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MUNICIPALITIES
(65 ILCS 5/) Illinois Municipal Code.

65 ILCS 5/11-121-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-121-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-121-6)
    Sec. 11-121-6. Without any petition or consent of any property owner, a municipality has the power to lay down and construct in such subways, railroad and street railway tracks and all necessary appurtenances and operate the same for transportation purposes. Likewise, without any petition or consent of any property owner, but subject to the provisions of Section 11-121-7, a municipality may lease, consent to, permit, or grant the use of such subways, or portions thereof, for transportation purposes, including the right to pay down, construct, and operate railroad and street railway tracks therein, to any political subdivision, municipal corporation or public authority of this state authorized to construct and operate transportation facilities or to any railroad or street railway or other local transportation corporation upon such terms and conditions as the corporate authorities of the municipality by ordinance shall prescribe and for such duration of time as may be authorized by any law of this state governing the grant of permits for local transportation purposes in the streets of the municipality. The municipality may also use the subways or lease or permit the use of the subways for transportation facilities other than railroads and street railways, and to the extent that the subways are not used for transportation purposes, the municipality may use the subways, or lease or permit the use of the subways, for the purposes.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-121-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-121-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-121-7)
    Sec. 11-121-7. No ordinance of any municipality granting any lease of, or consent, permit, or right to use such subways for local transportation purposes shall become operative until a proposition to approve the ordinance has been submitted to the electors of the municipality and has been approved by a majority of the electors voting upon the proposition. Every such ordinance shall order such submission and shall designate the election at which the proposition is to be submitted. The municipal clerk shall promptly certify such ordinance and proposition for submission.
    The proposition need not include the ordinance in full but shall indicate the nature of the ordinance, and shall be substantially in the following form:
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    Shall the ordinance passed by the
city council (or board of trustees)
of (name of municipality) on                 YES
(insert date), entitled ....,
which grants to (name of grantee)        ---------------------
a lease of (or consent, permit, or
right to use, as the case may be)            NO
of the municipally owned subways
therein specified, for local
transportation purposes, be approved?
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    However, when any municipality by ordinance grants a permit to construct and operate or maintain and operate a local transportation system, including the use of municipally owned subways, and that ordinance is submitted to and approved on a referendum, it is not necessary to pass or to submit to a referendum a separate ordinance granting a lease of or consent, permission, or right for the use of those subways.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)