96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB3342

 

Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. 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 Section concerning definitions.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning local government.
 
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. 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 and includes not only the
12 local 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

 

 

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1 municipality under the commission form of municipal
2 government, and (4) the board of trustees in a township.
3     (e) "County board" means the governing board of a county.
4     (f) "District" means a local Mass Transit District created
5 pursuant to Section 3 of this Act.
6     (g) "Board" means the Board of Trustees of a local Mass
7 Transit District created pursuant to Section 3 of this Act.
8     (h) "Interstate transportation authority" shall mean any
9 political subdivision created by compact between this State and
10 another state, which is a body corporate and politic and a
11 political subdivision of both contracting states, and which
12 operates a public mass transportation system.
13     (i) "Metro East Mass Transit District" means one or more
14 local mass transit districts created pursuant to this Act,
15 composed only of Madison, St. Clair or Monroe Counties, or any
16 combination thereof or any territory annexed to such district.
17     (j) "Public mass transportation system" shall mean a
18 transportation system or systems owned and operated by an
19 interstate transportation authority, a municipality, District,
20 or other public or private authority, employing motor busses,
21 rails or any other means of conveyance, by whatsoever type or
22 power, operated for public use in the conveyance of persons,
23 mainly providing local transportation service within an
24 interstate transportation district, municipality, or county.
25 (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)