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State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB5739 Introduced 2/16/2012, by Rep. Brandon W. Phelps SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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605 ILCS 5/4-505 | from Ch. 121, par. 4-505 |
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Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that the Department of Transportation may relocate setbacks associated with railroad lines or tracks or facilities of a public utility. Provides that the Department may exercise its eminent domain powers to acquire all property interests necessary to ensure proper vegetation maintenance around public utility facilities.
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| | HB5739 | | LRB097 17516 HEP 62720 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning transportation.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Highway Code is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 4-505 as follows:
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| 6 | | (605 ILCS 5/4-505) (from Ch. 121, par. 4-505)
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| 7 | | Sec. 4-505.
In addition to whatever powers the Department |
| 8 | | may by law now
possess, whenever it is necessary as an incident |
| 9 | | to the construction of a
new State highway or the relocation, |
| 10 | | reconstruction, extension, widening,
straightening, |
| 11 | | alteration, repair, maintenance or improvement of an
existing |
| 12 | | State highway (including extensions of a new or existing State
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| 13 | | highway through or into a municipality upon a new or existing |
| 14 | | street) that
the line or tracks of a railroad or railway |
| 15 | | company or the wires, poles,
pipes or other facilities of a |
| 16 | | public utility, or associated setbacks, which are not then |
| 17 | | located
in or upon a public street or highway, be relocated, |
| 18 | | and the Department and
such company or public utility have |
| 19 | | entered into an agreement, approved by
the Illinois Commerce |
| 20 | | Commission, concerning such relocation, the
Department is |
| 21 | | authorized to purchase, or to acquire through the exercise of
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| 22 | | the right of eminent domain under the eminent domain law of the |
| 23 | | State, such
easements, rights, lands or other property as may |