Bill Text: IL HB2546 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that a person is permitted to use a toll highway without paying the toll on August 7 of each year, the designated Purple Heart Day, if the person is displaying a Purple Heart license plate on his or her vehicle. Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2546 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HB2546-Introduced.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Toll Highway Act is amended by changing | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Section 19 as follows:
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6 | (605 ILCS 10/19) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-19)
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7 | Sec. 19. Toll rates. The Authority shall fix and revise | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | from time to time, tolls or
charges or rates for the privilege | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | of using each of the toll highways
constructed pursuant to this | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | Act. Such tolls shall be so fixed and
adjusted at rates | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | calculated to provide the lowest reasonable toll rates
that | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | will provide funds sufficient with other revenues of the | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | Authority to
pay, (a) the cost of the construction of a toll | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | highway authorized by joint
resolution of the General Assembly | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | pursuant to Section 14.1 and the
reconstruction, major repairs | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | or improvements of toll highways, (b) the
cost of maintaining, | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | repairing, regulating and operating the toll highways
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18 | including only the necessary expenses of the Authority, and (c) | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | the
principal of all bonds, interest thereon and all sinking | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | fund requirements
and other requirements provided by | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | resolutions authorizing the issuance of
the bonds as they shall | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | become due. In fixing the toll rates pursuant to this Section | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | 19 and Section 10(c) of this Act, the Authority shall take into |
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1 | account the effect of the provisions of this Section 19 | ||||||
2 | permitting the use of the toll highway system without payment | ||||||
3 | of the covenants of the Authority contained in the resolutions | ||||||
4 | and trust indentures authorizing the issuance of bonds of the | ||||||
5 | Authority. No such provision permitting the use of the toll | ||||||
6 | highway system without payment of tolls after the date of this | ||||||
7 | amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall be applied in | ||||||
8 | a manner that impairs the rights of bondholders pursuant to any | ||||||
9 | resolution or trust indentures authorizing the issuance of | ||||||
10 | bonds of the Authority.
The use and disposition of any sinking
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11 | or reserve fund shall be subject to such regulation as may be | ||||||
12 | provided in
the resolution or trust indenture authorizing the | ||||||
13 | issuance of the bonds.
Subject to the provisions of any | ||||||
14 | resolution or trust indenture authorizing
the issuance of bonds | ||||||
15 | any moneys in any such sinking fund in excess of an
amount | ||||||
16 | equal to one year's interest on the bonds then outstanding | ||||||
17 | secured
by such sinking fund may be applied to the purchase or | ||||||
18 | redemption of bonds.
All such bonds so redeemed or purchased | ||||||
19 | shall forthwith be cancelled and
shall not again be issued. No | ||||||
20 | person shall be permitted to use any toll
highway without | ||||||
21 | paying the toll established under this Section except : (i) when
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22 | on official Toll Highway Authority business which includes | ||||||
23 | police and other
emergency vehicles ; or (ii) for a vehicle | ||||||
24 | displaying a Purple Heart special registration license plate | ||||||
25 | issued under Section 3-623 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, on | ||||||
26 | August 7 of each year, the designated Purple Heart Day . |
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1 | However, any law enforcement agency vehicle, fire
department | ||||||
2 | vehicle, public or private ambulance service vehicle engaged in | ||||||
3 | the performance of an emergency service or duty that | ||||||
4 | necessitates the use of the toll highway system, or other | ||||||
5 | emergency vehicle that is plainly marked shall not
be
required | ||||||
6 | to pay a toll to use a toll highway.
A law enforcement, fire | ||||||
7 | protection, or emergency services
officer driving a law | ||||||
8 | enforcement, fire protection, emergency services
agency
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9 | vehicle, or public or private ambulance service vehicle | ||||||
10 | engaging in the performance of emergency services or duties | ||||||
11 | that is not plainly marked must present an Official Permit Card | ||||||
12 | which
the law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency | ||||||
13 | services officer receives
from his or her law enforcement, fire | ||||||
14 | protection, emergency services agency, or public or private | ||||||
15 | ambulance service
in
order to use a toll highway without paying | ||||||
16 | the toll. A
law enforcement, fire protection, emergency | ||||||
17 | services agency, or public or private ambulance service | ||||||
18 | engaging in the performance of emergency services or duties | ||||||
19 | must apply to
the Authority to receive a permit, and the
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20 | Authority shall adopt rules for the issuance of a permit, that | ||||||
21 | allows public or private ambulance service vehicles engaged in | ||||||
22 | the performance of emergency services or duties that | ||||||
23 | necessitate the use of the toll highway system and all
law | ||||||
24 | enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services agency | ||||||
25 | vehicles of the
law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency | ||||||
26 | services agency to use any toll highway
without paying the toll |
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1 | established under this Section.
The Authority shall maintain in
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2 | its office a list of
all persons that are authorized to use any | ||||||
3 | toll highway without charge when
on official business of the | ||||||
4 | Authority and such list shall be open to the
public for | ||||||
5 | inspection. In recognition of the unique role of public | ||||||
6 | transportation in providing effective transportation in the | ||||||
7 | Authority's service region, and to give effect to the exemption | ||||||
8 | set forth in subsection (b) of Section 2.06 of the Regional | ||||||
9 | Transportation Authority Act, the following vehicles may use | ||||||
10 | any toll highway without paying the toll: (1) a vehicle owned | ||||||
11 | or operated by the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional | ||||||
12 | Transportation Authority that is being used to transport | ||||||
13 | passengers for hire; and (2) any revenue vehicle that is owned | ||||||
14 | or operated by a Mass Transit District created under Section 3 | ||||||
15 | of the Local Mass Transit District Act and running regular | ||||||
16 | scheduled service.
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17 | Among other matters, this amendatory Act of 1990 is | ||||||
18 | intended to clarify
and confirm the prior intent of the General | ||||||
19 | Assembly to allow toll revenues
from the toll highway system to | ||||||
20 | be used to pay a portion of the cost of the
construction of the | ||||||
21 | North-South Toll Highway authorized by Senate Joint
Resolution | ||||||
22 | 122 of the 83rd General Assembly in 1984.
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23 | (Source: P.A. 100-739, eff. 1-1-19 .)
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24 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
25 | becoming law.
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