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20 ILCS 2705/2705-310

(20 ILCS 2705/2705-310)

Sec. 2705-310. Grants for transportation for persons with disabilities.

(a) For the purposes of this Section, the following
definitions
apply:

 "Carrier" means a district or a not for profit corporation providing
mass transportation for persons with disabilities on a regular and continuing basis.

 "Person with a disability" means any individual who, by reason of
illness, injury, age, congenital malfunction, or other permanent or
temporary incapacity or disability, is unable without special mass
transportation facilities
or special planning or design to utilize ordinary mass transportation
facilities and services as effectively as persons who are not so affected.

"Unit of local government", "district", and "facilities" have the meanings
ascribed to them in Section 2705-305.

(b) The Department may make grants from the Transportation Fund
and the
General Revenue Fund (i) to units of local government,
districts, and carriers for vehicles, equipment, and the
acquisition, construction, extension, reconstruction, and improvement of
mass transportation facilities for persons with disabilities and (ii) during
State
fiscal years 1986 and 1987, to the Regional Transportation Authority for
operating assistance for mass transportation for mobility limited
 persons, including paratransit services for the mobility
limited. The grants shall be made upon the terms and
conditions that in the
judgment of the Secretary are necessary to ensure their proper and
effective utilization. The procedures, limitations, and safeguards provided
in Section 2705-305 to govern grants for mass
transportation shall
apply to grants made under this Section.

For the efficient administration of grants, the Department, on behalf of
grant recipients under
this Section and on
behalf of recipients receiving funds under Sections 5309 and
5311 of the
Federal Transit Act and State funds, may administer and consolidate
procurements and
may enter into contracts with manufacturers of vehicles and equipment.

(c) The Department may make operating assistance grants from the
Transportation Fund to those carriers that, during federal fiscal year
1986, directly received operating assistance pursuant to Section 5307
or
Section 5311 of the Federal Transit Act, or under contracts
with a unit of local government or mass transit
district that received
operating expenses under Section 5307 or Section 5311 of
the Federal Transit Act, to provide public paratransit services to the general
mobility limited population.  The Secretary shall take into consideration
the reduction in federal operating expense grants to carriers when
considering the grant applications.  The procedures,
limitations, and
safeguards provided in Section 2705-305 to govern
grants for mass
transportation shall apply to grants made under this Section.

(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)