Full Text of SB0483 94th General Assembly
SB0483 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 SB0483
Introduced 2/16/2005, by Sen. John J. Cullerton SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Recreational Trails of Illinois Act. Provides that money in the Off-Highway Vehicle Trails Fund may be used for recreation areas acquired after the effective date and a demonstration area at the World Shooting Complex. Provides that money in the Fund may not be used for certain land designated as a nature preserve. Effective immediately.
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| AN ACT concerning recreation trails.
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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 Recreational Trails of Illinois Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 862/15)
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| Sec. 15. Off-Highway Vehicle Trails Fund.
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| (a) The Off-Highway Vehicle Trails Fund is created as a | 9 |
| special fund in the
State treasury.
Money from federal, State, | 10 |
| and private sources may be
deposited into the Fund.
Fines | 11 |
| assessed by the Department of Natural Resources for citations | 12 |
| issued to
off-highway vehicle operators shall be deposited into | 13 |
| the
Fund. All interest accrued on the Fund shall be deposited | 14 |
| into the Fund.
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| (b) All money in the Fund shall be used, subject to | 16 |
| appropriation, by the
Department for the following
purposes:
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| (1) Grants for construction of off-highway vehicle | 18 |
| recreational trails on
county, municipal, other units of | 19 |
| local government, or private lands where a
recreational | 20 |
| need for
the construction is shown.
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| (2) Grants for maintenance and construction of | 22 |
| off-highway vehicle
recreational
trails on federal
lands, | 23 |
| where permitted by law.
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| (3) Grants for development of off-highway vehicle | 25 |
| trail-side facilities in
accordance
with criteria
approved | 26 |
| by the National Recreational Trails Advisory Committee.
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| (4) Grants for acquisition of property from willing | 28 |
| sellers for
off-highway vehicle
recreational
trails when | 29 |
| the objective of a trail cannot be accomplished by other | 30 |
| means.
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| (5) Grants for development of urban off-highway | 32 |
| vehicle trail linkages
near homes and
workplaces.
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| (6) Grants for maintenance of existing off-highway | 2 |
| vehicle recreational
trails,
including the
grooming and | 3 |
| maintenance of trails across snow.
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| (7) Grants for restoration of areas damaged by usage of | 5 |
| off-highway
vehicle
recreational trails and
back country | 6 |
| terrain.
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| (8) Grants for provision of features that facilitate | 8 |
| the access and use of
off-highway vehicle trails
by persons | 9 |
| with disabilities.
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| (9) Grants for acquisition of easements for | 11 |
| off-highway vehicle trails or
for trail
corridors.
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| (10) Grants for a rider education and safety program.
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| (11) Administration, enforcement, planning, and | 14 |
| implementation of this Act
and
Sections
11-1426 and 11-1427 | 15 |
| of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
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| Of the money used from the Fund for the purposes set forth | 17 |
| in this
subsection, at least 92% shall be allocated for | 18 |
| motorized recreation and not more than 8% shall be used by the | 19 |
| Department for administration, enforcement, planning, and | 20 |
| implementation of this Act or diverted from the Fund. The
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| Department
shall establish, by rule, measures to verify that | 22 |
| recipients of money from
the Fund comply with the specified | 23 |
| conditions for the use of the money.
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| (c) The Department may not use the money from the Fund for | 25 |
| the
following purposes:
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| (1) Condemnation of any kind of interest in property.
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| (2) Construction of any recreational trail on National | 28 |
| Forest System
land for motorized uses unless those lands
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| have been allocated for uses other than wilderness by an | 30 |
| approved
forest land and resource management plan or have | 31 |
| been released to uses
other than wilderness by an Act of | 32 |
| Congress, and
the construction is otherwise consistent | 33 |
| with the management
direction in the approved land and | 34 |
| resource management plan.
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| (3) Construction of motorized recreational trails on | 36 |
| Department owned or
managed land , except (i) recreation |
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| area acquired for for this purpose after the effective date | 2 |
| of this amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly and | 3 |
| (ii) an off-highway vehicle demonstration area as part of | 4 |
| the World Shooting Complex near Sparta, Illinois .
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| (4) Land designated as a nature preserve as defined in | 6 |
| Section 3.11 of the Illinois Natural Area Preservation Act | 7 |
| or contained in the report as submitted pursuant to Section | 8 |
| 6.06 of that Act.
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| (d) The Department shall establish a program to administer | 10 |
| grants from the
Fund to units of local government, | 11 |
| not-for-profit organizations, and
other groups to operate, | 12 |
| maintain, and acquire land for off-highway vehicle
parks that | 13 |
| are open and accessible to the public.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-1050, eff. 11-16-04.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 16 |
| becoming law.
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