HB3222sam003 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Sen. Andy Manar

Filed: 5/15/2019

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3222

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 3222 on page 1, by replacing lines 21 and 22 with the following:

"Section 15. The Director of the Department of Natural Resources, on behalf of the State of Illinois, is authorized and directed to terminate all contractual interests of the State of Illinois provided in the Agreement between the State of Illinois, through the former Department of Conservation, and the City of Pana, a Municipal Corporation, situated in Christian County, made on June 28, 1949, for the purpose of funding the construction of a dam and water reservoir to create the Pana Lake Project.

Section 20. The State of Illinois contractual interests authorized and directed to be terminated by this Act include the following:

(1) Rights to develop, manage, and maintain any and all of the lands associated with the Pana Lake Project, as described in Exhibit A of the Agreement, as part of a Statewide lake, water storage, and public recreation system, including public hunting and fishing grounds development of game management and reforestation and to use said area for the preservation and propagation of fish and wildlife thereon for 99 years.

(2) Obligation of the City of Pana to maintain the Pana Lake Project at its own sole cost and expense and keep in good repair at all times the dam and all facilities erected in connection therewith.

(3) Right to purchase the land occupied by the Pana Lake Project if the City of Pana shall at any time determine to sell such land and the improvements thereon.

Section 25. The State of Illinois paid $100,000 toward the Pana Lake Project in consideration for obtaining the foregoing contractual interests pursuant to appropriation of State funds for the purpose made in Section 4 of Senate Bill 662 by the 65th General Assembly, approved July 21, 1947.

Section 30. The State of Illinois shall not receive consideration for the termination of its contractual rights of the June 28, 1949 Agreement.

Section 35. The Director of the Department of Natural Resources shall execute a mutual termination with the City of Pana terminating both parties' interests in the June 28, 1949 Agreement.

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