(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 87 heading) DIVISION 87.
RE-LOCATING WATER COURSES
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(65 ILCS 5/11-87-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-87-1)
Sec. 11-87-1.
Whenever in the judgment of the corporate authorities of any
city or village it becomes necessary to change or re-locate the channel,
course, or bed of any natural or artificial water course or stream within
the corporate limits of the city or village, in order to properly lay out,
establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave, or otherwise improve
the streets, alleys, avenues, and sidewalks, or any of them in any part of
the city or village, the corporate authorities are hereby vested with the
power to provide by ordinance for the laying out, establishing, opening,
altering, widening, extending, grading, paving, or otherwise improving
those streets, alleys, avenues, and sidewalks, or any of them in any such
part of the city or village, and by the same ordinance to provide for the
changing or re-locating of the channel, course, or bed of any such water
course or stream within the corporate limits of the city or village. The
entire improvement provided for by such an ordinance shall constitute a
local improvement, the cost of which may be paid for by special assessment,
by special taxation of contiguous property, or by general taxation, or
otherwise, as the corporate authorities by ordinance shall direct, and in
providing for such an improvement they may proceed in accordance with the
provisions of Article 9.
In case the corporate authorities re-locate any such channel or water
course, the title of the State of Illinois in and to any land artificially
made or reclaimed within the corporate limits of any city or village, which
prior to the re-location was, but after the re-location is no longer a part
of the channel, course, or bed of the natural or artificial water course or
stream, shall vest in fee simple absolute, without further act or deed, in
the city or village which so re-locates that channel, course, or bed. The
State of Illinois shall take the same title and to the same extent in
territory in metes and bounds in and to the channel course or bed of the
watercourse or stream, after its re-location by the city or village, as it
had in the channel course or bed of the watercourse or stream, before its
re-location.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-87-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-87-2)
Sec. 11-87-2.
For the purpose of this Division 87, a water course or stream
shall be construed to include all banks, beds, and waters connected with,
adjacent, and leading to the watercourse, or stream.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-87-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-87-3)
Sec. 11-87-3.
Whenever any portion within the corporate limits of a city or
village of a fork, branch, arm, canal, or slip terminating within the city
or village of any natural or artificial watercourse or stream, or a fork,
branch, arm, canal, or slip communicating therewith, has been declared
non-navigable by the Congress of the United States of America, or the
United States of America has surrendered, relinquished, or abandoned
jurisdiction of such a portion thereof as a navigable body of water, and in
the judgment of the corporate authorities of the city or village it becomes
necessary to fill in all or any part of a portion of such a watercourse or
stream in order to properly lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, extend,
grade, pave, or otherwise improve streets, avenues, or alleys, or any of
them, in any part of the city or village, without the construction of a
bridge over or along such a watercourse or stream, the corporate
authorities have the power to provide by ordinance for the laying out,
establishing, opening, altering, widening, extending, grading, paving, or
otherwise improving such streets, avenues, and alleys, or any of them, in
that part of the city or village and by the same ordinance to provide for
the filling in of the channel, course, or bed of a part or all of any
portion of such a watercourse or stream within the corporate limits of the
city or village.
By this ordinance the corporate authorities may provide for taking by
eminent domain of so much of the specified portion of such a watercourse or
stream as the city or village requires for the purposes of any such street,
avenue, or alley and of the rights in such a watercourse or stream of all
owners of land adjoining the specified portion of such a watercourse or
stream. The entire improvement provided for by this ordinance shall
constitute a local improvement, the cost of which may be paid for by
special assessment or special taxation of contiguous property or by general
taxation, or otherwise, as the corporate authorities shall direct by
ordinance. In providing for such an improvement the corporate authorities
may proceed in accordance with the provisions of Article 9.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-87-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-87-4)
Sec. 11-87-4.
The rights, powers, and authority granted in the preceding
sections of this Division 87 shall be subject to the provisions of Section
18 of "An Act in relation to the regulation of the rivers, lakes and
streams of the State of Illinois," approved June 10, 1911, as heretofore
and hereafter amended.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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(65 ILCS 5/11-87-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-87-5)
Sec. 11-87-5.
Whenever any city or village has changed, altered, or
relocated or provides by ordinance to change, alter, or relocate the
channel, course, or bed of any natural or artificial watercourse or stream,
within the corporate limits of the city or village, and provides by
ordinance to lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave,
construct, or otherwise improve streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks,
viaducts, subway tunnels, or any of them, and any such improvement consists
of or requires the taking or damaging of property within one-half mile of
any part of the channel, course, or bed of such a natural or artificial
course or stream as changed or provided by ordinance to be changed,
altered, or relocated, the corporate authorities of the city or village may
acquire by condemnation, all property that may be required to enable them
to make the improvement.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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