Bill Text: IL SB2471 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Toll Highway Act. Makes a technical change in a definitions Section.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-26 - Referred to Assignments [SB2471 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB2471-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB2471 Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Ram Villivalam SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
605 ILCS 10/2 from Ch. 121, par. 100-2
Amends the Toll Highway Act. Makes a technical change in a definitions Section.
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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 Toll Highway Act is amended by changing
Section 2 as follows:
(605 ILCS 10/2) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-2)
Sec. 2. The The following words and terms as used in this
Act shall have the following meanings:
(a) The word "Authority" shall mean The Illinois State
Toll Highway Authority.
(b) The word "person," shall mean any individual, firm,
association, partnership, corporation, trustee or legal
representative.
(c) The word "owner," shall include all individuals,
copartnerships, firms, associations, corporations, trustees or
legal representatives, and others having any title or interest
in any property, rights or easements authorized to be acquired
by this Act.
(d) The words "toll highway" or "toll highways," shall
mean such highways as are so designed and constructed, in the
best professional judgment of the engineering staff
responsible, as to accomplish the purposes of this Act.
(e) The word "toll" or "tolls" shall mean the compensation

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to be paid to The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority for the
privilege of using any toll highway, or portions or parts
thereof, by vehicular or other traffic.
(f) The word "cost" as applied to a toll highway shall
embrace the cost of construction, including bridges over or
under existing highways and railroads, the cost of acquisition
of all land, rights of way, property, rights, easements and
interests acquired by the Authority for such construction, the
cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on
land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to
which such buildings or structures may be moved, the cost of
diverting highways, interchange of highways, access to roads
to private property, including the cost of lands or easements
therefor, the cost of all machinery and equipment, financing
charges, interest prior to and during construction, and for
one or more years after completion of construction, cost of
traffic estimates and of engineering and legal expenses,
plans, specifications, surveys, estimates of cost and
revenues, other expenses necessary or incident to determining
the feasibility or practicability of constructing any such
toll highway, administrative expenses and such other expense
as may be necessary or incident to the construction of the toll
highway, the financing of such construction and the placing of
the highway in operation.
(Source: Laws 1967, p. 2748.)