(605 ILCS 5/4-209) (from Ch. 121, par. 4-209)
Sec. 4-209.
No person shall wilfully cut, excavate or otherwise damage that
portion of any highway under the jurisdiction and control of the
Department, including the hard-surfaced slab, shoulders and drainage
ditches, either within or without the corporate limits of a municipality
without a permit so to do from the Department. The Department shall issue
its permit when such cutting, excavating or damaging is reasonably
necessary, but it is the duty of the person securing a permit to make such
repairs to the highway as will restore it to substantially the same
condition as it was originally. Permits with regard to entrances to and
exits from State highway rights-of-way and roadways shall also be subject
to the provisions of Sections 4-210, 4-211 and 4-212. To insure the
proper repair, the Department may, before issuing its permit, require the
person applying for a permit, to enter into a bond payable to the People of
the State of Illinois in a sum commensurate, in the opinion of the
Department, with the injury to be done to the highway, conditioned for its
proper restoration within such time as the Department may prescribe. The
violation of this section is a petty offense.
(Source: P.A. 77-2238.)
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