Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 Professions, Occupations, and Business Operations: Article -

• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 0.01
  Short title. This Act may be cited as the Ferries Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 1
  No person shall establish, keep or use any ferry for the conveyance or passage of persons or property, for profit or hire, unless he...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 2
  Any person may petition the county board for license to keep a ferry, and if said board shall deem such ferry necessary, it shall...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 3
  Where the ferry is to be established between two counties, the petition shall be addressed to the county boards of both counties, and the...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 4
  No license shall be granted to establish a ferry unless the petitioner shall give notice of his intended application by publication in some newspaper...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 5
  No such license shall be granted to any person other than the owner of the land adjoining to or embracing the water over which...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 6
  When several such owners apply, the county board may grant the license to any one or more of them as it shall deem best....
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 7
  Before the delivery of any license, the person to whom the same is granted shall give bond, payable to the People of the State...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 8
  The term for which a ferry license shall continue shall be fixed by the county board at the time of granting the license, not...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 9
  The license fee to be fixed by the county board in any case shall be such sum as the said board shall think proper,...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 10
  The county board shall fix the rate of ferriage at each ferry, and may at any time alter the same, having regard to the...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 11
  Every keeper of a ferry who shall at any time take or demand more than the toll allowed as aforesaid, shall, for each offense,...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 12
  Every keeper of a ferry shall keep a list of the legal rates of ferriage, printed, or written in a legible hand, constantly posted...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 13
  If any keeper of a ferry fails to comply with the provisions of the preceding section, he shall, for every day such list is...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 14
  Every keeper of a ferry shall provide proper wharves, causeways or other conveniences and safeguards, for the embarking and landing of passengers, teams, horses,...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 15
  He shall keep the ferry at all times in good repair, and shall faithfully attend thereto, with such and so many sufficient and safe...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 16
  If any keeper of a ferry shall fail to perform any of his duties under the two preceding sections, he shall forfeit to the...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 17
  Every keeper of a ferry shall afford safe and speedy passage to all persons and their teams and property, from daylight in the morning...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 18
  All persons shall be received into such ferryboat or other vessels, as aforesaid, and conveyed across the water course over which the same shall...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 19
  If any keeper of a ferry shall fail to perform any of his duties under the two preceding sections, he shall, for each offense,...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 20
  All ferries heretofore established and confirmed over the Ohio, to the proprietors of land on the western shore of said river, as well as...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 21
  Whoever, not being licensed to maintain a ferry, or authorized by law so to do, shall run any boat or other craft for the...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 22
  The penalties herein provided for may be recovered in a civil action in the circuit court of the county where the offense is committed....
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 23
  When it shall be necessary, for the establishment or use of any ferry, to take or damage private property, for a landing, ferryhouse, or...
• Illinois Ferries Act. - 225 ILCS 435, Section 24
  Eminent domain. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any power granted under this Act to acquire property by condemnation or eminent domain is subject...

Last modified: February 18, 2015