Public Act 098-1154
 
HB4899 EnrolledLRB098 16530 OMW 51598 b

    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Director of the Department of Natural
Resources, on behalf of the State of Illinois, is authorized to
execute and deliver to Sangamon County, an Illinois unit of
local government, State of Illinois, for and in consideration
of $1 paid to the Department, a quit claim deed to the
following described real property:
    All that portion of the right of way and appurtenances of
    the abandoned portion of the Madison Subdivision of Union
    Pacific Railroad Company (formerly the Chicago and North
    Western Transportation Company), now known as the Sangamon
    Valley Trail Bikeway, described as Beginning at the North
    line of Township 12 North, Range 6 West of the Third
    Principal Meridian, and thence running in a northerly
    direction along the centerline of said abandoned railroad
    to the North line of Section 19, Township 17 North, Range 5
    West of the Third Principal Meridian, and also that portion
    of the said abandoned railroad within the County of
    Sangamon in Sections 6 and 7, Township 17 North, Range 5
    West of the Third Principal Meridian and Section 31,
    Township 18 North, Range 5 West of the Third Principal
    Meridian as measured along said centerline of said
    abandoned railroad as originally surveyed, all being
    situated in the County of Sangamon and the State of
    Illinois. EXCEPTING THEREFROM: All that portion of the
    right of way and appurtenances of the abandoned portion of
    the Madison Subdivision of Union Pacific Railroad Company
    (formerly the Chicago and North Western Transportation
    Company), now known as the Sangamon Valley Trail Bikeway,
    described as Beginning at the South line of Section 10,
    Township 15 North, Range 6 West of the Third Principal
    Meridian, and thence running in a northerly direction along
    the centerline of said abandoned railroad to a line being
    parallel to and 200 feet North of the North line of the
    Southwest Quarter of Section 19, Township 16 North, Range 5
    West of the Third Principal Meridian, as measured along
    said centerline of said abandoned railroad as originally
    surveyed, all being situated in the County of Sangamon and
    the State of Illinois.
 
    Section 10. The conveyance of real property authorized by
Section 5 shall be made subject to: (1) existing public
utilities, existing public roads, and any and all reservations,
easements, encumbrances, covenants and restrictions of record;
and (2) the express condition that if the real property ceases
to be used for public purposes, it shall revert to the State of
Illinois, Department of Natural Resources.
 
    Section 15. The Director of Natural Resources shall obtain
a certified copy of the portions of this Act containing the
title, the enacting clause, the effective date, the appropriate
Section or Sections containing the land descriptions of the
property to be conveyed, and this Section within 60 days after
its effective date and, upon receipt of the payment required by
the Section or Sections, if any payment is required, shall
record the certified document in the Recorder's Office in the
County in which the land is located.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.