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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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT regarding transportation.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Local Mass Transit District Act is amended
5 by changing Section 2 as follows:
 
6     (70 ILCS 3610/2)  (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 352)
7     Sec. 2. As used in For the purposes of this Act:
8     (a) "Mass transit facility" means any local public
9 transportation facility, whether buses, trolley-buses, or
10 railway systems, utilized by a substantial number of persons
11 for their daily transportation, and includes not only the local
12 public transportation facility itself but ancillary and
13 supporting facilities such as, for example, motor vehicle
14 parking facilities, as well.
15     (b) "Participating municipality and county" means the
16 municipality or municipalities, county or counties creating
17 the local Mass Transit District pursuant to Section 3 of this
18 Act.
19     (c) "Municipality" means a city, village, township, or
20 incorporated town.
21     (d) "Corporate authorities" means (1) the city council or
22 similar body of a city, (2) the board of trustees or similar
23 body of a village or incorporated town, (3) the council of a
24 municipality under the commission form of municipal
25 government, and (4) the board of trustees in a township.
26     (e) "County board" means the governing board of a county.
27     (f) "District" means a local Mass Transit District created
28 pursuant to Section 3 of this Act.
29     (g) "Board" means the Board of Trustees of a local Mass
30 Transit District created pursuant to Section 3 of this Act.
31     (h) "Interstate transportation authority" shall mean any
32 political subdivision created by compact between this State and

 

 

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1 another state, which is a body corporate and politic and a
2 political subdivision of both contracting states, and which
3 operates a public mass transportation system. ;
4     (i) "Metro East Mass Transit District" means one or more
5 local mass transit districts created pursuant to this Act,
6 composed only of Madison, St. Clair or Monroe Counties, or any
7 combination thereof or any territory annexed to such district.
8     (j) "Public mass transportation system" shall mean a
9 transportation system or systems owned and operated by an
10 interstate transportation authority, a municipality, District,
11 or other public or private authority, employing motor busses,
12 rails or any other means of conveyance, by whatsoever type or
13 power, operated for public use in the conveyance of persons,
14 mainly providing local transportation service within an
15 interstate transportation district, municipality, or county.
16 (Source: P.A. 93-590, eff. 1-1-04; revised 10-9-03.)