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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Director of the Department of Natural
5Resources, on behalf of the State of Illinois, is authorized to
6execute and deliver to Sangamon County, an Illinois unit of
7local government, State of Illinois, for and in consideration
8of $1 paid to the Department, a quit claim deed to the
9following described real property:
10    All that portion of the right of way and appurtenances of
11    the abandoned portion of the Madison Subdivision of Union
12    Pacific Railroad Company (formerly the Chicago and North
13    Western Transportation Company), now known as the Sangamon
14    Valley Trail Bikeway, described as Beginning at the North
15    line of Township 12 North, Range 6 West of the Third
16    Principal Meridian, and thence running in a northerly
17    direction along the centerline of said abandoned railroad
18    to the North line of Section 19, Township 17 North, Range 5
19    West of the Third Principal Meridian, and also that portion
20    of the said abandoned railroad within the County of
21    Sangamon in Sections 6 and 7, Township 17 North, Range 5
22    West of the Third Principal Meridian and Section 31,
23    Township 18 North, Range 5 West of the Third Principal
24    Meridian as measured along said centerline of said

 

 

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1    abandoned railroad as originally surveyed, all being
2    situated in the County of Sangamon and the State of
3    Illinois. EXCEPTING THEREFROM: All that portion of the
4    right of way and appurtenances of the abandoned portion of
5    the Madison Subdivision of Union Pacific Railroad Company
6    (formerly the Chicago and North Western Transportation
7    Company), now known as the Sangamon Valley Trail Bikeway,
8    described as Beginning at the South line of Section 10,
9    Township 15 North, Range 6 West of the Third Principal
10    Meridian, and thence running in a northerly direction along
11    the centerline of said abandoned railroad to a line being
12    parallel to and 200 feet North of the North line of the
13    Southwest Quarter of Section 19, Township 16 North, Range 5
14    West of the Third Principal Meridian, as measured along
15    said centerline of said abandoned railroad as originally
16    surveyed, all being situated in the County of Sangamon and
17    the State of Illinois.
 
18    Section 10. The conveyance of real property authorized by
19Section 5 shall be made subject to: (1) existing public
20utilities, existing public roads, and any and all reservations,
21easements, encumbrances, covenants and restrictions of record;
22and (2) the express condition that if the real property ceases
23to be used for public purposes, it shall revert to the State of
24Illinois, Department of Natural Resources.
 

 

 

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1    Section 15. The Director of Natural Resources shall obtain
2a certified copy of the portions of this Act containing the
3title, the enacting clause, the effective date, the appropriate
4Section or Sections containing the land descriptions of the
5property to be conveyed, and this Section within 60 days after
6its effective date and, upon receipt of the payment required by
7the Section or Sections, if any payment is required, shall
8record the certified document in the Recorder's Office in the
9County in which the land is located.
 
10    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
11becoming law.