Bill Text: IL HB1859 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the Railroad Bridge Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning connection of railroads.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1859 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB1859-Introduced.html


103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB1859

Introduced , by Rep. Tony M. McCombie

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
610 ILCS 40/1 from Ch. 114, par. 45

Amends the Railroad Bridge Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning connection of railroads.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning transportation.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Railroad Bridge Act is amended by changing
5Section 1 as follows:
6 (610 ILCS 40/1) (from Ch. 114, par. 45)
7 Sec. 1. Railroads terminating, or to terminate at any
8point on any line of continuous railroad thoroughfare where
9there now is or shall be a railroad bridge for crossing of
10passengers and and freight in cars over the same as part of
11such thoroughfare, shall make convenient connections of such
12railroads, by rail, with the rail of such bridge; and such
13bridge shall permit and cause such connections of the rail of
14the same with the rail of such railroads so that by reason of
15said railroads and bridge, there shall be uninterrupted
16communication over such railroads and bridge as public
17thoroughfares. But by such connections no corporate rights
18shall be impaired.
19(Source: Laws 1867, p. 174.)
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