Public Act 0046 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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Public Act 100-0046

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 5-412 as follows:

(605 ILCS 5/5-412) (from Ch. 121, par. 5-412)

Sec. 5-412. The county board, of each county, may contract with persons growing row crops on land adjacent to county highways to buy standing strips of such crops to remain in place to act as snow breaks along such highways in those places where experience shows that drifting snow has been an obstruction to traffic. The contract price to be paid by the county board in any such case shall be the higher of the market price in the local area of such crop at the time of contracting or the current Commodity Credit Corporation target price. An additional sum of money equal to at least 10% of the contract price may be paid to the grower as an inconvenience fee.

(Source: P.A. 84-1272.)

Effective Date: 1/1/2018