Illinois Compiled Statutes 615 Waterways: Article -
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 4.9
Short title. This Act may be cited as the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. (Source: P.A. 86-1324.)
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 5
The Department of Natural Resources shall upon behalf of the State of Illinois, have jurisdiction and supervision over all of the rivers and lakes...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 6
The Department of Natural Resources shall obtain all possible data with reference to all of the waters of the State of Illinois, including original...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 7
It shall be the duty of the Department of Natural Resources to have a general supervision of every body of water within the State...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 8
The Department of Natural Resources shall receive from any citizen complaints as to any invasion of or encroachment upon any rights of the State,...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 9
The Department of Natural Resources shall carefully investigate any and all complaints that may be made that any person, company or corporation is attempting...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 10
The Department of Natural Resources shall investigate any and all complaints within the State that any person, company, association or corporation is attempting to...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 11
The Department of Natural Resources shall obtain all possible data, surveys, charts, high and low water marks, and river gauges, and information with reference...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 12
The Department of Natural Resources shall procure and collect all obtainable data with reference to deep waterways within the State, and from time to...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 13
The Department of Natural Resources shall make a careful investigation of every body of water, both river and lake, in the State, and ascertain...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 14a
It is the express intention of this legislation that close cooperation shall exist between the Pollution Control Board, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 15
The Department of Natural Resources shall obtain and preserve all obtainable data with reference to the rivers and lakes of Illinois, and make its...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 16
The Department of Natural Resources shall plan and devise methods, ways and means for the preservation and beautifying of the public bodies of water...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 17
The Department of Natural Resources shall furnish at its actual cost to any person or persons who may be desirous of reclaiming, draining or...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 18
It is unlawful to make any fill or deposit of rock, earth, sand, or other material, or any refuse matter of any kind or...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 18a
The Department of Natural Resources, upon the issuance of any permit under the provisions of Section 18 of this Act, shall have the right...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 18b
The Department of Natural Resources, may also, upon the issuance of any permit under the provisions of Section 18 of this Act, enter into...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 18c
The Department of Natural Resources, may also, upon the issuance of a permit under the provisions of Section 18 of this Act, enter into...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 18d
No agreement permitting the right to take earth, stone, sand or gravel, or combination or combinations thereof, coal, gas, oil or other mineral or...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 18e
The Department of Natural Resources has the right to accept, on behalf of the State, any payments made in accordance with any agreement authorized...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 18f
(a) The Department of Natural Resources shall define 100-year floodplains within the State of Illinois on a township by township basis and may issue permits...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 18g
(a) The Department of Natural Resources shall define the 100-year floodway within metropolitan counties located in the area served by the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission,...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 18h
Conflicts with Executive Order 2006-5. To the extent that Executive Order 2006-5 is inconsistent with the provisions of this amendatory Act of the 96th General...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 18i
Maintenance of eligibility to participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly shall be construed to...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 18j
ESDA critical facility evacuation plans. Any critical facility that gives shelter to a person who would be unable to evacuate without assistance during a flooding...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 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...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 19.5
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...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 20
The Department of Natural Resources shall obtain data and information as to the availability of the various streams of Illinois for water power, and...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 21
The Department of Natural Resources shall make particular research into the natural resources of this State in connection with any of the public bodies...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 22
The Department of Natural Resources shall obtain from time to time all possible data with reference to the navigability of the public waters of...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 23
It shall be the duty of the Department of Natural Resources to maintain stream gauge stations, and to make careful investigations of the streams...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 23a
The Department is authorized to carry out inspections of any dam within the State, and to establish standards and issue permits for the safe construction...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 23b
Dams; signs and buoys. (a) The Department of Natural Resources shall establish specifications for signs and devices that provide warnings of the presence of dams...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 24
Title to the bed of Lake Michigan and all other meandered lakes in Illinois, set forth in the 1962 Report of the Department of...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 25
The Attorney General, any State's Attorney of any county or any attorney authorized by the Department of Natural Resources shall have the power to...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 26
The Department of Natural Resources shall, for the purpose of protecting the rights and interests of the State of Illinois, or the citizens of...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 26a
All orders entered by the Department of Natural Resources shall be made only upon giving reasonable notice to persons to be affected by such...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 26b
The Department of Natural Resources may make such investigations and conduct such hearings as may be necessary to the performance of its duties under...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 26c
All final administrative decisions of the Department of Natural Resources hereunder shall be subject to judicial review pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 27
At all times this act shall be construed in a liberal manner for the purpose of preserving to the State of Illinois and the...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 29
No provision of this Act shall be construed as limiting or impairing the powers and rights heretofore granted to any board of park commissioners,...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 29a
Construction permits; maintenance and repairs; clear cutting. (a) After July 1, 1985, no person, State agency, or unit of local government shall undertake construction...
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 30
The Department of Natural Resources may make such reasonable rules and regulations as may be necessary to administer this Act. (Source: P.A. 89-445, eff.
- Illinois Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. - 615 ILCS 5, Section 35
Permit fees. The Department of Natural Resources shall collect a fee of up to $5,000 per application for permits issued under this Act. The Department...
Last modified: February 18, 2015