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615 ILCS 5/19

(615 ILCS 5/19) (from Ch. 19, par. 66)

Sec. 19.

It shall be the duty of the Department of Natural Resources to from
time to time prepare and devise schemes, plans, ways and means for the
reservation or acquisition by the State of desirable tracts of land in
connection with the public waters of the State of Illinois, to the end that
public reservations or preserves may be made along said public bodies of
water for the use of all of the people of the State of Illinois, for
pleasure, recreation and sport, and as such reservations or preserves may
be made or acquired from time to time, the same shall be under the
jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources.
The Department of Natural Resources is authorized, with
the consent in writing of the Governor, to acquire by private purchase or by
condemnation in the manner
provided for the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the Eminent Domain Act any and all lands sought to carry out
the provisions of this Section.

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