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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 |
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| Section 19 as follows:
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| (605 ILCS 10/19) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-19)
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| Sec. 19. The Authority shall fix and revise from time to |
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| time, tolls or
charges or rates for the privilege of using each |
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| of the toll highways
constructed pursuant to this Act. Such |
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| tolls shall be so fixed and
adjusted at rates calculated to |
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| provide the lowest reasonable toll rates
that will provide |
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| funds sufficient with other revenues of the Authority to
pay, |
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| (a) the cost of the construction of a toll highway authorized |
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| by joint
resolution of the General Assembly pursuant to Section |
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| 14.1 and the
reconstruction, major repairs or improvements of |
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| toll highways, (b) the
cost of maintaining, repairing, |
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| regulating and operating the toll highways
including only the |
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| necessary expenses of the Authority, and (c) the
principal of |
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| all bonds, interest thereon and all sinking fund requirements
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| and other requirements provided by resolutions authorizing the |
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| issuance of
the bonds as they shall become due. In fixing the |
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| toll rates pursuant to this Section 19 and Section 10(c) of |
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| this Act, the Authority shall take into account the effect of |
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| the provisions of this Section 19 permitting the use of the |
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| toll highway system without payment of the covenants of the |
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| Authority contained in the resolutions and trust indentures |
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| authorizing the issuance of bonds of the Authority. No such |
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| provision permitting the use of the toll highway system without |
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| payment of tolls after the date of this amendatory Act of the |
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| 95th General Assembly shall be applied in a manner that impairs |
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| the rights of bondholders pursuant to any resolution or trust |
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| indentures authorizing the issuance of bonds of the Authority.
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| The use and disposition of any sinking
or reserve fund shall be |
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| subject to such regulation as may be provided in
the resolution |
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| or trust indenture authorizing the issuance of the bonds.
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| Subject to the provisions of any resolution or trust indenture |
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| authorizing
the issuance of bonds any moneys in any such |
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| sinking fund in excess of an
amount equal to one year's |
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| interest on the bonds then outstanding secured
by such sinking |
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| fund may be applied to the purchase or redemption of bonds.
All |
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| such bonds so redeemed or purchased shall forthwith be |
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| cancelled and
shall not again be issued. No person shall be |
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| permitted to use any toll
highway without paying the toll |
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| established under this Section except when
on official Toll |
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| Highway Authority business which includes police and other
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| emergency vehicles. However, any law enforcement agency |
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| vehicle, fire
department vehicle, or other emergency vehicle |
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| that is plainly marked shall not
be
required to pay a toll to |
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| use a toll highway.
A law enforcement, fire protection, or |
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| emergency services
officer driving a law enforcement, fire |
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| protection, or emergency services
agency
vehicle that is not |
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| plainly marked must present an Official Permit Card which
the |
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| law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services |
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| officer receives
from his or her law enforcement, fire |
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| protection, or emergency services agency
in
order to use a toll |
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| highway without paying the toll. A
law enforcement, fire |
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| protection, or emergency services agency must apply to
the |
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| Authority to receive a permit, and the
Authority shall adopt |
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| rules for the issuance of a permit, that allows all
law |
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| enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services agency |
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| vehicles of the
law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency |
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| services agency that are not
plainly
marked to use any toll |
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| highway
without paying the toll established under this Section.
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| The Authority shall maintain in
its office a list of
all |
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| persons that are authorized to use any toll highway without |
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| charge when
on official business of the Authority and such list |
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| shall be open to the
public for inspection. In recognition of |
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| the unique role of the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional |
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| Transportation Authority in providing effective transportation |
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| in the Authority's service region and to give effect to the |
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| exemption set forth in subsection (b) of Section 2.06 of the |
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| Regional Transportation Authority Act, a vehicle owned or |
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| operated by the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional |
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| Transportation Authority that is being used to transport |
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| passengers for hire may use any toll highway without paying the |
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| toll.
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| Among other matters, this amendatory Act of 1990 is |
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| intended to clarify
and confirm the prior intent of the General |
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| Assembly to allow toll revenues
from the toll highway system to |
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| be used to pay a portion of the cost of the
construction of the |
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| North-South Toll Highway authorized by Senate Joint
Resolution |
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| 122 of the 83rd General Assembly in 1984.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-152, eff. 7-23-97.)
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