95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1603

 

Introduced 2/22/2007, by Rep. Wyvetter H. Younge

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
50 ILCS 40/1   from Ch. 24, par. 1361

    Amends the Foreign Trade Zones Act. Provides that more than one trade zone may be created in an area consisting of 2 counties, each with over 200,000 population and each bordering the Mississippi River. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT in relation to foreign trade zones.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Foreign Trade Zones Act is amended by
5 changing Section 1 as follows:
 
6     (50 ILCS 40/1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 1361)
7     Sec. 1. Each of the following units of local government and
8 public or private corporations shall have the power to apply to
9 proper authorities of the United States of America pursuant to
10 appropriate law for the right to establish, operate, maintain
11 and lease foreign trade zones and sub-zones within its
12 corporate limits or within limits established pursuant to
13 agreement with proper authorities of the United States of
14 America, as the case may be, and to establish, operate,
15 maintain and lease such foreign trade zones and sub-zones:
16     (a) The City of East St. Louis.
17     (b) The Bi-State Authority, Lawrenceville - Vincennes
18 Airport.
19     (c) The Waukegan Port district.
20     (d) The Illinois Valley Regional Port District.
21     (e) The Economic Development Council, Inc. located in the
22 area of the United States Customs Port of Entry for Peoria,
23 pursuant to authorization granted by the county boards in the

 

 

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1 geographic area served by the proposed foreign trade zone.
2     (f) The Greater Rockford Airport Authority.
3     (g) After the effective date of this amendatory Act of
4 1984, any county, city, village or town within the State or a
5 public or private corporation authorized or licensed to do
6 business in the State or any combination thereof may apply to
7 the Foreign Trade Zones Board, United States Department of
8 Commerce, for the right to establish, operate and maintain a
9 foreign trade zone and sub-zones. For the purposes of this
10 Section, such foreign trade zone or sub-zones may be
11 incorporated outside the corporate boundaries or be made up of
12 areas from adjoining counties or states.
13     (h) No foreign trade zone may be established within 50
14 miles of an existing zone situated in a county with 3,000,000
15 or more inhabitants or within 35 miles of an existing zone
16 situated in a county with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, such
17 zones having been created pursuant to this Act without the
18 permission of the authorities which established the existing
19 zone. Nothing in this subsection (h), however, shall be
20 construed to prohibit or prevent the establishment of more than
21 one foreign trade zone in an area consisting of 2 adjacent
22 counties, each having a population of more than 200,000
23 inhabitants and each having the Mississippi River as part of
24 its boundary, and these foreign trade zones may be established
25 regardless of their distance from other zones and regardless of
26 whether the authorities that established existing zones have

 

 

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1 given their permission to the creation of additional zones.
2 (Source: P.A. 85-471.)
 
3     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
4 becoming law.