Full Text of HB0394 102nd 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 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 | 8 | | from time to time, tolls or
charges or rates for the privilege | 9 | | of using each of the toll highways
constructed pursuant to | 10 | | this Act. Such tolls shall be so fixed and
adjusted at rates | 11 | | calculated to provide the lowest reasonable toll rates
that | 12 | | will provide funds sufficient with other revenues of the | 13 | | Authority to
pay, (a) the cost of the construction of a toll | 14 | | highway authorized by joint
resolution of the General Assembly | 15 | | pursuant to Section 14.1 and the
reconstruction, major repairs | 16 | | or improvements of toll highways, (b) the
cost of maintaining, | 17 | | repairing, regulating and operating the toll highways
| 18 | | including only the necessary expenses of the Authority, and | 19 | | (c) the
principal of all bonds, interest thereon and all | 20 | | sinking fund requirements
and other requirements provided by | 21 | | resolutions authorizing the issuance of
the bonds as they | 22 | | shall become due. In fixing the toll rates pursuant to this | 23 | | Section 19 and Section 10(c) of this Act, the Authority shall |
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| 1 | | take into account the effect of the provisions of this Section | 2 | | 19 permitting the use of the toll highway system without | 3 | | payment of the covenants of the Authority contained in the | 4 | | resolutions and trust indentures authorizing the issuance of | 5 | | bonds of the Authority. No such provision permitting the use | 6 | | of the toll highway system without payment of tolls after the | 7 | | date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall | 8 | | be applied in a manner that impairs the rights of bondholders | 9 | | pursuant to any resolution or trust indentures authorizing the | 10 | | issuance of bonds of the Authority.
The use and disposition of | 11 | | any sinking
or reserve fund shall be subject to such | 12 | | regulation as may be provided in
the resolution or trust | 13 | | indenture authorizing the issuance of the bonds.
Subject to | 14 | | the provisions of any resolution or trust indenture | 15 | | authorizing
the issuance of bonds any moneys in any such | 16 | | sinking fund in excess of an
amount equal to one year's | 17 | | interest on the bonds then outstanding secured
by such sinking | 18 | | fund may be applied to the purchase or redemption of bonds.
All | 19 | | such bonds so redeemed or purchased shall forthwith be | 20 | | cancelled and
shall not again be issued. The Authority shall | 21 | | not charge a toll for a motor vehicle of the first division, as | 22 | | defined in the Illinois Vehicle Code, pulling a trailer, as | 23 | | defined in the Illinois Vehicle Code, with no more than 2 axles | 24 | | at a rate higher than an amount calculated by multiplying the | 25 | | toll charged to passenger vehicles using an I-PASS device by | 26 | | the total number of axles on the trailer. This toll rate set by |
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| 1 | | this amendatory Act of the 102nd General Assembly applies to | 2 | | both a driver who uses an I-PASS device and a driver who uses | 3 | | cash to pay tolls. No person shall be permitted to use any toll
| 4 | | highway without paying the toll established under this Section | 5 | | except when
on official Toll Highway Authority business which | 6 | | includes police and other
emergency vehicles. However, any law | 7 | | enforcement agency vehicle, fire
department vehicle, public or | 8 | | private ambulance service vehicle engaged in the performance | 9 | | of an emergency service or duty that necessitates the use of | 10 | | the toll highway system, or other emergency vehicle that is | 11 | | plainly marked shall not
be
required to pay a toll to use a | 12 | | toll highway.
A law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency | 13 | | services
officer driving a law enforcement, fire protection, | 14 | | emergency services
agency
vehicle, or public or private | 15 | | ambulance service vehicle engaging in the performance of | 16 | | emergency services or duties that is not plainly marked must | 17 | | present an Official Permit Card which
the law enforcement, | 18 | | fire protection, or emergency services officer receives
from | 19 | | his or her law enforcement, fire protection, emergency | 20 | | services agency, or public or private ambulance service
in
| 21 | | order to use a toll highway without paying the toll. A
law | 22 | | enforcement, fire protection, emergency services agency, or | 23 | | public or private ambulance service engaging in the | 24 | | performance of emergency services or duties must apply to
the | 25 | | Authority to receive a permit, and the
Authority shall adopt | 26 | | rules for the issuance of a permit, that allows public or |
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| 1 | | private ambulance service vehicles engaged in the performance | 2 | | of emergency services or duties that necessitate the use of | 3 | | the toll highway system and all
law enforcement, fire | 4 | | protection, or emergency services agency vehicles of the
law | 5 | | enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services agency to | 6 | | use any toll highway
without paying the toll established under | 7 | | this Section.
The Authority shall maintain in
its office a | 8 | | list of
all persons that are authorized to use any toll highway | 9 | | without charge when
on official business of the Authority and | 10 | | such list shall be open to the
public for inspection. In | 11 | | recognition of the unique role of public transportation in | 12 | | providing effective transportation in the Authority's service | 13 | | region, and to give effect to the exemption set forth in | 14 | | subsection (b) of Section 2.06 of the Regional Transportation | 15 | | Authority Act, the following vehicles may use any toll highway | 16 | | without paying the toll: (1) a vehicle owned or operated by the | 17 | | Suburban Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority | 18 | | that is being used to transport passengers for hire; and (2) | 19 | | any revenue vehicle that is owned or operated by a Mass Transit | 20 | | District created under Section 3 of the Local Mass Transit | 21 | | District Act and running regular scheduled service.
| 22 | | Among other matters, this amendatory Act of 1990 is | 23 | | intended to clarify
and confirm the prior intent of the | 24 | | General Assembly to allow toll revenues
from the toll highway | 25 | | system to be used to pay a portion of the cost of the
| 26 | | construction of the North-South Toll Highway authorized by |
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| 1 | | Senate Joint
Resolution 122 of the 83rd General Assembly in | 2 | | 1984.
| 3 | | (Source: P.A. 100-739, eff. 1-1-19 .)
| 4 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 5 | | becoming law. |
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