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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 5-412 as follows:
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| 6 | | (605 ILCS 5/5-412) (from Ch. 121, par. 5-412)
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| 7 | | Sec. 5-412.
The county board, of each county, may contract |
| 8 | | with persons
growing row crops on land adjacent to county |
| 9 | | highways to buy standing strips
of such crops to remain in |
| 10 | | place to act as snow breaks along such highways
in those places |
| 11 | | where experience shows that drifting snow has been an
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| 12 | | obstruction to traffic. The contract price to be paid by the |
| 13 | | county board in any such
case shall be the higher of the market |
| 14 | | price in the local area of
such crop at the time of contracting |
| 15 | | or the current Commodity Credit
Corporation target price. An |
| 16 | | additional sum of money equal to at least 10% of the
contract |
| 17 | | price may be paid to the grower as an inconvenience fee.
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| 18 | | (Source: P.A. 84-1272.)
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