Illinois Code § 5

§ 5.

Definitions. As used in this Act: "Administrative decision" has the meaning given to that term in Section 3-101 of the Code of Civil Procedure. "City council" means the city council or board of trustees of a municipality. "General obligation bond" means a bond that has any part of its principal or interest paid by taxation. "Governing and administrative body" means all of the city councils of the participating municipalities. "Governmental agency" means the federal government, a state or local government, or any subdivision of the federal, state, or local government. "Navigable waters" means any public waters that are or can be made usable for water commerce. "Participating municipality" means the City of Rock Island or a municipality that has all or any part of the municipality annexed into the Port District. "Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association. "Person" includes, without limitation, a trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof. "Port District" means the Rock Island Regional Port District created by this Act. "Port facilities" means any public and other buildings, structures, works, improvements, and equipment that are upon, in, over, under, adjacent, or near navigable waters, harbors, slips, and basins and that are necessary or useful for or incident to the furtherance of water and land commerce and the operation of small boats and pleasure craft. "Port facilities" includes, without limitation, (i) improvements to the widening and deepening of basins, slips, harbors, and navigable waters and (ii) any lands, buildings, structures, improvements, equipment, and appliances located on Port District property that are used for industrial, manufacturing, commercial, or recreational purposes. "Port facilities" does not include terminal facilities "Revenue bond" means a bond that has its principal and interest paid solely from revenues or income derived from ports, harbors, or any other buildings or facilities of the Port District. "Terminal" means a public place, such as a station or depot, for receiving and delivering of baggage, mail, or freight in connection with the transportation of persons and property on water or land. "Terminal facility" means any land, building, structure, improvement, equipment, or appliance useful in the operation of a public warehouse, a storage, transportation, or railway facility, or industrial, manufacturing, or commercial activities for the accommodation of or in connection with commerce by water or land for the handling, docking, and serving small boats and pleasure craft. (Source: P.A. 103-242, eff. 1-1-24.)