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90_HB1107

      605 ILCS 10/19            from Ch. 121, par. 100-19
          Amends the Toll  Highway  Act  to  provide  that  persons
      operating  police  and  other emergency vehicles are exempted
      from the requirement that a person pay a toll to use  a  toll
      highway.
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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 and except persons operating which  includes  police
 6    and  other  emergency vehicles.  The Authority shall maintain
 7    in its office a list of all persons that  are  authorized  to
 8    use any toll highway without charge when on official business
 9    of  the  Authority  and such list shall be open to the public
10    for inspection.
11        Among other matters,  this  amendatory  Act  of  1990  is
12    intended  to  clarify  and  confirm  the  prior intent of the
13    General Assembly to allow toll revenues from the toll highway
14    system to be used to  pay  a  portion  of  the  cost  of  the
15    construction  of  the  North-South Toll Highway authorized by
16    Senate Joint Resolution 122 of the 83rd General  Assembly  in
17    1984.
18    (Source: P.A. 86-1164.)

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