(605 ILCS 5/1-102) (from Ch. 121, par. 1-102)
Sec. 1-102.
It is the intent and declared policy of the legislature
that an integrated system of highways and streets is essential to the
general welfare and to the agricultural, industrial, recreational, and
social development of the State. In view of the rapid growth of the
State's economy and increased use of public highways, the provision of
safe and efficient highway transportation is a matter of public concern.
It is the declared and continuous policy of the legislature to provide
for improvement of highways and the highway transportation system as
well as the preservation of investment in highways. To that end it is
intended to provide for integrated and systematic planning and orderly
development in accordance with actual needs. It is further declared that
the provision of such a system with efficient management, operation, and
control, and the elimination of congestion, crash reduction, and
safety is an urgent problem and proper objective of highway legislation.
It is further declared that highway transportation system development
requires the cooperation of State, county, township, and municipal
highway agencies and coordination of their activities on a continuous
and partnership basis and the legislature intends such cooperative
relationships to accomplish this purpose.
It is also the intent and declared policy of the legislature that no
public moneys derived from fees, excises or license taxes relating to
registration, operation and use of vehicles on public highways or to
fuels used for the propulsion of such vehicles, shall be appropriated or
expended other than for costs of administering the laws imposing such
fees, excises and license taxes, statutory refunds and adjustments
allowed thereunder, highway administrative costs, payment of debts and
liabilities incurred in construction and reconstruction of public
highways and bridges, acquisition of rights-of-way for, and the cost of
construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair and operation of
public highways and bridges under the direction and supervision of the
State, political subdivision or municipality collecting such moneys, and
the costs for patrolling and policing the public highways (by State, political
subdivision or municipality collecting such money) for enforcement of traffic
laws. The separation of grades of such highways with railroads and costs
associated with protection of at-grade highway and railroad crossings shall
also be permissible.
(Source: P.A. 102-982, eff. 7-1-23.)
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