Bill Text: IL HB4270 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Requires a township (rather than any township in Lake County or McHenry County) to abolish a road district of that township if the roads of the road district are less than 15 centerline miles in length.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-01-14 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB4270 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB4270-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026HB4270 Introduced , by Rep. Daniel Didech SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
605 ILCS 5/6-140
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Requires a township (rather than any township in Lake County or McHenry County) to abolish a road district of that township if the roads of the road district are less than 15 centerline miles in length.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by
changing Section 6-140 as follows:
(605 ILCS 5/6-140)
Sec. 6-140. Abolishing a road district within Lake County
or McHenry County with less than 15 miles of roads. A Any
township in Lake County or McHenry County shall abolish a road
district of that township if the roads of the road district are
less than 15 centerline miles in length, as determined by the
county engineer or county superintendent of highways. A road
district is abolished on the expiration of the term of office
of the highway commissioner of the road district facing
abolition following the determination by the county engineer
or county superintendent of highways of the length, in
centerline mileage, of the roads within the road district to
be abolished.
On the date of abolition: all the rights, powers, duties,
assets, property, liabilities, obligations, and
responsibilities of the road district shall by operation of
law vest in and be assumed by the township; the township board
of trustees shall assume all taxing authority of a road

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district abolished under this Section and shall exercise all
duties and responsibilities of the highway commissioner as
provided in this Code; and for purposes of distribution of
revenue, the township shall assume the powers, duties, and
obligations of the road district. The township board of
trustees may enter into a contract with the county, a
municipality, or a private contractor to administer the roads
added to its jurisdiction under this Section.
(Source: P.A. 101-230, eff. 8-9-19.)