Full Text of HB4557 95th General Assembly
HB4557 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB4557
Introduced 1/18/2008, by Rep. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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20 ILCS 2705/2705-505 |
was 20 ILCS 2705/49.30 |
225 ILCS 440/3.14 |
from Ch. 121, par. 503.14 |
225 ILCS 440/3.17 new |
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Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. As it relates to certain signs indicating travel-related facilities or
tourist-oriented businesses installed and maintained by the Department of Transportation, defines an "urban area" to include one or more incorporated communities listed by the Federal Bureau of Census as encompassing a total population of 4,000 or more within a defined area and Federal Bureau of Census designated places of 4,000 or more population, and defines a "rural area" as an area outside of an urban area.
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| AN ACT concerning regulation.
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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 Department of Transportation Law of the
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| Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing | 6 |
| Section 2705-505 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 2705/2705-505) (was 20 ILCS 2705/49.30)
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| Sec. 2705-505. Signs indicating travel-related facilities | 9 |
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tourist-oriented businesses. | 10 |
| (a) Signs indicating travel-related facilities or
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| tourist-oriented businesses. The Department shall, where
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| economically
feasible and safe,
install along various | 13 |
| interstate highways and other freeways with full
control of | 14 |
| access, except those that are toll highways, signs to
alert
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| motorists of the travel-related facilities available in | 16 |
| communities served
by upcoming interstate exits. The | 17 |
| Department may also install, along other
rural State highways, | 18 |
| signs to alert motorists of the tourist-oriented
businesses | 19 |
| available on intersecting highways and roads under local
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| jurisdiction in rural areas. The Department has the
authority | 21 |
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sell or lease space on the signs to the owners or operators | 22 |
| of the
facilities
and to promulgate rules and regulations for | 23 |
| the leasing or purchasing of space. |
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| (b) In this Section, as it relates to signs installed by | 2 |
| the Department along other rural State highways to alert | 3 |
| motorists of the tourist-oriented businesses available on | 4 |
| intersecting highways and roads under local jurisdiction in | 5 |
| rural areas under subsection (a) of this Section: | 6 |
| "Rural area" means an area outside of an urban area. | 7 |
| "Urban area" means one or more incorporated | 8 |
| communities listed by the Federal Bureau of Census as | 9 |
| encompassing a total population of 4,000 or more within a | 10 |
| defined area, including any unincorporated areas within | 11 |
| such boundaries, but excluding rural portions of extended | 12 |
| communities, and Federal Bureau of Census designated | 13 |
| places of 4,000 or more population.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-272, eff. 7-30-97; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
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| Section 10. The Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971 is | 16 |
| amended by changing Section 3.14 and by adding Section 3.17 as | 17 |
| follows:
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| (225 ILCS 440/3.14) (from Ch. 121, par. 503.14)
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| Sec. 3.14. Urban area. | 20 |
| (a) For purposes of this Act and except as set forth in | 21 |
| subsection (b) of this Section , "urban area" means an urbanized
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| area or, in the case of an urbanized area encompassing more | 23 |
| than one state,
that part of the urbanized area in each such | 24 |
| state, or an urban place as
designated by the Bureau of the |
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| Census of the United States having a
population of 5,000 or | 2 |
| more and not within any urbanized area, within
boundaries to be | 3 |
| fixed by responsible state and local officials in cooperation
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| with each other, subject to approval by the Secretary of the | 5 |
| United States
Department of Transportation. Such boundaries | 6 |
| shall, as a minimum, encompass
the entire urban place | 7 |
| designated by the Bureau of the Census. | 8 |
| (b) As it relates to signs erected and maintained by the | 9 |
| Department within the right-of-way on rural non-interstate and | 10 |
| non-freeway State highways and giving specific information | 11 |
| regarding tourist-oriented businesses in the interest of the | 12 |
| traveling public under Section 4.08 of this Act, "urban area" | 13 |
| means one or more incorporated communities listed by the | 14 |
| Federal Bureau of Census as encompassing a total population of | 15 |
| 4,000 or more within a defined area, including any | 16 |
| unincorporated areas within such boundaries, but excluding | 17 |
| rural portions of extended communities, and Federal Bureau of | 18 |
| Census designated places of 4,000 or more population.
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| (Source: P.A. 79-1009.)
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| (225 ILCS 440/3.17 new)
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| Sec. 3.17. Rural area. As it relates to signs erected and | 22 |
| maintained by the Department within the right-of-way on rural | 23 |
| non-interstate and non-freeway State highways and giving | 24 |
| specific information regarding tourist-oriented businesses in | 25 |
| the interest of the traveling public under Section 4.08 of this |
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| Act, "rural area" means an area outside of an urban area.
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