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Public Act 100-0127
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| HB2725 Enrolled | LRB100 06424 SLF 16463 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 Recreational Trails of Illinois Act is |
amended by adding Section 50 as follows:
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(20 ILCS 862/50 new) |
Sec. 50. Federal obligation limitation. The Department may |
enter into agreements as necessary with the Federal Highway |
Administration, or any successor agency, for the purpose of |
authorizing federal obligation limitations for projects under |
the federal Recreational Trails Program; provided however, the |
Department and the Illinois Department of Transportation shall |
enter into an inter-agency agreement to closely coordinate the |
obligation of projects authorized by the Illinois Division |
Office of the Federal Highway Administration to maximize |
federal funding opportunities.
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Section 10. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by |
changing Section 3-105 as follows:
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(605 ILCS 5/3-105) (from Ch. 121, par. 3-105)
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Sec. 3-105.
Except as otherwise provided in the Treasurer |
as Custodian
of Funds Act, all money received by the State
of |
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Illinois from the federal government for aid in construction of |
highways
shall be placed in the "Road Fund" in the State |
Treasury. For the purposes of this Section, money received by |
the State of Illinois from the federal government under the |
Recreational Trails Program for grants or contracts obligated |
on or after October 1, 2017 shall not be considered for use as |
aid in construction of highways, and shall be placed in the |
"Park and Conservation Fund" in the State treasury.
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Whenever any county having a population of 500,000 or more |
inhabitants
has incurred indebtedness and issued Expressway |
bonds as authorized by
Division 5-34 of
the Counties Code and |
has used
the proceeds of such bonds for the construction of |
Expressways in
accordance with the provisions of Section 15d of |
"An Act to revise the law
in relation to roads and bridges", |
approved June 27, 1913, as amended
(repealed) or
of Section |
5-403 of this Code in order to accelerate the improvement of
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the National System of Interstate Highways, the federal aid |
primary highway
network or the federal aid highway network in |
urban areas, the State shall
appropriate and allot, from the |
allotments of federal funds made available
by Acts of Congress |
under the Federal Aid Road Act and as appropriated
and made |
available to the State of Illinois, to such county or counties |
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sum sufficient to retire the bonded indebtedness due annually |
arising from
the issuance of those Expressway bonds issued for |
the purpose of
constructing Expressways in the county or |
counties. Such funds shall be
deposited in the Treasury of such |