94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB0962


 
Introduced 2/3/2005, by Rep. Wyvetter H. Younge
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		












50 ILCS 40/1
  from Ch. 24, par. 1361









    Amends the Foreign Trade Zones Act.
Provides
that more than one trade zone may be created in an area consisting of 2
counties, each with over 200,000 population and each bordering the Mississippi
River.  Effective immediately.
















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    AN ACT in relation to foreign trade zones. 

 
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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 Foreign Trade Zones Act is amended by 
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changing Section 1 as
follows:


 
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    (50 ILCS 40/1)  (from Ch. 24, par. 1361)

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    Sec. 1. Each of the following units of local government and 
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public or
private corporations shall have the power to apply to 
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proper authorities of
the United States of America pursuant to 
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appropriate law for the right to
establish, operate, maintain 
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and lease foreign trade zones and sub-zones
within its 
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corporate limits or within limits established pursuant to

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agreement with proper authorities of the United States of 
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America, as the
case may be, and to establish, operate, 
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maintain and lease such foreign
trade zones and sub-zones:


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    (a) The City of East St. Louis.

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    (b) The Bi-State Authority, Lawrenceville - Vincennes

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Airport.


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    (c) The Waukegan Port district.


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    (d) The Illinois Valley Regional Port District.


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    (e) The Economic Development Council, Inc. located in the

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area of the United States Customs Port of Entry for Peoria,

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pursuant to authorization granted by the county boards in the

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geographic area served by the proposed foreign trade zone.


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    (f) The Greater Rockford Airport Authority.


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    (g) After the effective date of this amendatory Act of 
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1984, any county,
city, village or town within the State or a 
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public or private corporation
authorized or licensed to do 
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business in the State or any combination thereof
may apply to 
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the Foreign Trade Zones Board, United States Department of

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Commerce, for the right to establish, operate and maintain a 
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foreign trade
zone and sub-zones.  For the purposes of this 
 


 






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Section, such foreign trade
zone or sub-zones may be 
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incorporated outside the corporate boundaries or
be made up of 
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areas from adjoining counties or states.


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    (h) No foreign trade zone may be established within 50 
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miles of an existing
zone situated in a county with 3,000,000 
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or more inhabitants or within 35
miles of an existing zone 
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situated in a county with less than 3,000,000
inhabitants, such 
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zones having been
created pursuant to this Act without the 
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permission of the authorities
which established the existing 
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zone.
Nothing in this subsection (h), however, shall be 
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construed to prohibit or
prevent the establishment of more than 
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one foreign trade zone in an area
consisting of 2 adjacent 
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counties, each having a population of more than 200,000

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inhabitants and each having the Mississippi River as part of 
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its boundary, and
these foreign trade zones may be established 
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regardless of their distance from
other zones and regardless of 
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whether the authorities that established
existing zones have 
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given their permission to the creation of additional
zones.


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(Source: P.A. 85-471.)