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| 1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | ||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Toll Highway Act is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 3 as follows:
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| 6 | (605 ILCS 10/3) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-3)
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| 7 | Sec. 3.
There is hereby created an Authority to be known as | ||||||
| 8 | The
Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, which is hereby | ||||||
| 9 | constituted an
instrumentality and an administrative agency of | ||||||
| 10 | the State of Illinois.
The said Authority shall consist of 13 | ||||||
| 11 | 11 directors; the Governor and the
Secretary of the Department | ||||||
| 12 | of Transportation, ex officio, and 11 9
directors appointed by | ||||||
| 13 | the Governor with the advice and consent of the
Senate, from | ||||||
| 14 | the State at large, which said directors and their
successors | ||||||
| 15 | are hereby authorized to carry out the provisions of this
Act, | ||||||
| 16 | and to exercise the powers herein conferred. Of the 11 9 | ||||||
| 17 | directors
appointed by the Governor, at least one director | ||||||
| 18 | shall be from Cook County, at least one director shall be from | ||||||
| 19 | Lake County, at least one director shall be from DuPage County, | ||||||
| 20 | at least one director shall be from Will County, at least one | ||||||
| 21 | director shall be from Winnebago, Boone, or McHenry County, at | ||||||
| 22 | least one director shall be from Kane, DeKalb, Ogle, or Lee | ||||||
| 23 | County, and no more than 6 5 shall be members of the same
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| 1 | political party. Within 30 days after the effective date of | ||||||
| 2 | this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly, the Governor | ||||||
| 3 | shall appoint one director from Lake County and one director | ||||||
| 4 | from Winnebago, Boone, or McHenry County. | ||||||
| 5 | Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the | ||||||
| 6 | term of office of each director of the Authority serving on the | ||||||
| 7 | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General | ||||||
| 8 | Assembly, other than the Governor and the Secretary of the | ||||||
| 9 | Department of Transportation, is abolished and a vacancy in | ||||||
| 10 | each office is created on the effective date of this amendatory | ||||||
| 11 | Act of the 100th General Assembly. The Governor shall appoint | ||||||
| 12 | directors to the Authority for the vacancies created under this | ||||||
| 13 | amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly by February 28, | ||||||
| 14 | 2019. Directors whose terms are abolished under this amendatory | ||||||
| 15 | Act of the 100th General Assembly shall be eligible for | ||||||
| 16 | reappointment. | ||||||
| 17 | Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term
in the | ||||||
| 18 | same manner as original appointments. All appointments shall be
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| 19 | in writing and filed with the Secretary of State as a public | ||||||
| 20 | record. It
is the intention of this section that the Governor's | ||||||
| 21 | appointments shall
be made with due consideration to the | ||||||
| 22 | location of proposed toll highway
routes so that maximum | ||||||
| 23 | geographic representation from the areas served
by said toll | ||||||
| 24 | highway routes may be accomplished insofar as practicable.
The | ||||||
| 25 | said Authority shall have the power to contract and be | ||||||
| 26 | contracted
with, to acquire, hold and convey personal and real | ||||||
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| 1 | property or any
interest therein including rights of way, | ||||||
| 2 | franchises and easements; to
have and use a common seal, and to | ||||||
| 3 | alter the same at will; to make and
establish resolutions, | ||||||
| 4 | by-laws, rules, rates and regulations, and to
alter or repeal | ||||||
| 5 | the same as the Authority shall deem necessary and
expedient | ||||||
| 6 | for the construction, operation, relocation, regulation and
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| 7 | maintenance of a system of toll highways within and through the | ||||||
| 8 | State of
Illinois.
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| 9 | Appointment of the additional directors provided for by | ||||||
| 10 | this amendatory
Act of 1980 shall be made within 30 days after | ||||||
| 11 | the effective date of this
amendatory Act of 1980.
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| 12 | (Source: P.A. 100-1180, eff. 2-28-19.)
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| 13 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 14 | becoming law.
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