Illinois Compiled Statutes 615 ILCS 60 Des Plaines and Illinois Rivers Act. Section 1

    (615 ILCS 60/1) (from Ch. 19, par. 41)

    Sec. 1. The Des Plaines and Illinois rivers throughout their courses from and below the water power plant of the main channel of the Sanitary District of Chicago in the township of Lockport, at or near Lockport, in the county of Will, are hereby recognized as and are hereby declared to be navigable streams; and it is made the special duty of the Governor and of the Attorney General to prevent the erection of any structure in or across said streams without explicit authority from the General Assembly; and the Governor and Attorney General are hereby authorized and directed to take the necessary legal action or actions to remove all and every obstruction now existing in said rivers that in any wise interferes with the intent and purpose of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 90-655, eff. 7-30-98.)

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