(45 ILCS 35/5) (from Ch. 85, par. 6248-5)
    Sec. 5. Purposes.
    (a) This Act is enabling legislation for the Quad Cities Interstate Metropolitan Authority Compact entered into by the states of Illinois and Iowa as authorized by the Quad Cities Interstate Metropolitan Authority Compact Act.
    (b) The Quad Cities Interstate Metropolitan Authority ("Authority") shall engage in operations and services that can best be conducted on an areawide basis benefiting the entire greater metropolitan area and at the same time improving the quality of life for the greater metropolitan area. The Authority may include the following areas of operation and services:
        (1) Intermodal water port operations.
        (2) Waste disposal systems.
        (3) Mass transit.
        (4) Airports.
        (5) Bridges.
        (6) Parks and recreation.
        (7) Related facilities, fixtures, equipment, and
    
property necessary, appurtenant, or incidental to the operations and services specified in paragraphs (1) through (6). The Authority shall be supportive of, and refrain from unnecessary and unreasonable competition with, private sector operations when possible.
    (c) The establishment, maintenance, and operation of safe, adequate, and necessary metropolitan facilities, the creation of the Authority having powers necessary or desirable for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of the metropolitan facilities beneficial to the territory of the Authority, and the powers and the corporate purposes and functions of the Authority are public and governmental in nature and essential to the public interest in the territory of the Authority.
(Source: P.A. 87-622.)