103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2314 Introduced , by Rep. Camille Y. Lilly SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 605 ILCS 10/19 from Ch. 121, par. 100-19 Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that a person is permitted to use a toll highway without paying the toll on August 7 of each year, the designated Purple Heart Day, if the person is displaying a Purple Heart license plate on his or her vehicle. Effective immediately. LRB103 30217 MXP 56645 b A BILL FOR 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2314 Introduced , by Rep. Camille Y. Lilly SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: 605 ILCS 10/19 from Ch. 121, par. 100-19 605 ILCS 10/19 from Ch. 121, par. 100-19 Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that a person is permitted to use a toll highway without paying the toll on August 7 of each year, the designated Purple Heart Day, if the person is displaying a Purple Heart license plate on his or her vehicle. Effective immediately. LRB103 30217 MXP 56645 b LRB103 30217 MXP 56645 b A BILL FOR
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2314 Introduced , by Rep. Camille Y. Lilly SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
605 ILCS 10/19 from Ch. 121, par. 100-19 605 ILCS 10/19 from Ch. 121, par. 100-19
605 ILCS 10/19 from Ch. 121, par. 100-19
Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that a person is permitted to use a toll highway without paying the toll on August 7 of each year, the designated Purple Heart Day, if the person is displaying a Purple Heart license plate on his or her vehicle. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT concerning transportation.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Toll Highway Act is amended by changing
5 Section 19 as follows:
6 (605 ILCS 10/19) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-19)
7 Sec. 19. Toll rates. The Authority shall fix and revise
8 from time to time, tolls or charges or rates for the privilege
9 of using each of the toll highways constructed pursuant to
10 this Act. Such tolls shall be so fixed and adjusted at rates
11 calculated to provide the lowest reasonable toll rates that
12 will provide funds sufficient with other revenues of the
13 Authority to pay, (a) the cost of the construction of a toll
14 highway authorized by joint resolution of the General Assembly
15 pursuant to Section 14.1 and the reconstruction, major repairs
16 or improvements of toll highways, (b) the cost of maintaining,
17 repairing, regulating and operating the toll highways
18 including only the necessary expenses of the Authority, and
19 (c) the principal of all bonds, interest thereon and all
20 sinking fund requirements and other requirements provided by
21 resolutions authorizing the issuance of the bonds as they
22 shall become due. In fixing the toll rates pursuant to this
23 Section 19 and Section 10(c) of this Act, the Authority shall
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 HB2314 Introduced , by Rep. Camille Y. Lilly SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
605 ILCS 10/19 from Ch. 121, par. 100-19 605 ILCS 10/19 from Ch. 121, par. 100-19
605 ILCS 10/19 from Ch. 121, par. 100-19
Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that a person is permitted to use a toll highway without paying the toll on August 7 of each year, the designated Purple Heart Day, if the person is displaying a Purple Heart license plate on his or her vehicle. Effective immediately.
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1 take into account the effect of the provisions of this Section
2 19 permitting the use of the toll highway system without
3 payment of the covenants of the Authority contained in the
4 resolutions and trust indentures authorizing the issuance of
5 bonds of the Authority. No such provision permitting the use
6 of the toll highway system without payment of tolls after the
7 date of this amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall
8 be applied in a manner that impairs the rights of bondholders
9 pursuant to any resolution or trust indentures authorizing the
10 issuance of bonds of the Authority. The use and disposition of
11 any sinking or reserve fund shall be subject to such
12 regulation as may be provided in the resolution or trust
13 indenture authorizing the issuance of the bonds. Subject to
14 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: (i) when on official
23 Toll Highway Authority business which includes police and
24 other emergency vehicles; or (ii) for a vehicle displaying a
25 Purple Heart special registration license plate issued under
26 Section 3-623 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, on August 7 of each
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1 year, the designated Purple Heart Day. However, any law
2 enforcement agency vehicle, fire department vehicle, public or
3 private ambulance service vehicle engaged in the performance
4 of an emergency service or duty that necessitates the use of
5 the toll highway system, or other emergency vehicle that is
6 plainly marked shall not be required to pay a toll to use a
7 toll highway. A law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency
8 services officer driving a law enforcement, fire protection,
9 emergency services agency vehicle, or public or private
10 ambulance service vehicle engaging in the performance of
11 emergency services or duties that is not plainly marked must
12 present an Official Permit Card which the law enforcement,
13 fire protection, or emergency services officer receives from
14 his or her law enforcement, fire protection, emergency
15 services agency, or public or private ambulance service in
16 order to use a toll highway without paying the toll. A law
17 enforcement, fire protection, emergency services agency, or
18 public or private ambulance service engaging in the
19 performance of emergency services or duties must apply to the
20 Authority to receive a permit, and the Authority shall adopt
21 rules for the issuance of a permit, that allows public or
22 private ambulance service vehicles engaged in the performance
23 of emergency services or duties that necessitate the use of
24 the toll highway system and all law enforcement, fire
25 protection, or emergency services agency vehicles of the law
26 enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services agency to
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1 use any toll highway without paying the toll established under
2 this Section. The Authority shall maintain in its office a
3 list of all persons that are authorized to use any toll highway
4 without charge when on official business of the Authority and
5 such list shall be open to the public for inspection. In
6 recognition of the unique role of public transportation in
7 providing effective transportation in the Authority's service
8 region, and to give effect to the exemption set forth in
9 subsection (b) of Section 2.06 of the Regional Transportation
10 Authority Act, the following vehicles may use any toll highway
11 without paying the toll: (1) a vehicle owned or operated by the
12 Suburban Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority
13 that is being used to transport passengers for hire; and (2)
14 any revenue vehicle that is owned or operated by a Mass Transit
15 District created under Section 3 of the Local Mass Transit
16 District Act and running regular scheduled service.
17 Among other matters, this amendatory Act of 1990 is
18 intended to clarify and confirm the prior intent of the
19 General Assembly to allow toll revenues from the toll highway
20 system to be used to pay a portion of the cost of the
21 construction of the North-South Toll Highway authorized by
22 Senate Joint Resolution 122 of the 83rd General Assembly in
23 1984.
24 (Source: P.A. 100-739, eff. 1-1-19.)
25 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
26 becoming law.
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