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90_HB2754

      605 ILCS 5/9-113          from Ch. 121, par. 9-113
          Amends  the  Illinois  Highway   Code   general   highway
      provisions  to  prohibit  ditches,  drains, tracks, poles, or
      other equipment from being  placed  within  20  feet  of  the
      right-of-way  of  a  highway  or  a township or district road
      without  the  written  consent  of  the  appropriate  highway
      authority.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Illinois  Highway  Code  by  changing
 2    Section 9-113.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The  Illinois  Highway  Code  is  amended  by
 6    changing Section 9-113 as follows:
 7        (605 ILCS 5/9-113) (from Ch. 121, par. 9-113)
 8        Sec.  9-113.  Use  of  highway  right-of-way;  consent of
 9    highway authority.
10        (a)  No ditches, drains, track, rails, poles, wires, pipe
11    line or  other  equipment  of  any  public  utility  company,
12    municipal corporation or other public or private corporation,
13    association or person shall be located, placed or constructed
14    upon,  under  or  along  any highway, or upon any township or
15    district  road,  or  within  20  feet  of   the   established
16    right-of-way  of  a  highway  or  a township or district road
17    without  first  obtaining  the   written   consent   of   the
18    appropriate  highway authority as hereinafter provided for in
19    this Section.
20        (b)  The  State  highway  authority  is   authorized   to
21    promulgate  reasonable  and  necessary rules, regulations and
22    specifications for State highways for the  administration  of
23    this Section.
24        (c)  In   the   case   of   non-toll   federal-aid  fully
25    access-controlled State highways, the State highway authority
26    shall  not  grant  consent  to  the  location,  placement  or
27    construction of ditches, drains, track, rails, poles,  wires,
28    pipe  line  or  other equipment upon, under or along any such
29    non-toll federal-aid fully access-controlled  State  highway,
30    which:
31        (1)  would require cutting the pavement structure portion
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 1    of  such  highway for installation or, except in the event of
 2    an emergency, would require the  use  of  any  part  of  such
 3    highway  right-of-way  for purposes of maintenance or repair.
 4    Where, however, the State highway authority determines  prior
 5    to  installation  that there is no other access available for
 6    maintenance or repair purposes, use by  the  entity  of  such
 7    highway  right-of-way shall be permitted for such purposes in
 8    strict   accordance   with   the   rules,   regulations   and
 9    specifications  of  the  State  highway  authority,  provided
10    however,  that  except  in  the  case  of  access  to  bridge
11    structures, in no such case  shall  an  entity  be  permitted
12    access  from  the through-travel lanes, shoulders or ramps of
13    the  non-toll  federal-aid  fully   access-controlled   State
14    highway to maintain or repair its accommodation; or
15        (2)  would   in   the   judgment  of  the  State  highway
16    authority, endanger  or  impair  any  such  ditches,  drains,
17    track,  rails,  poles,  wires,  pipe lines or other equipment
18    already in place; or
19        (3)  would, if installed longitudinally within the access
20    control  lines  of  such  highway,  be  above  ground   after
21    installation  except  that  the  State  highway authority may
22    consent to any above ground installation upon, under or along
23    any  bridge,  interchange  or  grade  separation  within  the
24    right-of-way which installation is  otherwise  in  compliance
25    with   this   Section   and   any   rules,   regulations   or
26    specifications issued hereunder; or
27        (4)  would  be  inconsistent  with  Federal  law  or with
28    rules,  regulations  or  directives  of  appropriate  Federal
29    agencies.
30        (d)  In the case of accommodations upon, under  or  along
31    non-toll  federal-aid  fully access-controlled State highways
32    the State highway authority may charge an  entity  reasonable
33    compensation  for  the right of that entity to longitudinally
34    locate, place or construct  ditches,  drains,  track,  rails,
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 1    poles,  wires,  pipe  line  or other equipment upon, under or
 2    along such highway.  Such compensation  may  include  in-kind
 3    compensation.
 4        Where   the   entity  applying  for  use  of  a  non-toll
 5    federal-aid    fully    access-controlled    State    highway
 6    right-of-way  is  a   public   utility   company,   municipal
 7    corporation   or   other   public   or  private  corporation,
 8    association or person, such compensation shall be based  upon
 9    but  shall  not  exceed  a  reasonable  estimate by the State
10    highway authority of the fair market value of an easement  or
11    leasehold  for  such  use of the highway right-of-way.  Where
12    the State highway authority determines that  the  applied-for
13    use  of such highway right-of-way is for private land uses by
14    an individual and not  for  commercial  purposes,  the  State
15    highway  authority  may  charge  a  lesser  fee than would be
16    charged a public utility company,  municipal  corporation  or
17    other   public  or  private  corporation  or  association  as
18    compensation for the use of the  non-toll  federal-aid  fully
19    access-controlled  State  highway  right-of-way.   In no case
20    shall the written consent of the State highway authority give
21    or be construed to give any entity any easement, leasehold or
22    other property interest of any kind in, upon, under, above or
23    along the non-toll federal-aid fully access-controlled  State
24    highway right-of-way.
25        Where  the compensation from any entity is in whole or in
26    part a fee, such fee may be reasonably set, at  the  election
27    of  the State highway authority, in the form of a single lump
28    sum payment or a schedule of payments.  All such fees charged
29    as compensation may be reviewed and adjusted  upward  by  the
30    State  highway authority once every 5 years provided that any
31    such adjustment shall be based on changes in the fair  market
32    value  of  an  easement  or  leasehold  for  such  use of the
33    non-toll federal-aid fully  access-controlled  State  highway
34    right-of-way.   All such fees received as compensation by the
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 1    State highway authority shall be deposited in the Road Fund.
 2        (e)  Any entity applying for consent  shall  submit  such
 3    information  in  such  form  and  detail  to  the appropriate
 4    highway authority as to allow the authority to  evaluate  the
 5    entity's  application.   In  the case of accommodations upon,
 6    under or along non-toll federal-aid  fully  access-controlled
 7    State  highways  the  entity  applying for such consent shall
 8    reimburse  the  State  highway  authority  for  all  of   the
 9    authority's  reasonable  expenses in evaluating that entity's
10    application, including but not  limited  to  engineering  and
11    legal fees.
12        (f)  Any  ditches,  drains,  track,  rails, poles, wires,
13    pipe line or other equipment located, placed  or  constructed
14    upon,  under or along a State highway with the consent of the
15    State  highway  authority  under  this  Section  shall,  upon
16    written notice by the State, highway authority be subject  to
17    removal,  relocation  or  modification  at  no expense to the
18    State highway authority when and as deemed necessary  by  the
19    State   highway  authority  for  highway  or  highway  safety
20    purposes.  If, within 60 days after receipt of  such  written
21    notice,  arrangements  are not made satisfactory to the State
22    highway   authority   for   such   removal,   relocation   or
23    modification,  the  State  highway  authority   may   remove,
24    relocate or modify such ditches, drains, track, rails, poles,
25    wires,  pipe  line  or  other  equipment  and  bill the owner
26    thereof for the total cost of  such  removal,  relocation  or
27    modification.    The  State highway authority shall determine
28    the terms of payment of those costs provided that  all  costs
29    billed  by  the  State  highway  authority  shall not be made
30    payable over more than a 5  year  period  from  the  date  of
31    billing.   This  paragraph shall not be construed to prohibit
32    the State highway authority from paying any part of the  cost
33    of  removal, relocation or modification where such payment is
34    otherwise  provided  for  by  State  or  federal  statute  or
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 1    regulation.
 2        (g)  It shall be the sole responsibility of  the  entity,
 3    without  expense  to the State highway authority, to maintain
 4    and repair its ditches, drains, track, rails,  poles,  wires,
 5    pipe  line  or other equipment after it is located, placed or
 6    constructed upon, under or along any State highway and in  no
 7    case  shall  the State highway authority thereafter be liable
 8    or responsible to the entity for any damages or liability  of
 9    any kind whatsoever incurred by the entity or to the entity's
10    ditches,  drains,  track,  rails,  poles, wires, pipe line or
11    other equipment.
12        (h)  Upon receipt of an application therefor, consent  to
13    so  use  a  highway  may be granted subject to such terms and
14    conditions not inconsistent with this  Code  as  the  highway
15    authority  deems  for  the  best  interest of the public. The
16    petitioner shall pay to the owners of property abutting  upon
17    the  affected  highways  established  as though by common law
18    plat all damages the owners may sustain by reason of such use
19    of the highway, such damages to be ascertained  and  paid  in
20    the  manner  provided by law for the exercise of the right of
21    eminent domain.
22        (i)  Such consent shall be granted by the  Department  in
23    the  case  of  a  State  highway;  by the county board or its
24    designated county superintendent of highways in the case of a
25    county highway; by either the  highway  commissioner  or  the
26    county  superintendent  of highways in the case of a township
27    or district road, provided that if consent is granted by  the
28    highway  commissioner,  the  petition shall be filed with the
29    commissioner at least 30 days prior to the proposed  date  of
30    the beginning of construction, and that if written consent is
31    not  given  by the commissioner within  30 days after receipt
32    of the petition, the applicant may make  written  application
33    to  the  county superintendent of highways for consent to the
34    construction.  This  Section  does  not  vitiate,  extend  or
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 1    otherwise affect any consent granted in accordance  with  law
 2    prior  to  the  effective  date  of  this  Code to so use any
 3    highway.
 4        (j)  Nothing in this Section shall limit the right  of  a
 5    highway  authority  to  permit  the  location,  placement  or
 6    construction  or  any  ditches,  drains, track, rails, poles,
 7    wires, pipe line or other equipment upon, under or along  any
 8    highway  or  road as a part of its highway or road facilities
 9    or which the highway authority  determines  is  necessary  to
10    service  facilities  required  for  operating  the highway or
11    road, including rest areas and weigh stations.
12        (k)  Paragraphs (c) and (d) of  this  Section  shall  not
13    apply  to  any  accommodation  located, placed or constructed
14    with the consent of the State highway authority  upon,  under
15    or  along  any  non-toll  federal-aid fully access-controlled
16    State  highway  prior  to  July  1,   1984,   provided   that
17    accommodation  was  otherwise  in  compliance with the rules,
18    regulations  and  specifications   of   the   State   highway
19    authority.
20        (l)  The  consent  to be granted pursuant to this Section
21    by the appropriate highway authority shall be effective  only
22    to  the  extent  of  the  property  interest  of the State or
23    government  unit  served  by  that  highway  authority.  Such
24    consent shall not be binding on any owner of the fee over  or
25    under  which  the  highway  or  road is located and shall not
26    otherwise  relieve  the  entity  granted  that  consent  from
27    obtaining  by  purchase,  condemnation   or   otherwise   the
28    necessary  approval  of  any  owner  of the fee over or under
29    which the highway or road is located.  This  paragraph  shall
30    not  be  construed  as a limitation on the use for highway or
31    road  purposes  of  the  land  or  other  property  interests
32    acquired  by  the  public  for  highway  or  road   purposes,
33    including the space under or above such right-of-way.
34    (Source: P.A. 85-540.)

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