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90_HB1470

      625 ILCS 5/15-111         from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 15-111
          Amends the Illinois Highway  Code.   Allows  counties  to
      include  benches,  shelters,  and other facilities as part of
      the construction or maintenance of county  highways.   Allows
      counties  to  use  any  funds  for these projects and bicycle
      related projects.  Provides that for permits  required  under
      the  provisions  for access roads and driveways laid out from
      county  highways,  a  county  may  include  requirements  for
      pedestrian access for sidewalks, bike  paths,  bus  shelters,
      benches, and bus loading and unloading areas.
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend  the Illinois Highway Code by changing
 2    Sections 5-701.6 and 9-112.3.
 3        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section  5.   The  Illinois  Highway  Code  is amended by
 6    changing Sections 5-701.6 and 9-112.3 as follows:
 7        (605 ILCS 5/5-701.6) (from Ch. 121, par. 5-701.6)
 8        Sec. 5-701.6. Investigations; studies.  Any county  board
 9    with  the  approval of the Department may also use motor fuel
10    tax money allotted to it for the purpose of the  payment  for
11    investigations   requisite   to   determine   the  reasonably
12    anticipated need for any of the work  described  in  Sections
13    5-701.1  through to 5-701.5, 5-701.13, and 9-112.3 inclusive,
14    of this Code, and Section 2 of the Bikeway  Act.  Those  Such
15    investigations  may include, but shall not be limited to, the
16    making  of  traffic  surveys,  the  study  of  transportation
17    facilities,  research  concerning  the  development  of   the
18    several  areas  within the county and contiguous territory as
19    affected by growth and changes  in  population  and  economic
20    activity  and  the  collection and review of data relating to
21    all factors affecting the judicious planning of construction,
22    reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of highways.  The
23    investigations  for which any such payments are made may also
24    be   conducted   in   cooperation   with   other    counties,
25    municipalities,  the  State  of  Illinois, the United States,
26    other states of the  United  States,  agencies  of  any  such
27    governments  or  other  persons in pursuance of agreements to
28    share the costs thereof and  authority  to  enter  into  such
29    agreements is hereby conferred upon counties.
30    (Source: Laws 1959, p. 196.)
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 1        (605 ILCS 5/9-112.3) (from Ch. 121, par. 9-112.3)
 2        Sec.  9-112.3.   Shelters for the convenience and comfort
 3    of persons waiting for buses or other  public  transportation
 4    may  be  placed and maintained within the right of way of any
 5    street or highway, including right of  way  for  streets  and
 6    highways within municipalities, after a license or permit for
 7    the  shelter  and  location  is  obtained  from  the  highway
 8    authority  having  jurisdiction.    Placement and location of
 9    shelters on any street or highway within a municipality shall
10    be subject to the approval of the  corporate  authorities  of
11    such  municipality.   The owners may place advertising on the
12    shelters if authorized by the license  or  permit,  provided,
13    however, that no political advertising shall be placed on any
14    shelter  on  any  street  or  highway at any time and further
15    provided that advertising on shelters  shall  be  limited  to
16    one-third  of  the vertical surface of the shelter.  Shelters
17    shall not be placed or maintained  on  that  portion  of  the
18    right  of  way  designed  and  used  for  vehicle traffic and
19    further shall not be so placed as to  impair  the  street  or
20    highway or interfere with the free and safe flow of traffic.
21        A  county  may  include  as  part  of the construction or
22    maintenance of a county highway: the placement or maintenance
23    of benches or shelters for the  convenience  and  comfort  of
24    persons  waiting  for buses or other public transportation or
25    at transportation corridor off-street parking facilities; the
26    placement  or  maintenance  of   bus   route   signing;   the
27    construction   or   maintenance  of  transportation  corridor
28    off-street parking facilities, including the  acquisition  of
29    right-of-way  therefore  in  accordance  with  Sections 5-801
30    through 5-803 of this Code; the construction  or  maintenance
31    of   bicycle   storage   facilities;   the   construction  or
32    maintenance of bus  loading  and  unloading  areas;  and  the
33    construction  or  maintenance of sidewalks.  The county shall
34    have the  authority  to  use  any  funds  available  for  the
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 1    construction  or  maintenance  of county highways toward this
 2    construction or maintenance. The construction or  maintenance
 3    shall  be  under  the supervision of the county engineer when
 4    that construction or maintenance is undertaken by the county.
 5    These facilities shall  be  considered  part  of  the  county
 6    highway   and   the   county  board  may  pass  an  ordinance
 7    establishing rules and regulations regarding the use of these
 8    highways.
 9        For a permit required under Section 5-413 of this Code, a
10    county  may  include  suitable  requirements  for  pedestrian
11    access  for sidewalks, bike paths, bus shelters, benches, and
12    bus loading and unloading areas.
13    (Source: P.A. 81-436.)

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