owned by the Port District except for Port District property that the Port District pledged as collateral to a bank or other financial institution to secure a bank loan. It may adopt a common seal and change the same at pleasure. The principal office of the Port District shall be in the city of Red Bud Chester, Illinois.

No rights, duties or privileges of such District, or those of any person, existing before the change of name shall be affected by the change provided by this amendatory Act of 1967. All proceedings pending in any court in favor of or against such District may continue to final consummation under the name in which they were commenced.

(Source: P.A. 80-1495.)

(70 ILCS 1830/6) (from Ch. 19, par. 506)

Sec. 6. The Port District has the following functions, powers and duties:

(a) to study the existing harbor facilities within the area of the Port District and to recommend to an appropriate governmental agency, including the General Assembly of Illinois, such changes and modifications as may from time to time be required for continuing development therein and to meet changing business and commercial needs;

(b) to make an investigation of conditions within the Port District and to prepare and adopt a comprehensive plan for the development of port facilities for the Port District. In preparing and recommending changes and modifications in existing harbor facilities, or a comprehensive plan for the development of such port facilities, as above provided, the Port District if it deems desirable may set aside and allocate an area or areas, within the lands owned by it, to be leased to private parties for industrial, manufacturing, commercial, or harbor purposes, where such area or areas in the opinion of the Board, are not required for primary purposes in the development of harbor and port facilities for the use of public water and land transportation, or will not be needed immediately for such purposes, and where such leasing in the opinion of the Board will aid and promote the development of terminal and port facilities;

(c) to study and make recommendations to the proper authority for the improvement of terminal, lighterage, wharfage, warehousing, anchorage, transfer and other facilities necessary for the promotion of commerce and the interchange of traffic within, to and from the Port District;

(d) to study, prepare and recommend by specific proposals to the General Assembly of Illinois changes in the jurisdiction of the Port District;

(e) to petition any federal, state, municipal or local authority, administrative, judicial and legislative, having jurisdiction in the premises, for the adoption and execution of any physical improvement, change in method, system of handling freight, warehousing, docking, lightering and transfer of freight, which in the opinion of the Board are designed to improve or better the handling of commerce in and through the Port District or improve terminal or transportation facilities therein; and .

(f) to petition any federal, state, or local authority, including administrative, judicial, and legislative branches, having jurisdiction for the adoption and execution of any physical improvement or operation related to the management of fish and wildlife, recreation, water supply, or flood control which in the opinion of the Board is for the purpose of improving or bettering the quality of life in the Port District or add to the diversity of amenities related to that purpose.

(Source: Laws 1965, p. 1013.)

(70 ILCS 1830/7.1) (from Ch. 19, par. 507.1)

Sec. 7.1. Additional rights and powers. The Port District has the following additional rights and powers:

(a) To issue permits for the construction of all wharves, piers, dolphins, booms, weirs, breakwaters, bulkheads, jetties, bridges or other structures of any kind, over, under, in, or within 40 feet of any navigable waters within the Port District, for the deposit of rock, earth, sand or other material, or any matter of any kind or description in such waters;

(b) To prevent and remove obstructions in navigable waters, including the removal of wrecks or vessels; to recover damages, including attorney fees, for the removal and clean-up of the site or sites and the surrounding or downstream environment; these rights and powers shall include, but are not limited to, emergency powers to seize wrecks or vessels, remediate damages, and provide for the disposition of the wrecks or vessels;

(c) To locate and establish dock lines and shore or harbor lines;

(d) To regulate the anchorage, moorage and speed of water borne vessels and to establish and enforce regulations for the operation of bridges;

(e) To acquire, own, construct, lease, operate and maintain terminals, terminal facilities, port facilities, transportation equipment facilities, railroads and marinas, and airport facilities and systems, and to fix and collect just, reasonable, and non-discriminatory charges for use of such facilities, equipment and systems. The charges so collected shall be used to defray the reasonable expenses of the Port District, and to pay the principal of and interest on any revenue bonds issued by the Port District;

(f) To operate, maintain, manage, lease, sub-lease, and to make and enter into contracts for the use, operation or management of, and to provide rules and regulations for, the operation, management or use of, any public port or public port facility;

(g) To fix, charge and collect reasonable rentals, tolls, fees and charges for the use of any public port, or any part thereof, or any public port facility;

(h) To establish, maintain, expand and improve roadways, railroads, and approaches by land, or water, to any such terminal, terminal facility and port facilities, and to contract or otherwise provide by condemnation, if necessary, for the removal of any port, terminal, terminal facilities and port facility hazards or the removal or relocation of all private structures, railroads, mains, pipes, conduits, wires, poles, and all other facilities and equipment which may interfere with the location, expansion, development or improvement of ports, terminals, terminal facilities and port facilities or with the safe approach thereto, or exit or takeoff therefrom by vehicles, vessels, barges and other means of transportation, and to pay the cost of removal or relocation;

(i) To police its physical property only and all waterways and to exercise police powers in respect thereto or in respect to the enforcement of any rule or regulation provided by the ordinances of the District and to employ and commission police officers and other qualified persons to enforce such rules and regulations. A regulatory ordinance of the District adopted under any provisions of this Section may provide for a suspension or revocation of any rights or privileges within the control of the District for a violation of any such regulatory ordinance.

(j) To enter into agreements with the corporate authorities or governing body of any other municipal corporation or any political subdivision of this State to pay the reasonable expense of services furnished by such municipal corporation or political subdivision for or on account of income producing properties of the District;

(k) To enter into contracts dealing in any manner with the objects and purposes of this Act;

(l) To acquire, own, lease, mortgage, sell, or otherwise dispose of interests in and to real property and improvements situate thereon and in personal property necessary to fulfill the purposes of the District;

(m) To designate the fiscal year for the District;

(n) To engage in any activity or operation which is incidental to and in furtherance of efficient operation to accomplish the District's primary purpose;

(o) To acquire, erect, construct, maintain and operate aquariums, museums, planetariums, climatrons and other edifices for the collection and display of objects pertaining to natural history or the arts and sciences and to permit the directors or trustees of any corporation or society organized for the erection, construction, maintenance and operation of an aquarium, museum, planetarium, climatron or other such edifice to perform such erection, construction, maintenance and operation on or within any property now or hereafter owned by or under the control or supervision of the District; and to contract with any such directors or trustees relative to such acquisition, erection, construction, maintenance and operation and to charge or authorize such directors or trustees to charge an admission fee, the proceeds of which shall be devoted exclusively to such erection, construction, maintenance and operation;

(p) To do any act which is enumerated in Section 11-74.1-1 of the "Illinois Municipal Code", in the same manner and form as though the District were a "municipality" as referred to in such Section;

(q) To acquire, erect, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain and operate one or more, or a combination or combinations of, industrial buildings, office buildings, buildings to be used as a factory, mill shops, processing plants, packaging plants, assembly plants, fabricating plants, and buildings to be used as warehouses and other storage facilities.

(r) To acquire, own, construct, lease or contract for any period not exceeding 99 years, operate, develop, and maintain Port District water and sewage systems and other utility systems and services, including, but not limited to, pipes, mains, lines, sewers, pumping stations, settling tanks, treatment plants, water purification equipment, wells, storage facilities, lines, and all other equipment, material, and facilities necessary to those systems, for the use, upon payment of reasonable fee set by the District, of any tenant, occupant, or user of the District facilities or any person engaged in commerce in the District; provided that the District shall not acquire, own, construct, lease, operate, develop, and maintain the systems and services if those systems and services can be provided by an investor-owned public utility offering electric or gas services. The public utility shall provide the District with a written response, within 30 days after receiving a written request from the District for those systems or services, stating whether it will or will not be able to provide the requested systems or services in accordance with the Public Utilities Act.

(Source: P.A. 90-785, eff. 1-1-99.)

(70 ILCS 1830/14) (from Ch. 19, par. 514)

Sec. 14. The District has power to acquire and accept by purchase, lease, gift, grant or otherwise any property and rights useful for its purposes and to provide for the development of channels, ports, harbors, airports, airfields, terminals, port facilities, terminal facilities, trails, and other transportation facilities within the Port District adequate to serve the needs of commerce within the area served by the Port District. The Port District may acquire real or personal property or any rights therein in the manner, as near as may be, as is provided for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act, except that no property owned by any municipality within the Port District shall be taken or appropriated without first obtaining consent of the governing body of such municipality.

(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)

(70 ILCS 1830/20.2)

Sec. 20.2. Authorization to borrow moneys. The District's Board may borrow money from any bank or other financial institution and may provide appropriate security, including mortgaging real estate, for that borrowing, if the money is repaid within 20 3 years after the money is borrowed. "Financial institution" means any bank subject to the Illinois Banking Act, any savings and loan association subject to the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, any savings bank subject to the Savings Bank Act, and any federally chartered commercial bank or savings and loan association organized and operated in this State pursuant to the laws of the United States.

(Source: P.A. 94-562, eff. 1-1-06.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.