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      605 ILCS 10/19            from Ch. 121, par. 100-19
          Amends the Toll Highway  Act  to  provide  that  any  law
      enforcement agency vehicle, fire department vehicle, or other
      emergency  vehicle on official business shall not be required
      to pay a toll to use a toll highway. Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Toll Highway Act by changing  Section
 2    19.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Toll Highway Act is amended  by  changing
 6    Section 19 as follows:
 7        (605 ILCS 10/19) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-19)
 8        Sec. 19.  The Authority shall fix and revise from time to
 9    time,  tolls  or  charges or rates for the privilege of using
10    each of the toll highways constructed pursuant to  this  Act.
11    Such tolls shall be so fixed and adjusted at rates calculated
12    to provide the lowest reasonable toll rates that will provide
13    funds sufficient with other revenues of the Authority to pay,
14    (a) the cost of the construction of a toll highway authorized
15    by  joint  resolution  of  the  General  Assembly pursuant to
16    Section  14.1  and  the  reconstruction,  major  repairs   or
17    improvements  of  toll highways, (b) the cost of maintaining,
18    repairing,  regulating  and  operating  the   toll   highways
19    including  only  the necessary expenses of the Authority, and
20    (c) the principal of all  bonds,  interest  thereon  and  all
21    sinking  fund requirements and other requirements provided by
22    resolutions authorizing the issuance of  the  bonds  as  they
23    shall  become due.  The use and disposition of any sinking or
24    reserve fund shall be subject to such regulation  as  may  be
25    provided in the resolution or trust indenture authorizing the
26    issuance  of  the  bonds.    Subject to the provisions of any
27    resolution or trust indenture  authorizing  the  issuance  of
28    bonds  any  moneys  in  any such sinking fund in excess of an
29    amount equal  to  one  year's  interest  on  the  bonds  then
30    outstanding  secured  by  such sinking fund may be applied to
31    the purchase or redemption of  bonds.    All  such  bonds  so
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 1    redeemed  or purchased shall forthwith be cancelled and shall
 2    not again be issued.   No person shall be  permitted  to  use
 3    any  toll  highway  without paying the toll established under
 4    this Section except when on official Toll  Highway  Authority
 5    business  which includes police and other emergency vehicles.
 6    However, any law enforcement agency vehicle, fire  department
 7    vehicle,  or  other  emergency vehicle that is plainly marked
 8    shall not be required to pay a toll to use a toll highway.  A
 9    law  enforcement,  fire  protection,  or  emergency  services
10    officer  driving  a  law  enforcement,  fire  protection,  or
11    emergency  services agency vehicle that is not plainly marked
12    must  present  an  Official  Permit  Card   which   the   law
13    enforcement,  fire  protection, or emergency services officer
14    receives from his or her law enforcement, fire protection, or
15    emergency services agency in order  to  use  a  toll  highway
16    without paying the toll.  A law enforcement, fire protection,
17    or  emergency  services agency must apply to the Authority to
18    receive a permit, and the Authority shall adopt rules for the
19    issuance of a permit, that allows all law  enforcement,  fire
20    protection,  or emergency services agency vehicles of the law
21    enforcement, fire protection, or  emergency  services  agency
22    that  are  not plainly marked to use any toll highway without
23    paying the toll established under this Section. The Authority
24    shall maintain in its office a list of all persons  that  are
25    authorized  to  use  any  toll highway without charge when on
26    official business of the Authority and  such  list  shall  be
27    open to the public for inspection.
28        Among  other  matters,  this  amendatory  Act  of 1990 is
29    intended to clarify and  confirm  the  prior  intent  of  the
30    General Assembly to allow toll revenues from the toll highway
31    system  to  be  used  to  pay  a  portion  of the cost of the
32    construction of the North-South Toll  Highway  authorized  by
33    Senate  Joint  Resolution 122 of the 83rd General Assembly in
34    1984.
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 1    (Source: P.A. 86-1164.)
 2        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
 3    becoming law.

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