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90_HB0596

      605 ILCS 10/19            from Ch. 121, par. 100-19
          Amends the Toll Highway  Act  to  provide  that  any  law
      enforcement agency vehicle, fire department vehicle, or other
      emergency  vehicle on official business shall not be required
      to pay a toll to use a toll highway. Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Toll Highway Act by changing  Section
 2    19.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Toll Highway Act is amended  by  changing
 6    Section 19 as follows:
 7        (605 ILCS 10/19) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-19)
 8        Sec. 19.  The Authority shall fix and revise from time to
 9    time,  tolls  or  charges or rates for the privilege of using
10    each of the toll highways constructed pursuant to  this  Act.
11    Such tolls shall be so fixed and adjusted at rates calculated
12    to provide the lowest reasonable toll rates that will provide
13    funds sufficient with other revenues of the Authority to pay,
14    (a) the cost of the construction of a toll highway authorized
15    by  joint  resolution  of  the  General  Assembly pursuant to
16    Section  14.1  and  the  reconstruction,  major  repairs   or
17    improvements  of  toll highways, (b) the cost of maintaining,
18    repairing,  regulating  and  operating  the   toll   highways
19    including  only  the necessary expenses of the Authority, and
20    (c) the principal of all  bonds,  interest  thereon  and  all
21    sinking  fund requirements and other requirements provided by
22    resolutions authorizing the issuance of  the  bonds  as  they
23    shall  become due.  The use and disposition of any sinking or
24    reserve fund shall be subject to such regulation  as  may  be
25    provided in the resolution or trust indenture authorizing the
26    issuance  of  the  bonds.    Subject to the provisions of any
27    resolution or trust indenture  authorizing  the  issuance  of
28    bonds  any  moneys  in  any such sinking fund in excess of an
29    amount equal  to  one  year's  interest  on  the  bonds  then
30    outstanding  secured  by  such sinking fund may be applied to
31    the purchase or redemption of  bonds.    All  such  bonds  so
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 1    redeemed  or purchased shall forthwith be cancelled and shall
 2    not again be issued.   No person shall be  permitted  to  use
 3    any  toll  highway  without paying the toll established under
 4    this Section except when on official Toll  Highway  Authority
 5    business  which includes police and other emergency vehicles.
 6    However, any law enforcement agency vehicle, fire  department
 7    vehicle,  or  other  emergency  vehicle  on official business
 8    shall not be required to pay a toll to use  a  toll  highway.
 9    The  Authority  shall  maintain  in  its office a list of all
10    persons that are authorized to use any toll  highway  without
11    charge  when  on  official business of the Authority and such
12    list shall be open to the public for inspection.
13        Among other matters,  this  amendatory  Act  of  1990  is
14    intended  to  clarify  and  confirm  the  prior intent of the
15    General Assembly to allow toll revenues from the toll highway
16    system to be used to  pay  a  portion  of  the  cost  of  the
17    construction  of  the  North-South Toll Highway authorized by
18    Senate Joint Resolution 122 of the 83rd General  Assembly  in
19    1984.
20    (Source: P.A. 86-1164.)
21        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
22    becoming law.

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