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1    AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by
5changing Sections 6-901 and 6-906 and by adding 6-907 as
6follows:
 
7    (605 ILCS 5/6-901)  (from Ch. 121, par. 6-901)
8    Sec. 6-901. Annually, the General Assembly shall
9appropriate to the Department of Transportation from the Road
10Fund road fund, the General Revenue Fund, or general revenue
11fund, any other State funds, or a combination of those funds,
12$60,000,000 for apportionment to counties for the use of road
13districts for the construction of bridges 20 feet or more in
14length, as provided in Sections 6-902 through 6-907 6-905.
15    The Department of Transportation shall apportion among the
16several counties of this State for the use of road districts
17the amounts appropriated under this Section. The amount
18apportioned to a county shall be in the proportion which the
19total mileage of township or district roads in the county
20bears to the total mileage of all township and district roads
21in the State. Each county shall allocate to the several road
22districts in the county the funds so apportioned to the
23county. The allocation to road districts shall be made in the

 

 

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1same manner and be subject to the same conditions and
2qualifications as are provided by Section 8 of the "Motor Fuel
3Tax Law", approved March 25, 1929, as amended, with respect to
4the allocation to road districts of the amount allotted from
5the Motor Fuel Tax Fund for apportionment to counties for the
6use of road districts, but no allocation shall be made to any
7road district that has not levied taxes for road and bridge
8purposes in such a manner that is eligible for allotment of
9Motor Fuel Tax funding pursuant to Section 8 of the Motor Fuel
10Tax Law. and for bridge construction purposes at the maximum
11rates permitted by Sections 6-501, 6-508 and 6-512 of this
12Act, without referendum. "Road district" and "township or
13district road" have the meanings ascribed to those terms in
14this Act.
15    Road districts in counties in which a property tax
16extension limitation is imposed under the Property Tax
17Extension Limitation Law that are made ineligible for receipt
18of this appropriation due to the imposition of a property tax
19extension limitation may become eligible if, at the time the
20property tax extension limitation was imposed, the road
21district was levying at the required rate and continues to
22levy the maximum allowable amount after the imposition of the
23property tax extension limitation. The road district also
24becomes eligible if it levies at or above the rate required for
25eligibility by Section 8 of the Motor Fuel Tax Law.
26    The amounts apportioned under this Section for allocation

 

 

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1to road districts may be used only for bridge construction as
2provided in this Division. So much of those amounts as are not
3obligated under Sections 6-902 through 6-904 and for which
4local funds have not been committed under Section 6-905 within
548 months of the date when such apportionment is made lapses
6and shall not be paid to the county treasurer for distribution
7to road districts.
8(Source: P.A. 103-8, eff. 6-7-23; revised 9-25-23.)
 
9    (605 ILCS 5/6-906)  (from Ch. 121, par. 6-906)
10    Sec. 6-906. So much of the amount apportioned to a county
11under Section 6-901 that is obligated under Sections 6-902
12through 6-904 and for which local funds have been committed
13under Section 6-905, within 4 years from the date the
14apportionment is made, shall, upon certification by the
15Department, be paid to the county treasurer, who shall apply
16those funds to the payment of such obligations. Any funds
17allocated to a county under Section 6-901 that are not
18obligated within 48 months under Sections 6-902 through 6-904
19shall be considered lapsed funds and reappropriated in the
20same fund revert to the Road Fund.
21(Source: P.A. 98-244, eff. 8-9-13.)
 
22    (605 ILCS 5/6-907 new)
23    Sec. 6-907. Lapsed funds; use. Lapsed funds under Section
246-906 shall be used to provide additional monetary assistance

 

 

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1to townships and road districts that have insufficient funding
2for construction of bridges that are 20 feet or more in length
3under 6-901 of this Code. The Department shall adopt rule to
4implement this Section.
 
5    (605 ILCS 5/6-905 rep.)
6    Section 10. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by
7repealing Section 6-905.