99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB6251

 

Introduced 2/11/2016, by Rep. Camille Y. Lilly

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
605 ILCS 10/19  from Ch. 121, par. 100-19

    Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that a person is permitted to use a toll highway without paying the toll on August 7 of each year, the designated Purple Heart Day, if the person is displaying a Purple Heart license plate on his or her vehicle. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Toll Highway Act is amended by changing
5Section 19 as follows:
 
6    (605 ILCS 10/19)  (from Ch. 121, par. 100-19)
7    Sec. 19. The Authority shall fix and revise from time to
8time, tolls or charges or rates for the privilege of using each
9of the toll highways constructed pursuant to this Act. Such
10tolls shall be so fixed and adjusted at rates calculated to
11provide the lowest reasonable toll rates that will provide
12funds sufficient with other revenues of the Authority to pay,
13(a) the cost of the construction of a toll highway authorized
14by joint resolution of the General Assembly pursuant to Section
1514.1 and the reconstruction, major repairs or improvements of
16toll highways, (b) the cost of maintaining, repairing,
17regulating and operating the toll highways including only the
18necessary expenses of the Authority, and (c) the principal of
19all bonds, interest thereon and all sinking fund requirements
20and other requirements provided by resolutions authorizing the
21issuance of the bonds as they shall become due. In fixing the
22toll rates pursuant to this Section 19 and Section 10(c) of
23this Act, the Authority shall take into account the effect of

 

 

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1the provisions of this Section 19 permitting the use of the
2toll highway system without payment of the covenants of the
3Authority contained in the resolutions and trust indentures
4authorizing the issuance of bonds of the Authority. No such
5provision permitting the use of the toll highway system without
6payment of tolls after the date of this amendatory Act of the
795th General Assembly shall be applied in a manner that impairs
8the rights of bondholders pursuant to any resolution or trust
9indentures authorizing the issuance of bonds of the Authority.
10The use and disposition of any sinking or reserve fund shall be
11subject to such regulation as may be provided in the resolution
12or trust indenture authorizing the issuance of the bonds.
13Subject to the provisions of any resolution or trust indenture
14authorizing the issuance of bonds any moneys in any such
15sinking fund in excess of an amount equal to one year's
16interest on the bonds then outstanding secured by such sinking
17fund may be applied to the purchase or redemption of bonds. All
18such bonds so redeemed or purchased shall forthwith be
19cancelled and shall not again be issued. No person shall be
20permitted to use any toll highway without paying the toll
21established under this Section except when on official Toll
22Highway Authority business which includes police and other
23emergency vehicles, or when displaying a Purple Heart special
24registration license plate, authorized under the Illinois
25Vehicle Code, but only on August 7 of each year, the designated
26Purple Heart Day. However, any law enforcement agency vehicle,

 

 

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1fire department vehicle, public or private ambulance service
2vehicle engaged in the performance of an emergency service or
3duty that necessitates the use of the toll highway system, or
4other emergency vehicle that is plainly marked shall not be
5required to pay a toll to use a toll highway. A law
6enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services officer
7driving a law enforcement, fire protection, emergency services
8agency vehicle, or public or private ambulance service vehicle
9engaging in the performance of emergency services or duties
10that is not plainly marked must present an Official Permit Card
11which the law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency
12services officer receives from his or her law enforcement, fire
13protection, emergency services agency, or public or private
14ambulance service in order to use a toll highway without paying
15the toll. A law enforcement, fire protection, emergency
16services agency, or public or private ambulance service
17engaging in the performance of emergency services or duties
18must apply to the Authority to receive a permit, and the
19Authority shall adopt rules for the issuance of a permit, that
20allows public or private ambulance service vehicles engaged in
21the performance of emergency services or duties that
22necessitate the use of the toll highway system and all law
23enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services agency
24vehicles of the law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency
25services agency to use any toll highway without paying the toll
26established under this Section. The Authority shall maintain in

 

 

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1its office a list of all persons that are authorized to use any
2toll highway without charge when on official business of the
3Authority and such list shall be open to the public for
4inspection. In recognition of the unique role of the Suburban
5Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority in
6providing effective transportation in the Authority's service
7region and to give effect to the exemption set forth in
8subsection (b) of Section 2.06 of the Regional Transportation
9Authority Act, a vehicle owned or operated by the Suburban Bus
10Division of the Regional Transportation Authority that is being
11used to transport passengers for hire may use any toll highway
12without paying the toll.
13    Among other matters, this amendatory Act of 1990 is
14intended to clarify and confirm the prior intent of the General
15Assembly to allow toll revenues from the toll highway system to
16be used to pay a portion of the cost of the construction of the
17North-South Toll Highway authorized by Senate Joint Resolution
18122 of the 83rd General Assembly in 1984.
19(Source: P.A. 97-784, eff. 1-1-13.)
 
20    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
21becoming law.