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Public Act 100-0739 |
HB5856 Enrolled | LRB100 21282 LNS 37545 b |
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Toll Highway Act is amended by changing |
Section 19 as follows:
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(605 ILCS 10/19) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-19)
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Sec. 19. Toll rates. The Authority shall fix and revise |
from time to time, tolls or
charges or rates for the privilege |
of using each of the toll highways
constructed pursuant to this |
Act. Such tolls shall be so fixed and
adjusted at rates |
calculated to provide the lowest reasonable toll rates
that |
will provide funds sufficient with other revenues of the |
Authority to
pay, (a) the cost of the construction of a toll |
highway authorized by joint
resolution of the General Assembly |
pursuant to Section 14.1 and the
reconstruction, major repairs |
or improvements of toll highways, (b) the
cost of maintaining, |
repairing, regulating and operating the toll highways
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including only the necessary expenses of the Authority, and (c) |
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principal of all bonds, interest thereon and all sinking |
fund requirements
and other requirements provided by |
resolutions authorizing the issuance of
the bonds as they shall |
become due. In fixing the toll rates pursuant to this Section |
19 and Section 10(c) of this Act, the Authority shall take into |
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account the effect of the provisions of this Section 19 |
permitting the use of the toll highway system without payment |
of the covenants of the Authority contained in the resolutions |
and trust indentures authorizing the issuance of bonds of the |
Authority. No such provision permitting the use of the toll |
highway system without payment of tolls after the date of this |
amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall be applied in |
a manner that impairs the rights of bondholders pursuant to any |
resolution or trust indentures authorizing the issuance of |
bonds of the Authority.
The use and disposition of any sinking
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or reserve fund shall be subject to such regulation as may be |
provided in
the resolution or trust indenture authorizing the |
issuance of the bonds.
Subject to the provisions of any |
resolution or trust indenture authorizing
the issuance of bonds |
any moneys in any such sinking fund in excess of an
amount |
equal to one year's interest on the bonds then outstanding |
secured
by such sinking fund may be applied to the purchase or |
redemption of bonds.
All such bonds so redeemed or purchased |
shall forthwith be cancelled and
shall not again be issued. No |
person shall be permitted to use any toll
highway without |
paying the toll established under this Section except when
on |
official Toll Highway Authority business which includes police |
and other
emergency vehicles. However, any law enforcement |
agency vehicle, fire
department vehicle, public or private |
ambulance service vehicle engaged in the performance of an |
emergency service or duty that necessitates the use of the toll |
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highway system, or other emergency vehicle that is plainly |
marked shall not
be
required to pay a toll to use a toll |
highway.
A law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency |
services
officer driving a law enforcement, fire protection, |
emergency services
agency
vehicle, or public or private |
ambulance service vehicle engaging in the performance of |
emergency services or duties that is not plainly marked must |
present an Official Permit Card which
the law enforcement, fire |
protection, or emergency services officer receives
from his or |
her law enforcement, fire protection, emergency services |
agency, or public or private ambulance service
in
order to use |
a toll highway without paying the toll. A
law enforcement, fire |
protection, emergency services agency, or public or private |
ambulance service engaging in the performance of emergency |
services or duties must apply to
the Authority to receive a |
permit, and the
Authority shall adopt rules for the issuance of |
a permit, that allows public or private ambulance service |
vehicles engaged in the performance of emergency services or |
duties that necessitate the use of the toll highway system and |
all
law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services |
agency vehicles of the
law enforcement, fire protection, or |
emergency services agency to use any toll highway
without |
paying the toll established under this Section.
The Authority |
shall maintain in
its office a list of
all persons that are |
authorized to use any toll highway without charge when
on |
official business of the Authority and such list shall be open |
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to the
public for inspection. In recognition of the unique role |
of public transportation the Suburban Bus Division of the |
Regional Transportation Authority in providing effective |
transportation in the Authority's service region , and to give |
effect to the exemption set forth in subsection (b) of Section |
2.06 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act, the |
following vehicles may use any toll highway without paying the |
toll: (1) a vehicle owned or operated by the Suburban Bus |
Division of the Regional Transportation Authority that is being |
used to transport passengers for hire ; and (2) any revenue |
vehicle that is owned or operated by a Mass Transit District |
created under Section 3 of the Local Mass Transit District Act |
and running regular scheduled service. may use any toll highway |
without paying the toll.
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Among other matters, this amendatory Act of 1990 is |
intended to clarify
and confirm the prior intent of the General |
Assembly to allow toll revenues
from the toll highway system to |
be used to pay a portion of the cost of the
construction of the |
North-South Toll Highway authorized by Senate Joint
Resolution |
122 of the 83rd General Assembly in 1984.
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(Source: P.A. 97-784, eff. 1-1-13.)
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