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MUNICIPALITIES
(65 ILCS 5/) Illinois Municipal Code.

65 ILCS 5/11-89-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-89-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-89-1)
    Sec. 11-89-1. Subject to the provisions of Section 11-89-2, every municipality may grant consent, permission, and authority to construct, reconstruct, and maintain and operate street railways, railroads and public utility motor vehicles, or a unified local transportation system comprising both street railways and railroads and which may also comprise public utility motor vehicle lines and any other local public utility transportation facilities in, over, across, along, under, or upon streets, alleys, subways, public ways or public grounds in the municipality, the major portion of which street railways, railroads, public utility motor vehicles, and other local public utility transportation facilities is or is to be located within, or the major portion of the service of which is or is to be supplied to the inhabitants of the municipality, without limiting or fixing any time for the duration of the grant, but reserving to the municipality the right or option to purchase and take over the local transportation properties of the grantee provided for in the grant at the time or times and at the price and upon the terms to be stated or provided for in the grant.
    The grant may also provide that the grantee, if so required by the municipality, shall sell, assign, transfer, and convey to any other corporation designated as permittee for the purpose the optional properties at such time or times and at such price and upon such terms as may be stated or provided for in the grant.
    Every such grant shall be known as a "terminable permit." The grantee therein, its successors and assigns have the right to construct, reconstruct, and maintain and operate the optioned properties until the municipality or its permittee has purchased and taken over those properties.
    In addition to the provisions as to purchase by the municipality or its permittee, a terminable permit may contain any other terms and conditions not contrary to or inconsistent with this Division 89 or with the lawful exercise of the power of the state to regulate public utilities. These other terms and conditions may include, but are not limited to reasonable provisions for specified extensions and additions to lines and facilities, the retirement of investment by amortization or otherwise, or for compensation for the use of a public property computed either by some proportion of the receipts from the operation of the property of the grantee, or otherwise. The circuit court may enforce the provisions of this paragraph by means of injunction, mandamus, or other appropriate proceeding.
(Source: P.A. 79-1361.)

65 ILCS 5/11-89-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-89-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-89-2)
    Sec. 11-89-2. No ordinance of any municipality granting a terminable permit shall become effective until a proposition to approve the ordinance has been submitted to the electors of the municipality and has been approved by a majority of the electors voting upon the proposition. Every such ordinance shall order such submission and shall designate the election at which the proposition is to be submitted. The municipal clerk shall promptly certify such proposition for submission.
    The proposition need not include the ordinance in full but shall indicate the nature of the ordinance, and shall be substantially in the following form:
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    Shall the ordinance passed by the
city council (or board of trustees)
of (name of municipality) on (insert           YES
date), entitled ...., which
granted a terminable permit to (here        ------------------
insert the name of the grantee) to
construct, maintain, and operate a              NO
transportation system upon the terms and
conditions therein stated, be approved?
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(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

65 ILCS 5/11-89-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-89-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-89-3)
    Sec. 11-89-3. The term "railroads" as used in this Division 89 does not include a railroad constituting or used as a part of a trunk line railroad system operated as a common carrier of freight and passengers.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 90

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 90 heading)
DIVISION 90. STREET RAILWAYS

65 ILCS 5/11-90-1

    (65 ILCS 5/11-90-1) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-90-1)
    Sec. 11-90-1. Upon compliance with Section 11-90-2, and with "An Act in regard to street railroads, and to repeal certain acts herein referred to," approved March 7, 1899, as amended, the corporate authorities of each municipality may permit, regulate, or prohibit the locating, constructing, or laying a track of any street railway in any street, alley, or public place.
    Permission under this section shall not be granted for a longer time than for 20 years, except as provided in Sections 11-90-3 and 11-90-4 and Division 89 of this Article 11.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-90-2

    (65 ILCS 5/11-90-2) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-90-2)
    Sec. 11-90-2. The corporate authorities shall not grant the use of or the right to lay tracks in any street of the municipality to any railroad or street railway corporation except upon the petition of the owners of record of the land representing more than one-half of the frontage of the street, or so much thereof as is sought to be used for railroad or street railway purposes. Whenever the street or part thereof sought to be used is more than one mile in extent, no petition of landowners shall be valid unless the petition shall be signed by the owners of record of the land representing more than one-half of the frontage of each mile and of the fraction of a mile, measuring from the initial point specified in the petition, of the street or of the part thereof sought to be used for railroad or street railway purposes. However, the corporate authorities, without any petition of landowners, may grant the right to lay, maintain and also to operate railroad or street railway tracks, in, upon, or along any street, alley, or public place of the municipality in which the tracks are already laid at the time of making the grant. Also the corporate authorities, without any petition of landowners, may grant the use of or the right to lay tracks in any tunnel or subway beneath the surface of any street, alley, or public place.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-90-3

    (65 ILCS 5/11-90-3) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-90-3)
    Sec. 11-90-3. Subject to the provisions of Section 11-90-4, every municipality may grant permission for a term longer than 20 years, but not exceeding 40 years, for locating, constructing, reconstructing, maintaining, operating, and laying tracks of any street railway in any street, alley, or public place in the municipality. However, this section has no application to a grant of a terminable permit expressly authorized by any law of this state.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 576.)

65 ILCS 5/11-90-4

    (65 ILCS 5/11-90-4) (from Ch. 24, par. 11-90-4)
    Sec. 11-90-4. No ordinance of any municipality granting permission under Section 11-90-3 for a term longer than 20 years shall become operative until a proposition to approve the ordinance has been submitted to the electors of the municipality and has been approved by a majority of the electors voting upon the proposition. Every such ordinance shall order such submission and shall designate the election at which the proposition is to be submitted in accordance with the general election law. The municipal clerk shall promptly certify such proposition to the proper election officials for submission.
    The proposition need not include the ordinance in full but which shall indicate the nature of the ordinance, and shall be substantially in the following form:
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    Shall the ordinance passed by the
city council (or board of trustees,
etc.) of (name of municipality) on
(insert date), entitled                      YES
...., which granted permission for a
term of .... years to (here insert
the name of the grantee) to locate,      ---------------------
construct, reconstruct, maintain,
operate, and lay tracks, of (here
insert the name of the grantee) in           NO
certain streets, alleys, and public
places upon the terms and conditions
therein stated, be approved?
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(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

65 ILCS 5/11-90-5

    (65 ILCS 5/11-90-5)
    Sec. 11-90-5. (Repealed).
(Source: P.A. 91-147, eff. 7-16-99. Repealed internally, eff. 9-30-99.)

65 ILCS 5/11-90-6

    (65 ILCS 5/11-90-6)
    Sec. 11-90-6. (Repealed).
(Source: P.A. 91-147, eff. 7-16-99. Repealed internally, eff. 9-30-99.)

65 ILCS 5/11-90-7

    (65 ILCS 5/11-90-7)
    Sec. 11-90-7. Continuation of certain powers derived from the Capital City Railroad Relocation Authority.
    (a) All of the statutory powers and duties that the Capital City Railroad Relocation Authority had to implement the agreements that it entered into for Useable Segment 3 (including but not limited to the power to acquire property exchanged by the railroads for the railroad right-of-way acquired by the Authority and to sell, transfer, exchange, or assign property as it deems appropriate), which were transferred to the City of Springfield under Section 11-90-5 of this Code, shall continue in effect and may be exercised by the City of Springfield until the City has completed the transactions it was required to perform under Section 11-90-5, but only for the implementation of, and subject to, those agreements.
    (b) Once the City of Springfield has completed the transactions required to perform the agreements referred to in subsection (a), its powers and duties under this Section are terminated.
    (c) All otherwise lawful actions taken before the effective date of this Section in reliance on or pursuant to Section 11-90-5 or 11-90-6 of this Code by any officer or agency of State government or of the City of Springfield or by any other person or entity are hereby validated.
    (d) This Section applies to all claims, civil actions, and proceedings arising out of actions taken in reliance on or pursuant to Section 11-90-5 or 11-90-6 of this Code that are pending on or filed on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly.
(Source: P.A. 91-786, eff. 6-9-00.)

65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 91

 
    (65 ILCS 5/Art. 11 Div. 91 heading)
DIVISION 91. VACATING OF STREETS AND ALLEYS