Public Act 098-1154
 
HB4899 EnrolledLRB098 16530 OMW 51598 b



    AN ACT concerning State government.

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



 
    Section 5. The Director of the Department of Natural 
Resources, on behalf of the State of Illinois, is authorized to 
execute and deliver to Sangamon County, an Illinois unit of 
local government, State of Illinois, for and in consideration 
of $1 paid to the Department, a quit claim deed to the 
following described real property:
    All that portion of the right of way and appurtenances of

    the abandoned portion of the Madison Subdivision of Union

    Pacific Railroad Company (formerly the Chicago and North

    Western Transportation Company), now known as the Sangamon

    Valley Trail Bikeway, described as Beginning at the North

    line of Township 12 North, Range 6 West of the Third

    Principal Meridian, and thence running in a northerly

    direction along the centerline of said abandoned railroad

    to the North line of Section 19, Township 17 North, Range 5

    West of the Third Principal Meridian, and also that portion

    of the said abandoned railroad within the County of

    Sangamon in Sections 6 and 7, Township 17 North, Range 5

    West of the Third Principal Meridian and Section 31,

    Township 18 North, Range 5 West of the Third Principal

    Meridian as measured along said centerline of said

    abandoned railroad as originally surveyed, all being

    situated in the County of Sangamon and the State of

    Illinois. EXCEPTING THEREFROM: All that portion of the

    right of way and appurtenances of the abandoned portion of

    the Madison Subdivision of Union Pacific Railroad Company

    (formerly the Chicago and North Western Transportation

    Company), now known as the Sangamon Valley Trail Bikeway,

    described as Beginning at the South line of Section 10,

    Township 15 North, Range 6 West of the Third Principal

    Meridian, and thence running in a northerly direction along

    the centerline of said abandoned railroad to a line being

    parallel to and 200 feet North of the North line of the

    Southwest Quarter of Section 19, Township 16 North, Range 5

    West of the Third Principal Meridian, as measured along

    said centerline of said abandoned railroad as originally

    surveyed, all being situated in the County of Sangamon and

    the State of Illinois.
 
    Section 10. The conveyance of real property authorized by 
Section 5 shall be made subject to:  (1) existing public 
utilities, existing public roads, and any and all reservations, 
easements, encumbrances, covenants and restrictions of record; 
and (2) the express condition that if the real property ceases 
to be used for public purposes, it shall revert to the State of 
Illinois, Department of Natural Resources.
 
    Section 15. The Director of Natural Resources shall obtain 
a
certified copy of the portions of this Act containing the 
title,
the enacting clause, the effective date, the appropriate 
Section
or Sections containing the land descriptions of the 
property to
be conveyed, and this Section within 60 days after 
its effective
date and, upon receipt of the payment required by 
the Section or
Sections, if any payment is required, shall 
record the certified
document in the Recorder's Office in the 
County in which the
land is located.

 

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