Public Act 096-0960
 		





HB0156 Enrolled
LRB096 04148 AJT 14190 b






    AN ACT concerning transportation.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:



 
    Section 5. The Fox Waterway Agency Act is amended  by 
changing Section 7.2 as follows:
 
    (615 ILCS 90/7.2)  (from Ch. 19, par. 1209)
    Sec. 7.2. The Agency may charge reasonable user fees
for 
recreational and commercial boating, and has the authority to 
issue
revenue bonds and to borrow funds from any financial 
lending institution, but
shall
not have the authority to impose 
any property tax.
The Agency shall devise a schedule
of user 
fees.  The Agency shall conduct public hearings before

establishing or changing user fees or soliciting the issuance 
of revenue
bonds or the borrowing of funds.  The Agency may 
issue
stickers as evidence of the payment of user fees.
The 
Agency may impose a civil penalty on persons who knowingly use 
the waterway
without paying a required user fee in an amount 
not exceeding $500
for each
violation.  Such civil penalty may 
be recovered by the Agency in a civil
action.
    The Agency may also sell its dredging materials from the 
waterway as reclaimed topsoil. 
    At least 75% of the gross income from fees collected under 
this Section
shall be used exclusively for projects designed to 
maintain and improve the
waterway.
Such projects may include, 
but are not limited to, dredging, site acquisition
for silt 
deposit, water safety, and water quality projects.  Any funds

which have not
been expended by the end of a fiscal year may be 
accumulated in a revolving
fund.
(Source: P.A. 89-162, eff. 7-19-95.)
 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.




Effective Date:  7/2/2010