96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB3723


 
Introduced 2/25/2009, by Rep. Renée Kosel
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		








  



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







    Amends the Toll Highway Act.  Provides that a local advisory committee created by the Toll Highway Authority shall be dissolved when one year has elapsed since the opening of the tollway for which the committee was created.  Effective immediately.
















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



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



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

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    (b) The Authority shall create a local advisory committee 
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of members from
each county in which any portion of an 
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additional toll highway is proposed to
be constructed.  The 
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committee members shall be designated by township and
municipal 
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governing
bodies in proportion to the percentage of corridor 
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property situated
within
the
unincorporated
area of a
township 
 


 






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and incorporated municipalities located in the
same
township.  
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No less than 50% of the members of this committee shall be

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

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

 

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