Full Text of SB0329 96th General Assembly
SB0329sam001 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. Dan Kotowski
Filed: 3/23/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 329
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 329 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Illinois International Port District Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 4 and by adding Section 28 as | 6 |
| follows:
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| (70 ILCS 1810/4) (from Ch. 19, par. 155)
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| Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the Port District:
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| (a) To study the existing harbor plans within the area of | 10 |
| the Port District
and to recommend to the appropriate | 11 |
| governmental agency, including the General
Assembly of | 12 |
| Illinois, such changes and modifications as may from time to | 13 |
| time
be required by the continuing development therein and to | 14 |
| meet changing business
and commercial needs.
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| (b) To make an investigation of conditions within the area | 16 |
| of the
Port District and to prepare and adopt a comprehensive |
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| plan for the
development of the port facilities for the said | 2 |
| Port District. In
preparing and recommending changes and | 3 |
| modifications in existing harbor
plans, or a comprehensive plan | 4 |
| for the development of said port
facilities, as above provided, | 5 |
| the District may if it deems desirable
set aside and allocate | 6 |
| an area, or areas, within the lands held by it,
to be used and | 7 |
| operated by the District or leased to private
parties for | 8 |
| industrial, manufacturing, commercial, recreational, or harbor
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| purposes, where such area or areas are not, in the opinion of | 10 |
| the District,
required for its primary purposes in the | 11 |
| development of harbor and port
facilities for the use of public | 12 |
| water and land transportation, or will not be
immediately | 13 |
| needed for such purposes, and where such use and
operation or | 14 |
| leasing will in the opinion of the District aid and promote the
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| development of terminal and port facilities.
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| (c) To study and make recommendations to the proper | 17 |
| authority for
the improvement of terminal, lighterage, | 18 |
| wharfage, warehousing, transfer
and other facilities necessary | 19 |
| for the promotion of commerce and the
interchange of traffic | 20 |
| within, to and from the Port District.
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| (d) To study, prepare and recommend by specific proposals | 22 |
| to the
General Assembly of Illinois changes in the jurisdiction | 23 |
| of the Port
District.
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| (e) To petition any federal, state, municipal or local | 25 |
| authority,
administrative, judicial and legislative, having | 26 |
| jurisdiction in the
premises, for the adoption and execution of |
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| any physical improvement,
change in method, system of handling | 2 |
| freight, warehousing, docking,
lightering and transfer of | 3 |
| freight, which in the opinion of the Port
District may be | 4 |
| designed to improve or better the handling of commerce
in and | 5 |
| through the Port District or improve terminal or transportation
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| facilities therein.
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| (f) To foster, stimulate and promote the shipment of | 8 |
| cargoes and
commerce through such ports, whether originating | 9 |
| within or without the
State of Illinois.
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| (g) To acquire, construct, own, lease and develop | 11 |
| terminals, wharf
facilities, piers, docks, warehouses, bulk | 12 |
| terminals, grain elevators,
tug boats and other harbor crafts, | 13 |
| and any other port facility or
port-related facility or service | 14 |
| as it finds necessary and convenient.
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| (h) To perform any other act or function which may tend to | 16 |
| or be
useful toward development and improvement of harbors, sea | 17 |
| ports, and
port-related facilities and services and to increase | 18 |
| foreign and
domestic commerce through the harbors and ports | 19 |
| within the City of
Chicago. | 20 |
| (i) After the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | 21 |
| 96th General Assembly, the duties of the District shall be | 22 |
| assumed by the City of Chicago.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
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| (70 ILCS 1810/28 new) | 25 |
| Sec. 28. Dissolution of Illinois International Port |
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| District; disposition of land and real estate. | 2 |
| (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
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| the Illinois International Port District is dissolved by | 4 |
| operation of law one year after the effective date of this | 5 |
| amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly. | 6 |
| (b) On or before the day 2 months after the effective date
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| of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, the Board
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| of Directors shall forward to the City of Chicago all | 9 |
| transition plans relating to the consolidation of all of the | 10 |
| existing programs, personnel, and
infrastructure of the | 11 |
| District into the City of Chicago to be administered by the | 12 |
| City. Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act of | 13 |
| the 96th General Assembly, the District shall not make any | 14 |
| enhancements to pensions. | 15 |
| (c) Upon dissolution of the District: (i) all assets and
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| liabilities of the Illinois International Port District | 17 |
| dissolved under this amendatory Act of the 96th General | 18 |
| Assembly shall be transferred to the City of Chicago and the | 19 |
| monetary assets shall be deposited into a special purpose fund | 20 |
| for the development and improvement of harbors, sea ports, and | 21 |
| port related facilities and services and to increase foreign | 22 |
| and domestic commerce through the harbors and ports within the | 23 |
| City of Chicago; (ii) the City of Chicago shall assume all | 24 |
| duties and responsibilities enumerated in Section 4; and (iii) | 25 |
| employees of the Illinois International Port District become | 26 |
| employees of the City of Chicago. |
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| (d) The City Council of the City of Chicago may transfer to | 2 |
| the Chicago Park District or the Cook County Forest Preserve | 3 |
| District appropriate unimproved or improved recreational real | 4 |
| estate owned by the Illinois International Port District at the | 5 |
| time of its dissolution. After the dissolution of the District, | 6 |
| any land owned by the District at the time of its dissolution | 7 |
| remains subject to any leases and encumbrances that existed | 8 |
| upon the dissolution of the District and, if the land is | 9 |
| subject to a lease, the land may not be taken by any unit of | 10 |
| government during the term of the lease.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 12 |
| becoming law.".
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