30 ILCS 740/ Downstate Public Transportation Act.

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30 ILCS 740/Art. I

(30 ILCS 740/Art. I heading) ARTICLE I.

TITLE, FINDINGS

AND PURPOSES

30 ILCS 740/1-1

(30 ILCS 740/1-1) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 661)

Sec. 1-1.

This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Downstate
Public Transportation Act".

(Source: P.A. 82-783.)

30 ILCS 740/1-2

(30 ILCS 740/1-2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 661.01)

Sec. 1-2.

(1) The General Assembly finds:

(a) that the predominant part of the State's

population is located in its rapidly expanding metropolitan and urban areas;

(b) that the welfare and vitality of urban areas and

the satisfactory movement of people and goods within such areas are being jeopardized by the deterioration or inadequate provision of urban transportation facilities and services and the intensification of traffic congestion; and

(c) that State financial assistance for the

development of efficient and coordinated mass transportation systems is essential to the solution of these urban problems.

(2) The purposes of this Act are:

(a) to assist in the development of improved mass

transportation systems; and

(b) to provide assistance to participants in

financing such systems as provided in Section 7 of Article XIII of the Constitution.

(Source: P.A. 98-463, eff. 8-16-13.)