Bill Text: IL HB1800 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that a county board of a county that contracts with a person growing row crops on land adjacent to county highways to buy standing strips of the crops to remain in place to act as snow breaks along the highway may pay the grower an additional sum of money equal to at least 10% of the contract price (rather than a sum of money equal to 10% of the contract price) as an inconvenience fee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-08-11 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0046 [HB1800 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-HB1800-Chaptered.html

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Public Act 100-0046
HB1800 Enrolled LRB100 09050 AXK 19199 b
AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by changing
Section 5-412 as follows:
(605 ILCS 5/5-412) (from Ch. 121, par. 5-412)
Sec. 5-412. The county board, of each county, may contract
with persons growing row crops on land adjacent to county
highways to buy standing strips of such crops to remain in
place to act as snow breaks along such highways in those places
where experience shows that drifting snow has been an
obstruction to traffic. The contract price to be paid by the
county board in any such case shall be the higher of the market
price in the local area of such crop at the time of contracting
or the current Commodity Credit Corporation target price. An
additional sum of money equal to at least 10% of the contract
price may be paid to the grower as an inconvenience fee.
(Source: P.A. 84-1272.)