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

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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

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