Full Text of HB2546 101st General Assembly
HB2546 101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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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 |
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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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| 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 this | 10 | | 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 (c) | 19 | | the
principal of all bonds, interest thereon and all sinking | 20 | | fund requirements
and other requirements provided by | 21 | | resolutions authorizing the issuance of
the bonds as they shall | 22 | | become due. In fixing the toll rates pursuant to this Section | 23 | | 19 and Section 10(c) of this Act, the Authority shall take into |
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| 1 | | account the effect of the provisions of this Section 19 | 2 | | permitting the use of the toll highway system without payment | 3 | | of the covenants of the Authority contained in the resolutions | 4 | | and trust indentures authorizing the issuance of bonds of the | 5 | | Authority. No such provision permitting the use of the toll | 6 | | highway system without payment of tolls after the date of this | 7 | | amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall be applied in | 8 | | a manner that impairs the rights of bondholders pursuant to any | 9 | | resolution or trust indentures authorizing the issuance of | 10 | | bonds of the Authority.
The use and disposition of any sinking
| 11 | | or reserve fund shall be subject to such regulation as may be | 12 | | provided in
the resolution or trust indenture authorizing the | 13 | | issuance of the bonds.
Subject to the provisions of any | 14 | | resolution or trust indenture authorizing
the issuance of bonds | 15 | | any moneys in any such sinking fund in excess of an
amount | 16 | | equal to one year's interest on the bonds then outstanding | 17 | | secured
by such sinking fund may be applied to the purchase or | 18 | | redemption of bonds.
All such bonds so redeemed or purchased | 19 | | shall forthwith be cancelled and
shall not again be issued. No | 20 | | person shall be permitted to use any toll
highway without | 21 | | paying the toll established under this Section except : (i) when
| 22 | | on official Toll Highway Authority business which includes | 23 | | police and other
emergency vehicles ; or (ii) for a vehicle | 24 | | displaying a Purple Heart special registration license plate | 25 | | issued under Section 3-623 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, on | 26 | | August 7 of each year, the designated Purple Heart Day . |
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| 1 | | However, any law enforcement agency vehicle, fire
department | 2 | | vehicle, public or private ambulance service vehicle engaged in | 3 | | the performance of an emergency service or duty that | 4 | | necessitates the use of the toll highway system, or other | 5 | | emergency vehicle that is plainly marked shall not
be
required | 6 | | to pay a toll to use a toll highway.
A law enforcement, fire | 7 | | protection, or emergency services
officer driving a law | 8 | | enforcement, fire protection, emergency services
agency
| 9 | | vehicle, or public or private ambulance service vehicle | 10 | | engaging in the performance of emergency services or duties | 11 | | that is not plainly marked must present an Official Permit Card | 12 | | which
the law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency | 13 | | services officer receives
from his or her law enforcement, fire | 14 | | protection, emergency services agency, or public or private | 15 | | ambulance service
in
order to use a toll highway without paying | 16 | | the toll. A
law enforcement, fire protection, emergency | 17 | | services agency, or public or private ambulance service | 18 | | engaging in the performance of emergency services or duties | 19 | | must apply to
the Authority to receive a permit, and the
| 20 | | Authority shall adopt rules for the issuance of a permit, that | 21 | | allows public or private ambulance service vehicles engaged in | 22 | | the performance of emergency services or duties that | 23 | | necessitate the use of the toll highway system and all
law | 24 | | enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services agency | 25 | | vehicles of the
law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency | 26 | | services agency to use any toll highway
without paying the toll |
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| 1 | | established under this Section.
The Authority shall maintain in
| 2 | | its office a list of
all persons that are authorized to use any | 3 | | toll highway without charge when
on official business of the | 4 | | Authority and such list shall be open to the
public for | 5 | | inspection. In recognition of the unique role of public | 6 | | transportation in providing effective transportation in the | 7 | | Authority's service region, and to give effect to the exemption | 8 | | set forth in subsection (b) of Section 2.06 of the Regional | 9 | | Transportation Authority Act, the following vehicles may use | 10 | | any toll highway without paying the toll: (1) a vehicle owned | 11 | | or operated by the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional | 12 | | Transportation Authority that is being used to transport | 13 | | passengers for hire; and (2) any revenue vehicle that is owned | 14 | | or operated by a Mass Transit District created under Section 3 | 15 | | of the Local Mass Transit District Act and running regular | 16 | | scheduled service.
| 17 | | Among other matters, this amendatory Act of 1990 is | 18 | | intended to clarify
and confirm the prior intent of the General | 19 | | Assembly to allow toll revenues
from the toll highway system to | 20 | | be used to pay a portion of the cost of the
construction of the | 21 | | North-South Toll Highway authorized by Senate Joint
Resolution | 22 | | 122 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 | 25 | | becoming law.
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