Full Text of HB1935 95th General Assembly
HB1935 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB1935
Introduced 2/23/2007, by Rep. Robert Rita SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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605 ILCS 10/19 |
from Ch. 121, par. 100-19 |
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Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority shall provide that vehicles owned or operated by the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority to transport passengers for hire are exempt from paying tolls for operation on highways under the Authority's jurisdiction. Provides that the provision allowing the vehicles to use the Toll Highway System without payment of tolls shall not be applied in a manner that impairs the rights of the holders of bonds issued by the Authority.
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HB1935 |
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| AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Toll Highway Act is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 19 as follows:
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| (605 ILCS 10/19) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-19)
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| Sec. 19. The Authority shall fix and revise from time to | 8 |
| time, tolls or
charges or rates for the privilege of using each | 9 |
| of the toll highways
constructed pursuant to this Act. Such | 10 |
| tolls shall be so fixed and
adjusted at rates calculated to | 11 |
| provide the lowest reasonable toll rates
that will provide | 12 |
| funds sufficient with other revenues of the Authority to
pay, | 13 |
| (a) the cost of the construction of a toll highway authorized | 14 |
| by joint
resolution of the General Assembly pursuant to Section | 15 |
| 14.1 and the
reconstruction, major repairs or improvements of | 16 |
| toll highways, (b) the
cost of maintaining, repairing, | 17 |
| regulating and operating the toll highways
including only the | 18 |
| necessary expenses of the Authority, and (c) the
principal of | 19 |
| all bonds, interest thereon and all sinking fund requirements
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| and other requirements provided by resolutions authorizing the | 21 |
| issuance of
the bonds as they shall become due. In fixing toll
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| rates pursuant to this Section and subsection (c) of Section 10 | 23 |
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this Act, the Authority shall take into account the
effect |
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| of the provisions of this Section permitting
the use of the | 2 |
| toll highway system without payment of
tolls on the ability of | 3 |
| the Authority to comply with
the covenants of the Authority | 4 |
| contained in the
resolutions and trust indentures authorizing | 5 |
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issuance of Bonds of the Authority. No provision
permitting | 6 |
| the use of the toll highway system without
payment of tolls | 7 |
| after the date of this amendatory act of the 95th General | 8 |
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shall be applied in a manner that impairs the rights
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| of bondholders pursuant to any resolution or trust
indentures | 10 |
| authorizing the issuance of bonds of the
Authority. The use and | 11 |
| disposition of any sinking
or reserve fund shall be subject to | 12 |
| such regulation as may be provided in
the resolution or trust | 13 |
| indenture authorizing the issuance of the bonds.
Subject to the | 14 |
| provisions of any resolution or trust indenture authorizing
the | 15 |
| issuance of bonds any moneys in any such sinking fund in excess | 16 |
| of an
amount equal to one year's interest on the bonds then | 17 |
| outstanding secured
by such sinking fund may be applied to the | 18 |
| purchase or redemption of bonds.
All such bonds so redeemed or | 19 |
| purchased shall forthwith be cancelled and
shall not again be | 20 |
| issued. No person shall be permitted to use any toll
highway | 21 |
| without paying the toll established under this Section except | 22 |
| when
on official Toll Highway Authority business which includes | 23 |
| police and other
emergency vehicles. However, any law | 24 |
| enforcement agency vehicle, fire
department vehicle, or other | 25 |
| emergency vehicle that is plainly marked shall not
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| to pay a toll to use a toll highway.
A law enforcement, fire |
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| protection, or emergency services
officer driving a law | 2 |
| enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services
agency
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| vehicle that is not plainly marked must present an Official | 4 |
| Permit Card which
the law enforcement, fire protection, or | 5 |
| emergency services officer receives
from his or her law | 6 |
| enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services agency
in
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| order to use a toll highway without paying the toll. A
law | 8 |
| enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services agency | 9 |
| must apply to
the Authority to receive a permit, and the
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| Authority shall adopt rules for the issuance of a permit, that | 11 |
| allows all
law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency | 12 |
| services agency vehicles of the
law enforcement, fire | 13 |
| protection, or emergency services agency that are not
plainly
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| marked to use any toll highway
without paying the toll | 15 |
| established under this Section.
The Authority shall maintain in
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| its office a list of
all persons that are authorized to use any | 17 |
| toll highway without charge when
on official business of the | 18 |
| Authority and such list shall be open to the
public for | 19 |
| inspection. In recognition of the unique role of the Suburban | 20 |
| Bus
Division of the Regional Transportation Authority in
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| providing effective transportation in the Authority's
service | 22 |
| region and to give effect to the exemption set
forth in | 23 |
| subsection (b) of Section 2.06 of the Regional
Transportation | 24 |
| Authority Act, a vehicle owned or
operated by the Suburban Bus | 25 |
| Division of the Regional
Transportation Authority that is being | 26 |
| used to
transport passengers for hire may use any toll highway
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| without paying the toll.
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| Among other matters, this amendatory Act of 1990 is | 3 |
| intended to clarify
and confirm the prior intent of the General | 4 |
| Assembly to allow toll revenues
from the toll highway system to | 5 |
| be used to pay a portion of the cost of the
construction of the | 6 |
| North-South Toll Highway authorized by Senate Joint
Resolution | 7 |
| 122 of the 83rd General Assembly in 1984.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-152, eff. 7-23-97.)
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