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90_SB1500

      70 ILCS 1830/1.1 new
      70 ILCS 1830/7.1          from Ch. 19, par. 507.1
      70 ILCS 1830/10           from Ch. 19, par. 510
      70 ILCS 1830/9 rep.
      70 ILCS 1830/11 rep.
          Amends  the  Kaskaskia  Regional   Port   District   Act.
      Provides  that  the  main  purpose  of  the Act is to promote
      industrial,   commercial,   transportation,   and    economic
      activities.  Provides that the Port District has the right to
      acquire,  own,  construct, lease, operate and maintain, among
      other things, transportation equipment facilities,  railroads
      and  marinas,  and  airport  facilities.   Provides  that the
      District has the power to acquire, own, construct,  lease  or
      contract  for  any  period  not  exceeding 99 years, operate,
      develop,  and  maintain  water,  sewage,  and  other  utility
      systems and services for the use of any tenant, occupant,  or
      user of the District or any person engaged in commerce in the
      District.   Provides that the Board may promulgate reasonable
      regulations prescribing the qualification of  operators  (now
      bidders).   Requires  that  copies of the regulations be made
      available  to  all  prospective  operators   (now   bidders).
      Repeals  provisions  concerning  public  warehouses and grain
      elevators.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act.
 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section  5.   The Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act is
 5    amended by changing Sections 7.1 and 10 and by adding Section
 6    1.1 as follows:
 7        (70 ILCS 1830/1.1 new)
 8        Sec. 1.1. Purpose.  The General  Assembly  declares  that
 9    the  main  purpose  of  this  Act  is  to promote industrial,
10    commercial, transportation, and economic  activities  thereby
11    reducing  the evils attendant upon unemployment and enhancing
12    the public health and welfare of this State.
13        (70 ILCS 1830/7.1) (from Ch. 19, par. 507.1)
14        Sec. 7.1.  Additional rights and powers.
15        The Port District has the following additional rights and
16    powers:
17        (a)  To  issue  permits  for  the  construction  of   all
18    wharves,   piers,   dolphins,   booms,   weirs,  breakwaters,
19    bulkheads, jetties, bridges or other structures of any  kind,
20    over,  under,  in,  or within 40 feet of any navigable waters
21    within the Port District, for the  deposit  of  rock,  earth,
22    sand  or  other  material,  or  any  matter  of  any  kind or
23    description in such waters;
24        (b)  To prevent  and  remove  obstructions  in  navigable
25    waters, including the removal of wrecks;
26        (c)  To  locate  and  establish  dock  lines and shore or
27    harbor lines;
28        (d)  To regulate the  anchorage,  moorage  and  speed  of
29    water  borne vessels and to establish and enforce regulations
30    for the operation of bridges;
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 1        (e)  To  acquire,  own,  construct,  lease,  operate  and
 2    maintain terminals,  terminal  facilities,  port  facilities,
 3    transportation  equipment  facilities, railroads and marinas,
 4    and airport facilities and transport equipment facilities and
 5    systems,  and  to  fix  and  collect  just,  reasonable,  and
 6    non-discriminatory  charges  for  use  of  such   facilities,
 7    equipment and systems. The charges so collected shall be used
 8    to  defray  the reasonable expenses of the Port District, and
 9    to pay the principal of and interest  on  any  revenue  bonds
10    issued by the Port District;
11        (f)  To  operate, maintain, manage, lease, sub-lease, and
12    to make and enter into contracts for the  use,  operation  or
13    management  of, and to provide rules and regulations for, the
14    operation, management or use of, any public  port  or  public
15    port facility;
16        (g)  To  fix,  charge  and  collect  reasonable  rentals,
17    tolls,  fees  and  charges for the use of any public port, or
18    any part thereof, or any public port facility;
19        (h)  To establish, maintain, expand and improve roadways,
20    railroads, and approaches by land,  or  water,  to  any  such
21    terminal,  terminal  facility  and  port  facilities,  and to
22    contract or otherwise provide by condemnation, if  necessary,
23    for  the  removal  of any port, terminal, terminal facilities
24    and port facility hazards or the removal or relocation of all
25    private structures, railroads, mains, pipes, conduits, wires,
26    poles, and all  other  facilities  and  equipment  which  may
27    interfere   with  the  location,  expansion,  development  or
28    improvement of ports, terminals, terminal facilities and port
29    facilities or with the safe  approach  thereto,  or  exit  or
30    takeoff  therefrom  by  vehicles,  vessels,  barges and other
31    means of transportation, and to pay the cost  of  removal  or
32    relocation;
33        (i)  To   police  its  physical  property  only  and  all
34    waterways and to exercise police powers in respect thereto or
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 1    in respect to the  enforcement  of  any  rule  or  regulation
 2    provided  by the ordinances of the District and to employ and
 3    commission police officers and  other  qualified  persons  to
 4    enforce such rules and regulations. A regulatory ordinance of
 5    the District adopted under any provisions of this Section may
 6    provide  for  a  suspension  or  revocation  of any rights or
 7    privileges within the control of the District for a violation
 8    of any such regulatory ordinance.
 9        (j)  To  enter  into  agreements   with   the   corporate
10    authorities   or   governing  body  of  any  other  municipal
11    corporation or any political subdivision of this State to pay
12    the  reasonable  expense  of  services  furnished   by   such
13    municipal  corporation  or  political  subdivision  for or on
14    account of income producing properties of the District;
15        (k)  To enter into contracts dealing in any  manner  with
16    the objects and purposes of this Act;
17        (l)  To acquire, own, lease, sell or otherwise dispose of
18    interests  in  and  to real property and improvements situate
19    thereon and in personal property  necessary  to  fulfill  the
20    purposes of the District;
21        (m)  To designate the fiscal year for the District;
22        (n)  To  engage  in  any  activity  or operation which is
23    incidental to and in furtherance of  efficient  operation  to
24    accomplish the District's primary purpose;
25        (o)  To  acquire,  erect, construct, maintain and operate
26    aquariums,  museums,  planetariums,  climatrons   and   other
27    edifices for the collection and display of objects pertaining
28    to natural history or the arts and sciences and to permit the
29    directors or trustees of any corporation or society organized
30    for  the erection, construction, maintenance and operation of
31    an aquarium, museum, planetarium,  climatron  or  other  such
32    edifice  to  perform such erection, construction, maintenance
33    and operation on or within  any  property  now  or  hereafter
34    owned by or under the control or supervision of the District;
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 1    and  to contract with any such directors or trustees relative
 2    to such acquisition, erection, construction, maintenance  and
 3    operation  and  to  charge  or  authorize  such  directors or
 4    trustees to charge an admission fee, the  proceeds  of  which
 5    shall  be devoted exclusively to such erection, construction,
 6    maintenance and operation;
 7        (p)  To  do  any  act  which  is  enumerated  in  Section
 8    11-74.1-1 of the  "Illinois  Municipal  Code",  in  the  same
 9    manner  and form as though the District were a "municipality"
10    as referred to in such Section;
11        (q)  To acquire, erect, construct, reconstruct,  improve,
12    maintain  and  operate  one  or  more,  or  a  combination or
13    combinations  of,  industrial  buildings,  office  buildings,
14    buildings to be used as a  factory,  mill  shops,  processing
15    plants,   packaging   plants,  assembly  plants,  fabricating
16    plants, and buildings to be  used  as  warehouses  and  other
17    storage facilities.
18        (r)  To  acquire,  own,  construct, lease or contract for
19    any period not exceeding  99  years,  operate,  develop,  and
20    maintain  Port  District  water  and sewage systems and other
21    utility systems and services, including, but not limited  to,
22    pipes,  mains,  lines,  sewers,  pumping  stations,  settling
23    tanks, treatment plants, water purification equipment, wells,
24    storage facilities, lines, and all other equipment, material,
25    and  facilities necessary to those systems, for the use, upon
26    payment of a reasonable fee  set  by  the  District,  of  any
27    tenant,  occupant,  or user of the District facilities or any
28    person engaged in commerce in the District.
29    (Source: P.A. 77-2109.)
30        (70 ILCS 1830/10) (from Ch. 19, par. 510)
31        Sec. 10. Regulations as to qualifications  of  operators.
32    The   Board,   by   ordinance,   may   promulgate  reasonable
33    regulations  prescribing  qualifications  of  the   operators
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 1    bidders  as  to experience, adequacy of equipment, ability to
 2    complete performance within the time set, and  other  factors
 3    in addition to financial responsibility, and may by ordinance
 4    provide for suitable performance guaranties to qualify a bid.
 5    Copies of all such regulations shall be made available to all
 6    prospective operators bidders.
 7    (Source: Laws 1965, p. 1013.)
 8        (70 ILCS 1830/9 rep.)
 9        (70 ILCS 1830/11 rep.)
10        Section  10.  The Kaskaskia Regional Port District Act is
11    amended by repealing Sections 9 and 11.

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