(605 ILCS 5/5-504) (from Ch. 121, par. 5-504)
Sec. 5-504.
The Department or the Illinois State Toll Highway
Authority and any county, municipality, or road district,
or any one or more of them, may jointly construct, repair and maintain a
bridge, culvert, drainage structure, drainage facility, grade separation
or interchange and approaches thereto.
For the purpose of such joint construction, repair and maintenance, the
Department or the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority and the county
board, city council, board of trustees or highway
commissioner in road districts (as the case may be) may enter into a contract
as to the proportion of the expense of construction, repair and maintenance
to be borne by each. Such contracts, except as against the Department,
shall be enforceable at law or equity.
Contracts for such construction, repair or maintenance work shall be let
by the Department or the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority and such
municipal corporations as have so agreed and shall expressly fix the extent
of liability for each of such contracting parties.
(Source: P.A. 86-528.)
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