101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB2546

 

Introduced , 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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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. Toll rates. The Authority shall fix and revise
8from time to time, tolls or charges or rates for the privilege
9of using each of the toll highways constructed pursuant to this
10Act. Such tolls shall be so fixed and adjusted at rates
11calculated to provide the lowest reasonable toll rates that
12will provide funds sufficient with other revenues of the
13Authority to pay, (a) the cost of the construction of a toll
14highway authorized by joint resolution of the General Assembly
15pursuant to Section 14.1 and the reconstruction, major repairs
16or improvements of toll highways, (b) the cost of maintaining,
17repairing, regulating and operating the toll highways
18including only the necessary expenses of the Authority, and (c)
19the principal of all bonds, interest thereon and all sinking
20fund requirements and other requirements provided by
21resolutions authorizing the issuance of the bonds as they shall
22become due. In fixing the toll rates pursuant to this Section
2319 and Section 10(c) of this Act, the Authority shall take into

 

 

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1account the effect of the provisions of this Section 19
2permitting the use of the toll highway system without payment
3of the covenants of the Authority contained in the resolutions
4and trust indentures authorizing the issuance of bonds of the
5Authority. No such provision permitting the use of the toll
6highway system without payment of tolls after the date of this
7amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall be applied in
8a manner that impairs the rights of bondholders pursuant to any
9resolution or trust indentures authorizing the issuance of
10bonds of the Authority. The use and disposition of any sinking
11or reserve fund shall be subject to such regulation as may be
12provided in the resolution or trust indenture authorizing the
13issuance of the bonds. Subject to the provisions of any
14resolution or trust indenture authorizing the issuance of bonds
15any moneys in any such sinking fund in excess of an amount
16equal to one year's interest on the bonds then outstanding
17secured by such sinking fund may be applied to the purchase or
18redemption of bonds. All such bonds so redeemed or purchased
19shall forthwith be cancelled and shall not again be issued. No
20person shall be permitted to use any toll highway without
21paying the toll established under this Section except: (i) when
22on official Toll Highway Authority business which includes
23police and other emergency vehicles; or (ii) for a vehicle
24displaying a Purple Heart special registration license plate
25issued under Section 3-623 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, on
26August 7 of each year, the designated Purple Heart Day.

 

 

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

 

 

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1established under this Section. The Authority shall maintain in
2its office a list of all persons that are authorized to use any
3toll highway without charge when on official business of the
4Authority and such list shall be open to the public for
5inspection. In recognition of the unique role of public
6transportation in providing effective transportation in the
7Authority's service region, and to give effect to the exemption
8set forth in subsection (b) of Section 2.06 of the Regional
9Transportation Authority Act, the following vehicles may use
10any toll highway without paying the toll: (1) a vehicle owned
11or operated by the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional
12Transportation Authority that is being used to transport
13passengers for hire; and (2) any revenue vehicle that is owned
14or operated by a Mass Transit District created under Section 3
15of the Local Mass Transit District Act and running regular
16scheduled service.
17    Among other matters, this amendatory Act of 1990 is
18intended to clarify and confirm the prior intent of the General
19Assembly to allow toll revenues from the toll highway system to
20be used to pay a portion of the cost of the construction of the
21North-South Toll Highway authorized by Senate Joint Resolution
22122 of the 83rd General Assembly in 1984.
23(Source: P.A. 100-739, eff. 1-1-19.)
 
24    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25becoming law.