Bill Text: IL SB3073 | 2013-2014 | 98th 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: (Failed) 2015-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SB3073 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-SB3073-Introduced.html

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98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2013 and 2014 SB3073 Introduced 2/7/2014, by Sen. Bill Cunningham 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.)