95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB4557


 
Introduced 1/18/2008, by Rep. Chapin Rose
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		

















20 ILCS 2705/2705-505
  was 20 ILCS 2705/49.30


225 ILCS 440/3.14
  from Ch. 121, par. 503.14



225 ILCS 440/3.17 new








    Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. As it relates to certain signs indicating travel-related facilities or
tourist-oriented businesses installed and maintained by the Department of Transportation, defines an "urban area" to include one or more incorporated communities listed by the Federal Bureau of Census as encompassing a total population of 4,000 or more within a defined area and Federal Bureau of Census designated places of 4,000 or more population, and defines a "rural area" as an area outside of an urban area. 
















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    AN ACT concerning regulation.

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


 
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    Section 5. The Department of Transportation Law of the

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Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended  by changing 
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Section 2705-505 as follows:
 



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    (20 ILCS 2705/2705-505)  (was 20 ILCS 2705/49.30)



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    Sec. 2705-505. Signs indicating travel-related facilities 
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or
tourist-oriented businesses. 
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    (a) Signs indicating travel-related facilities or

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tourist-oriented businesses. The Department shall, where

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economically
feasible and safe,
install along various 
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interstate highways and other freeways with full
control of 
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access, except those that are toll highways, signs to
alert

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motorists of the travel-related facilities available in 
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communities served
by upcoming interstate exits.  The 
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Department may also install, along other
rural State highways, 
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signs to alert motorists of the tourist-oriented
businesses 
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available on intersecting highways and roads under local

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jurisdiction in rural areas.  The Department has the
authority 
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to
sell or lease space on the signs to the owners or operators 
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of the
facilities
and to promulgate rules and regulations for 
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the leasing or purchasing of space.
 


 






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    (b) In this Section, as it relates to signs installed by 
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the Department along other rural State highways to alert 
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motorists of the tourist-oriented businesses available on 
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intersecting highways and roads under local jurisdiction in 
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rural areas under subsection (a) of this Section:
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        "Rural area" means an area outside of an urban area.
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        "Urban area" means one or more incorporated 
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    communities listed by the Federal Bureau of Census as 
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    encompassing a total population of 4,000 or more within a 
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    defined area, including any unincorporated areas within 
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    such boundaries, but excluding rural portions of extended 
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    communities, and Federal Bureau of Census designated 
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    places of 4,000 or more population. 

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(Source: P.A. 90-272, eff. 7-30-97; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)

 
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    Section 10. The Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971 is 
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amended  by changing Section 3.14 and by adding Section 3.17 as 
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follows:
 



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    (225 ILCS 440/3.14)  (from Ch. 121, par. 503.14)



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    Sec. 3.14. Urban area. 
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    (a) For purposes of this Act and except as set forth in 
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subsection (b) of this Section, "urban area" means an urbanized

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area or, in the case of an urbanized area encompassing more 
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than one state,
that part of the urbanized area in each such 
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state, or an urban place as
designated by the Bureau of the 
 


 






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Census of the United States having a
population of 5,000 or 
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more and not within any urbanized area, within
boundaries to be 
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fixed by responsible state and local officials in cooperation

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with each other, subject to approval by the Secretary of the 
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United States
Department of Transportation.  Such boundaries 
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shall, as a minimum, encompass
the entire urban place 
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designated by the Bureau of the Census.
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    (b) As it relates to signs erected and maintained by the 
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Department within the right-of-way on rural non-interstate and 
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non-freeway State highways and giving specific information 
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regarding tourist-oriented businesses in the interest of the 
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traveling public under Section 4.08 of this Act, "urban area" 
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means one or more incorporated communities listed by the 
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Federal Bureau of Census as encompassing a total population of 
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4,000 or more within a defined area, including any 
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unincorporated areas within such boundaries, but excluding 
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rural portions of extended communities, and Federal Bureau of 
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Census designated places of 4,000 or more population. 

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(Source: P.A. 79-1009.)

 
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    (225 ILCS 440/3.17 new)

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    Sec. 3.17. Rural area. As it relates to signs erected and 
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maintained by the Department within the right-of-way on rural 
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non-interstate and non-freeway State highways and giving 
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specific information regarding tourist-oriented businesses in 
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the interest of the traveling public under Section 4.08 of this 
 


 






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Act, "rural area" means an area outside of an urban area.