(30 ILCS 545/2) (from Ch. 127, par. 132.52)
Sec. 2.
Spending money without obtaining title to land; approval of title
by Attorney General.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in Section 2 of the Superconducting Super
Collider Act or for projects constructed under the Bikeway Act, any person or
persons, commissioner or commissioners, or other officer or officers, entrusted
with the construction or repair of any public work or improvement, as set forth
in Section 1, who shall expend or cause to be
expended upon such public work or improvement, the whole or any part of the
moneys appropriated therefor, or who shall commence work, or in any way
authorize work to be commenced, thereon, without first having obtained a
title, by purchase, donation, condemnation or otherwise, to all lands
needed for such public work or improvement, running to the People of the
State of Illinois; such title to be approved by the Attorney General, and
his approval certified by the Secretary of State and placed on record in
his office, shall be deemed guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
(b) Approval of title by the Attorney General for all lands needed for
a public work or improvement shall not be required as established under
subsection (a) of this Section and the State Comptroller may draw warrant
in payment of consideration for all such lands without requiring approval
of title by the Attorney General if consideration to be paid does not
exceed $10,000 and the title acquired for such lands is for:
(1) a fee simple title or easement acquired by the State for highway
right-of-way; or
(2) an acquisition of rights or easements of access, crossing, light, air or view to, |
(4) for the purpose of flood relief or other water resource projects.
(c) This Section does not apply to any otherwise lawful expenditures
for the construction, completion, remodeling, maintenance and equipment of
buildings and other facilities made in connection with and upon premises
owned by the Illinois Building Authority, nor shall this Section apply
to improvements to real estate leased by any State agency as defined in
the Illinois State Auditing Act,
provided the leasehold improvements were contracted for by an agency with
leasing authority and in compliance with the rules and regulations promulgated
by such agency for that purpose.
(Source: P.A. 88-676, eff. 12-14-94; 89-78, eff. 6-30-95.)
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