93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB6233


 
Introduced 02/06/04, by Tom Cross
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		












70 ILCS 3610/2
  from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 352









    Amends the Local Mass Transit District Act. Makes a technical change in a
definitions Section.
















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    AN ACT regarding transportation. 

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


 
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    Section 5. The Local Mass Transit District Act is amended 
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by changing
Section 2 as follows:


 
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    (70 ILCS 3610/2)  (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 352)

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    Sec. 2. As used in
For the purposes of this Act:


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    (a) "Mass transit facility" means any local public 
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transportation
facility, whether buses, trolley-buses, or 
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railway systems, utilized by
a substantial number of persons 
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for their daily transportation, and
includes not only the local 
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public transportation facility itself but
ancillary and 
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supporting facilities such as, for example, motor vehicle

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parking facilities, as well.


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    (b) "Participating municipality and county" means the 
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municipality
or municipalities, county or counties creating 
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the local Mass Transit
District pursuant to Section 3 of this 
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Act.


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    (c) "Municipality" means a city, village, township, or 
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incorporated
town.


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    (d) "Corporate authorities" means (1) the city council or 
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similar
body of a city, (2) the board of trustees or similar 
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body of a village
or incorporated town, (3) the council of a 
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municipality under the
commission form of municipal 
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government, and (4) the board of trustees
in a township.


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    (e) "County board" means the governing board of a county.


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    (f) "District" means a local Mass Transit District created 
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pursuant
to Section 3 of this Act.


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    (g) "Board" means the Board of Trustees of a local Mass 
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Transit
District created pursuant to Section 3 of this Act.


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    (h) "Interstate transportation authority" shall mean any 
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political
subdivision created by compact between this State and 
 


 






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another state, which is
a body corporate and politic and a 
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political subdivision of both contracting
states, and which 
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operates a public mass transportation system. ;


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    (i) "Metro East Mass Transit District" means one or more 
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local mass transit
districts created pursuant to this Act, 
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composed only of Madison, St. Clair
or Monroe Counties, or any 
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combination thereof or any territory annexed to such
district.


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    (j) "Public mass transportation system" shall mean a 
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transportation system
or systems owned and operated by an 
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interstate transportation authority,
a municipality, District, 
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or other public or private authority, employing
motor busses, 
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rails or any other means of conveyance, by whatsoever type or

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power, operated for public use in the conveyance of persons, 
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mainly providing
local transportation service within an 
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interstate transportation district,
municipality, or county.


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(Source: P.A. 93-590, eff. 1-1-04; revised 10-9-03.)