Full Text of HB3622 99th General Assembly
HB3622 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 HB3622 Introduced , by Rep. Barbara Wheeler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that whenever the Department of Natural Resources determines that the public use or public interest will be served by vacating any plat of subdivision, street, roadway, or driveway, or part thereof, located within Department owned or managed lands, it may vacate that plat of subdivision, street, roadway, or driveway, or part thereof, by approval of the Governor.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Department of Natural Resources | 5 | | (Conservation) Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois | 6 | | is amended by adding Section 805-565 as follows: | 7 | | (20 ILCS 805/805-565 new) | 8 | | Sec. 805-565. Road vacation. | 9 | | (a) Whenever the Department of Natural Resources | 10 | | determines that the public use or public interest will be | 11 | | served by vacating any plat of subdivision, street, roadway, or | 12 | | driveway, or part thereof, located within Department owned or | 13 | | managed lands, it may vacate that plat of subdivision, street, | 14 | | roadway, or driveway, or part thereof, by approval of the | 15 | | Governor. | 16 | | (b) The determination of the Department that the nature and | 17 | | extent of the public use or public interest to be served | 18 | | warrants the vacation of any plat of subdivision, street, | 19 | | roadway, or driveway, or part thereof, is conclusive, and the | 20 | | approval of the a vacation is sufficient evidence of that | 21 | | determination, whether so recited in the vacation or not. The | 22 | | relief to the public from further burden and responsibility of | 23 | | maintaining any plat of subdivision, street, roadway, or |
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| 1 | | driveway, or part thereof, constitutes a public use or public | 2 | | interest authorizing the vacation. | 3 | | (c) Nothing contained in this Section shall be construed to | 4 | | authorize the Department to vacate any plat of subdivision, | 5 | | street, roadway, or driveway, or part thereof, that is part of | 6 | | any currently maintained and used State or county highway | 7 | | without obtaining the approval of the Department of | 8 | | Transportation (in the case of a State highway) or the | 9 | | appropriate county highway department (in the case of a county | 10 | | highway). | 11 | | (d) Title to the land in fee simple included within the | 12 | | plat of subdivision, street, roadway, or driveway, or part | 13 | | thereof, so vacated vests in the Department except: | 14 | | (1) in cases in which the deed, or other instrument | 15 | | dedicating a plat of subdivision, street, roadway, or | 16 | | driveway, or part thereof, has expressly provided for a | 17 | | specific devolution of the title thereto upon the | 18 | | abandonment or vacation thereof; or | 19 | | (2) when the plat of subdivision, street, roadway, or | 20 | | driveway, or part thereof, is held by the Department by | 21 | | lease, or when the Department holds an easement in the land | 22 | | included within the plat of subdivision, street, roadway, | 23 | | or driveway.
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