605 ILCS 5/ Illinois Highway Code.

(605 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 9 heading) DIVISION 9. DEPARTMENT ACQUISITION OF CERTAIN FERRIES

(605 ILCS 5/10-901) (from Ch. 121, par. 10-901)

Sec. 10-901. The Department may acquire, by purchase or by condemnation, the franchise and all equipment, boats, landing facilities, and other appurtenances of any ferry in existence on March 15, 1959, operating on the Illinois River and connecting any road a part of the county highway system in any county having not more than 7,000 inhabitants, as determined by the 1950 Federal census, with any State highway in any county having not more than 16,000 inhabitants, as determined by the same census.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 1190.)

(605 ILCS 5/10-902) (from Ch. 121, par. 10-902)

Sec. 10-902. The Department may maintain and operate any ferry acquired under Section 10-901 of this Code as a free ferry service for the conveyance of persons, motor vehicles and other property across the Illinois River so long as such operation is justified by the amount of traffic using such ferry. The location of ferry landings and the route of any ferry acquired and operated under the authority of these sections shall be such as the Department determines will be most convenient to the majority of the users of such service considering economy of operation of such service. If deemed desirable and feasible by the Department the operation of such service may be relocated by the Department and new approaches and facilities constructed to serve the relocated site of operation.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 1190.)

(605 ILCS 5/10-903) (from Ch. 121, par. 10-903)

Sec. 10-903. The Department may use funds regularly appropriated to it for the construction and maintenance of highways for the purposes set forth in Section 10-901 and 10-902 of this Code.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 1190.)

(605 ILCS 5/Art. 10 Div. 10 heading) DIVISION 10. DEPARTMENT MAINTENANCE AND CONTROL OF COVERED BRIDGES

(605 ILCS 5/10-1001) (from Ch. 121, par. 10-1001)

Sec. 10-1001. The Department shall repair, maintain, operate, control and preserve every covered bridge (and the abutments and approaches thereof) in this State, meaning every structure which spans a watercourse, chasm, ravine, road or railroad in or forming a boundary line of this State and affording passage from one bank or side thereof to the other, and which is enclosed in such manner as to prevent a clear, unimpeded view of the interior thereof from the top or longitudinal sides thereof.

(Source: Laws 1963, p. 3473.)

(605 ILCS 5/Art. 11 heading) ARTICLE 11. EFFECT OF CODE, REPEAL AND OTHER PROVISIONS

(605 ILCS 5/11-101) (from Ch. 121, par. 11-101)

Sec. 11-101. Article and Division headings contained herein shall not be deemed to govern, limit, modify or in any manner affect the scope, meaning or intent of the provisions of any article or Division hereof.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)

(605 ILCS 5/11-102) (from Ch. 121, par. 11-102)

Sec. 11-102. Where, in this Code, reference is made to a Section, Division or Article by its number and no Act is specified, the reference is to the correspondingly numbered Section, Division or Article of this Code. Where reference is made to "this Article" or "this Division" or "this Section" and no Act is specified, the reference is to the Article, Division or Section of this Code in which the reference appears. If any Section, Division or Article of this Code is hereafter amended, the reference shall thereafter be treated and considered as a reference to the Section, Division or Article as so amended.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)

(605 ILCS 5/11-103) (from Ch. 121, par. 11-103)

Sec. 11-103. The invalidity of any provision of this Code shall not affect the validity of the remainder of this Code.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)

(605 ILCS 5/11-104) (from Ch. 121, par. 11-104)

Sec. 11-104. The repeal of a statute or part thereof by this Code shall not affect any action pending or rights existing at the time this Code takes effect; neither shall this Code impair the validity of any proceedings taken or tax levied or extended under such prior statute or impair the validity of any bonds or other indebtedness outstanding at the time this Code takes effect.

The provisions of this Code insofar as they are the same or substantially the same as those of any prior statute, shall be construed as a continuation of such prior statute and not as a new enactment.

If in any other statute reference is made to an Act of the General Assembly, or a Section of such an Act, which is continued in this Code, such reference shall be held to refer to the Act or Section thereof so continued in this Code.

When a road district comprises a single township under the provisions of this Code, the term "road district" shall be construed as being synonymous with the term "township" as used in any law repealed by this Code.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)

(605 ILCS 5/11-105) (from Ch. 121, par. 11-105)

Sec. 11-105. Any bond or other evidence of indebtedness issued under the provisions of any Act repealed by this Code which is outstanding and unpaid on the effective date of this Code shall be amortized and retired by taxation or revenue in the manner provided by the Act under which such indebtedness was incurred, notwithstanding the repeal of such Act.

However, the provisions of this Section shall not be construed to prevent the refunding of any such indebtedness under the provisions of this Code or as may be otherwise provided by law.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)

(605 ILCS 5/11-106) (from Ch. 121, par. 11-106)

Sec. 11-106. The provisions of this Code shall be cumulative in effect and if any provision is inconsistent with another provision of this Code or with any other Act not expressly repealed by Section 11-107 it shall be considered as an alternative or additional power and not as a limitation upon any other power granted to or possessed by the several highway authorities.

(Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)