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| | 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
HB4270 Introduced 1/14/2026, by Rep. Daniel Didech - Tracy Katz Muhl SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
| | | Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Requires a township (rather than any township in Lake County or McHenry County) to abolish a road district of that township if the roads of the road district are less than 15 centerline miles in length. |
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| | HB4270 | | LRB104 16545 LNS 29943 b |
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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 Illinois Highway Code is amended by |
| 5 | | changing Section 6-140 as follows:
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| 6 | | (605 ILCS 5/6-140) |
| 7 | | Sec. 6-140. Abolishing a road district within Lake County |
| 8 | | or McHenry County with less than 15 miles of roads. A Any |
| 9 | | township in Lake County or McHenry County shall abolish a road |
| 10 | | district of that township if the roads of the road district are |
| 11 | | less than 15 centerline miles in length, as determined by the |
| 12 | | county engineer or county superintendent of highways. A road |
| 13 | | district is abolished on the expiration of the term of office |
| 14 | | of the highway commissioner of the road district facing |
| 15 | | abolition following the determination by the county engineer |
| 16 | | or county superintendent of highways of the length, in |
| 17 | | centerline mileage, of the roads within the road district to |
| 18 | | be abolished. |
| 19 | | On the date of abolition: all the rights, powers, duties, |
| 20 | | assets, property, liabilities, obligations, and |
| 21 | | responsibilities of the road district shall by operation of |
| 22 | | law vest in and be assumed by the township; the township board |
| 23 | | of trustees shall assume all taxing authority of a road |