Bill Text: IL HB5796 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that vehicles owned or operated by a Mass Transit District created under the Local Mass Transit District Act may use any toll highway without paying a toll.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2014-12-03 - Session Sine Die [HB5796 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-HB5796-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. | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | The Authority shall fix and revise from time to time, tolls | |||||||||||||||||||
9 | or
charges or rates for the privilege of using each of the toll | |||||||||||||||||||
10 | highways
constructed pursuant to this Act. Such tolls shall be | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | so fixed and
adjusted at rates calculated to provide the lowest | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | reasonable toll rates
that will provide funds sufficient with | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | other revenues of the Authority to
pay, (a) the cost of the | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | construction of a toll highway authorized by joint
resolution | |||||||||||||||||||
15 | of the General Assembly pursuant to Section 14.1 and the
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16 | reconstruction, major repairs or improvements of toll | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | highways, (b) the
cost of maintaining, repairing, regulating | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | and operating the toll highways
including only the necessary | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | expenses of the Authority, and (c) the
principal of all bonds, | |||||||||||||||||||
20 | interest thereon and all sinking fund requirements
and other | |||||||||||||||||||
21 | requirements provided by resolutions authorizing the issuance | |||||||||||||||||||
22 | of
the bonds as they shall become due. In fixing the toll rates | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | pursuant to this Section 19 and Section 10(c) of this Act, the |
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1 | Authority shall take into account the effect of the provisions | ||||||
2 | of this Section 19 permitting the use of the toll highway | ||||||
3 | system without payment of the covenants of the Authority | ||||||
4 | contained in the resolutions and trust indentures authorizing | ||||||
5 | the issuance of bonds of the Authority. No such provision | ||||||
6 | permitting the use of the toll highway system without payment | ||||||
7 | of tolls after the date of this amendatory Act of the 95th | ||||||
8 | General Assembly shall be applied in a manner that impairs the | ||||||
9 | rights of bondholders pursuant to any resolution or trust | ||||||
10 | indentures authorizing the issuance of bonds of the Authority.
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11 | The use and disposition of any sinking
or reserve fund shall be | ||||||
12 | subject to such regulation as may be provided in
the resolution | ||||||
13 | or trust indenture authorizing the issuance of the bonds.
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14 | Subject to the provisions of any resolution or trust indenture | ||||||
15 | authorizing
the issuance of bonds any moneys in any such | ||||||
16 | sinking fund in excess of an
amount equal to one year's | ||||||
17 | interest on the bonds then outstanding secured
by such sinking | ||||||
18 | fund may be applied to the purchase or redemption of bonds.
All | ||||||
19 | such bonds so redeemed or purchased shall forthwith be | ||||||
20 | cancelled and
shall not again be issued. No person shall be | ||||||
21 | permitted to use any toll
highway without paying the toll | ||||||
22 | established under this Section except when
on official Toll | ||||||
23 | Highway Authority business which includes police and other
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24 | emergency vehicles. However, any law enforcement agency | ||||||
25 | vehicle, fire
department vehicle, public or private ambulance | ||||||
26 | service vehicle engaged in the performance of an emergency |
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1 | service or duty that necessitates the use of the toll highway | ||||||
2 | system, or other emergency vehicle that is plainly marked shall | ||||||
3 | not
be
required to pay a toll to use a toll highway.
A law | ||||||
4 | enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services
officer | ||||||
5 | driving a law enforcement, fire protection, emergency services
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6 | agency
vehicle, or public or private ambulance service vehicle | ||||||
7 | engaging in the performance of emergency services or duties | ||||||
8 | that is not plainly marked must present an Official Permit Card | ||||||
9 | which
the law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency | ||||||
10 | services officer receives
from his or her law enforcement, fire | ||||||
11 | protection, emergency services agency, or public or private | ||||||
12 | ambulance service
in
order to use a toll highway without paying | ||||||
13 | the toll. A
law enforcement, fire protection, emergency | ||||||
14 | services agency, or public or private ambulance service | ||||||
15 | engaging in the performance of emergency services or duties | ||||||
16 | must apply to
the Authority to receive a permit, and the
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17 | Authority shall adopt rules for the issuance of a permit, that | ||||||
18 | allows public or private ambulance service vehicles engaged in | ||||||
19 | the performance of emergency services or duties that | ||||||
20 | necessitate the use of the toll highway system and all
law | ||||||
21 | enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services agency | ||||||
22 | vehicles of the
law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency | ||||||
23 | services agency to use any toll highway
without paying the toll | ||||||
24 | established under this Section.
The Authority shall maintain in
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25 | its office a list of
all persons that are authorized to use any | ||||||
26 | toll highway without charge when
on official business of the |
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1 | Authority and such list shall be open to the
public for | ||||||
2 | inspection. In recognition of the unique role of public | ||||||
3 | transportation the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional | ||||||
4 | Transportation Authority in providing effective transportation | ||||||
5 | in the Authority's service region , and to give effect to the | ||||||
6 | exemption set forth in subsection (b) of Section 2.06 of the | ||||||
7 | Regional Transportation Authority Act, a vehicle owned or | ||||||
8 | operated by the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional | ||||||
9 | Transportation Authority that is being used to transport | ||||||
10 | passengers for hire , or any vehicle owned or operated by a Mass | ||||||
11 | Transit District created under Section 3 of the Local Mass | ||||||
12 | Transit District Act, may use any toll highway without paying | ||||||
13 | the toll.
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14 | Among other matters, this amendatory Act of 1990 is | ||||||
15 | intended to clarify
and confirm the prior intent of the General | ||||||
16 | Assembly to allow toll revenues
from the toll highway system to | ||||||
17 | be used to pay a portion of the cost of the
construction of the | ||||||
18 | North-South Toll Highway authorized by Senate Joint
Resolution | ||||||
19 | 122 of the 83rd General Assembly in 1984.
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20 | (Source: P.A. 97-784, eff. 1-1-13.)
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