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Public Act 91-0618

SB286 Enrolled                                 LRB9103071MWdv

    AN ACT to amend the Airport Authorities Act.

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

    Section  5.   The  Airport  Authorities Act is amended by
changing Section 2.7 as follows:

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

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