(20 ILCS 3968/10)
Sec. 10.
Definitions.
As used in this Act:
(1) "Agency" means an official, commission, authority, council,
department, committee, division, bureau, board, or any other unit or
entity of the State, a municipality, a county, or other local governing
body or a private not-for-profit transportation service providing
agency.
(2) "Committee" means the Illinois Coordinating Committee on
Transportation.
(3) "Coordination" means the arrangement for the provision of
transportation services to the transportation disadvantaged in a manner
that is cost-effective, efficient, and reduces fragmentation and
duplication of services.
(4) "Transportation disadvantaged" means those persons who,
because of physical or mental disability, income status, age, location
of residence, or other reasons are unable to transport themselves or to
purchase affordable transportation and are, therefore, dependent upon
others to obtain access to health care, employment, education,
shopping, social activities, or other life-sustaining activities.
(Source: P.A. 93-185, eff. 7-11-03.)
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