Bill Text: IL HB3342 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Local Mass Transit District Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-04-03 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3342 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HB3342-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 HB3342 Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
70 ILCS 3610/2 from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 352
Amends the Local Mass Transit District Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Local Mass Transit District Act is amended
by changing Section 2 as follows:
(70 ILCS 3610/2) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 352)
Sec. 2. For the purposes of this Act:
(a) "Mass transit facility" means any local public
transportation facility, whether buses, trolley-buses, or
railway systems, utilized by a substantial number of persons
for their daily transportation, and and includes not only the
local public transportation facility itself but ancillary and
supporting facilities such as, for example, motor vehicle
parking facilities, as well.
(b) "Participating municipality and county" means the
municipality or municipalities, county or counties creating
the local Mass Transit District pursuant to Section 3 of this
Act.
(c) "Municipality" means a city, village, township, or
incorporated town.
(d) "Corporate authorities" means (1) the city council or
similar body of a city, (2) the board of trustees or similar
body of a village or incorporated town, (3) the council of a

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municipality under the commission form of municipal
government, and (4) the board of trustees in a township.
(e) "County board" means the governing board of a county.
(f) "District" means a local Mass Transit District created
pursuant to Section 3 of this Act.
(g) "Board" means the Board of Trustees of a local Mass
Transit District created pursuant to Section 3 of this Act.
(h) "Interstate transportation authority" shall mean any
political subdivision created by compact between this State and
another state, which is a body corporate and politic and a
political subdivision of both contracting states, and which
operates a public mass transportation system.
(i) "Metro East Mass Transit District" means one or more
local mass transit districts created pursuant to this Act,
composed only of Madison, St. Clair or Monroe Counties, or any
combination thereof or any territory annexed to such district.
(j) "Public mass transportation system" shall mean a
transportation system or systems owned and operated by an
interstate transportation authority, a municipality, District,
or other public or private authority, employing motor busses,
rails or any other means of conveyance, by whatsoever type or
power, operated for public use in the conveyance of persons,
mainly providing local transportation service within an
interstate transportation district, municipality, or county.
(Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)