Lincoln Park Submerged Lands Act (70 ILCS 1575/)

Chapter 70 — Special Districts

Park

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Sec. 0.01. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Lincoln Park Submerged Lands Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

Sec. 1.

That all right, title and interest of the state in and to the bed of Lake Michigan on which the driveway connected with Lincoln Park is now constructed, or on which any extension thereof may hereafter be constructed, and a strip of such submerged land between the east line thereof, and a line fifty feet east of the breakwater, protecting said driveway and any extension of the same be and is hereby granted to the commissioners of Lincoln Park and their successors in office, to be held for the use and benefit of the public as a part of said park and for no other purpose whatever.

(Source: Laws 1889, p. 214.)

Sec. 2.

That said commissioners may have and exercise police control over the waters of Lake Michigan along the east side of said driveway and any extension thereof, for a distance of two hundred and fifty feet in same way as over the grounds of the park, and sand may be taken therefrom by permission of said commissioners.

(Source: Laws 1889, p. 214.)