(70 ILCS 5/17.2) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 68.17b)

Sec. 17.2. Whenever a township disconnects from a Metropolitan Airport Authority as provided in Section 17.1, such township and the municipalities within such township shall be paid upon such terms as may be agreed upon by their corporate authorities and the board of commissioners of the Metropolitan Airport Authority, but in no event shall any such township or municipality be paid in excess of its investment or for any funds advanced to such Metropolitan Airport Authority or any pre-existing airport authority it has acquired, or otherwise paid or expended, either directly or indirectly, by the State or federal governments for the acquisition of the land used for any such existing airport improvement or facility or for any bonded indebtedness owed by the Metropolitan Airport Authority or the pre-existing airport authority. The terms of payment shall provide for payment in full within not more than 20 years from the date of such agreement.

In case the amount and terms of payment are not so determined by agreement, the board of commissioners of the Authority shall cause a description of such airport and such existing improvements and facilities to be made, together with an estimate of the previous actual expenditures of the pre-existing authority therefor, less any existing bonded indebtedness of the pre-existing authority, and shall tender payment of the total amount so estimated in writing to such township and municipalities in the proportions specified below. Such tender shall provide for payment by the Authority of the amount tendered within 5 years from the date thereof, and any part of the sum remaining unpaid after 12 months from that date shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract.

In case such tender is not accepted in writing by the corporate authorities of such township and municipalities within 30 days after it is made, the Authority by its board of commissioners shall file a petition in the circuit court of the county in which the airport facilities of the Authority are located, naming such township and municipalities respondents thereto, setting forth a description of such airport, airport improvements and facilities, the estimated amount of such previous expenditures by the pre-existing authority, the amount of bonded indebtedness owed by the pre-existing authority, the fact of such tender having been made and the date thereof, and praying that there be determined by the circuit court the true amount of such prior expenditures by the pre-existing authority. A copy of the petition shall be served upon the presiding officer of the township and each municipality within 5 days after the filing of such petition, and upon presentation to the court of proof of such service, the petition shall be set for hearing within not less than 10 nor more than 20 days. Such hearing may be continued from time to time upon the request of the petitioner or the respondents, and at the hearing thereon, the presiding judge of the circuit court shall consider such evidence as may be submitted by the parties and shall determine the amount of such actual previous expenditures made and the actual amount of bonded indebtedness owed, and shall determine the amount to be paid to the township and to each included municipality. The amount so determined shall be conclusive as between the parties, and shall be paid by the Metropolitan Airport Authority within 5 years after the entry of the order making such determination, and any part of the sum remaining unpaid after 12 months from the entry of the order shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate authorized by the Bond Authorization Act, as amended at the time of the making of the contract. When paid, the sum shall be accepted by the township or municipality as full payment for such airport and existing improvements and facilities.

The moneys payable by the Metropolitan Airport Authority under this Section shall be apportioned between the township and its included municipalities on the basis of population as determined by the most recent federal decennial census. The portion of each included municipality shall be computed on the basis of the ratio of the population of the municipality to the total population of the township. The township's portion shall be computed on the basis of the ratio of the population of the unincorporated areas of the township to the total population of the township.

The moneys apportioned to any township shall be used exclusively for the purposes stated in Sections 6-701.1 through 6-701.9 of the Illinois Highway Code, and the moneys apportioned to any municipality shall be used exclusively for the purposes stated in Sections 7-202.1 through 7-202.22 of the Illinois Highway Code.

With respect to instruments for the payment of money issued under this Section either before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1989, it is and always has been the intention of the General Assembly (i) that the Omnibus Bond Acts are and always have been supplementary grants of power to issue instruments in accordance with the Omnibus Bond Acts, regardless of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts, (ii) that the provisions of this Section are not a limitation on the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts, and (iii) that instruments issued under this Section within the supplementary authority granted by the Omnibus Bond Acts are not invalid because of any provision of this Act that may appear to be or to have been more restrictive than those Acts.

(Source: P.A. 92-341, eff. 8-10-01.)