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| | 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB1800 Introduced , by Rep. Barbara Wheeler SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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| 605 ILCS 5/5-412 | from Ch. 121, par. 5-412 |
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Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that a county board of a county that contracts with a person growing row crops on land adjacent to county highways to buy standing strips of the crops to remain in place to act as snow breaks along the highway may pay the grower an additional sum of money equal to at least 10% of the contract price (rather than a sum of money equal to 10% of the contract price) as an inconvenience fee.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 5-412 as follows:
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| 6 | | (605 ILCS 5/5-412) (from Ch. 121, par. 5-412)
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| 7 | | Sec. 5-412.
The county board, of each county, may contract |
| 8 | | with persons
growing row crops on land adjacent to county |
| 9 | | highways to buy standing strips
of such crops to remain in |
| 10 | | place to act as snow breaks along such highways
in those places |
| 11 | | where experience shows that drifting snow has been an
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| 12 | | obstruction to traffic. The contract price to be paid by the |
| 13 | | county board in any such
case shall be the higher of the market |
| 14 | | price in the local area of
such crop at the time of contracting |
| 15 | | or the current Commodity Credit
Corporation target price. An |
| 16 | | additional sum of money equal to at least 10% of the
contract |
| 17 | | price may be paid to the grower as an inconvenience fee.
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| 18 | | (Source: P.A. 84-1272.)
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