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HB0842 Engrossed                     LRB093 05622 WGH 05715 b

 1        AN ACT in relation to county government.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5. The  Counties  Code  is  amended  by  changing
 5    Section 5-11001 as follows:

 6        (55 ILCS 5/5-11001) (from Ch. 34, par. 5-11001)
 7        Sec.  5-11001.  Construction  and  maintenance of parking
 8    facilities. Any county is hereby authorized to:
 9        (a)  Own,  construct,  equip,  manage,  control,   erect,
10    improve,  extend,  maintain and operate motor vehicle parking
11    lots,  garages,  parking  meters,  and  any   other   revenue
12    producing   facilities   necessary   or   incidental  to  the
13    regulation,   control   and   parking   of   motor   vehicles
14    (hereinafter referred  to  as  parking  facilities),  and  to
15    purchase  real  estate  to be used for parking facilities, as
16    the county board finds necessary;
17        (b)  Maintain,  improve,  extend  and  operate  any  such
18    parking facilities and to charge for the use thereof;
19        (c)  Borrow money and issue and sell bonds in such amount
20    or amounts as the county board may determine for the  purpose
21    of  acquiring, completing, erecting, constructing, equipping,
22    improving, extending, maintaining or operating any or all  of
23    its  parking facilities, and to refund and refinance the same
24    from time to time as often as it shall be advantageous and to
25    the public interest to do so.
26        (d)  Acquire by eminent domain sufficient real estate for
27    motor vehicle parking lots or garages.
28    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)

29        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
30    becoming law.