Public Act 096-0304
 		





HB3723 Enrolled
LRB096 11431 AJT 21904 b






    AN ACT concerning transportation.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
represented in the General Assembly:


 
    Section 5. The Toll Highway Act is amended  by changing 
Section 14 as follows:
 



    (605 ILCS 10/14)  (from Ch. 121, par. 100-14)



    Sec. 14. (a) The Authority shall, prior to the commencement 
of any
engineering
and traffic study or studies to determine 
the feasibility of constructing
additional toll highways 
within the State of Illinois, submit to the
Governor for his 
approval, the route, or routes, proposed for additional
toll 
highways together with an estimate of the cost of the proposed 
study
or studies. If the Governor shall approve such proposed 
study or studies
and the estimated cost thereof, or shall fail 
to disapprove such proposed
study or studies and estimate of 
cost thereof, within 30 days after receipt
thereof, the 
Authority may, thereupon, proceed with such study or studies.

    (b) The Authority shall create a local advisory committee 
of members from
each county in which any portion of an 
additional toll highway is proposed to
be constructed.  The 
committee members shall be designated by township and
municipal 
governing
bodies in proportion to the percentage of corridor 
property situated
within
the
unincorporated
area of a
township 
and incorporated municipalities located in the
same
township.  
No less than 50% of the members of this committee shall be

representatives of organized citizen groups directly affected 
by the
proposed
corridor.  All meetings shall be held in 
compliance with the Open Meetings Act.
 The committee shall 
consider and advise the Authority with
respect to the impact on 
property owners, land use, and other impacts of the
proposed 
highway. The committee shall be dissolved when one year has 
elapsed since the opening of the tollway for which the 
committee was created. 

(Source: P.A. 90-681, eff. 7-31-98.)

 

    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.