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 1        AN ACT in relation to environmental protection.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Motor Fuel Tax Law is amended by changing
 5    Section 8 as follows:

 6        (35 ILCS 505/8) (from Ch. 120, par. 424)
 7        Sec. 8.  Except as provided in Sections 8a and 13a.6  and
 8    items 13, 14, 15, and 16 of Section 15, all money received by
 9    the Department under this Act, including payments made to the
10    Department  by  member  jurisdictions  participating  in  the
11    International  Fuel  Tax  Agreement,  shall be deposited in a
12    special fund in the State treasury, to be known as the "Motor
13    Fuel Tax Fund", and shall be used as follows:
14        (a)  2 1/2 cents per  gallon  of  the  tax  collected  on
15    special fuel under paragraph (b) of Section 2 and Section 13a
16    of  this  Act  shall be transferred to the State Construction
17    Account Fund in the State Treasury;
18        (b)  $420,000 shall be  transferred  each  month  to  the
19    State  Boating  Act  Fund  to  be  used  by the Department of
20    Natural Resources for the purposes specified in Article X  of
21    the Boat Registration and Safety Act;
22        (c)  $2,250,000  shall  be  transferred each month to the
23    Grade Crossing Protection Fund to be  used  as  follows:  not
24    less  than  $6,000,000 each fiscal year shall be used for the
25    construction  or  reconstruction  of   rail   highway   grade
26    separation  structures;  beginning  with fiscal year 1997 and
27    ending in fiscal  year  2003,  $1,500,000,  and  $750,000  in
28    fiscal  year  2004  and  each fiscal year thereafter shall be
29    transferred to the Transportation Regulatory Fund  and  shall
30    be  accounted for as part of the rail carrier portion of such
31    funds and shall be used to pay the cost of administration  of
 
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 1    the Illinois Commerce Commission's railroad safety program in
 2    connection  with  its  duties under subsection (3) of Section
 3    18c-7401 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, with the remainder  to
 4    be used by the Department of Transportation upon order of the
 5    Illinois  Commerce  Commission,  to pay that part of the cost
 6    apportioned by such Commission to  the  State  to  cover  the
 7    interest  of  the  public  in  the  use of highways, roads or
 8    streets in the county highway system, township  and  district
 9    road  system  or  municipal  street  system as defined in the
10    Illinois Highway Code, as the same may from time to  time  be
11    amended,   for   separation   of  grades,  for  installation,
12    construction or  reconstruction  of  crossing  protection  or
13    reconstruction, alteration, relocation including construction
14    or  improvement  of any existing highway necessary for access
15    to property or improvement of any  grade  crossing  including
16    the  necessary  highway  approaches  thereto  of any railroad
17    across the highway or public road, as provided for in and  in
18    accordance  with  Section  18c-7401  of  the Illinois Vehicle
19    Code.  In entering orders for  projects  for  which  payments
20    from  the  Grade  Crossing  Protection Fund will be made, the
21    Commission shall account for expenditures authorized  by  the
22    orders  on a cash rather than an accrual basis.  For purposes
23    of this requirement an "accrual basis" assumes that the total
24    cost of the project is expended in the fiscal year  in  which
25    the order is entered, while a "cash basis" allocates the cost
26    of  the  project  among  fiscal  years  as  expenditures  are
27    actually  made.  To meet the requirements of this subsection,
28    the Illinois Commerce Commission  shall  develop  annual  and
29    5-year  project  plans  of rail crossing capital improvements
30    that will be paid for with moneys  from  the  Grade  Crossing
31    Protection  Fund.   The  annual  project  plan shall identify
32    projects for  the  succeeding  fiscal  year  and  the  5-year
33    project  plan  shall  identify  projects  for  the 5 directly
34    succeeding fiscal years.  The  Commission  shall  submit  the
 
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 1    annual  and  5-year  project  plans  for  this  Fund  to  the
 2    Governor,  the  President  of the Senate, the Senate Minority
 3    Leader, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and  the
 4    Minority  Leader of the House of Representatives on the first
 5    Wednesday in April of each year;
 6        (d)  of the amount remaining after  allocations  provided
 7    for  in  subsections  (a),  (b)  and (c), a sufficient amount
 8    shall be reserved to pay all of the following:
 9             (1)  the costs  of  the  Department  of  Revenue  in
10        administering this Act;
11             (2)  the  costs  of the Department of Transportation
12        in performing its duties imposed by the Illinois  Highway
13        Code  for  supervising  the  use  of motor fuel tax funds
14        apportioned  to   municipalities,   counties   and   road
15        districts;
16             (3)  refunds  provided for in Section 13 of this Act
17        and  under  the  terms  of  the  International  Fuel  Tax
18        Agreement referenced in Section 14a;
19             (4)  from October 1, 1985 until June 30,  1994,  the
20        administration  of  the Vehicle Emissions Inspection Law,
21        which  amount  shall  be   certified   monthly   by   the
22        Environmental  Protection Agency to the State Comptroller
23        and  shall  promptly  be   transferred   by   the   State
24        Comptroller and Treasurer from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund to
25        the  Vehicle Inspection Fund, and beginning July 1, 1994,
26        and until June 30, 2006, December 31,  2000,  one-twelfth
27        of  $25,000,000  each month for the administration of the
28        Vehicle  Emissions  Inspection  Law  of   1995,   to   be
29        transferred  by  the State Comptroller and Treasurer from
30        the Motor Fuel Tax Fund into the Vehicle Inspection Fund;
31             (5)  amounts ordered paid by the  Court  of  Claims;
32        and
33             (6)  payment  of  motor fuel use taxes due to member
34        jurisdictions under the terms of the  International  Fuel
 
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 1        Tax   Agreement.   The  Department  shall  certify  these
 2        amounts to the Comptroller by the 15th day of each month;
 3        the Comptroller shall cause orders to be drawn  for  such
 4        amounts, and the Treasurer shall administer those amounts
 5        on or before the last day of each month;
 6        (e)  after  allocations  for  the  purposes  set forth in
 7    subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d), the remaining amount shall
 8    be apportioned as follows:
 9             (1)  Until January 1,  2000,  58.4%,  and  beginning
10        January 1, 2000, 45.6% shall be deposited as follows:
11                  (A)  37%  into  the  State Construction Account
12             Fund, and
13                  (B)  63% into  the  Road  Fund,  $1,250,000  of
14             which   shall   be   reserved  each  month  for  the
15             Department  of  Transportation   to   be   used   in
16             accordance  with  the  provisions  of Sections 6-901
17             through 6-906 of the Illinois Highway Code;
18             (2)  Until January 1,  2000,  41.6%,  and  beginning
19        January  1,  2000,  54.4%  shall  be  transferred  to the
20        Department  of  Transportation  to  be   distributed   as
21        follows:
22                  (A)  49.10% to the municipalities of the State,
23                  (B)  16.74% to the counties of the State having
24             1,000,000 or more inhabitants,
25                  (C)  18.27% to the counties of the State having
26             less than 1,000,000 inhabitants,
27                  (D)  15.89% to the road districts of the State.
28        As  soon  as may be after the first day of each month the
29    Department of Transportation shall allot to each municipality
30    its  share  of  the  amount  apportioned   to   the   several
31    municipalities which shall be in proportion to the population
32    of  such  municipalities  as determined by the last preceding
33    municipal census if conducted by the  Federal  Government  or
34    Federal  census.  If territory is annexed to any municipality
 
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 1    subsequent to the time  of  the  last  preceding  census  the
 2    corporate authorities of such municipality may cause a census
 3    to  be  taken of such annexed territory and the population so
 4    ascertained  for  such  territory  shall  be  added  to   the
 5    population  of  the  municipality  as  determined by the last
 6    preceding census for the purpose of determining the allotment
 7    for that municipality.  If the population of any municipality
 8    was not determined by the last Federal census  preceding  any
 9    apportionment,  the  apportionment to such municipality shall
10    be in accordance with any census taken by such  municipality.
11    Any  municipal  census  used  in accordance with this Section
12    shall be certified to the Department of Transportation by the
13    clerk of such municipality, and the accuracy thereof shall be
14    subject to approval of the Department  which  may  make  such
15    corrections as it ascertains to be necessary.
16        As  soon  as may be after the first day of each month the
17    Department of Transportation shall allot to each  county  its
18    share  of  the  amount apportioned to the several counties of
19    the State as herein provided. Each allotment to  the  several
20    counties  having  less than 1,000,000 inhabitants shall be in
21    proportion to  the  amount  of  motor  vehicle  license  fees
22    received  from  the residents of such counties, respectively,
23    during the preceding calendar year. The  Secretary  of  State
24    shall,  on  or  before April 15 of each year, transmit to the
25    Department of  Transportation  a  full  and  complete  report
26    showing  the  amount  of  motor vehicle license fees received
27    from the residents of each county, respectively,  during  the
28    preceding  calendar  year.  The  Department of Transportation
29    shall, each month, use for allotment purposes the  last  such
30    report received from the Secretary of State.
31        As  soon as may be after the first day of each month, the
32    Department of  Transportation  shall  allot  to  the  several
33    counties their share of the amount apportioned for the use of
34    road districts.  The allotment shall be apportioned among the
 
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 1    several  counties  in  the  State in the proportion which the
 2    total mileage of township or district roads in the respective
 3    counties bears to the  total  mileage  of  all  township  and
 4    district roads in the State. Funds allotted to the respective
 5    counties  for  the  use  of  road  districts therein shall be
 6    allocated to the several road districts in the county in  the
 7    proportion  which  the  total  mileage  of  such  township or
 8    district roads in the respective road districts bears to  the
 9    total  mileage  of all such township or district roads in the
10    county.  After July 1 of any year,  no  allocation  shall  be
11    made  for  any  road district unless it levied a tax for road
12    and bridge purposes in  an  amount  which  will  require  the
13    extension  of  such  tax  against the taxable property in any
14    such road district at a rate of not less than either .08%  of
15    the  value  thereof,  based  upon the assessment for the year
16    immediately prior to the year in which such  tax  was  levied
17    and  as  equalized by the Department of Revenue or, in DuPage
18    County, an amount equal to or greater than $12,000  per  mile
19    of   road  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  road  district,
20    whichever is less.  If any road district has levied a special
21    tax for road purposes pursuant to Sections 6-601,  6-602  and
22    6-603  of  the Illinois Highway Code, and such tax was levied
23    in an amount which would require extension at a rate  of  not
24    less  than .08% of the value of the taxable property thereof,
25    as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, or, in
26    DuPage County, an amount equal to or greater than $12,000 per
27    mile of road under the jurisdiction  of  the  road  district,
28    whichever  is  less,  such  levy  shall, however, be deemed a
29    proper compliance with this Section and  shall  qualify  such
30    road  district  for  an  allotment  under this Section.  If a
31    township has transferred to the road and  bridge  fund  money
32    which,  when  added to the amount of any tax levy of the road
33    district would be the equivalent  of  a  tax  levy  requiring
34    extension  at a rate of at least .08%,  or, in DuPage County,
 
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 1    an amount equal to or greater than $12,000 per mile  of  road
 2    under  the  jurisdiction  of  the road district, whichever is
 3    less, such transfer, together with any such tax  levy,  shall
 4    be  deemed  a  proper  compliance with this Section and shall
 5    qualify  the  road  district  for  an  allotment  under  this
 6    Section.
 7        In counties in which a property tax extension  limitation
 8    is  imposed  under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law,
 9    road districts may retain their entitlement to a  motor  fuel
10    tax  allotment  if,  at  the  time the property tax extension
11    limitation was imposed, the road district was levying a  road
12    and  bridge tax at a rate sufficient to entitle it to a motor
13    fuel  tax  allotment  and  continues  to  levy  the   maximum
14    allowable  amount  after  the  imposition of the property tax
15    extension  limitation.   Any  road  district   may   in   all
16    circumstances  retain  its  entitlement  to  a motor fuel tax
17    allotment if it levied a road and bridge  tax  in  an  amount
18    that  will  require  the  extension  of  the  tax against the
19    taxable property in the road district at a rate of  not  less
20    than  0.08% of the assessed value of the property, based upon
21    the assessment for the year immediately preceding the year in
22    which the tax was levied and as equalized by  the  Department
23    of  Revenue  or,  in  DuPage  County,  an  amount equal to or
24    greater than $12,000 per mile of road under the  jurisdiction
25    of the road district, whichever is less.
26        As  used  in  this Section the term "road district" means
27    any road district, including a  county  unit  road  district,
28    provided  for  by  the  Illinois  Highway  Code; and the term
29    "township or district road" means any road  in  the  township
30    and  district  road system as defined in the Illinois Highway
31    Code.  For the purposes of this Section, "road district" also
32    includes  park  districts,  forest  preserve  districts   and
33    conservation  districts  organized  under  Illinois  law  and
34    "township  or  district road" also includes such roads as are
 
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 1    maintained by park districts, forest preserve  districts  and
 2    conservation  districts.   The  Department  of Transportation
 3    shall determine the mileage  of  all  township  and  district
 4    roads  for  the purposes of making allotments and allocations
 5    of motor fuel tax funds for use in road districts.
 6        Payment of motor fuel tax moneys  to  municipalities  and
 7    counties  shall  be  made  as  soon  as  possible  after  the
 8    allotment  is  made.   The  treasurer  of the municipality or
 9    county may invest these funds until their use is required and
10    the interest earned by these investments shall be limited  to
11    the same uses as the principal funds.
12    (Source:  P.A.  90-110,  eff.  7-14-97; 90-655, eff. 7-30-98;
13    90-659, eff. 1-1-99; 90-691, eff. 1-1-99; 91-37, eff. 7-1-99;
14    91-59,  eff.  6-30-99;  91-173,  eff.  1-1-00;  91-357,  eff.
15    7-29-99; revised 8-23-99.)

16        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
17    becoming law.

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