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() 65 ILCS 5/Art 11 prec Div 57
(65 ILCS 5/Art 11 prec Div 57 heading)
RAILROAD SAFETY
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65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 57
(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 57 heading)
DIVISION 57.
GENERAL RAILROAD
SAFETY REGULATIONS
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65 ILCS 5/11-57-1
(65 ILCS 5/11-57-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-57-1)
Sec. 11-57-1.
The corporate authorities may compel railroad companies to
raise or lower their tracks to conform to any grade which, at any time, is
established by a municipality. Where the tracks run lengthwise of any
street or alley, the companies shall keep their tracks on a level with the
street surface, so that the tracks may be crossed at any place on that
street or alley.
The corporate authorities may compel railroad companies to make, open,
and repair ditches, drains, sewers, and culverts along and under their
tracks, so that water cannot stand on their property, and so that the
natural drainage of adjacent property is not impeded.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 58
(65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 58 heading)
DIVISION 58.
RAILROAD GRADE SEPARATION TAX
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65 ILCS 5/11-58-1
(65 ILCS 5/11-58-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-58-1)
Sec. 11-58-1.
Subject to the provisions of Section 11-58-3, the corporate
authorities of any municipality with a population of less than 500,000 have
the power to levy and collect a tax to provide for the payment of the costs
imposed by law upon the municipality for grade separations whenever, in the
manner provided by law, (1) separation of the grade of the roadbed and
tracks of any railroad from the grade of any public street or other public
place has been found to be required for public safety, necessity, and
convenience, and (2) a plan for a grade separation has been adopted and the
proportion of the costs of the grade separation to be paid by the
municipality has been prescribed.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/11-58-2
(65 ILCS 5/11-58-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-58-2)
Sec. 11-58-2.
The corporate authorities of such a municipality shall
exercise the power conferred by this Division 58 by passing an ordinance
which (1) shall set forth the estimated total sum required to pay the
prescribed proportion of the total costs of grade separations, together
with all interest charges, and all other costs incident and necessary to
the levying and collecting of the tax and of the payment by the
municipality of its proportion of the costs of grade separations, (2)
shall describe the general plan and nature of the grade separations and
set forth the railroads and the public streets, or other public places,
to be affected thereby, and (3) shall provide for levying and collecting
a direct annual tax for not exceeding 10 successive years, sufficient to
create a fund to pay in annual installments, the total sum so estimated
and set forth in the ordinance. However, this tax shall not exceed in
any one year the rate of .50% of the value, as equalized or assessed by
the Department of Revenue, of all the taxable property
within the municipality. This tax shall be levied and collected with and
in like manner as the general tax in the municipality and shall be known
as the grade separation tax.
(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)
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65 ILCS 5/11-58-3
(65 ILCS 5/11-58-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-58-3)
Sec. 11-58-3.
No such tax shall be levied or collected by such a
municipality unless the electors of the municipality have approved an ordinance
providing therefor as provided in Section 2 of "An Act to enable cities,
villages and incorporated towns having less than two hundred thousand
inhabitants, to provide for defraying whatever portion may be imposed upon
them by law of the costs and expenses of separation of the grades of railroads
and of public streets and public places, and to provide for a direct annual
tax therefor," approved June 17, 1929, as amended, or until the question
of the adoption of the ordinance specified in Section 11-58-2 has been
certified by the clerk and submitted to the electors of the municipality at any
election in the municipality designated in the ordinance and in accordance with
the general election law.
The question shall be in substantially the following form:
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Shall an ordinance of the City (Village or Incorporated Town, as the case may be) of .... passed on the .... day of .... providing for the YES levy of a tax of ....% each year for the term of .... years on all taxable property in the city for the purpose of providing a fund to pay - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
the proportion imposed by law upon the city of the costs of separating the grades of the roadbed and tracks of the .... Railroad Company from public streets and public places in NO the city (village or incorporated town), specified in the ordinance, be approved? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
(Source: P.A. 81-1489 .)
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65 ILCS 5/11-58-4
(65 ILCS 5/11-58-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-58-4)
Sec. 11-58-4.
The levy of such a grade separation tax is authorized if the
majority of the votes cast on the specified proposition are in favor
thereof. The county clerk thereafter shall extend the tax upon the books of
the collector of taxes in each of the years of the term specified in the
ordinance in the manner provided by law for the extension of the taxes of
the municipality, whether or not the tax in each of those years is included
in the municipality's annual tax levy ordinance, as that tax levy ordinance
is passed by the corporate authorities of the municipality and certified to
the county clerk. This annual tax shall be exclusive of and in addition to
the aggregate amount of taxes authorized by Section 8-3-1.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/11-58-5
(65 ILCS 5/11-58-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-58-5)
Sec. 11-58-5.
The tax levied and collected as provided in this Division 58
shall be deposited in a special municipal fund to be used solely for the
purpose of paying the proportion that is lawfully imposed upon the
municipality, of the costs of the grade separations designated and
described in the specified ordinance. Lawful changes and alterations in the
plans of these grade separations incidental and necessary thereto and
lawful changes in the costs thereof shall in no way prevent the levy and
collection of the tax or the payment of the proportion of the costs
lawfully imposed upon the municipality out of the tax so levied and
collected.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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65 ILCS 5/11-58-6
(65 ILCS 5/11-58-6) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-58-6)
Sec. 11-58-6.
If at any time during the making of such grade
separations, it appears to the satisfaction of the corporate authorities
of the municipality, that the total sum of the tax authorized by the
specified ordinance to be levied and collected will be insufficient to
pay the proportion of the costs lawfully imposed upon the municipality,
of those grade separations, the corporate authorities have the power, by
ordinance, to set forth the total sum of the estimated deficiency and to
provide for levying and collecting a direct annual tax, for not
exceeding 5 successive years, sufficient to create a fund to pay, in
annual installments, the estimated deficiency. However, this
supplemental tax shall not exceed in any one year the rate of 1.25% of
the value, as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue, of
all the taxable property in the municipality.
The ordinance levying and collecting this supplemental tax, except as
provided in this Section, shall be subject to all the conditions and
limitations imposed by this Division 58 upon any original ordinance
levying and collecting a grade separation tax. Before this supplemental
tax shall be authorized, the supplemental ordinance shall be submitted
to and approved by the electors of the municipality in the manner
provided for in Section 11-58-3, unless the supplemental ordinance has
been heretofore submitted to and approved by the electors of the
municipality in the manner provided for in Section 2 of "An Act to
enable cities, villages and incorporated towns having less than two
hundred thousand inhabitants, to provide for defraying whatever portion
may be imposed upon them by law of the costs and expenses of separation
of the grades of railroads and of public streets and public places, and
to provide for a direct annual tax therefor," approved June 17, 1929, as
amended.
(Source: P.A. 81-1509.)
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65 ILCS 5/11-58-7
(65 ILCS 5/11-58-7) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-58-7)
Sec. 11-58-7.
The word "costs", as used in this Division 58 means
sums paid by way of compensation to any property owner for the actual
taking or damaging of his property, and attorney's fees and court costs
incurred as a result of, or incident to, any grade separation covered by
this Division 58.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)
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