605 ILCS 5/ Illinois Highway Code.

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605 ILCS 5/Art. 6 Div. 9

(605 ILCS 5/Art. 6 Div. 9 heading) DIVISION 9.

STATE FUNDING OF ROAD DISTRICT BRIDGES

605 ILCS 5/6-901

(605 ILCS 5/6-901) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-901)

Sec. 6-901.

Annually, the General Assembly shall appropriate to the
Department of Transportation from the road fund, the general revenue
fund, any other State funds or a combination of those funds, $60,000,000 
for apportionment to counties for the use of road districts for the
construction of bridges 20 feet or more in length, as provided in
Sections 6-902 through 6-905.

The Department of Transportation shall apportion among the several
counties of this State for the use of road districts the amounts
appropriated under this Section.  The amount apportioned to a county
shall be in the proportion which the total mileage of township or
district roads in the county bears to the total mileage of all township
and district roads in the State.  Each county shall allocate to the
several road districts in the county the funds so apportioned to the
county.  The allocation to road districts shall be made in the same
manner and be subject to the same conditions and qualifications as are
provided by Section 8 of the "Motor Fuel Tax Law", approved March 25,
1929, as amended, with respect to the allocation to road districts of
the amount allotted from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund for apportionment to
counties for the use of road districts, but no allocation shall be made
to any road district that has not levied taxes for road and bridge
purposes and for bridge construction purposes at the maximum rates
permitted by Sections 6-501, 6-508 and 6-512 of this Act, without
referendum.  "Road district" and "township or district road" have the
meanings ascribed to those terms in this Act.

Road districts in counties in which a property tax extension limitation is
imposed under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law that are made
ineligible for receipt of this appropriation due to the imposition of a
property tax extension limitation may become eligible if, at the time the
property tax extension limitation was imposed, the road district was levying at
the required rate and continues to levy the maximum allowable amount
after the imposition of the property tax extension limitation.  The road
district
also becomes
eligible if it levies at or above the rate required for eligibility by Section
8 of the
Motor Fuel Tax Law.

The amounts apportioned under this Section for allocation to road
districts may be used only for bridge construction as provided in this
Division.  So much of those amounts as are not obligated under Sections
6-902 through 6-904 and for which local funds have not been committed
under Section 6-905 within 48 months of the date
when such apportionment is
made lapses and shall not be paid to the county treasurer for
distribution to road districts.

(Source: P.A. 103-8, eff. 6-7-23.)

605 ILCS 5/6-902

(605 ILCS 5/6-902) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-902)

Sec. 6-902.

The highway commissioners of the several road districts,
in cooperation with the county superintendent of highways of their respective
counties, shall select the bridges to be constructed with moneys allocated
under Section 6-901.  In the selection of
bridges, the highest priority shall be given to the safe and expeditious
transportation of school pupils.  The second priority shall be the movement
of agricultural equipment and products; the third priority shall be given rural
free delivery mail routes; and, the fourth priority shall be meeting the
anticipated traffic needs of the general public.  The county superintendent
of highways, in cooperation
with the respective highway commissioners, shall prepare, or cause to be prepared maps
showing the bridges selected and shall prepare or cause to be prepared the
necessary plans, specifications and estimates of cost of such construction, all
of which shall be submitted to the Department for approval. The type of
construction selected shall be adequate for present or reasonably anticipated
traffic needs as determined by the county superintendent of highways and the
respective highway commissioners and approved by the Department.

(Source: P.A. 79-1491.)

605 ILCS 5/6-903

(605 ILCS 5/6-903) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-903)

Sec. 6-903.

With the approval of the Department,
a road district may use funds allocated under Section 6-901 for the payment
of any indebtedness incurred after the effective date of this amendatory
Act of 1976, in the construction of any bridge selected under Section 6-902
as a bridge to be constructed under Section 6-902 and the payment of
engineering costs incurred in connection therewith; but if the road
district desires to use such allocated funds for this purpose it shall follow
the same procedure in
expending moneys secured in the creation of the indebtedness as if the
construction was to be paid for directly with funds under Section 6-902.

(Source: P.A. 79-1491.)

605 ILCS 5/6-904

(605 ILCS 5/6-904) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-904)

Sec. 6-904.

The Department of
Transportation shall notify the county superintendent of highways of each
county of the apportionment and allotment under Section 6-901 for the purposes
stated in Sections 6-901, 6-902 and 6-903, as soon as possible after the
allotment is made. Any payment made pursuant to such apportionment may
be utilized by the county in accordance with the needs of the county in a
manner satisfactory to the Department. However, if any county, after
having been given reasonable notice by
the Department, fails to expend such
funds in a manner
satisfactory to the Department, no further payment of such funds shall be
made to such county for bridge construction purposes until it corrects its
unsatisfactory use of such funds.

(Source: P.A. 79-1491.)

605 ILCS 5/6-905

(605 ILCS 5/6-905) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-905)

Sec. 6-905.

The amount of grant
for an approved road district project shall require at least $1 of local funds
committed to the project for each $4 that may be allocated under Section
6-901.

(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)

605 ILCS 5/6-906

(605 ILCS 5/6-906) (from Ch. 121, par. 6-906)

Sec. 6-906.

So much of the amount apportioned to a county under
Section 6-901 that is obligated under Sections 6-902 through 6-904 and
for which local funds have been committed under Section 6-905, within 4
 years from the date the apportionment is made, shall, upon
certification by the Department, be paid to the county treasurer, who
shall apply those funds to the payment of such obligations.  Any funds
allocated to a county under Section 6-901 that are not obligated within 48 
months under Sections 6-902 through 6-904 shall revert to the Road Fund.

(Source: P.A. 98-244, eff. 8-9-13.)