Bill Text: IL HB5856 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that vehicles owned or operated by a Mass Transit District created under a provision of the Local Mass Transit District Act may use any toll highway without paying a toll.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-08-07 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 100-0739 [HB5856 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB5856-Chaptered.html
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| Public Act 100-0739 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Toll Highway Act is amended by changing | ||||
Section 19 as follows:
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(605 ILCS 10/19) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-19)
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Sec. 19. Toll rates. The Authority shall fix and revise | ||||
from time to time, tolls or
charges or rates for the privilege | ||||
of using each of the toll highways
constructed pursuant to this | ||||
Act. Such tolls shall be so fixed and
adjusted at rates | ||||
calculated to provide the lowest reasonable toll rates
that | ||||
will provide funds sufficient with other revenues of the | ||||
Authority to
pay, (a) the cost of the construction of a toll | ||||
highway authorized by joint
resolution of the General Assembly | ||||
pursuant to Section 14.1 and the
reconstruction, major repairs | ||||
or improvements of toll highways, (b) the
cost of maintaining, | ||||
repairing, regulating and operating the toll highways
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including only the necessary expenses of the Authority, and (c) | ||||
the
principal of all bonds, interest thereon and all sinking | ||||
fund requirements
and other requirements provided by | ||||
resolutions authorizing the issuance of
the bonds as they shall | ||||
become due. In fixing the toll rates pursuant to this Section | ||||
19 and Section 10(c) of this Act, the Authority shall take into | ||||
account the effect of the provisions of this Section 19 | ||
permitting the use of the toll highway system without payment | ||
of the covenants of the Authority contained in the resolutions | ||
and trust indentures authorizing the issuance of bonds of the | ||
Authority. No such provision permitting the use of the toll | ||
highway system without payment of tolls after the date of this | ||
amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall be applied in | ||
a manner that impairs the rights of bondholders pursuant to any | ||
resolution or trust indentures authorizing the issuance of | ||
bonds of the Authority.
The use and disposition of any sinking
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or reserve fund shall be subject to such regulation as may be | ||
provided in
the resolution or trust indenture authorizing the | ||
issuance of the bonds.
Subject to the provisions of any | ||
resolution or trust indenture authorizing
the issuance of bonds | ||
any moneys in any such sinking fund in excess of an
amount | ||
equal to one year's interest on the bonds then outstanding | ||
secured
by such sinking fund may be applied to the purchase or | ||
redemption of bonds.
All such bonds so redeemed or purchased | ||
shall forthwith be cancelled and
shall not again be issued. No | ||
person shall be permitted to use any toll
highway without | ||
paying the toll established under this Section except when
on | ||
official Toll Highway Authority business which includes police | ||
and other
emergency vehicles. However, any law enforcement | ||
agency vehicle, fire
department vehicle, public or private | ||
ambulance service vehicle engaged in the performance of an | ||
emergency service or duty that necessitates the use of the toll | ||
highway system, or other emergency vehicle that is plainly | ||
marked shall not
be
required to pay a toll to use a toll | ||
highway.
A law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency | ||
services
officer driving a law enforcement, fire protection, | ||
emergency services
agency
vehicle, or public or private | ||
ambulance service vehicle engaging in the performance of | ||
emergency services or duties that is not plainly marked must | ||
present an Official Permit Card which
the law enforcement, fire | ||
protection, or emergency services officer receives
from his or | ||
her law enforcement, fire protection, emergency services | ||
agency, or public or private ambulance service
in
order to use | ||
a toll highway without paying the toll. A
law enforcement, fire | ||
protection, emergency services agency, or public or private | ||
ambulance service engaging in the performance of emergency | ||
services or duties must apply to
the Authority to receive a | ||
permit, and the
Authority shall adopt rules for the issuance of | ||
a permit, that allows public or private ambulance service | ||
vehicles engaged in the performance of emergency services or | ||
duties that necessitate the use of the toll highway system and | ||
all
law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services | ||
agency vehicles of the
law enforcement, fire protection, or | ||
emergency services agency to use any toll highway
without | ||
paying the toll established under this Section.
The Authority | ||
shall maintain in
its office a list of
all persons that are | ||
authorized to use any toll highway without charge when
on | ||
official business of the Authority and such list shall be open | ||
to the
public for inspection. In recognition of the unique role | ||
of public transportation the Suburban Bus Division of the | ||
Regional Transportation Authority in providing effective | ||
transportation in the Authority's service region, and to give | ||
effect to the exemption set forth in subsection (b) of Section | ||
2.06 of the Regional Transportation Authority Act, the | ||
following vehicles may use any toll highway without paying the | ||
toll: (1) a vehicle owned or operated by the Suburban Bus | ||
Division of the Regional Transportation Authority that is being | ||
used to transport passengers for hire; and (2) any revenue | ||
vehicle that is owned or operated by a Mass Transit District | ||
created under Section 3 of the Local Mass Transit District Act | ||
and running regular scheduled service. may use any toll highway | ||
without paying the toll.
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Among other matters, this amendatory Act of 1990 is | ||
intended to clarify
and confirm the prior intent of the General | ||
Assembly to allow toll revenues
from the toll highway system to | ||
be used to pay a portion of the cost of the
construction of the | ||
North-South Toll Highway authorized by Senate Joint
Resolution | ||
122 of the 83rd General Assembly in 1984.
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(Source: P.A. 97-784, eff. 1-1-13.)
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