Public Act 1154 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB4899 Enrolled LRB098 16530 OMW 51598 b

Public Act 098-1154

AN ACT concerning State government.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Director of the Department of Natural Resources, on behalf of the State of Illinois, is authorized to execute and deliver to Sangamon County, an Illinois unit of local government, State of Illinois, for and in consideration of $1 paid to the Department, a quit claim deed to the following described real property:

All that portion of the right of way and appurtenances of the abandoned portion of the Madison Subdivision of Union Pacific Railroad Company (formerly the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company), now known as the Sangamon Valley Trail Bikeway, described as Beginning at the North line of Township 12 North, Range 6 West of the Third Principal Meridian, and thence running in a northerly direction along the centerline of said abandoned railroad to the North line of Section 19, Township 17 North, Range 5 West of the Third Principal Meridian, and also that portion of the said abandoned railroad within the County of Sangamon in Sections 6 and 7, Township 17 North, Range 5 West of the Third Principal Meridian and Section 31, Township 18 North, Range 5 West of the Third Principal Meridian as measured along said centerline of said abandoned railroad as originally surveyed, all being situated in the County of Sangamon and the State of Illinois. EXCEPTING THEREFROM: All that portion of the right of way and appurtenances of the abandoned portion of the Madison Subdivision of Union Pacific Railroad Company (formerly the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company), now known as the Sangamon Valley Trail Bikeway, described as Beginning at the South line of Section 10, Township 15 North, Range 6 West of the Third Principal Meridian, and thence running in a northerly direction along the centerline of said abandoned railroad to a line being parallel to and 200 feet North of the North line of the Southwest Quarter of Section 19, Township 16 North, Range 5 West of the Third Principal Meridian, as measured along said centerline of said abandoned railroad as originally surveyed, all being situated in the County of Sangamon and the State of Illinois.

Section 10. The conveyance of real property authorized by Section 5 shall be made subject to: (1) existing public utilities, existing public roads, and any and all reservations, easements, encumbrances, covenants and restrictions of record; and (2) the express condition that if the real property ceases to be used for public purposes, it shall revert to the State of Illinois, Department of Natural Resources.

Section 15. The Director of Natural Resources shall obtain a certified copy of the portions of this Act containing the title, the enacting clause, the effective date, the appropriate Section or Sections containing the land descriptions of the property to be conveyed, and this Section within 60 days after its effective date and, upon receipt of the payment required by the Section or Sections, if any payment is required, shall record the certified document in the Recorder's Office in the County in which the land is located.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.

Effective Date: 1/9/2015