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70 ILCS 1835/6

(70 ILCS 1835/6) (from Ch. 19, par. 706)

Sec. 6.

The District has power to acquire and accept by purchase, lease,
gift, grant or otherwise any property and rights useful for its purposes and to
provide for the development of channels, ports, harbors, airports,
airfields, terminals, port facilities, terminal facilities, aquariums,
museums, planetariums, climatrons and any other building or facility which
the District has the power to acquire, construct, reconstruct, extend or
improve, to serve the needs of commerce within the District. The District
may acquire real or personal property or any rights therein in the manner,
as near as may be, as is provided for the exercise of
the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act; except that no rights or property of any kind or character now or
hereafter owned, leased, controlled or operated and used by or necessary
for the actual operations of any common carrier engaged in interstate
commerce, or of any other public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the
Illinois Commerce Commission, shall be taken or appropriated by the
District without first obtaining the approval of the Illinois Commerce
Commission; and except that no property owned by any city within the
District shall be taken or appropriated without first obtaining the consent
of the governing body of such city.

(Source: P.A. 94-1055, eff. 1-1-07.)