28A.3 - PURPOSES.
28A.3 PURPOSES.
1. This division is enabling legislation for the quad cities
interstate metropolitan authority compact, a compact entered into by
the states of Illinois and Iowa as provided in section 28A.1.
2. The authority shall engage in operations and services that can
best be conducted on an area basis benefiting the entire greater
metropolitan area, and at the same time improving the quality of life
for the greater metropolitan area. The authority may include the
following areas of operation and service:
a. Intermodal water port operations.
b. Waste disposal systems.
c. Mass transit.
d. Airports.
e. Bridges.
f. Parks and recreation.
g. Related facilities, fixtures, equipment, and property
necessary, appurtenant, or incidental to the operations and services
specified in paragraphs "a" through "f". The authority shall
be supportive of, and refrain from unnecessary and unreasonable
competition with, private sector operations when possible.
3. The establishment, maintenance, and operation of safe,
adequate, and necessary metropolitan facilities, and the creation of
the authority having powers necessary or desirable for the
establishment, maintenance, and operation of the metropolitan
facilities beneficial to the territory of the authority, and the
powers and the corporate purposes and functions of the authority are
public and governmental in nature and essential to the public
interest in the territory of the authority. Section History: Recent Form
91 Acts, ch 198, §2
CS91, § 330B.3
C93, § 28A.3