101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
HB2877

 

Introduced , by Rep. Martin J. Moylan

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
605 ILCS 10/19  from Ch. 121, par. 100-19

    Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority shall not charge a toll for a vehicle of the first division pulling a trailer with no more than 2 axles at a rate higher than an amount calculated by multiplying the toll charged to passenger vehicles using an I-Pass device by the total number of axles on the trailer. Provides that the toll rate applies to drivers who use an I-Pass device or use cash to pay a toll. Effective immediately.


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1    AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Toll Highway Act is amended by changing
5Section 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
8from time to time, tolls or charges or rates for the privilege
9of using each of the toll highways constructed pursuant to this
10Act. Such tolls shall be so fixed and adjusted at rates
11calculated to provide the lowest reasonable toll rates that
12will provide funds sufficient with other revenues of the
13Authority to pay, (a) the cost of the construction of a toll
14highway authorized by joint resolution of the General Assembly
15pursuant to Section 14.1 and the reconstruction, major repairs
16or improvements of toll highways, (b) the cost of maintaining,
17repairing, regulating and operating the toll highways
18including only the necessary expenses of the Authority, and (c)
19the principal of all bonds, interest thereon and all sinking
20fund requirements and other requirements provided by
21resolutions authorizing the issuance of the bonds as they shall
22become due. In fixing the toll rates pursuant to this Section
2319 and Section 10(c) of this Act, the Authority shall take into

 

 

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1account the effect of the provisions of this Section 19
2permitting the use of the toll highway system without payment
3of the covenants of the Authority contained in the resolutions
4and trust indentures authorizing the issuance of bonds of the
5Authority. No such provision permitting the use of the toll
6highway system without payment of tolls after the date of this
7amendatory Act of the 95th General Assembly shall be applied in
8a manner that impairs the rights of bondholders pursuant to any
9resolution or trust indentures authorizing the issuance of
10bonds of the Authority. The use and disposition of any sinking
11or reserve fund shall be subject to such regulation as may be
12provided in the resolution or trust indenture authorizing the
13issuance of the bonds. Subject to the provisions of any
14resolution or trust indenture authorizing the issuance of bonds
15any moneys in any such sinking fund in excess of an amount
16equal to one year's interest on the bonds then outstanding
17secured by such sinking fund may be applied to the purchase or
18redemption of bonds. All such bonds so redeemed or purchased
19shall forthwith be cancelled and shall not again be issued. The
20Authority shall not charge a toll for a motor vehicle of the
21first division, as defined in the Illinois Vehicle Code,
22pulling a trailer, as defined in the Illinois Vehicle Code,
23with no more than 2 axles at a rate higher than an amount
24calculated by multiplying the toll charged to passenger
25vehicles using an I-Pass device by the total number of axles on
26the trailer. This toll rate shall apply to both a driver who

 

 

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1uses an I-Pass device and a driver who uses cash to pay toll.
2No person shall be permitted to use any toll highway without
3paying the toll established under this Section except when on
4official Toll Highway Authority business which includes police
5and other emergency vehicles. However, any law enforcement
6agency vehicle, fire department vehicle, public or private
7ambulance service vehicle engaged in the performance of an
8emergency service or duty that necessitates the use of the toll
9highway system, or other emergency vehicle that is plainly
10marked shall not be required to pay a toll to use a toll
11highway. A law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency
12services officer driving a law enforcement, fire protection,
13emergency services agency vehicle, or public or private
14ambulance service vehicle engaging in the performance of
15emergency services or duties that is not plainly marked must
16present an Official Permit Card which the law enforcement, fire
17protection, or emergency services officer receives from his or
18her law enforcement, fire protection, emergency services
19agency, or public or private ambulance service in order to use
20a toll highway without paying the toll. A law enforcement, fire
21protection, emergency services agency, or public or private
22ambulance service engaging in the performance of emergency
23services or duties must apply to the Authority to receive a
24permit, and the Authority shall adopt rules for the issuance of
25a permit, that allows public or private ambulance service
26vehicles engaged in the performance of emergency services or

 

 

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1duties that necessitate the use of the toll highway system and
2all law enforcement, fire protection, or emergency services
3agency vehicles of the law enforcement, fire protection, or
4emergency services agency to use any toll highway without
5paying the toll established under this Section. The Authority
6shall maintain in its office a list of all persons that are
7authorized to use any toll highway without charge when on
8official business of the Authority and such list shall be open
9to the public for inspection. In recognition of the unique role
10of public transportation in providing effective transportation
11in the Authority's service region, and to give effect to the
12exemption set forth in subsection (b) of Section 2.06 of the
13Regional Transportation Authority Act, the following vehicles
14may use any toll highway without paying the toll: (1) a vehicle
15owned or operated by the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional
16Transportation Authority that is being used to transport
17passengers for hire; and (2) any revenue vehicle that is owned
18or operated by a Mass Transit District created under Section 3
19of the Local Mass Transit District Act and running regular
20scheduled service.
21    Among other matters, this amendatory Act of 1990 is
22intended to clarify and confirm the prior intent of the General
23Assembly to allow toll revenues from the toll highway system to
24be used to pay a portion of the cost of the construction of the
25North-South Toll Highway authorized by Senate Joint Resolution
26122 of the 83rd General Assembly in 1984.

 

 

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1(Source: P.A. 100-739, eff. 1-1-19.)
 
2    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
3becoming law.