Full Text of SB0637 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning transportation.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Aeronautics Act is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 47 as follows:
| 6 | | (620 ILCS 5/47) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 22.47)
| 7 | | Sec. 47.
Operation without certificate of approval | 8 | | unlawful;
applications.) An application for a certificate of | 9 | | approval of an
airport or restricted landing area, or the | 10 | | alteration or extension
thereof, shall set forth, among other | 11 | | things, the location of all
railways, mains, pipes, conduits, | 12 | | wires, cables, poles and other
facilities and structures of | 13 | | public service corporations or municipal or
quasi-municipal | 14 | | corporations, located within the area proposed to be
acquired | 15 | | or restricted, and the names of persons owning the same, to the
| 16 | | extent that such information can be reasonably ascertained by | 17 | | the
applicant.
| 18 | | It shall be unlawful for any municipality or other | 19 | | political
subdivision, or officer or employee thereof, or for | 20 | | any person, to make
any alteration or extension of an existing | 21 | | airport or restricted landing
area, or to use or operate any | 22 | | airport or restricted landing area, for
which a certificate of | 23 | | approval has not been issued by the Department;
provided, that |
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| 1 | | no certificate of approval shall be required for an
airport or | 2 | | restricted landing area which was in existence and approved
by | 3 | | the Illinois Aeronautics Commission, whether or not being | 4 | | operated,
on or before July 1, 1945, or for the O'Hare | 5 | | Modernization Program as defined
in Section 10
of the O'Hare
| 6 | | Modernization Act; except that a certificate of approval shall | 7 | | be required
under this Section
for construction of a new runway | 8 | | at O'Hare International Airport with a
geographical | 9 | | orientation that varies from a geographical east-west | 10 | | orientation
by more than 10 degrees, or for construction of a | 11 | | new runway at that airport
that would result in more than 8 | 12 | | runways being available for aircraft
operations at that | 13 | | airport. The decommission, alteration, destruction, or | 14 | | re-designation of diagonal runways 14R/32L, 14L/32R, 4L/22R, | 15 | | and 4R/22L at O'Hare International Airport is prohibited by any | 16 | | municipality or other political subdivision, or officer or | 17 | | employee thereof. All runways shall be maintained and used in a | 18 | | safe and equitable manner for the purpose of fairly | 19 | | distributing air traffic over city and suburban communities | 20 | | surrounding O'Hare International Airport.
The Department shall | 21 | | supervise, monitor, and enforce
compliance with the
O'Hare | 22 | | Modernization Act by all other departments, agencies, and units | 23 | | of State
and local
government.
| 24 | | Provisions of this Section do not apply to special purpose | 25 | | aircraft
designated as such by the Department when
operating to | 26 | | or
from uncertificated areas other than their principal base of |
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| 1 | | operations,
provided mutually acceptable arrangements are made | 2 | | with the property
owner, and provided the owner or operator of | 3 | | the aircraft assumes
liabilities which may arise out of such | 4 | | operations.
| 5 | | (Source: P.A. 93-450, eff. 8-6-03.)
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