Bill Text: IL HB6226 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that it is unlawful for the Department of Transportation, its employees and its agents to knowingly misrepresent any facts in relation to the submission of plans, maps, specifications, costs of construction, bids, or contracts for any Department project. Provides that a violation of the Section shall render any contract to which the falsification, distortion, or misrepresentation is related void as a matter of law and the Department shall rebid all affected projects.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: (Passed) 2016-08-05 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 99-0727 [HB6226 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HB6226-Chaptered.html
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Public Act 099-0727 | ||||
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by adding | ||||
Section 9-132 as follows:
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(605 ILCS 5/9-132 new) | ||||
Sec. 9-132. Highway design. A unit of local government may | ||||
consult a highway design publication outside the Department's | ||||
Bureau of Local Roads and Streets Manual for the construction | ||||
of any highway in ownership or control of the unit of local | ||||
government, except for a highway that is part of the National | ||||
System of Interstate and Defense Highways, if: | ||||
(1) the unit of local government receives federal or State | ||||
funds for the construction project; | ||||
(2) the highway design publication is approved by the | ||||
Federal Highway Administration; | ||||
(3) the highway design publication is adopted by the unit | ||||
of local government; and | ||||
(4) the design complies with all other applicable federal | ||||
laws.
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