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 1        AN ACT concerning highways.

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

 4        Section  5.   The Toll Highway Act is amended by changing
 5    Section 3 as follows:

 6        (605 ILCS 10/3) (from Ch. 121, par. 100-3)
 7        Sec. 3. There is hereby created an Authority to be  known
 8    as The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, which is hereby
 9    constituted  an  instrumentality and an administrative agency
10    of the State of Illinois. The said Authority shall consist of
11    11  directors;  the  Governor  and  the  Secretary   of   the
12    Department  of  Transportation,  ex  officio, and 9 directors
13    appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of  the
14    Senate,  from  the  State  at large, which said directors and
15    their successors are  hereby  authorized  to  carry  out  the
16    provisions  of  this  Act,  and to exercise the powers herein
17    conferred. Of the 9 directors appointed by the  Governor,  no
18    more  than  5  shall  be members of the same political party.
19    Vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term in the  same
20    manner as original appointments. All appointments shall be in
21    writing  and  filed  with  the Secretary of State as a public
22    record.  It  is  the  intention  of  this  section  that  the
23    Governor's appointments shall be made with due  consideration
24    to  the  location  of  proposed  toll  highway routes so that
25    maximum geographic representation from the  areas  served  by
26    said  toll  highway  routes  may  be  accomplished insofar as
27    practicable. The said  Authority  shall  have  the  power  to
28    contract  and be contracted with, to acquire, hold and convey
29    personal and real property or any interest therein  including
30    rights  of  way,  franchises and easements; to have and use a
31    common seal, and to alter the  same  at  will;  to  make  and
 
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 1    establish resolutions, by-laws, rules, rates and regulations,
 2    and  to  alter or repeal the same as the Authority shall deem
 3    necessary and  expedient  for  the  construction,  operation,
 4    relocation,  regulation  and  maintenance of a system of toll
 5    highways within and through the State of Illinois.
 6        Appointment of the additional directors provided  for  by
 7    this  amendatory  Act  of  1980  shall be made within 30 days
 8    after the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1980.
 9    (Source: P.A. 86-1164.)