Full Text of SB0764 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning transportation.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Toll Highway Act is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 3 as follows:
| 6 | | (605 ILCS 10/3) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-3)
| 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
| 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
| 7 | | maintenance of a system of toll highways within and through the | 8 | | State of
Illinois.
| 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.
| 12 | | (Source: P.A. 100-1180, eff. 2-28-19.)
| 13 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 14 | | becoming law.
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