Public Act 097-0908
 
SB3047 EnrolledLRB097 16656 HEP 61828 b

    AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by changing
Section 6-104 as follows:
 
    (605 ILCS 5/6-104)  (from Ch. 121, par. 6-104)
    Sec. 6-104. Whenever the territory of any municipality of a
population of not less than 15,000 is a part of a road district
two or more road districts in a county not under township
organization, and shall by resolution of its council or its
president and board of trustees request the county board to
organize it into a separate road district and designate the
name thereof, the county board shall comply with such request,
and provide for such organization of such municipality into a
new road district under the name designated in such resolution
of such city council, or president and board of trustees, if
any be designated therein.
    Whenever a road district shall have been or shall hereafter
be organized as provided in this Section and any of the
territory of such municipality shall be disconnected from such
municipality, the county board, upon receipt of a certified
copy of the resolution or ordinance of the municipality
disconnecting such territory, by resolution, shall disconnect
such territory from such road district and annex it to an
adjacent road district or districts. Whenever such
municipality, at any one time shall have annexed or shall
hereafter annex any territory, the county board, by resolution,
shall disconnect such territory from the road district or
districts in which it may be situated and annex the same to the
road district in which such municipality is situated.
    All the powers vested in a road district organized out of
the territory embraced within any municipality, including all
the powers vested by law in the highway commissioner of a road
district, shall be vested in and exercised by the city council,
or president and board of trustees of such municipality,
including the power to levy a tax for the proper construction,
maintenance and repair of roads in such district as provided in
Section 6--501 of this Code. Any such tax whether heretofore or
hereafter levied shall be in addition to all other taxes levied
in such municipality and in addition to the taxes for general
purposes authorized in Section 8-3-1 of the Illinois Municipal
Code, as heretofore and hereafter amended.
    All of the powers vested by law in the district clerk of a
road district shall be vested in and exercised by the city,
town or village clerk of such municipality.
    After a road district has been organized out of the
territory embraced within a municipality, the offices and
election of highway commissioner and district clerk shall be
discontinued.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 1415.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.