(30 ILCS 740/3-1.02) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 683)
Sec. 3-1.02.
"Participant" means any county located outside the boundaries
of the Regional Transportation Authority as established under the Regional
Transportation Authority Act and outside the Bi-State Metropolitan Development
District established under an Act approved July 26, 1949, except that
beginning, July 1, 1987 the counties within the boundaries of the Bi-State
Metropolitan Development District may be eligible for capital assistance only,
or within such county any municipality with 20,000 or more population that is
not included in an urbanized area or the boundaries of a local mass transit
district; or within such county any municipality with 20,000 or less population
receiving State mass transportation operating assistance under the Downstate
Public Transportation Act during Fiscal Year 1979; or within such county or
counties a local mass transit district organized under the local Mass Transit
District Act which is not included in an urbanized area or the boundaries of a
local mass transit district which includes an urbanized area; provided,
however, that no such entity shall be eligible to participate unless it agrees
to adhere to the regulations and requirements of the Secretary of
Transportation of the federal Department of Transportation affecting Section 18
assistance or any other conditions as deemed reasonable and necessary by the
Illinois Department of Transportation.
(Source: P.A. 87-1235.)
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