Full Text of HB1603 95th General Assembly
HB1603 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1603
Introduced 2/22/2007, by Rep. Wyvetter H. Younge SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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50 ILCS 40/1 |
from Ch. 24, par. 1361 |
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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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HB1603 |
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LRB095 10399 HLH 30614 b |
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| AN ACT in relation to foreign trade zones.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Foreign Trade Zones Act is amended by | | 5 |
| changing Section 1 as
follows:
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| (50 ILCS 40/1) (from Ch. 24, par. 1361)
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| Sec. 1. Each of the following units of local government and | | 8 |
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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
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| 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:
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| (a) The City of East St. Louis.
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| (b) The Bi-State Authority, Lawrenceville - Vincennes
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| Airport.
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| (c) The Waukegan Port district.
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| (d) The Illinois Valley Regional Port District.
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| (e) The Economic Development Council, Inc. located in the
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| area of the United States Customs Port of Entry for Peoria,
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| pursuant to authorization granted by the county boards in the
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| geographic area served by the proposed foreign trade zone.
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| (f) The Greater Rockford Airport Authority.
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| (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
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| 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.
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| (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
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| 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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| given their permission to the creation of additional
zones.
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| (Source: P.A. 85-471.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | | 4 |
| becoming law. |
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