Full Text of HB3690 099th General Assembly
HB3690 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2015 and 2016 HB3690 Introduced , by Rep. Katherine Cloonen SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 605 ILCS 10/19 | from Ch. 121, par. 100-19 |
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Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that vehicles owned or operated by a Mass Transit District created under Section 3 of the Local Mass Transit District Act may use any toll highway without paying a toll.
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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. | 8 | | The Authority shall fix and revise from time to time, tolls | 9 | | or
charges or rates for the privilege of using each of the toll | 10 | | highways
constructed pursuant to this Act. Such tolls shall be | 11 | | so fixed and
adjusted at rates calculated to provide the lowest | 12 | | reasonable toll rates
that will provide funds sufficient with | 13 | | other revenues of the Authority to
pay, (a) the cost of the | 14 | | construction of a toll highway authorized by joint
resolution | 15 | | of the General Assembly pursuant to Section 14.1 and the
| 16 | | reconstruction, major repairs or improvements of toll | 17 | | highways, (b) the
cost of maintaining, repairing, regulating | 18 | | and operating the toll highways
including only the necessary | 19 | | expenses of the Authority, and (c) the
principal of all bonds, | 20 | | interest thereon and all sinking fund requirements
and other | 21 | | requirements provided by resolutions authorizing the issuance | 22 | | of
the bonds as they shall become due. In fixing the toll rates | 23 | | pursuant to this Section 19 and Section 10(c) of this Act, the |
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| 1 | | Authority shall take into account the effect of the provisions | 2 | | of this Section 19 permitting the use of the toll highway | 3 | | system without payment of the covenants of the Authority | 4 | | contained in the resolutions and trust indentures authorizing | 5 | | the issuance of bonds of the Authority. No such provision | 6 | | permitting the use of the toll highway system without payment | 7 | | of tolls after the date of this amendatory Act of the 95th | 8 | | General Assembly shall be applied in a manner that impairs the | 9 | | rights of bondholders pursuant to any resolution or trust | 10 | | indentures authorizing the issuance of bonds of the Authority.
| 11 | | The use and disposition of any sinking
or reserve fund shall be | 12 | | subject to such regulation as may be provided in
the resolution | 13 | | or trust indenture authorizing the issuance of the bonds.
| 14 | | Subject to 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. No person shall be | 21 | | permitted to use any toll
highway without paying the toll | 22 | | established under this Section except when
on official Toll | 23 | | Highway Authority business which includes police and other
| 24 | | emergency vehicles. However, any law enforcement agency | 25 | | vehicle, fire
department vehicle, public or private ambulance | 26 | | service vehicle engaged in the performance of an emergency |
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| 1 | | service or duty that necessitates the use of the toll highway | 2 | | system, or other emergency vehicle that is plainly marked shall | 3 | | not
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required to pay a toll to use a toll highway.
A law | 4 | | enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services
officer | 5 | | driving a law enforcement, fire protection, emergency services
| 6 | | agency
vehicle, or public or private ambulance service vehicle | 7 | | engaging in the performance of emergency services or duties | 8 | | that is not plainly marked must present an Official Permit Card | 9 | | which
the law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency | 10 | | services officer receives
from his or her law enforcement, fire | 11 | | protection, emergency services agency, or public or private | 12 | | ambulance service
in
order to use a toll highway without paying | 13 | | the toll. A
law enforcement, fire protection, emergency | 14 | | services agency, or public or private ambulance service | 15 | | engaging in the performance of emergency services or duties | 16 | | must apply to
the Authority to receive a permit, and the
| 17 | | Authority shall adopt rules for the issuance of a permit, that | 18 | | allows public or private ambulance service vehicles engaged in | 19 | | the performance of emergency services or duties that | 20 | | necessitate the use of the toll highway system and all
law | 21 | | enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services agency | 22 | | vehicles of the
law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency | 23 | | services agency to use any toll highway
without paying the toll | 24 | | established under this Section.
The Authority shall maintain in
| 25 | | its office a list of
all persons that are authorized to use any | 26 | | toll highway without charge when
on official business of the |
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| 1 | | Authority and such list shall be open to the
public for | 2 | | inspection. In recognition of the unique role of public | 3 | | transportation the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional | 4 | | Transportation Authority in providing effective transportation | 5 | | in the Authority's service region , and to give effect to the | 6 | | exemption set forth in subsection (b) of Section 2.06 of the | 7 | | Regional Transportation Authority Act, a vehicle owned or | 8 | | operated by the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional | 9 | | Transportation Authority that is being used to transport | 10 | | passengers for hire , or any vehicle owned or operated by a Mass | 11 | | Transit District created under Section 3 of the Local Mass | 12 | | Transit District Act, may use any toll highway without paying | 13 | | the toll.
| 14 | | Among other matters, this amendatory Act of 1990 is | 15 | | intended to clarify
and confirm the prior intent of the General | 16 | | Assembly to allow toll revenues
from the toll highway system to | 17 | | be used to pay a portion of the cost of the
construction of the | 18 | | North-South Toll Highway authorized by Senate Joint
Resolution | 19 | | 122 of the 83rd General Assembly in 1984.
| 20 | | (Source: P.A. 97-784, eff. 1-1-13.)
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