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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 286

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 286,  AS  AMENDED,
 3    in  Section  5,  in  the  introductory  clause,  by replacing
 4    "Sections 3.4" with "Sections 2.7, 3.4,"; and

 5    in Section 5, by inserting above Sec. 3.4 the following:

 6        "(70 ILCS 5/2.7) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 68.2g)
 7        Sec. 2.7. Metropolitan Airport Authority.
 8        (a)  Upon the effective date of this  amendatory  Act  of
 9    1986,  in  any  county  with a population between 600,000 and
10    3,000,000 and contiguous to a county  with  a  population  in
11    excess  of  1,000,000  inhabitants,  a  Metropolitan  Airport
12    Authority is hereby established, the territory of which shall
13    include  all  of the territory within the corporate limits of
14    the county and the territory of  any  pre-existing  authority
15    located  partly  within and partly outside the county, except
16    the territory of any municipality whose territory  lies  both
17    inside  and  outside  the  county  with  the  majority of the
18    territory lying outside the  county.   Upon  that  date,  the
19    Metropolitan  Airport  Authority shall be deemed an organized
20    Airport Authority under this Act.  Within 30 days  after  the
21    initial  appointments  have  been made under Section 3.4, the
22    Authority board shall notify the office of the  Secretary  of
 
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 1    State  of  the  establishment  of  the  Metropolitan  Airport
 2    Authority by this amendatory Act of 1986, who shall thereupon
 3    issue a certificate of incorporation to the Authority.
 4        (b)  If  all  of  the  airport  facilities of an existing
 5    Airport Authority are situated within the corporate limits of
 6    a  county  in  which  a  Metropolitan  Airport  Authority  is
 7    established,  the  existing  Airport   Authority   shall   be
 8    dissolved  upon the establishment of the Metropolitan Airport
 9    Authority.  In such event the rights to all property and  all
10    assets and liabilities, including bonded indebtedness, of the
11    existing   Airport   Authority   shall   be  assumed  by  the
12    Metropolitan Airport Authority.
13        (c)  (Blank). The Illinois Department  of  Transportation
14    shall  conduct  or  cause  to  be conducted an annual program
15    audit of the Metropolitan Airport Authority for  each  fiscal
16    year of the Authority, beginning with 1993.  The audits shall
17    be   conducted   in   accordance   with   generally  accepted
18    governmental  auditing  standards  and   shall   include   an
19    examination   of   supporting   books   and   records  and  a
20    representative  sample  of  vouchers  for  distributions  and
21    expenditures.  An audit report shall  be  prepared  for  each
22    audit conducted pursuant to this Section, and a copy shall be
23    kept on file at the Illinois Department of Transportation and
24    furnished  to  the Metropolitan Airport Authority.  All audit
25    reports shall be made available to the public by the Illinois
26    Department of Transportation  and  the  Metropolitan  Airport
27    Authority upon request.
28        Within  90  days  after  an  audit  required  under  this
29    subsection  has  been  completed,  the  Metropolitan  Airport
30    Authority   shall   reimburse   the  Illinois  Department  of
31    Transportation for  all  costs  incurred  by  the  Department
32    arising  out  of the conduct of the audit.  Costs incurred by
33    the Illinois Department of Transportation may  be  paid  from
34    any  moneys available to the Department for that purpose; the
 
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 1    reimbursement  received   from   the   Metropolitan   Airport
 2    Authority for those costs shall be deposited into the fund or
 3    funds from which the costs were paid by the Department.
 4    (Source: P.A. 87-768; 88-504.)".

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