(605 ILCS 5/7-203.1) (from Ch. 121, par. 7-203.1)
Sec. 7-203.1.
The corporate authorities of the municipality may adopt ordinances or
resolutions outlining a motor fuel tax highway program for the ensuing year
which shall include all proposed uses of motor fuel tax funds by the
municipality for the purposes permitted in Section 7-202, in a format
established by the Department in cooperation with the municipalities.
The program shall be submitted by the municipality to the Department.
The uses of motor fuel tax funds as listed in the program are subject to
the approval of the Department. The program may be amended from time to
time by the corporate authorities of the municipality by ordinance or
resolution which shall be submitted to the Department.
The municipality, with the approval of the Department, may do the work
itself through its officers, agents, and employees. No advertisement to
receive construction contract bids shall be made until surveys, plans, and
estimates have been approved by the Department except as provided in
Section 7-203.2.
Whenever the corporate authorities of a municipality determine that any
construction consisting of paving, repaving, altering, opening, widening or
otherwise improving any such streets or State highways shall be performed
and that a portion of the cost thereof shall be raised by the assessment of
property specially benefited, the construction shall be performed pursuant
to Division 2 of Article 9 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as now or
hereafter amended. However, as between 2 State highway projects or between
2 municipal street projects or between any other 2 projects of the same
designation, so far as practicable, priority in the allocation of motor
fuel tax funds received from the State shall be given the project for which
a portion of the cost is to be raised by assessment of property specially
benefited.
(Source: P.A. 77-1371.)
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