(70 ILCS 615/2) (from Ch. 42, par. 355)
Sec. 2.
Such corporate authorities may lay out, construct and maintain a
cut-off drain or ditch for the diversion of the flood waters of the Des
Plaines river into Lake Michigan at some point north of the City of
Chicago, for the relief and in aid of the drainage system established or to
be established within said district, the location and route, dimensions and
capacity of such cut-off to be determined by said corporate authorities. If
the location of such cut-off shall occupy a portion of the North Branch of
the Chicago river, said North Branch may be widened and deepened as shall
be required. Such cut-off or diversion may be so constructed and maintained
as to answer the purpose of a drain for the lands through which it shall
pass, and such corporate authorities may allow said lands to be drained
into the same upon such terms and conditions as they may determine:
Provided, such corporate authorities shall not be allowed to interfere with
any right of drainage which the owners of land have or would have, if such
cut-off had not been made.
(Source: Laws 1887, p. 126.)
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