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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 changing
5Section 4-510 as follows:
 
6    (605 ILCS 5/4-510)  (from Ch. 121, par. 4-510)
7    Sec. 4-510. The Department may establish presently the
8approximate locations and widths of rights of way for future
9additions to the State highway system to inform the public and
10prevent costly and conflicting development of the land
11involved.
12    The Department shall hold a public hearing whenever
13approximate locations and widths of rights of way for future
14highway additions are to be established. The hearing shall be
15held in or near the county or counties where the land to be
16used is located and notice of the hearing shall be published in
17a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in the county
18or counties involved. Any interested person or his
19representative may be heard. The Department shall evaluate the
20testimony given at the hearing.
21    The Department shall make a survey and prepare a map
22showing the location and approximate widths of the rights of
23way needed for future additions to the highway system. The map

 

 

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1shall show existing highways in the area involved and the
2property lines and owners of record of all land that will be
3needed for the future additions and all other pertinent
4information. Approval of the map with any changes resulting
5from the hearing shall be indicated in the record of the
6hearing and a notice of the approval and a copy of the map
7shall be filed in the office of the recorder for all counties
8in which the land needed for future additions is located.
9    Public notice of the approval and filing shall be given in
10newspapers of general circulation in all counties where the
11land is located and shall be served by registered mail within
1260 days thereafter on all owners of record of the land needed
13for future additions.
14    The Department may approve changes in the map from time to
15time. The changes shall be filed and notice given in the manner
16provided for an original map.
17    After the map is filed and notice thereof given to the
18owners of record of the land needed for future additions, no
19one shall incur development costs or place improvements in,
20upon or under the land involved nor rebuild, alter or add to
21any existing structure without first giving 60 days notice by
22registered mail to the Department. This prohibition shall not
23apply to any normal or emergency repairs to existing
24structures. The Department shall have 45 days after receipt of
25that notice to inform the owner of the Department's intention
26to acquire the land involved; after which, it shall have the

 

 

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1additional time of 120 days to acquire such land by purchase or
2to initiate action to acquire said land through the exercise of
3the right of eminent domain. When the right of way is acquired
4by the State no damages shall be allowed for any construction,
5alteration or addition in violation of this Section unless the
6Department has failed to acquire the land by purchase or has
7abandoned an eminent domain proceeding initiated pursuant to
8the provisions of this paragraph.
9    Any right of way needed for additions to the highway system
10may be acquired at any time by the State or by the county or
11municipality in which it is located. The time of determination
12of the value of the property to be taken under this Section for
13additions to the highway system shall be the date of the actual
14taking, if the property is acquired by purchase, or the date of
15the filing of a complaint for condemnation, if the property is
16acquired through the exercise of the right of eminent domain,
17rather than the date when the map of the proposed right-of-way
18was filed of record. The rate of compensation to be paid for
19farm land acquired hereunder by the exercise of the right of
20eminent domain shall be in accordance with Section 4-501 of
21this Code.
22    Not more than 10 years after a protected corridor is
23established under this Section regardless of whether the
24corridor is established before or after the effective date of
25this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, and not later
26than the expiration of each succeeding 10 year period, the

 

 

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1Department shall hold public hearings to discuss the viability
2and feasibility of the protected corridor. In the case of a
3protected corridor established prior to 10 years before the
4effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General
5Assembly, the hearing shall be conducted within 6 months of the
6effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General
7Assembly. The Department shall retain the discretion to
8maintain any protected corridor established under this
9Section, but shall give due consideration to the information
10obtained at the hearing and, if the Department in its
11discretion determines that construction of the roadway is no
12longer feasible, the Department shall abolish the protected
13corridor.
14(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
 
15    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16becoming law.