Bill Text: IL HB1840 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Department of Transportation Law. Grants the City of North Chicago an exclusive option to acquire specified property from the Department of Transportation for public purposes for a period of 3 years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-04-23 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB1840 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB1840-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB1840 Introduced , by Rep. Rita Mayfield SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 2705/2705-565
Amends the Illinois Department of Transportation Law. Grants the City of North Chicago an exclusive option to acquire specified property from the Department of Transportation for public purposes for a period of 3 years.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning property.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Department of Transportation Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by changing
Section 2705-565 as follows:
(20 ILCS 2705/2705-565)
Sec. 2705-565. North Chicago property; study; conveyance.
(a) The Department shall perform a study of property owned
by the Department consisting of approximately 160 acres
located in North Chicago, south of IL Route 137, between IL
Route 43 and US Route 41. The study shall include, but not be
limited to, a survey of the property for the purpose of
delineating jurisdictional wetlands in accordance with the
Interagency Wetland Policy Act of 1989 and identifying
threatened and endangered species in accordance with the
Illinois Endangered Species Protection Act, for the purpose of
identifying property no longer needed for highway purposes.
(b) The Upon completion of the study and for a period
ending 3 years after the effective date of this amendatory Act
of the 94th General Assembly, the City of North Chicago shall
have an exclusive option to purchase for public purposes those
10acres portions of the property no longer needed for highway

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purposes, specifically the property south of IL Route 137,
between IL Route 43 and US Route 41. for a consideration, which
may be de minimis, negotiated by the parties. The Department
of Transportation is authorized to convey the excess property
to the City of North Chicago pursuant to this Section within 3
years after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
102nd 94th General Assembly, but may not otherwise convey or
transfer the property during that period.
(c) Any conveyance to the City of North Chicago under this
Section shall provide (i) that title to the property reverts
to the State of Illinois if the property ceases to be used for
public purposes and (ii) the City of North Chicago may lease
the property but may not convey its ownership of the property
to any party, other than the State of Illinois.
(Source: P.A. 99-642, eff. 7-28-16.)