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1		AN ACT concerning transportation.
2		Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3		represented in the General Assembly:
4		Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by changing
5		Section 5-412 as follows:
6		(605 ILCS 5/5-412) (from Ch. 121, par. 5-412)
7		Sec. 5-412. The county board, of each county, may contract
8		with persons growing row crops on land adjacent to county
9		highways to buy standing strips of such crops to remain in
10		place to act as snow breaks along such highways in those places
11		where experience shows that drifting snow has been an
12		obstruction to traffic. The contract price to be paid by the
13		county board in any such case shall be the higher of the market
14		price in the local area of such crop at the time of contracting
15		or the current Commodity Credit Corporation target price. An
16		additional sum of money equal to at least 10% of the contract
17		price may be paid to the grower as an inconvenience fee.
18		(Source: P.A. 84-1272.)