Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 ILCS 5/11-123-20

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • utility: as used in this Division 123 means and includes: (1) harbors, canals, slips, wharves, docks, levees, piers, quay walls, breakwaters, and all appropriate harbor structures, facilities, connections, and improvements; and (2) such elevators, vaults, warehouses, including cold storage warehouses which may be acquired, owned, maintained, or operated in connection therewith, as necessary adjuncts or incidental to transportation or railroad terminals; and (3) all other necessary or appropriate terminal facilities. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 65 ILCS 5/11-123-1
     Every city and village may cross by roadways or other appropriate means, the ways, drives, boulevards, beaches, wharves, docks, levees, piers, breakwaters, retaining walls, land, or submerged land of any public or municipal corporation, other than a city or village, whenever the crossing is declared by ordinance of the municipality to be necessary or advantageous to the development and use of a utility.
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