093_HB0713
LRB093 05838 DRH 05931 b
1 AN ACT in relation to transportation.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Bikeway Act is amended by changing
5 Section 1 as follows:
6 (605 ILCS 30/1) (from Ch. 121, par. 601)
7 Sec. 1. Legislative declarations and findings. The
8 General Assembly declares that since one-thirda third of the
9 population owns bicycles, there is an urgent need for safe
10 bikeways, for the use of both children and adults for
11 transportation, healthy exercise and recreation.
12 The General Assembly finds that to coordinate plans for
13 bikeways most effectively with those of the State and local
14 governments as they affect roads, streets, schools, parks,
15 and other publicly owned lands, lands not owned by a
16 municipality, local unit of government, county, or the State
17 of Illinois or one of its agencies or authorities by
18 agreement, abandoned roadbeds and conservation areas, while
19 maximizing the benefits from the use of tax dollars, a single
20 State agency, eligible to receive federal matching funds,
21 should be designated to establish and maintain a State-wide
22 bikeways program.
23 (Source: P.A. 88-676, eff. 12-14-94.)